The Tulip Driven Life

By: Thomas Clayton Booher Galatians  5 : 13  For you, brethren, have been called to liberty Liberty is a concept that Americans easily identify with. Our  D eclaration  of Independence was a notice to the King of England that we, as colonists, claimed the right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”  The  declaration  lists the grievances against the King, which include “ Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us,” “protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States,” “cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world,” “imposing Taxes on us without our Consent,” “depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury,” “plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people . ” Mutually pledging to each other “our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor,” the signees made the break by declaring their  liberty ,  that is,  their

By: Nathan Fox The Wrong Way to Witness Several years ago as a freshman at N.C State I saw something (or should I say someone) that has changed my perception on how to be an effective witness for Jesus Christ. On that day as I was walking through the main courtyard on campus, I  heard  a middle-aged man  loudly blasting people as they passed by, all in “ the name of Jesus,” which were his own words. Intrigued by his yelling and ranting, I (along with a great crowd of people)  began to assemble around him to listen to what he had to say  to each of us . Looking back now I realize I wasted 20 minutes of my life that I can never get back. What he said  and how he said it  has still to this day been etched into my mind  in the most negative of ways . ​ As we were walking up, he was addressing a n African-American   male who just so happened to have dreadlocks. This “preacher” for Jesus told this dreadlocked student that he was going to hell for (and this is no exaggerati

By: Thomas Clayton Booher (The Elder) Galatians 1:3-6 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel--- J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937), was Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1906-1929. In 1929, he led a conservative movement out of the Northern Presbyterian Church to form the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and the new school Westminster Theological Seminary. Machen taught at Westminster in the same chair he held at Princeton until his death. Machen was unusually erudite in the original language of the New Testament. He wrote a beginner’s Grammar, which was used in my first year of Greek. I still have it – it brings ba