These trumpets are written as continuing studies for those
who have completed the free Age
of Reason Bible study – those who
already know and understand the material covered in AOR.
The TRUMPET ARCHIVES contain edifying and informative
essays. They are not part of the War College curriculum because, even though all edifying material contributes to our
growth and therefore to the war effort, these trumpets are not intended to help
Bible-believing warriors in particular,
they’re intended to help Bible-believing Christians
in general.
All
essays contain the kind of Scripture-based material that glorifies God in the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that feeds, encourages, and challenges Bible
believers who have ears that hear and who appreciate and identify with the kind
of straight-talking, unpretentious dialog that horrifies tradition-bound
politically-correct parade-ground pewsters, preachers, and theologians. These
essays are for you comrades whose very real faith in, and love and respect for
the living God who reveals Himself via the inerrant, written, literal, living
words in His Holy Bible make you increasingly aware of the fact that you’re
members of an elite, very small and ever-shrinking army; you truly are
strangers and pilgrims on the earth who long for a better country, that is, an
heavenly...and therefore God is not ashamed to be called your God.
I may
add to, revise, or delete War College and Trumpet Archive essays at any time.
All
trumpets are available as PDF downloads.
You may
access the Trumpet pages by clicking their associated buttons over on the
left...
...or
you may click on the Trumpet numbers below to go directly to that
particular
essay on its particular page.
INDEX OF TRUMPETS
Trumpet
Archive Alpha
A1 The Inequality in Equality
If equality is so good, why is it so bad? And how has it hurt
Christian families?
A2 True Love is Impossible for Those to Whom
Principles Mean Little
Articulated by Richard
Lovelace, a Christian Cavalier serving King Charles I.
A3 Christian Repentance is Growth
The road to perfection is a
process of constant learning and repentance.
A4 The Evidence of Things Not Seen
Explains how our eyes are
opened as we grow.
A5 What Makes Us Comrades
Something more noble than
friendship makes us a band of brothers and sisters.
A6 A Needle’s Eye
What theologians teach is
astonishing beyond measure...and so were the things Christ taught.
A7 Whores...In Jesus’ Name
Are we the Lord’s faithful
wives...or do we have a room reserved for Self like Satan does?
A8 Picking on a Piano
How I found out my love for
tradition is a threat to my Biblical discernment.
A9 A Comrade’s Love and Humility
What we do when “nobody’s
looking” says a lot about our love for the Lord.
A10 Our New Testament Christian Calling: Suffer...and
Endure to the End
Peter learned and preached that
Biblical Christianity isn’t supposed to be easy. That’s not a popular message,
and is a big reason most Christians fall by the wayside.
Trumpet
Archive Bravo
B1 Marital Relationships Part 1: LOVE
This trumpet discusses the
kinds of love (principled love, compassionate love, and selfish love) that
affect marriages and therefore must be recognized, understood, and controlled.
B2 Marital Relationships Part 2: CHRISTIAN WIVES
The challenging duties
Bible-believing wives must face...and how they can succeed.
B3 Marital Relationships Part 3: CHRISTIAN HUSBANDS
How Bible-believing men should
husband their spouses and submit to Christ.
B4 Faith, Failing, and Being Alone
My biggest problem hasn’t been
with “major” sins; but my “smaller” pride- and fear-based failures sure have
caused some major regret.
B5 Be a Clay Pot...and a Sharp Sword
Emphasizes the need to let the
Lord shape us...instead of letting other Christians do it.
B6 Yesterday was a Good Day
Sometimes the bad days are just
what we need...and are really good days. Explains what is involved in being a
mature Christian...and how to help others avoid being eviscerated.
B7 What Makes Warriors Cry
Nobody can ever tell me this is just a bunch of syrupy cornball rhetoric.
B8 In Swordplay and Service: Always
Ready, Willing, and Able
The characteristics of true
warriors...and of “Praise-Jesus-I-feel-good-but-don’t-know-the-Bible”
pretenders.
B9 Christian Manliness
If we are good wives the Lord will make us good men...and that is what true
“Christian personality” is all about.
B10 Don’t Cast Your Pearls Before
Swine
How God hides Himself from
unbelievers...and expects us to do the same.
Trumpet
Archive Charlie
C1 The Sound of the Trumpet: THE TIME IS SHORT
Expediency in marriage;
adultery and whoremongering; women preachers; and men
and women as types.
C2 What A Book!
Praising our Saviour for the
Book He has given us.
C3 Don’t Wait: Grow Now
Why a proper servant’s attitude
is important to spiritual growth, and how spanking
helps us get off to a fast start.
C4 No Nobler Deed
The Medal of Honor undermines
the nobility of duty.
C5 Dyslexia and Our Christian Heritage
A sarcastic look at what folly
theology has wrought.
C6 Holy Ground
You and I are in the “Here am
I, Lord; send me” business.
C7 Failing, Suffering...and Growing
Our love for the Lord makes us hurt when we sin...and that’s a good thing.
C8 I’ll Have
Manna, Please.
A fifth-grade reading
assignment helped me be more considerate, which is a necessary characteristics
of servants.
C9 Recognizing Unbelief
Unbelievers always look for
ways the Bible “could” be wrong; and why KJVers make
theologians feel insecure and petty.
C10 He Touched Me
I once was blind but now I see.
Trumpet
Archive Delta
D1 Make A Joyful Noise
The quality of worship is
determined by the heart, not by outward appearances.
D2 Music To My Ears
Everything around us – good and
bad – can become part of our continual fellowship with the Lord.
D3 Cheerfully Sitting at the Foot of the Table
How to handle – and profit from
– being a stable boy during the Millennial Reign.
D4 Inconsistencies
Worldly society is hopelessly
blind and inconsistent.
D5 Every Man Did That Which Was Right In His
Own Eyes
A framework of correct doctrine
makes us able to see what those around us cannot.
D6 Thy Rod and Thy Staff They Comfort
Me
God’s Old Testament punishment
combined with His New Testament teaching underscores the importance of the
corporate body of Christ. We must
understand that we really are parts of His body.
D7 The Wonder and the Simplicity
Faith and belief are wondrous mysteries to me; but I understand them enough to know the absolute necessity of being a submissive doer of the word.
D8 In Jesus’ Name
As wives who have taken our
Lord’s name upon ourselves we need to humbly keep in mind what that means.
D9 When Principle Is Involved, We
Must Be Deaf To Expediency
Compromising our principles in
order to make life easier must become anathema to us.
D10 Wounded By His Own Household
An attempt to glimpse how and
why our thoughtlessness hurts the Lord...so we might be better able to succor
Him.
Gird thy sword upon thy
thigh,
with thy glory and thy
majesty.
Psalm 45:3
My
bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart;
my heart maketh a
noise in me; I cannot hold my peace,
because thou hast heard, O
my soul,
the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Jeremiah
4:19
TRUMPET ARCHIVES |
I cannot hold my peace, |
because thou hast heard, O my soul, |
the sound of the trumpet, |
Jeremiah 4:19 |
the alarm of war. |