Elder's Blog Archives

Divine simplicity and the attributes of God

Posted on April 6, 2026April 17, 2026 by Mountain Veteran Ministries

When theologians say God is "simple," they don't mean God is easy to understand. They mean God doesn't have parts. He isn't assembled from pieces the way a watch is assembled from gears. His love isn't one component bolted onto His holiness. His justice isn't in tension with His mercy. God is one...

Christianity and mental health

Posted on April 5, 2026June 4, 2026 by Mountain Veteran Ministries

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Deconstruction: why people leave and what it means

Posted on April 5, 2026April 17, 2026 by Mountain Veteran Ministries

Deconstruction is not new. People have been walking away from inherited faith for as long as there has been inherited faith. What is new is the speed, the scale, the social infrastructure that makes leaving easier, and the language that makes it feel like intellectual progress rather than loss....

Race, justice, and the church’s record

Posted on April 5, 2026April 17, 2026 by Mountain Veteran Ministries

The church has the most compelling answer in the world to the question of race — every human being made in the image of God, every tribe and tongue gathered before the throne, the dividing wall of hostility torn down by the cross. It has also spent significant portions of its history doing the...

Gender, sexuality, and the Christian ethic

Posted on April 5, 2026April 17, 2026 by Mountain Veteran Ministries

The sexual revolution did not catch God off guard. The questions it raised about gender, identity, and the meaning of the body have biblical answers — not because the Bible was written in anticipation of the 21st century, but because it was written about human beings, and human beings have not...

Christianity and politics: where’s the line?

Posted on April 5, 2026April 17, 2026 by Mountain Veteran Ministries

The church has always lived inside political systems it did not create and cannot fully control. The question was never whether Christians engage the political world — they must, because they live in it. The question is how: with what priorities, what limits, what loyalties, and what...

Sacraments: what they are and why they matter

Posted on April 5, 2026April 17, 2026 by Mountain Veteran Ministries

Christianity is not a purely spiritual religion. It uses water, bread, and wine — physical stuff — as means of grace. That is not an accident or a holdover from primitive religion. It is a deliberate choice by a God who took on flesh, and it tells you something essential about how he works....

Church history highlights (early church through today)

Posted on April 5, 2026April 17, 2026 by Mountain Veteran Ministries

The church is two thousand years old and has survived Roman emperors, medieval corruption, doctrinal crises, brutal persecution, and its own worst impulses. Understanding that history doesn't just satisfy curiosity — it builds confidence that what God started, God will finish. The story of the...