No importa la crisis que haya, el Cristiano debiera ser la persona más optimista. Nosotros sabemos el curso de la historia. El presente no determina el futuro. El hombre no puede alterar los planes de Dios.
Cristo viene. El Reino se acerca. El pecado y el diablo tendrán su fin.
📖 En una generación marcada por la confusión sobre Israel, la identidad bíblica y el significado de las Escrituras, los líderes cristianos enfrentan un desafío cada vez más urgente: interpretar fielmente la Palabra de Dios.
Por eso, como parte del camino formativo de Ordo Sionis, te invitamos a un taller virtual especial junto a José “Pepe” Mendoza (@pepieri), autor de Hermenéutica Bíblica: consejos prácticos para comprender la Biblia sin morir en el intento.
En esta conversación práctica y accesible, descubrirás herramientas fundamentales para interpretar las Escrituras en su contexto y enriquecer tu enseñanza de la Palabra de Dios.
📅 9 de julio
🕖 7:00 PM (ET)
💻 Vía Zoom
🎁 ¡Sorteo especial!
Gracias a Vida Editorial y Editorial CLIE, estaremos regalando 5 ejemplares de Hermenéutica Bíblica durante la transmisión.
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Mazal tov @SimoneRizkallah/@philoscatholic for creating a meaningful commemoration of Pope John Paul II's historic visit to the Great Synagogue in Rome @JP2Shrine. Catholics (esp. recent converts) will hopefully take to heart the Pope's profound friendship with the Jewish people
The world doesn't reward safe men. It rewards people who absorb failure, tolerate ambiguity, and pursue asymmetric outcomes where the downside is real and the upside is transformative. Evangelical culture trains boys to do the opposite. Moms want them safe. Dads comply.
Trabajando por más de 11 años en uno de los temas más polémicos de nuestro tiempo, he aprendido algo muy sencillo, pero profundamente revelador: muchas de las afirmaciones que circulan en redes sociales pueden desmantelarse con solo dos preguntas:
1️⃣ ¿ Cómo llegaste a esa conclusión?
2️⃣ ¿Cuáles son las evidencias que sostienen tu postura?
Y, curiosamente, la conversación muchas veces termina ahí.
¿Por qué? Porque al hacer estas preguntas, la persona suele darse cuenta de una de dos cosas:
a) Que simplemente vio algunos videos que le presentaron los “hechos” de una manera ya interpretada, sin haber verificado las fuentes.
b) Que reaccionó emocionalmente a ese contenido sin haber investigado el tema con profundidad.
Aquí es donde la Escritura nos confronta con sabiduría y gracia.
Proverbios 18:13 nos advierte con claridad:
“El que responde palabra antes de oír, le es fatuidad y oprobio.”
Es decir, hablar sin haber entendido primero no es solo un error—es necedad, y eventualmente trae vergüenza.
Y no solo eso. Proverbios 18:17 añade:
“El primero en presentar su causa parece justo, hasta que viene otro y lo examina.”
Lo que escuchamos primero puede sonar convincente, pero no siempre es completo, ni necesariamente verdadero.
Por eso el llamado bíblico no es simplemente a “tener una opinión,” sino a cultivar un carácter:
Santiago 1:19 nos recuerda: “Todo hombre sea pronto para oír, tardo para hablar, tardo para airarse.”
En otras palabras, el discípulo de Cristo no se define por la rapidez de su reacción, sino por la profundidad de su discernimiento.
En una generación que ha sido formada por titulares, clips de un minuto y emociones inmediatas, el llamado del creyente sigue siendo contracultural:
Escuchar bien, examinar con cuidado, y hablar con verdad.
Porque no todo lo que se siente cierto, es cierto.
Y no todo lo que suena convincente, es verdad.
Y quizás más importante aún: nuestra responsabilidad no es solo defender lo que creemos, sino hacerlo con integridad, con evidencia, y con un corazón sometido a la verdad de Dios.
We live in a time where you can make outrageous claims and not have to prove them, because we’ve become a generation that no longer exercises critical thinking, deep investigation, and careful analysis. Instead, we make knee-jerk reactions for the purpose of defending our own tribes and prejudices, systematic theologies, and ideological preferences.
God help the remnant that has persistently chosen to stand above the fog of confusion—to defend truth, to manifest moral clarity, and to stand firm in biblical conviction, unshaken by cultural pressure, in a time of moral and spiritual disorder.
The word Judeo-Christian doesn’t exit. It’s a total fallacy.
Ok fine it exists but it was a political term invented in 1940s.
Again no.
And that’s why the fact that they’re trying to rip those two words apart means so much because it is a direct link to our founding.
The founders didn’t need to use the phrase. They built this constitutional republic on its principles.
John Adams wrote “I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation.”
Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin proposed a seal for the United States depicting the Israelites crossing the Red Sea with the motto “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”
Samuel Langdon, a president of Harvard, preached a sermon in 1775 called “The Republic of the Israelites as an Example to the American States.”
The New England patriots actually studied Hebrew.
The Liberty Bell has Leviticus 25:10 inscribed on it. “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.”
I know the podcast Bros didn’t tell you all, but the actual constitutional republic that you live in is based on a covenant and where does the word covenant even come from the Old Testament first.
So yeah, this is a Judeo-Christian country. Because it’s founders, used the principles of the Old Testament and the New Testament to build the way in which we are governed so that they could protect the rights which were given to us by God.
The term "theological liberalism" is thrown around a lot.
When push comes to shove though, it still boils down to Richard Niebuhr's summation of what theological liberalism truly is: "A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross" (Kingdom of God in America, 193).
Liberal/progressive Christianity is more than that but it is no less than that, and it will always come down to it. Niebuhr's words 89 years ago are just as applicable in 1937 as they are today.
Groyper completely DESTROYED in debate after claiming, without evidence, that “Israel is the reason for Islamic terror around the world” & is forced to admit he is wrong at the end 😂
His evidence for Israel being to blame is that Jews in Congress lobby the government to invade Islamic countries to which @nick_matau says “for every 1 Jew that lobbied, supported or participated in invading Libya for example, I can show you 10 white people that did the same… so does that mean the European countries these people came from were to also to blame by the same logic you use against Israel?”
Nick does a great job of exposing the logic fallacies & double standard these Groypers have for Jews.
When individual leftist Jews do evil things like all leftists do, the blame is assigned to “the JOOZ” & by automatic extension Israel.
But when powerful White individuals
do evil things.. “it’s not all White people” & the European countries they come from don’t get blamed.
God made a promise to Israel, Israel failed, and God moved on. Gave the promise to someone else. Replaced the original with an upgrade?
Is that really the character of Christ?
If you believe it, you have a bigger problem than eschatology. You have a God who walks away.
Think about what Christ actually did. He came to Israel. His own people. They rejected Him. They handed Him to Rome. They shouted “crucify Him.” By every measure of the “conditional promise” argument, that was the moment God should have been done.
The condition was broken as definitively as it could possibly be broken. The chosen people rejected the Son of God to His face.
And what did Christ do?
He died for them anyway.
On the cross He prayed “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” He didn’t say “Father, transfer the covenant. They failed the condition.” He said forgive them.
After the resurrection, He didn’t go to Rome. He didn’t go to the gentiles first. He appeared to His Jewish disciples. He sent them to Jerusalem first. Acts 1:8. “You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Jerusalem first.
The character of Christ does not transfer covenants when people fail. The character of Christ pursues, forgives, restores, and keeps His word even when the other party breaks theirs. That is the entire Gospel. If God’s faithfulness depended on human performance, every one of us would be lost. Not just Israel. All of us.
If God replaced Israel for failing the condition, He would have replaced Peter for denying Him. He would have replaced you for every sin you’ve committed since the day you believed. He would have replaced me.
God does not break covenants. He fulfills them. He extends them. He grafts in new branches without cutting off the root. Romans 11:18. “Do not be arrogant toward the branches. It is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you.”
The most eye-opening analysis on the current fragmentation of the Republican Party and American conservatism.
Among many things, this piece helped me realize that @SohrabAhmari—whom I once considered a friend until he blocked me and accused me and others of disliking Catholics over a disagreement about an archbishop’s statement regarding the war in Gaza—was actually projecting his own contempt for Protestant evangelicals.
As a Latino, I grew up among Catholics my whole life. I have attended Catholic Mass, advocated for Catholic believers in the Middle East despite reluctance and resistance within my own circles, and I even have a godly godfather who has remained close to me and my family my entire life.
None of those facts matter to the Catholic integralists who despise what you represent. They carry a type of Holy War Theology that expects nothing less than submission and compliance.