David Harris

Not Necessarily. But let me explain further.  I’ve been a teacher for over a decade, eight of those years in America’s public school system. I’m very familiar with their interworkings. I’ve worked in urban, suburban, and very rural schools, among most demographics present in the US. Interestingly enough, I was homeschooled from kindergarten to 12th […]

Some years ago, when I was still in college, I was driving across New York State after seeing a friend in Rochester. My traveling companion suggested we listen to a sermon, as it was the Lord’s day, as we drove. He suggested we listen to one of his favorite preachers, “Voddie Baucham.” I was only […]

Yesterday afternoon, while preparing to administer a quiz at one of the Tennessee schools where I work, my phone began to buzz incessantly. With a glance at my notifications, I experienced immediate deja vu, remembering all the buzzing that my phone received the evening of July 13, 2024, after President Trump was nearly assassinated at […]

Florida representative Maria Salazar has enjoyed a few more minutes of fame after proposing the Dignity Act on July 15. The bill, intensely defended as being definitively “not amnesty,” would essentially levy a small fine ($7,000 over 7 years) to all those living illegally in the US who entered before January 1st, 2021. Rep. Salazar […]

A few years ago, my wife and I walked along Coeur d’Alene’s lakeside in northern Idaho. One of the most striking features of the lakefront neighborhoods was the unique designs of the brand-new houses, all recently constructed in the wake of the post-lockdown flood to Idaho. They were all different in layout, yet somehow all […]

This July 4th, Christians across the US will fire up their grills, enjoy cold drinks with friends and family, and drive to local parks for fireworks displays. Many will offer brief prayers, thanking God for the rights and freedoms they enjoy as American citizens. Some will even attend local parades or patriotic services.  Sadly, there’s […]

Americans were treated to a startling deja vu over the weekend of June 7-8 as incendiaries, chunks of concrete, fireworks, and strangely, Los Angeles city scooters, were repeatedly lobbed at local police, federal law enforcement, and the National Guard. The images plastered across TV screens and social media feeds of a smoldering City of Angels […]

In the Western Church, Ascension Day, the Thursday 40 days after Resurrection Sunday, is meant to commemorate and celebrate Jesus’ ascension into Heaven after rising from the dead (see: St. Augustine, Sermons, page 266). The following is a brief collection of commentary on the Ascension and its profound significance to our faith. Luke 24:50-53 (NASB […]

The following five commentaries concern the last words that our Lord spoke on the cross: After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his […]

In short, yes, it does. But does that only mean that illegal immigrants in the US should follow draconian COVID-19 polices? Must they abide by lockdown restrictions and distancing policies and receive experimental vaccines if mandated? A more general question: How ought Christians live amid dramatic, political, and social upheaval? God calls Christians to a […]

In a predictable yet profoundly incriminating act, President Biden bookended his record-breaking number of presidential pardons by including General Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Faucci, and the congressional members of the J6 committee. More than any other bureaucratic figureheads, these men and women represent the absolute departure from justice, truth, common sense, and sanity that the […]

In June of 1910, a number of evangelical, protestant denominations, associations, and representatives met in Edinburgh, Scotland for the 3rd “World Missions Conference.” One of the men presiding over the conference was John Mott, a Methodist leader of the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF). A primary catchphrase of the conference came from a book Mott […]

The 1959 film Ben-Hur is one of three films to be nominated for eleven Academy Awards. It remains one of the top-grossing films of all time, earning close to 1 Billion dollars at the box office (adjusted for inflation). To say the film is “big” would be putting it mildly. It’s a massive film. Spanning […]

Each year on October 31st, children don the costumes of their favorite movie characters and meander up and down suburban streets with the goal of scoring some king-size candy bars. Other children are kept behind the closed doors of their homes or churches celebrating “the harvest” or perhaps Reformation Day, the official Protestant commemoration of  […]

Over the last few days, I’ve had a lot of difficulty sleeping. Hearing fuzzy reports and receiving ceaseless texts of accounts describing children calling for their parents, elderly people left alone without power or water up decimated holler roads, and bodies strewn throughout receding floodwaters have been echoing in my mind. I’ve connected with some […]

Several weeks ago at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, social media buzzed with warnings about a satchel-carrying, tight-jeans-wearing, man-bun sporting attendee meandering around the convention floor. “Don’t talk to this man!” read one social media post. At another point, the white, middle-aged, hipster-looking man appeared right behind a live news broadcast, striking anger and […]