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Why Not Rather Be Wronged?

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Kingdom Capital

When you subscribe, you will get new posts in your mailbox every Tuesday and Friday. My goal is to walk with you, to continue speaking to Biblical Manhood and Integral Christian Witness in an era of dissociative decay and narrative inversion. That is, I’m going to call out the lies and witness to the Truth.

Kingdom Capital goes a step further, most Mondays putting in your hands a cooled off take on the last week in dishonest scales. The Bible does not talk about money as much as about any other topic for no reason: the Bible is clear that the way you coin your terms matters more than the paperclips you have in your wallet. Dishonest scales fall over, and a bribe destroys the conscience. Keeping an eye on the economy is about keeping an eye on your house, not as a matter of building bigger barns, but as a stewardship of the inheritance that is by faith alone.

Said another way: lies don’t stay put. They breed. Kingdom Capital is my side-offering of watching the stories about daily bread in order to remember where that bread is really buttered: the Hands of the Ascended King.

Kingdom Capital will not come to your inbox. You will need to check revfisk.com to see it. I experimented with putting it behind a paywall, but I’m done with that. Nothing I do here is meant to compel your support. Everything I do here is worthy of it.

We Reap What We Sow

I hope to sow some good stories. The recent changes in my life have shown me just how much I sacrificed in order to please others. More than anything, I gave up my love of fiction. Those of you who have been with me a long time have seen this old prayer poke its head up from time to time, from Earth, to Jonathan Collar, to the Crux, Edgar the Cabbage, Chapel and as yet the published Athanasius Audacity.

With a new lightness of heart, I return to these projects in earnest now. Earth is being re-released in serial as behind-the-scenes my compatriot Frisby the Hand sets to the task of type editing for Amazon release. Combing through multiple digital manuscripts is no small task, so this week’s Chapter 6 re-release is on pause while Christmas season heats up the demands on time. But make no mistake in your prayers: along with Teaching the Bible because it is true, I was born for this. Any future that sees my heart set free to chase the rainbow and not look back includes these stories meeting their termination in paperback somewhere on your shelf.

But What Happened?

“There is nothing hidden that will not be made manifest, nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”

“Judge nothing before the time, until Jesus Christ comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.”

“The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.”

When a man is wronged, he has two choices: seek vindication from men, or seek vindication from the throne of God. I have chosen the latter. That is the Way. That is also who I am. As a Pastor in the Church of Christ, it has been my vocation to cover the sins of others, to bear with burdens not my own, and to trust in the Lord of the Harvest to provide my living from the Gospel.

This week I began onboarding a new secular job to patch the holes. I have a home to maintain for my family. I have food to provide in its season. I am, before anything else, a Father desperately seeking to hold up my children in some of the most challenging times this nation has ever faced. I would not have chosen the path before me. But neither will I complain to God about the path He has given. Thy Will Be Done is no platitude to me. The Sons of Solomon prayers are not a game. I know in whom I have trusted, and I know it is His Day that will reveal all.

That is Enough for Me

And so I pray that, for this season, that is enough for you.

You have my word: I will publish twice a week for you. I will teach the Preacher’s Four Year Lection on Saved for you. I will speak frankly and without fear on X for you. I will keep the economy in perspective under the Kingdom Capital for you. I will write my stories freely for you. And I will continue building the Hebron Collegium for you.

Will You Please Help Me?

We need your prayers. The trial before my house is Herculean. Spectacle will help no one. Engaging in slander will help no one. Making the private public will help no one.

But “The laborer is worthy of his wages.” Stepping back from local parish administration is an audacious horizon. Becoming a “worker-priest” is a trepidatious task. “The Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel” and “I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread…. He is ever lending generously, and his children become a blessing.”

I cling to these promises and entrust myself to Him who judges justly.

The scoffers are going to scoff. Answering fools according their folly makes one like them. Far better to “trust in Jesus Christ, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness,” knowing that “whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free.”

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