The Church, Hatred, and The Man in the Mirror
I came across a most fascinating, albeit sarcastic comment on FB today, and thought, wow, how telling. The church should do only that which makes her feel good. Namely, that is to beat the part of the...
View ArticleDo Unto Others What You Do Not Want Them To Do To You
Yep, the golden rule, as shouted out with great excitement in a cross gen Bible study by a 6 year old some years back. And while the youngster got tongue tied and flipped Matthew 7:12 upside down, we...
View ArticleAstrophotometer, Spurgeon on Kepler
For my undergrad senior design project a multitude of years ago, where today’s FPGA, and mixed signal chips might have saved me hundreds of hours of wirewrapping, I used a massive number of digital...
View ArticleEars itching for the 1950’s
As I was shaking my head over the Nashville Statement, a friend linked me to Pastor Nadia’s counter to it, the Denver Statement. In reading the comments, a couple scriptures were posted, and I thought...
View ArticleStanding Around All Day Doing Nothing
So today’s Gospel reading was on the parable of the workers in the vineyard. Basically, a dude hired some folks to work for him early in the day, and then through out the day kept going back to hire...
View ArticleSplitting the Body and Soul
We go to a MD to get our physical bodies repaired, we go to a PsyD for mental health concerns, and we go to a pastor for spirit and soul related matters. In effect, 21st century healing is based upon 3...
View ArticleRemoving a Log, Plank, Beam from an Eye
A couple decades back I found myself hanging somewhat upside down in the ER, with an torrent of saline running through a tube attached to my eye which then flowed across my head and into a bucket. I’d...
View ArticleQuestioning Authority
We start out with a child like faith, believing what others tell us at face value. However, as life experience grows, most tend to become more and more distrustful of blindly following. What is the...
View ArticleCaregiving Tougher than Tough
So there is this AARP ad featuring Danny Trejo, where in the theme is care givers are tough. As I did such for ten years plus, I echo the sentiment. In looking back, I’m wondering how I managed to make...
View ArticleGetting Discipleship Wrong
82% of Americans believe God helps those who helped themselves. A good chunk of Christians believe what goes around, comes around. Some have said that the sermon on the mount was originally preached by...
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