Category: Christianity

As previous readers of this blog know, I have been studying J. I. Packer’s book Knowing God since 1979. It was one of the first things we covered when I started a home Bible study that year. The book had…

I am getting too old for these all nighters. Working through Sunday night and not finishing until late Monday on that rush index has taken its toll, but the worst part was not the following day, in this case Tuesday,…

Hello! Welcome. Lend me your ear for a moment. Now that I have your attention I want to issue a sincere call to all Christians. I ask that you please pass this clarion onto everyone you know who calls Jesus…

Jeremy Pierce has been discussing the arguments surrounding homosexual marriage which morphed into legislating morality and now have morphed into arguments concerning the nature and longetivity of abominations, since homosexuality is so biblically described. I got into the middle of…

People do not behave as we expect, both today, in America, and in the past, looking at Biblical populations. There is a disconnection between us and our understanding of the real people we see in the historic scriptures, and their…

Welcome to the second edition of Theological Thursdays. Much of my thinking is done in analogies, similes, and other mental images. I have been told I am a visual thinker. I believe that is true and while my math was…

While on a campaign trip in his home state a US senator’s plane tragically crashes and he dies. His soul arrives in heaven and he is met by St. Peter at the entrance. “Welcome to heaven,” says St. Peter. “But,…

In a Washington Times article this morning, entitled Gay bishop dismisses Anglican report, , New Hampshire Bishop V. Gene Robinson, the first open and active homosexual Episcopal priest elected and consecrated a Bishop, predicted at a service yesterday in Washington…

A friend, someone who I had mentored in the early to mid-90’s, recently died. In many ways it was a tragic death. After a long wait to find the right woman and then a long engagement, he finally married his…

Welcome to the first entry in my new concept of weekly themed postings. Today it’s Theological Thursdays. While I consider myself in no way a formal theologian, I do accept the challenge of J.I. Packer to wrestle with theology, since…