The scandalous mercy of God
Raising ten children meant my parents had to be intentional about seeking a balance between meeting the individual needs of each of us kids without appearing to favor any. I’m sure the scales… Continue reading
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#5 God as Master Puppeteer
Coming in at number five of my top ten posts in my ten years as a blogger is this one on the doctrines of predestination and election….part of my series on barriers to… Continue reading
#7 Sin, suffering, and salvation
Why would anyone want to read a post about sin? Number seven here of my top ten posts likely got some traction because I previously began it referencing Donald Trump in this context.… Continue reading
#9 Faith plus works or faith that works?
Number nine on my top ten posts in honor of my ten year blogging anniversary begins with a horrifying hypothetical scenario. Is this not what works-based salvation necessarily leads to? Picture this: You’re… Continue reading
The most momentous junction
New Year’s resolution….blah, blah, blah.…lose weight, quit smoking, get healthy.…blah, blah, blah….off the diet, still lighting up, quit the gym….blah, blah, blah. Wait eleven and a half months. Repeat. It’s that time of… Continue reading
The blind and the seeing
Atheists have a lot of objections to what is claimed about God in the Bible. But as I dialogue with them, it’s often unclear to me whether they believe their objections amount to… Continue reading
Do Christians consume Christ?
…where I seek to provide some food for thought from Jesus’ Bread of Life discourse in John 6. Are Christians cannibals? Some curious first-century onlookers thought so. The word was going around that… Continue reading
A lover spurned
– What if we held tightly to the idea that to love one another is holy and sacred because love comes from God? – But let one person find love, comfort or companionship… Continue reading
Field of hypocritical Democrat dreamers
Oh, the hypocrisy of the pro-abortion left. They hurl accusations of immorality at President Trump…some of it warranted, some not…all the while engaging in obvious immorality themselves. They just refuse to look in… Continue reading
Check more than your privilege
“The guilty should get their just deserts.” Well, dessert is the best part of the meal, so just desserts sounds pretty good to me. My hand’s up. Guilty! If only. Wouldn’t it be… Continue reading
The divine elephant in the room
Consider: How morally righteous would all these tweets seem if they were aimed at a policy regarding pedophilia instead of homosexuality? The substitution makes them quite ludicrous, no? And… Continue reading
Boy, do we need to get woke
It’s a bit maddening, and frustrating, and depressing…reading so many repeated half-truths and hateful mischaracterizations related to the current immigration debate. I want to address every single one I read, but it would… Continue reading
Hidden assumptions in the gay rights debate
Some gays and their supporters are just awful. They’re lewd and crude, loud and proud, and totally intolerant. If one so much as suggests that the homosexual lifestyle is problematic, they’re in your… Continue reading
Sin, suffering, and salvation
Donald Trump is a sorry sinner. Sorry as in, pretty pathetic, though one can hope that he’s sorry as in, I really shouldn’t have done that. Either way, there are a lot of… Continue reading
Well, what did we expect?
Bad behavior abounds and we act all surprised and appalled. Sexual misconduct, racism, bigotry, fake news, intolerance, anti-Semitism, hatred…we call it out and judge and condemn as if we actually have some… Continue reading