Three Dollars Worth of God

No comments of my own today. Everything’s borrowed.
I wrote a post yesterday called “Intellectual Honesty and Throwing Up.” I’m trying to decide whether it’s worth posting, needs editing, or just needs to be thrown out.
For today, though, Voice of the Martyrs quoted Wilbur Rees as saying:
I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please. [...]

Back Surgery and the Help of God

This is not meant to be a blog about my personal life, but …
Yesterday my wife had back surgery for a bulging disk. It was huge; 18 mm, for those that have an idea of what that is. The nerve that exits between her bottom vertebrae and tailbone was completely crushed–flattened out–against the bone at [...]

Roman Catholics, Orthodox, and the Local Church

I got an email from a Roman Catholic and an Orthodox believer both in the same day. The biggest thing they had in common was massive miscommunication.
What I mean by that is that they both presented arguments to me that were convincing to them but didn’t make a lick of sense to me. Worse, neither [...]

Christians and Liberals

Today I found a news article about the ACLU supporting freedom of Religion … for Christians!
Giving credit where credit is due, I found that link at this blog.
I have some comments to make about Christians, liberals, and conspiracy theories:
Christians and Liberals
Once, as I was waiting in line to pay at a Chinese restaurant, I heard [...]

If We Are the Body …

That song continues:
… why aren’t his arm reaching? Why aren’t his hands healing?
I don’t know if that’s supposed to be a rhetorical question, but in case it’s not I’d like to try to answer it.
Because we’re not the body.
The Body of Christ
Our Gospel at Rose Creek Village gets expressed a number of ways, but my [...]

James 2:10: Guilty of the Whole Law

Whoever keeps the whole Law, yet offends in one point, he is guilty of all. – James 2:10
Okay, I promised that I’d put up a second blog today on what James 2:10 means (rather than what it doesn’t mean).
This is one of the verses where context is important.
Context is not always important, you know. “A [...]

Perfection, the Atonement, and James 2:10

For whoever keeps the whole Law, yet stumbles in one point, he is guilty of all. – James 2:10
I am going to write two blogs today. The first will be about what this verse does not mean, and the second about what it does mean.
Do We Have To Be Perfect?
James 2:10 is used in all [...]