Category: Church Issues

1. The resurrection of Jesus was, (among other things), a vindication by God of the way that Christ took His kingdom and defeated death and the powers of darkness. He turned the other cheek...

1. I watched a Palm Sunday service this past weekend and found out that I’m probably not a Christian. This shocking revelation came from the pastor strongly inferring that those who did not rebel...

“People of the Book” I recently checked into volunteering, post-Covid, in a local literacy program.  If I follow through on this idea, it will mark my third time doing this kind of work since...

Hope is a Choice As I look back over the last forty plus years of life in the church, it seems to me that there has been a steady diminishment of hope as that...

1. In my lifetime there have been three extraneous doctrines that a sizable group of evangelicals demanded for “orthodoxy”. The first was speaking in tongues, then the pretrib rapture…now, it’s Christian nationalism that will...

A Year… This March will mark a year that the vast majority of us have had our lives upended by  Covid-19.  On March 11, 2020, the WHO officially designated the virus out break as...

1. I’m weary of the pandemic, weary of masks, weary of distancing, weary of smelling of hand sanitizer…but the thing I’m most weary of is angry people… 2. I’m not angry…nobody has done anything...

The Wilderness of Lent The idea of Lent is remarkable in that it is perhaps one of the best known portions of the Christian Year while, at the same time having its origins somewhat...