This is not a site about me
Over the past couple of millennia, one thing that has hurt the church has been schism. When a body of believers splits over doctrine, it appears to the world as though the church doesn’t know what it believes. There have been disagreements among men in the church almost since Jesus founded it.
Imagine, if you will a man who has been arrested for a crime. He spends a night in jail awaiting arraignment, and the following day in court, the prosecutor declines to press charges. Following this, the judge says, “No, wait a minute, I’m going to ask people that don’t like this man to brief me on ways I can throw him in prison to rot without the prosecutor.” That’s what we’re seeing here. And there are at least a few judges on the court of appeals that think this is justice!
Please join me in wishing my father a happy birthday today. I can honestly say that I would not be the man I am today without him.
The world has got a pretty messed-up view of what Christianity is. For that matter, so do a bunch of people that think that they’re Christians.
“Have a little faith.” How many times have you heard that? Perhaps the idea is losing traction in our society today and you haven’t heard it so much. In any case, when you hear it, if you do, or when you read it, as you surely just did, the question should arise, “In what?”
“A leopard cannot change its spots.” People say this with the idea that a man cannot change who or what he is. There is some truth to the idea. But like all aphorisms, it doesn’t tell the whole truth.
The old programmers joke says that there are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don’t. There are a lot of different ways to classify people, and many of them have their own equivalent statement that there are only two kinds of people, etc.