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Only Three Days Until the “Rapture”…
In case you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t heard, the end of the world begins this Saturday, May 21 at or about 6:00 PM. According to Harold Camping, the resident genius cum prophet at WeCanKnow.com, May 21 is exactly … Continue reading
Let Them Build The Mosque
Unless you are living under a rock, you have heard the controversy surrounding the “ground zero mosque.” Essentially, a group of Muslims want to build an “Islamic community center,” that will house a mosque, two blocks away from the former … Continue reading
Selective Scripture Editing and Logical Conclusions
I don’t like “devotionals.” They are almost always silly, trite, supposed “life lessons” that are tied, loosely, to a particular bit of scripture, with little to no theological grounding. Very often, that scripture has been edited to remove bits that … Continue reading
Blue Laws Trampling My Freedom
Yesterday (Sunday) my family and I were at our local shopping wonderland, Cost Plus World Market. I love this place, because they sell products I can’t find anywhere else. My favorite is Bundaberg Ginger Beer (non-alcoholic), which is, without a … Continue reading
My Translation of Luke 2:1-20
Last year before Christmas I translated the nativity story from Luke 2:1-20 from Greek into English because I thought I was up to it. My family and I read it together on Christmas Eve, which was kind of neat, but … Continue reading
Biblical Greek Word Games
In my Sunday School class, we’re currently working through a book on the Gospel of John, by a man called Mark A. Matson. The book is pretty good, but in yesterday’s lesson he explained something in a way that fundamentally … Continue reading
Annoying Street Preachers Annoy Me
Tonight we went to the Merchant Square section of Williamsburg to find something to eat. While we did end up finding a lovely restaurant with wonderful food, we also found street preachers shouting hellfire and damnation to anyone who would … Continue reading
My Church Was Robbed Last Night
I don’t have any details, but I just got an email from my church saying we were robbed last night. What sort of person robs a church? My first thought upon hearing this was “Man, I hope this guy rots … Continue reading
Finding vs. Discovering
As an Advent project this year, I decided to translate the two Nativity stories in the New Testament, Luke 2:1 – 20 and Matthew 1:18 – 2:12, from Greek into English. Yes, it’s been done a thousand times already, but … Continue reading
My Eucharistic Theology
Eucharistic theologycreated with QuizFarm.com You scored as Zwingli You are Ulrich Zwingli. You believe that bread and wine are symbols of the absent Jesus. You believe in interpreting Scripture reasonably. Zwingli 94% Calvin 81% Luther 63% Orthodox 50% Unitarian 19% … Continue reading
What a Lovely Christian
There are some “Christians” who give the rest of us a bad name. Some TV-preacher jack-ass called Bill Keller is one of them. He’s going off on Mitt Romney for being a member of a “cult” and being evil and … Continue reading
Bruce Metzger, R.I.P.
Bruce Metzger died on Tuesday. He was 93. I first heard the name when I read Bart Ehrman’s book Misquoting Jesus last year. Metzger was a leading figure in the world of biblical textual criticism, and the general editor of … Continue reading
God Did Not Write the Bible
There’s a big discussion going on over at the Rapture-Ready Message Board concerning the current state of affairs in the Middle East. Lots and lots of people there are all a-flutter that “the Rapture” is nigh and they’re busily packing … Continue reading
It’s A Good Thing I Was Prepared…
In my Sunday School class we are studying a book called The Other Gospels, which is a collection of Gnostic texts, discovered at Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945. This week our text was The Dialogue of the Savior, and it … Continue reading
An Indictment From James
Today’s scripture at church was James 3:1-12. The entire chapter is about how one’s tongue can’t be tamed and how it can be “full of deadly poison.” The part that his me was this: 10Out of the same mouth proceedeth … Continue reading
Two Church Stories
I have two church stories tonight; one funny and one serious. The funny one happened this morning as we were leaving the 11:00 service. Our pastor is named Phil and he greets everyone in the narthex on their way out … Continue reading
A Vision At the Funeral
As I mentioned here we had to head out Saturday for a funeral. It was yesterday at 15:00 in Milledgeville. The service was nice, if a bit generic. But during that service I was struck with a vision that was … Continue reading
Christ the Lord is Risen Today!
Happy Easter to all of you! We had a glorious service this morning at Grayson United Methodist Church to celebrate the Resurrection of our Saviour and His triumph over the grave. Each of the four Gospels tells the Resurrection story, … Continue reading
