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Why I Quit Going to Church
Originally posted on Intermission:
? During the past few years, Sharon and I have visited numerous churches. We were counting just the other day and realized we have been to at least two each of Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist, Assembly of God, Catholic, and non-denominational, in addition to countless Baptist churches. However, for the last two…Verseless New Testament: 1 Corinthians (Part 2)
Also, brothers, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual men, but as fleshy, as to infants in Christ. I gave you milk to drink, not food, for you were not able to eat it. But now you are still not able to eat, for you are still fleshy. For whereas among you […]
Verseless New Testament: 1 Corinthians (Part 1)
This is a translation from the Greek. It is not meant to be a “new translation,” but to encourage those who have chosen to live as disciples of Jesus Christ, that they will also study the text, and do their own “translations” from studying the text in the Koine Greek. I can testify that reading and studying […]
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Category Archives: Life
Diagnosis: Hope
Originally posted on the lostkerryman:
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. The word “hope” here goes way beyond the same concept of “hope” we have in English because it is literally “a…
the burning earth
somewhere between New Straitsville, Murray City, and Shawnee, a fire is burning, burning the earth beneath, unquenchable. way back in 1884, a group of striking miners, sent a “take-this-job-and-shove-it” message to their bosses by sending several coal cars with oil-drenched timbers deep … Continue reading
The Face-To-Face Social Network
…after an unpleasant gaze at the fields of facebook, I have resolved to readjust my thinking as I go about my random social interaction daily. one can only take so much of fake this and fake that before becoming bummed … Continue reading
lament
looking back over the past year, as it slips into memory and history, I sit here pondering what has happened. whether it is because of age, insight, or too many trips around the merry-go-round, I am a bit depressed about the … Continue reading
prelude to a promise
Though snow cover the whole world white and death descend on the land like night this season will pass ‘neath a coming storm to wake us anew in a heavenly form…
Autumn answers
seeds waiting for new life in the coming cold and leaves joining others in sleep there are some who choose to color the dying landscape and refuse to blend in with decay
questions in the dark
when I was twenty-three, I thought life was chocolate cake… yet so many sobering faces confronted me from the crowd that lived the longest- no sunshine in their veins, nor smiles in the topo lines etched in flesh their passing like the scent of a … Continue reading
i would rather be a beautiful baguette than a moldy mouthful of beaten-down bread
going to church on Sunday…for the building up of your spirit…is like going to the day old bread store and buying a bag of moldy bread. sure, the product is still there, but you get a stale loaf with major … Continue reading
the word beyond words
how can I share what air cannot reveal, what eyes cannot reach, what words cannot contain? though the wind whisper it, my ears cannot translate for you, only these lips that speak without thought like a treasure crying out inside … Continue reading
