The Month of Elul and the Gentile Christian
Elul, the last month of the Jewish year, is a time to review the past and look at where you’ve come in life. It’s a preparation for the upcoming “Days of Awe”—Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur—when we...
View ArticleThe Devil Made Me Do It Redux
Over three years ago, as part of my “church experience,” I wrote this blog post illustrating how many churches (including the one I was attending at the time) emphasize the influence of an external...
View ArticleHow is Messianic Judaism “Trending?”
My stats say this blog has a little over 900 followers and while that doesn’t put me anywhere in the same neighborhood as TechCrunch, it does mean that at least potentially, a few people out there are...
View ArticleOne More Time Back at Church
I’m sure my regular readers have noticed that I rarely post missives here anymore. There are a lot of reasons for that, including the feeling that I’ve said just about everything I have to say about...
View ArticleThe Consequences of Trinity Sunday
I had no idea there was such a thing as Trinity Sunday until I was sitting in a little, local Lutheran church with my Mom last Sunday and the Pastor was preaching on it. I guess it’s a “thing,” just...
View ArticleEaster this year face to face
My elderly Mom lives in an independent home and of course, their restrictions for the residents has been rather tight. It meant, among other things, that I couldn’t take her to church every Sunday. In...
View ArticleGalatians, Adoption, and Unity vs. Division
I took Mom to church for the first time in a while. She turned 90 last month and her Alzheimer’s isn’t going to get better, but as long as I’m with her and we take her walker, she’s okay. The pastor...
View ArticleEvil Christians and their “Sky Daddy”
I see a lot of memes on social media that not only ridicule the Church as unless but actually say Christians are evil. I suppose the “useless” part comes in when believers pray to their “sky daddy”...
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