A Twelve Step Program “God can help you uncover the source of your anger whether injustice, hurt, fear or frustration. He is ready and able to heal your heart and help you control your anger before it controls you!” –June Hunt “Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry,… Continue reading Hope and Help for Angry People
Category: Theology
The “Braggmony” of a Rich Young Peacock
“Some people have a true testimony to share. Others only have an exaggerated ‘braggamony’ to declare.”—Stanford E. Murrell “And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up” (Luke 18:21). No one likes to be thought badly about. Most of us hold dearly to our reputations, well deserved or not. Of course, in… Continue reading The “Braggmony” of a Rich Young Peacock
I Have Never Known Forgiveness
AN EXPOSITION OF PHILEMON 1 Many years ago, I mentioned in a sermon, that I have never known what it is to be forgiven by someone I have offended. By that, I meant that I have not been forgiven by anyone outside my family for an offense beyond a slight misunderstanding. I have never wanted… Continue reading I Have Never Known Forgiveness
Patterns of Evidence: The Moses Controversy
“And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel” (Exodus 34:27). Now showing in movie theaters, and soon available on DVD, Patterns of Evidence: The Moses Controversy, is a 2019 documentary film by writer and director Timothy… Continue reading Patterns of Evidence: The Moses Controversy
Curtis Hutson vs Jesus Christ and the Unpardonable Sin
The context for the Lord’s teaching about blaspheming the Holy Spirit is His healing of a man possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb. “Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw” (Matt. 12:22). Many people… Continue reading Curtis Hutson vs Jesus Christ and the Unpardonable Sin
The Sad Saga of Michael Cohen: Man Says, God Says
The Problem with Dissociation The Bible has much to say about lying. It has been written in stone that people are not to lie. “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor” (Exodus 20:16). The reason for this Divine prohibition is that God, who is holy and true, hates lying. “These six things doth… Continue reading The Sad Saga of Michael Cohen: Man Says, God Says
God’s Free Love and Free Grace, Not Free Will
For many years I was curious as to why a person reared as a conservative Calvinist, would become a theological Arminian. For those who are not familiar with those terms, a Calvinist is a Christian influenced by the teaching of the French religious theologian, John Calvin (July 10, 1509 – May 27, 1564), one of… Continue reading God’s Free Love and Free Grace, Not Free Will
