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When the post has to be delayed…

On Monday night June 19th, my family lost a member in a motorcycle accident. His name was Stephen Floyd, the son of my sister-in-law Debbie Carter. It has been a difficult week for my whole family. My brother practically raised … Continue reading

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God’s Purpose for Marriage

Last week’s post was dedicated to Kevin DeYoung’s second reason that Godly marriage requires one man and one woman, that the way men and women are designed presupposes two persons joined together in the human sex act.  At the end … Continue reading

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Sticking Your Finger in Someone’s Ear

Last week my post was entitled “Let Us Not Lose Sight” and it was not devoted to commenting on Kevin DeYoung’s book What Does The Bible Really Teach About Homosexuality.  It was devoted to my feelings about how the United … Continue reading

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Let Us Not Lose Sight…

Personal Comments on LGBTQ+ Participation In A Denomination… A Church Has to Make a Choice: Culture or God’s Word… Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender life are really not addressed much in the Bible, yet today these topics are so controversial … Continue reading

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Companion, Helper and Second in Line

It is not a popular thing to say in today’s culture, but God created man and woman.  What makes ths simple statement unpopular is that it implies that God created two genders, deliberately.  Jennifer Heeren* writes “Does that mean that … Continue reading

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The Convinced, The Contentious and The Confused…

It happened a few years ago and I confess I was taken by surprise.  I did not know what to do.  One of the women in my church brought a young person to my Sunday school class.  She sat there … Continue reading

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Three Things to Keep Open

“What does the Bible teach about everything?” I knew Dr. Kevin DeYoung’s book What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality defends the “traditional Christian” view of marriage, the view that God intends marriage to be between a man and … Continue reading

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Diametrically Opposed…

On February 2, 2023, I began the most ambitious project I have ever undertaken on St. John Studies: I began a three-book discussion of the LGBTQ+ issue in the Christian church since that issue is at the forefront in my … Continue reading

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Worshipping with “Those Angry Christians”

“America is angry at Washington, angry at the press, angry at immigrants, angry at television, angry at traffic, angry at people who are well off, angry at people who are poor, angry at blacks and angry at whites.  The old … Continue reading

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A More Perfect Union

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, … Continue reading

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