“With everybody trying to tell us what to do, you are to wonder who to know whose word is true.” These words from a Johnny Cash song came to mind recently when listening to men of God on You Tube pulling down another man of God. And I mean men of God, not religious men of the …
Monthly Archives: June 2015
Be Absolutely Certain
If you do an Internet search you’ll see various reasons why born-again Christians are hated, but one that I readily identify with is, “Their certainty; they are so certain they’re in possession of the truth.” Well, it’s true, we are. We’re in possession of the truth because Truth possesses us – His name is Jesus! We don’t have to be …
Driven by a Spirit of Wickedness
The online newspaper headline reads, “Let God be a ‘she’, says Church of England women’s group.” First they got their female priests, then they got their female bishops, and now they want their female God! That’s not what they’re saying but that’s what they mean. The Bible’s male language and imagery describing God, doesn’t suit so they want …
Expressing Contempt for the Bible
A transgender member of the Church of England, who was born and baptized female but now identifying as male, approached the local Reverend seeking to be re-baptized. If the report is true, the Reverend thought it a good idea and acted on it. “We created a service, which was an affirmation of baptismal vows where we could …
Religious, not Righteous
In reference to the ‘Yes’ win in Ireland’s same-sex marriage referendum, one man posted on Twitter, a photograph of a rainbow over the city of Dublin with the comment, “There’s a rainbow over Dublin currently. Very appropriate. God clearly approves.” The god of his creation clearly approves; the God of all Creation clearly does not. That rainbow is …