Interesting stuff coming over the transom at tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com and I love it. This one made me go back to my books for awhile but it was fun. "I hear a lot about churches being full of modern day Pharisees, how we aren’t supposed to be Pharisees, etc. but what about the Sadducees? Are there modern [...]
Coming over the transom at tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com was a follow up to the last question. Two sent it in so I’ll just paraphrase them both as: That helps a lot about how we got some of our ideas about Sunday worship, but what about Wednesdays? Our elders say it is a sin to miss Wednesdays, but [...]
Again, it would be great to have an historian write the answer to these kinds of questions, but I’ll give it a go… I don’t know if this question is out of context, but I am curious about something. When did the service or worship become confined to one hour on the Lord’s Day? Acts [...]
Sometimes I get emails that make me groan out loud. Here is one of them… Our church is about to split. It started with a class on Revelation. The teacher said Campbell was post-millennial and that started an argument. Some think Jesus came back in 70AD (well, one does) and others think Revelation was all [...]
I am fairly certain that this next question needs someone who is a bona fide historian to answer, but since I dabble a bit here and there in history and since I don’t have a lot of good sense, I’ll give it a go anyway! What caused many congregations to determine that they were NOT [...]
I can’t believe the last answer didn’t cause some more discussion. Either my readership is WAY down or I have failed to be sufficiently controversial. Oh well, I’ll keep trying! Over at tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com I am still accepting questions. I might continue this series indefinitely or I might shut it down around the 100 mark. Still [...]
Trying to catch up here and get back to writing a novel while traveling nationwide and still serving at Rochester can be quite the balancing act. I appreciate those who are praying for me and those who understand that it can take quite awhile to get to their question! Here is a really interesting one [...]
I appreciate the questions still coming into tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com but they are crowding out all the guaranteed money waiting for me now that half the population of Nigeria considers me their heir… (yahoo’s spam filter is as effective as slapping a charging rhino with a wet Kleenex) One of the things I point out when discussing [...]
This question is a very good one, but it probably isn’t smart to try to answer it! Grown ups only, please, and keep your comments sweet, kind, and full of grace. "A friend of mine is single and plans to stay that way for quite awhile, but she still has sexual feelings that build up [...]