All right, I’m cheating here. Instead of taking questions from tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com I am taking this from a series of emails I got after some blogs I wrote over at www.patrickmead.net prior to the election. In those posts I employed facts mixed with humor and sarcasm. The sarcasm came in for some very harsh reviews — [...]
Have a great Thanksgiving! Here is one to chew on along with all that turkey, ham, pecan pie…. excuse me…. I need to wipe some drool off the keyboard… I am a member at a traditional non-institutionalChurch of Christ. During our Bible classes, many of my brothers andsisters often make us-vs-them comments such as "those [...]
This question came in from a long time reader and frequent commenter. I confess it confused me and concerned me so I asked for clarification — "what did I write that gave you that impression?" He supplied an answer so I have put the question and the clarification together below. I hasten to add that [...]
I’m told that some questions to tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com are bouncing. Others are getting through so check your spelling carefully and let me know if the problem persists. This one comes in from a dear friend in Louisiana. Please comment on James 5:14&15. Is this to be practiced today? Is it to heal physical illness? If it [...]
This question has come in a few times and I have always shoved it to the back of the pile intending to get to it some day. Then, my friend Greg England, sent in another version of it so I decided I needed to put my cards on the table and answer it. I’ll paraphrase [...]
Every now and then a question comes into tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com that just makes me want to line up a bunch of ministers and slap them. I am perhaps inordinately proud of myself for not actually doing it… but I think about it. All these years I thought I knew how to pray. I talked to God [...]
This is one of the more heartbreaking questions I’ve been asked. While I have some strong opinions on this one, I invite others to answer with what their best advice would be. (tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com is the place to send your questions. Comments can be appended below. If this is your first time to post a comment [...]
Here are some more that have been laying around tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com for awhile… If Jesus came to bring the Kingdom of God to Earth, why don’t I see it? People are still suffering, wars still happen, and I still struggle with sin. We’ve gone over the question of suffering several times at the beginning of this [...]