Hi Brother Patrick, One of our young pastor’s wives wants to know how best to handle that her husband is being ‘beat up’ every week! I’m just wondering what your take is on this. I never experienced this. If people didn’t like my husband I certainly never got to hear about it. Any comments you [...]
Two from the same writer. We’ll take them both. What caused many congregations to determine that they were NOT indwelled by the Holy Spirit? But that the Holy Spirit resides only through the Bible? Did this teaching originate in the churches of Christ or was there another influence? What exactly does one do to [...]
This can be considered a follow up question to one received recently (and hotly debated in the comments section). Our tribe claims the ‘church building’ isn’t sacred, yet there is division when using it for other than ‘appointed worship times’. What is that all about? If the building isn’t sacred it should be used a [...]
Les Standiford has written a wonderful book about the life of Charles Dickens entitled The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits. The title is hyperbole… but only slightly. Christmas had come into the Christian faith as detailed in my last blog, but in [...]
This is really a set of questions that I have received via email and face to face. I’ve gotten questions like this my whole life and have read about everything I can find about it. So what is it about? Christmas! My friends (Jehovah’s Witnesses) tell me that having a Christmas tree or singing carols [...]
This one is a bit long since it contains examples, but it is worth looking at: Patrick, who wrote the bible? I believe I remember you saying, God inspired others to write. Many say that the name of some of the books determine the author. Who wrote the book of Daniel? Many say that 7,1 [...]
This question didn’t come in the usual mailbox. It was sent via Facebook by a young lady who happens to be one of my favorite people. She and her family moved out of Michigan to the verdant fields of Tennessee sometime back and we still miss them terribly at Rochester. Her question was significant enough [...]
This was sitting in the mailbox over at tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com for awhile so I’d better take it on. Someone showed me a verse somewhere in the OT once that said God visits us in our dreams. Was that “us” that the verse was directed at? This letter went on at length about several dreams the questioner [...]
We danced around this more than once but the power of this questioner’s emotion and his sincere heart makes me want to give it another go. After reading #113, I want to ask you about the following. I have a friend, a brother, who states that when God gave us the Bible, He meant everything [...]
This question brings up a bit of my past history and present trajectory in its wake. I’ll explain later… I do have an opinion, but would like to see your thoughts on the subject of dancing. I have heard many times (from some members within our “tribeâ€) that “ Church of Christ members do not [...]