This is really a follow up to a discussion we had a few questions ago on when the Old Covenant ended and when the New Covenant began. You mentioned that you don’t find the teaching of Matthew 18:15-ff to be binding today. Having gone through Pepperdine Law School’s conflict resolution training, they hang a LOT [...]
Throwing myself into a pile of razors and then rolling around in a bed of salt….I will go here where angels fear to tread. I am having a hard time praying for our new president. Within a few days of taking office he has made it clear that he will target unborn children. It seems [...]
Sometimes my answers to a question might be more a pile of maybe’s and could-be’s than a strong, firm, factual answer. This one is going to be something like the former. Patrick can you sort this out? Why would God tell Moses, no graven image, then tell him to build one? Exd 20:4 Thou shalt [...]
Here is a unique question from the pile at tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com Why does God use men who are not saved to give us insight and practical applications to the scriptures..??? Brothers like Lucado who have strayed were great authors for me as a baby Christian 16 years ago..others, and we could name dozens, write books on marriage …lead [...]
We know an awful lot about John. His brother, James, was covered in the last blog so you already know his politics and his predilections. He was a Son of Thunder… and he was very young, perhaps only 16 or so when first approached by Jesus. He, along with several of the other apostles, had [...]
This question came in from a friend of mine who is serving as a medic in the US Army. The doctor I work with has been reading history books since we deployed in September. His most recent one presented the idea that not all of the Gospel writers knew Jesus personally. I was pretty embarrassed [...]
Just a heads up. I had a very long answer written to a question sent in by a friend (and Army medic) about the reliability of the gospels. At the time it was almost completed, I hit the back button and WordPress erased it. Now I am home without all my sources so I have [...]
I decided to answer this question after a discussion I had with a treasured friend this morning. I wrote a long answer to this only to have our connectivity go down at the office and the internet ate my homework. Grrr. I wonder how Jesus did it without a reliable internet service. This reminds me: [...]
This one came into tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com just in the last couple days and I am jumping it ahead of a lot of others because I love this subject! Patrick, can you give your take on this passage? Gen 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of [...]
A version of this question comes in from time to time. I’m trying to get to all the questions that have been sitting around for awhile at tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com so let’s take two this evening. In John 7:6, Jesus told the disciples he wasn’t going to the feast. Then in verse 10, He went. A quick [...]