We’ll do more on question 151 soon. I am away from my reference materials this week so it may be a bit of challenge. Patience, please, as I dredge my memory for passages, language, and any wisdom which might be lurking in the shadows. Thanks!
My tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com mailbox sometimes presents me with a challenge that causes me to lose a little sleep before I can answer. This is one of those occasions. While I get a lot of questions that prick my heart, I can usually enter into some empathy with the questioner. In this case… pretending I know what [...]
Let’s clear up a few quicker questions today. Is Jesus still a man? Or is he just deity now, no humanity? Today, Jesus is entirely deity. Philippians chapter two tells us that he took upon himself the form of a servant when he came to us. He was originally deity — co-eternal with the Father [...]
I’ve been away too long. Here are a couple quick ones. I just got back from cruising last night. After preaching this morning, I have to drive 5 hours to Ohio to teach all day tomorrow at Ohio State (and then drive back). I thought ministers only worked on Sunday! We have a question that [...]
Holland America is a different kind of cruise line than any we’ve been on before. The ship is far more elegant than anything by Carnival (who, oddly enough, own Holland America) and the room is full of very well thought out features such as underbed storage, fold down shelves, flat screen TVs with DVD players, [...]
Thanks for the prayers. My cold is much better. We are in a hotel in Fort Lauderdale for the night. For some bizarro reason, it was $150 cheaper — each — for us to fly to Houston and then to Fort Lauderdale rather than straight here from Detroit. MANY more miles… much less cash. Hmmmm. [...]
Before we leave on Friday morning, let’s get in a couple more that have been laying around in tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com for a long time. What does it mean to be “holy as the Lord is holy” and “perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect”? This is where the beauty and subtlety of our language can get [...]
We will return to the questions and answers here soon. I’ll try to get one more written before Kami and I fly out for an 8 day cruise on Friday. (for any bad guys reading this, my house will still be occupied by Duncan the Marine and Scooby the Wonder Parrot and it will also [...]
Let’s catch a couple quick ones. NOTICE: I and She Who Must Be Obeyed are off on a cruise this coming Friday. There will be no updating of this blog or my personal one over at patrickmead.net from Thursday until we get back. I’ll try to do one or two more before then. Eight or [...]
A friend of mine in Texas sent in this question a few weeks back. I typed out a brilliant reply and then… WordPress and a slip of my finger on the Control key ate it. I will try to reconstruct both his question and the (formerly brilliant) original reply here. Sorry. “Hi, my name’s Patrick, [...]