Back from Tulsa. It was a wonderful trip in many ways. The plane they use to fly direct from Detroit to Tulsa is quite small. I wasn’t even sure it had a pilot. I was looking around for a 12 year old with a remote control standing by the runway but… I am encouraged by [...]
No new questions for this week. I’m at the Tulsa International Soul Winning Workshop. I get to speak three times — none of them evening keynotes — and then fly back home on Saturday. This is my third time here. I’m surprised, really, that I’m back. The first time I was here, Josh Graves and [...]
While the traffic at tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com has slowed to a trickle, every now and then a new and interesting question shows up. 2 Peter 3:11-12 NIV seems to say that we can somehow speed up the second coming of Jesus. The KJV uses the word hastening instead of speeding up. Can we actually speed up the [...]
Here’s a new one… Your discussion of goodness and kindness is helpful to me. You’ve mentioned loving people lots of times in your blog. Would you be willing to talk about love here as you did goodness and kindness? I often question if I am truly loving. Is loving a spouse or a child or [...]
This one doesn’t come from a questioner; it comes from a set of conversations in person and online that made me decide to say a few things. I really like Glenn Beck. That doesn’t mean I agree with everything he says. I find it astounding that people can’t just grasp this point: you can like [...]
When I started this series, I thought it might struggle to get to 50 questions before I shut down this blog and went on with other things in my life. I am stunned that it continues to bring in questions (tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com) after all this time. Today’s question is really my re-phrasing and distilling of a [...]
This one is a complete change of pace. Wow — lots of posts here this week. I’ll give you a few days to catch up and comment. I am a preacher in my early 50′s. I do not use power point, although I have enjoyed many lessons of others who do use it. I have [...]
I’m trying to post a few quickly to get my readers back to speed. Now that my travel schedule has slowed down, expect to see a couple posts a week here… as long as the questions come in. I was having a discussion with my mother about what is essential to the Christian faith that [...]
Two unique questions came in recently from my most prolific questioner. I think they will encourage some lively discussion. Keep it nice. I know that when I was very young I thought that the soul started in heaven, came down and became a part of a baby, and then went back up to heaven when [...]