We live in an interesting world. This question came in recently via tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com and it mirrors a few situations I’ve been asked about at several churches over the last year. If we are sitting in church, and we notice an escaped inmate next to us, is it our job to report them to the police? [...]
I had to jump on this one, even though there are about a dozen questions in the queue at tentpegsquestions@yahoo.com. It was just too fun and unique to wait. When I was in college (as a “non-traditional” student in my mid-30s), I took a fascinating course in Cultural Anthropology, studying all of the cultures of [...]
It may require a fourth blog for cleanup of comments, etc. but I don’t want to override this pony. One of the hottest set of videos on YouTube at present is Louis Giglio’s presentation on “How Great is Our God.” He does a commendable job on expressing wonder at the power and staggering creativity of [...]
I will wait to address some of the comments, objections, etc. made after my first blog until after I am done with this series. If any of you want to comment or to object, correct, etc. either me or another commenter, please feel free to do so. Don’t interpret my silence as either a lack [...]
Although this will surprise a few of you and send one of my frequent commenters into a spasm of choking, spitting, and typing… I believe in a literal, worldwide flood. I have completed an interesting circle with this story. At one time in my childhood I believed it because I was told it. Later, I [...]
I’m assuming you’ve already read the previous blog so… I love to read the mystery novels of James Lee Burke. The ones set in Louisiana are especially descriptive and evocative. There are paragraphs that rise off of the page like poetry as Burke describes the birds, the smells, the sounds, the plants, and the flow [...]
I am cheating a bit with this one. After some comments made on the last blog, I thought it was time that late comers to this blog reviewed something very basic, but incredibly altering to one’s traditional worldview. Does God tell us what kind of worship He wants? Is He expecting us to mine this [...]
Suddenly, there is a lot of action at tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com. Let’s get to it. One definition of “entertainment” includes “something diverting or engaging”. Do you expect activities in Heaven to be entertaining? Is it bad to add some aspect of entertainment in our worship assemblies? We have been told repeatedly not to add entertainment to our worship (ie, [...]
Here’s a new one for you. What do Christians mean when they call themselves “mystics?” One of my favorite preachers calls himself a mystic. One young man at our congregation, a Yale grad who knows six languages and chooses to live out the Nazarite Vow calls himself a mystic. He interprets owls hooting and dove sightings as signs [...]