Sometimes I get emails and letters that just break my heart. This is one of them. How does mental illness relate to free choice, morality and accountability and God” I have always wondered how God will deal with people who seem unable to make reasonable, rational choices and have little or no control over the [...]
A quick one today. The question box is getting filled to overflowing. I apologize that it is taking me so long to get to them. I am noticing that the use of deacons in the different coC tribes is starting to diminish. Why is that? I understand they are just merely titled & specially tasked [...]
The last three blogs have generated some related questions. I am summarizing and combining them here. When the Bible says an elder has to be the husband of one wife, does that mean he can’t have ever been divorced?… does that mean he has to resign if his wife dies? …what if his wife dies [...]
[Read the first two before reading this one] There are many issues in the marriage, divorce, and remarriage question that are very rarely raised. One of the biggest should make all of us step back and think again about what we teach: the passages we use on this are – in the main – from [...]
[make sure you read part one first] In the first 120 years of the Churches of Christ there was no single doctrine on marriage, divorce, and remarriage taught by all our congregations. That is because those who lead the Restoration Movement intentionally pushed the Biblical example of autonomous congregations having no central leadership but, rather, [...]
We are giving this Tentpegs blog (which might run a few columns before it is over) a question number even though it isn’t the result of a question coming into tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com because of the response I got when I posted a comment on Facebook. I wrote this: Just comforted a 73 year old woman who [...]
I could have called this the Consequences of Voting or the Consequences of Mandated Murder just as easily as The Consequence of Choice. You’ll see why. I’ve heard a lot of arguments against abortion [they list several] but doesn’t a woman have the right to choose? The Problem with Choice: No one column – [...]
Thanks to all who wrote. I’ll keep this going for awhile. And thank you for offering to cover the cost of the domain for the next year but, as some of you noted, it isn’t about the money. It’s just about the time and I wonder how effective these blogs are, how many they are [...]
Before we get into the question for today, let me let you know of a few things. I’ve been on the road for the last month visiting churches, speaking at a medical conference, checking on my parents, and getting to know my newborn grandson in Nashville. When I’ve been home in Colorado, I’ve been working [...]