I’m not sure I can get through all angles and vortices of this question, but it is important enough to put out there. My travel schedule is keeping me from updating here as often as I’d like (just back from Tulsa, on my way to TX this weekend for a youth retreat, heading to Ohio [...]
Not a earth-shattering series of questions this time around but it might be of interest. I was amazed that the last blog didn’t get more comments – even howls of anger. Still, I guess that means I have some very intelligent readers. I am off to Tulsa in the morning to speak at the workshop. [...]
This is so rare that I can’t remember another time in my 30+ years of ministry when it happened before but – I got three desperate pleas this week via email and Facebook asking me how to deal with demons or dark spirits in homes. I went back through the questions that have arrived via [...]
This question came up in the context of a meeting of ministers here locally. I decided to address it here because it has also come in at tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com in two or three different guises so that means some others out there might be interested in hearing it. Here are a few examples that hit my [...]
Two quick ones today – I was answering questions for teens this week and one of them asked this one (put in my own words) — “What if all of this, us, our planet, and the universe is all just a big science experiment by a 7th grader somewhere? What if we aren’t as big [...]
Alexander Campbell was once asked to preach a series against a new teaching that had gained traction in some communities in Ohio. He refused, saying that the teaching was too absurd to catch on and it would be a waste of his time to mention it. The teaching is now known as Mormonism. I can’t [...]