Archive for January, 2013


#385 — Should God Have Let Hezekiah Live? Who’s To Blame?

It interests me how many questions we ask about God — and ask God directly — come back to the question of what does God know, what does He control, and who is to blame when things go wrong. Here is another such question that was waiting in my inbox at tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com. While reading about [...]

#384 — How Much Weight Should We Give the Church Fathers?

Interesting question came in and prompted me to update Tentpegs. Sorry to be so slow. There is a lot going on in my life. I promise I will get to this when I can! Enjoy and leave comments. I treasure your prayers and friendship. How much stock should we put into the thoughts, quotes, doctrine [...]

#382 and 383 — Provision and Baptism for the Dead

Two quick questions came in this week. I decided to let them jump the queue as I work on a long, involved answer to another set of questions that came in over the last month. Is Matthew 6:33 more of a promise to humanity than to an individual person? I would think there are plenty [...]

#381 — Jesus and the Crafty Steward

Would you explain what the story in Luke about the servant that is going to lose his job, and he goes about calling in the people that owes his master money or whatever and he cheats his master? I don’t get it. This passage is found in Luke 16:1-13 and it is fourth in a [...]