In its failure to fully repudiate casteism, the church has greatly damaged its witness to the millions of Indians from low castes who have been brainwashed to believe they are not created equal. I am the first to admit this is a hard pill to swallow. But we cannot continue turning a ...
not sordid proprietors. From the sinner's heart ascends no sweet incense of faith and love; in the household of the worlding there is no family altar with its grateful offering of prayer and praise; the body of the unbeliever, instead of being a temple of God, is part of the kingdom...
Bill Broadway
Hi! I'm Sonia. I'm so glad you are here. There's a story in the Bible in John chapter 4 about a woman with a broken past. That's my back story, but then that woman (and this woman) met Jesus. This blog is a glimpse at the"now story". Welcome to John4Fou
it is only right that more soldiers kill themselves rather than kill other people Posted on July 15, 2013 by therearenosunglasses [It is about time that the Brits have caught-up with us. Suicides for US soldiers have exceeded combat deaths since at least 2010. In a war of aggression ...
“Twelve years. I can’t go to school and play music four or five nights a week, (which is) the only thing I’ve been doing for years. It’s amazing I’ve been able to survive this long. It wears you down. Being up late all the time, no security, no benefits, no paid days...
laments to God: “there are those who say that you do not exist and there are those who say that you dream.” There is nothing new under the sun, as King Solomon, thousands of years, wrote of atheists in his day: The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. (Psalm 14:1...
I’m convinced there was only one reason for her failure to reach the two thirds threshold required by the Manual. She is a female. In far too many places, we will let females be our children pastors or our youth pastors, but that’s it. In far too many places, a female pastoral...
Nobody, God included, cares about everything the same. Agency and action requires caring about some things more than other things. Second, there’s the biblical argument. Making what is minor major and what is major minor is itself a major thing that Jesus was explicitly super against (#...
The Devil respects and takes advantage of the natural authority structures God has given us through the family. Just as there is the principle of redundancy in the order of grace (“grace flows downhill”), so does sin. This works in natural authority structures such as the family. I...