The questions going through my mind were unlimited: why are we reading the Bible? Why did Jesus Christ took time to teach His disciples (us) how to pray? Do we choose to be one of the women in the book of Is.4:1, these women (churches) only needed the Name of Christ to put awa...
If you ask someone to bring you something, you are asking them to carry or move it to the place where you are. Can you bring me some water? 2. 'take' If you take someone or something to a place, you carry or drive them there. The past tense form of take is took. The -ed pa...
I doubt God would put men in leadership position over women, in marriage which has encouraged dominance on the man’s part leading to atrocities women face at the hands of men. Like many views about God, the Bible can also be interpreted to endorse roles according to gifts not gender. Sho...
But at the time, while all the Church of Christers seemed to be talking about nothing but baptism, all the Baptists in my life (the denomination I grew up in) also seemed to be talking about baptism. Whether or not the Lord actually was all that worried about me learning the soundest...
Swedenborg surmised that the Bible describes a human’s transformation from a materialistic to a spiritual being, which he calls rebirth or regeneration-similar to Gnostic Apotheosis or alchemical lead-to-gold exotericism. The New Age / Christianity crossover scene went nuts with this. Harshing ...
The lights in the sanctuary go out. Not on accident, but as part of the magical “candlelit” part of the service. Kidwoods looses it. She does not like this newly darkened sanctuary. And so what does she do? She grabs her bag of cheerios (I was kidding about ...
Naked short selling, Ira said, is just the same, except you don’t borrow the stocks first. To which I could think of only one response: what This is not a “What!” of outrage, or a “What?” of inquiry. Unlike those standard forms, it does not represent a spoken version; it ...