Author Archives: Kevin
Flawed Vessel
Evangelical Christian support for Donald Trump seems bizarre to me. Trump himself is a programmatic anti-Christian; a serial adulterer, slanderer, liar, and hedonist. When asked, he couldn’t even come up with his two favorite Bible verses. When asked what he … Continue reading
Jesus was a leftist?
I will confess that I was a little fuzzy about the definitions of “liberal,” “progressive,” and “leftist” so I ask Perplexity (an AI) and it explained: The terms “liberal,” “progressive,” and “leftist” represent distinct political identities and ideologies, though they … Continue reading
The Fundamental Flaw in Christianity
Forgive me Father. It has been 14 years since my last confession. It seems to me that the fundamental flaw in Christianity is Christians, and particular a lack of humility in them (and as a Christian, when I point a … Continue reading
The Sons of Light
I have two scriptures in mind of late. The first is Jesus’ parable of the crooked manager in Luke Chapter 16. The moral of that story is in verse 8 And his master praised the unrighteous manager because he had … Continue reading
The sins of our fathers
I was presented with the question: “Is the U.S. doomed to follow the ‘sins of its fathers?’” Yes, I think we are doomed to repeat the sins of our fathers, because we are made of the same stuff. The prophet … Continue reading
The parable of the tool
Luke 15:8-10 Two summers ago I was volunteering with Habitat for Humanity. I often bring some of my own tools with me, and on this occasion I brought a battery-powered impact driver. I must have been pretty tired at the … Continue reading
Heaven v. Retirement
All Saints Sunday 2012 Pastor Maria was supply pastor this morning. She is a hospice chaplain and when she talks about the departed saints in Christ, there is a special concreteness about a topic often discussed in platitudes. She talked … Continue reading
Mark of the Beast discovered
And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, 17and he provides that no … Continue reading
First International Conference on Sexuality
Perhaps this is a good opportunity to take a historical perspective and to recall the very first conference on sexuality. Minutes of the First International Conference on Sexuality [Editors note: Some of the early parts of this transcript have been … Continue reading
Revelation
“A revelation should be revealing,” Martin Luther. The New Testament book of Revelation (or Apocalypse) is viewed in different ways: Hands Off Some folks don’t think much of Revelation. It’s either too obscure or too bizarre to be worth the … Continue reading