The Audacity of praying for your next meal

  I go to a large church, one of the larger in the area. In general, it’s a fairly solid church but like many large churches it suffers at times from a lack of discernment. One of those things that sometimes lack discernment is the videos used in my Sunday school class.  The study that …

Then What?

I’ve been a Christian for the last thirteen years.  Yes, I grew up in a Christian home and I accepted Christ at about six years old after an end-times revival in a tiny country Pentecostal church but as many of these stories go when I moved out on my own, I fell away. I dabbled …

Looking for the wrong signs

Looking for the wrong signs: An eclipse non-apocalypse post-mortem Monday there was a solar eclipse visible across the US Midwest and after much speculation, false prophesying, hand wringing and oohing and ah-ing, nothing happened. Oh, it was a cool sight, solar eclipses usually are, and this is the third I have been able to see …

1 Corinthians Ch7 pt1

1 Corinthians 7  7 Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me:  It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render to his wife the …

1 Corinthians Ch 6

6 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? 2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Do you not know …

1 Corinthians 5

1 Corinthians 5  5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even [a]named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s wife! 2 And you are [b]puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away …

1 Corinthians Ch 4

1 Corinthians 4  Let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful. 3But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by a human court. In fact, I …

1st Corinthians 3

1st Corinthians 3   3 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; 3 …

1st Corinthians Ch 2

1st Corinthians Ch 2  2 And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the [a]testimony of God. 2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. 4 And my speech and my …

Three Body Problem by Liu Cixian: a short review

      The Three Body Problem is a ‘hard science fiction’ book by Liu Cixian.  It’s also soon to be a Netflix series, scheduled to start in January of 2024.  It’s also a Chinese series, I've been able to find some of the episodes on YouTube.   The book is the first of a trilogy and …