Pastor’s Blog

Why do you believe what you believe about the nature and character of God?  Why do you believe what you do about hell?  Why do you believe what you do about who you are?  Why do you believe what you do about end times?  Do your answers to those questions disturb you?  Are you living… Read More »

Theoretically, if you were a random raindrop falling from the sky over the Americas, you would be routed to the Pacific Ocean or the opposite direction to the Atlantic or the Arctic Oceans. What is the directional determining factor?  The Great Divide, also known as the Continental Divide of the Americas which runs from Wales,… Read More »

Every once and a while I ask myself, “Why are you answering questions no one is asking?  Just talk about things that are less controversial.  It is much safer and much more popular.”  On the surface this sounds reasonable, but under the surface, lurks more to be considered.  Who really knows the secret questions of… Read More »

On April 6, 1973, Ron Blomberg of the New York Yankees faced Luis Tiant of the Boston Red Sox as the first designated hitter in a regular Major league Baseball game.  The American League adopted the DH almost 52 ½ years ago.  Due to the low batting averages of pitchers, they decided to let someone… Read More »

Saul of Tarsus was a devout Pharisee who knew the Hebrew Scriptures inside and out, yet he believed he was doing God’s work by dragging believers from their homes and executing them. These acts of violence were committed in zeal for God. The same God who was the father of the one whose followers he… Read More »

The list of injustices and evils justified by misinterpreted scriptures is significant: witch hunts, Apartheid, the Crusades, Jim Crow in the U.S., the KKK, Misogyny, LGBTQ+ hate, and Anti-Semitism. What do we do with things in the Bible that appear to support things that are clearly evil? Are we committed to the absolute goodness of… Read More »

In 1616, Galileo Galilei was tried by the Roman Inquisition, an arm of the Catholic Church, and found “vehemently suspect of heresy.”  His scientific assertions “expressly contradicts the doctrine of Holy Scripture.”  As a result, the Father of Modern Science was sentenced to house arrest.  What was Galileo’s heresy?  What was his assertion that caused… Read More »

The Crusades were military campaigns organized by Western European Christians in response to centuries of Muslim wars of expansion. Their objectives were to stop the spread of Islam and retake control of the Holy Land.   These wars were sanctioned by the Catholic Church.  The primary flag they fought under was a cross.  The graphic brutality… Read More »

Historically, the Bible has been weaponized by people and movements to justify things God would not support.  If you were currently a slave owner somewhere in the world, and you read and obeyed Colossians 4:1, would you have God’s approval for owning slaves?   As long as you treat them justly and fairly, does God approve… Read More »

A gray, eerie sky sagged over the quaint New England square. Villagers were emotionally gathered, with a blend of righteous indignation and fear. Directly in front of the crowd, a woman stands tied to a stake. An angry onlooker shouts, “Exodus twenty-two, verse eighteen!” Shaking his uplifted, tattered Bible, he continues, “Thou shalt not suffer… Read More »