Musings and Memos
Pastor Dave's weekly musings on various and sundry matters.
Jesus' Teaching On Divorce
Mark 10—Jesus and divorce. Tough text. Combine that with Malachi where God says, “I hate divorce.” Tough all the way around!
Ploughing Straight
"Is Jesus One of Many or Is He Your One and Only?"
It Is What It Is
"It is what it is." I am hearing this statement a lot these days, in numerous contexts. Odd. And I am not sure I like it!
Who Was At the Cradle?
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor and theologian, executed weeks before the end of World War II for his part in a failed assassination plot against Hitler, wrote this:
Should we leave Christ in Christmas? Lighting the Advent Candles
We are into the advent season. The word means "coming." We are celebrating the coming of Christ as a virgin-born infant.
Love or Marriage: Which Comes First?
I am reading a wonderful biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor who stood against the Third Reich during WWII, and was executed on April 9, 1945, mere weeks before the end of the war, for his part in several failed plots to assassinate Hitler.
Fear Or Fearlessness?
"We will all appear before the judgment seat of Christ" (2 Cor 5:10a). I grew up with this as a promise of terror! In fact, the old KJV went on to say, "Knowing the terror of the Lord, we persuade men."
Lest We Forget
Today is Remembrance Day. We are all quite aware of the fact that the freedoms we enjoy come at the expense of other people's lives. Today we will pause to remember those sacrifices, and as a nation think deeply about life and death, war and peace.
Another False Alarm
Well, October 21, 2011 came and went (and the end of the world didn’t happen—at least as far as I can tell). Fascinating—we have heard nothing from our end-times prophet, Harold Camping. Nothing on Google (maybe something today) that I could find. This is the third prediction failure. “Three strikes . . .” (you know the rest of the line).
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