Can You See It?
Posted in Musings on Oct 6th, 2008
my brain explodes into cybersapce
Posted in Musings on Oct 6th, 2008
Posted in Bible Study, Musings on Sep 20th, 2008
Sometimes church members ask me what is the best translation to use. For a short answer I like the Holman Christian Standard Bible for readability and understanding and the English Standard Version for study and accuracy. The King James is good if you like to read your favorite passages in the version you most often [...]
I am astonished. A politician said we should pray that our actions are in fact God’s will. This politician said that we should seek God and try to discover his will regarding a decision to go to war. Can you believe a politician would make such a disturbing claim? Can you imagine the audacity that [...]
Posted in Musings on Sep 5th, 2008
I don’t know if this is a joke, or serious. But it is strangely appealing even to me. I’ve often been critical of today’s Pop Christian music because it denigrates the most important message in the world to the “bubble gum for the brain” music that is pop. This does that too, and yet I [...]
It seems democratic Presidential hopeful Barak Obama may have put his foot in his mouth again with regard to people of faith. According to an article at Baptist Press he miserably failed to properly interpret the Old Testament law and the Sermon on the Mount.
At issue is a 1996 speech in which Obama said that [...]
Posted in Musings on Jun 13th, 2008
As a seminary student I spent about a third of my time away from my family on the road. While in Louisville at Southern Seminary, I traveled from Falmouth, KY to Louisville one day a week for my first four semesters and three days a week my last semester there. After we moved to North [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Musings on Jun 13th, 2008
Case in point …
Found this video by Sara Groves, a Christian artist who took a trip to Rwanda and then wrote this song. It is beautiful. The tragedy that is Rwanda should be remembered. What if the world ignored what was going on in Germany during WWII and let them exterminate all the Jews in Europe? That is [...]
Posted in Musings on Apr 16th, 2008
The persecuted church in many parts of the word is subjected to imprisonment, torture and sometimes death because of their faith. So far that is not really happening in America. But the American church is facing another kind of persecution.
Case in point is a church in Carlinville,IL. The local WalMart built a super WalMart and [...]
Posted in Musings on Apr 16th, 2008
I was thinking this morning as I listened to all the talk about taxes yesterday. April 15 is Tax Day in America, or as we call it around the Purcell house, Birthday — my older son was born on that day.
Some people have compared paying taxes to paying the tithe. That is a fair [...]