On May 12, 2012, the people of North Carolina voted in favor of a state constitutional amendment stating that the only state-recognized marital relationship is between one man and one woman. The law disallows recognition of domestic partnerships, unmarried cohabiting couples, or common law marriages as having any particular legal rights. My initial reaction was… ...
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I knew this one was going to go wrong when I got an email forwarded to me from my mom, who got it from a friend who’d had it forwarded to him, etc. so many times that the indents for the forwarding put the actual text almost completely off the page. Let me mention here ...
I’m sure that if you’re a Sunday School – Bible School alumnus you remember a slightly different word in this verse. It gets mis-translated a lot. Many Bible-thumping types would have us believe that to be “pure in heart” is to be “without,” or as close to humans can get to being without sin. Preachers ...
I have heard some dullard preachers in my day, hopefully more times than I have been accused of being one. A real low point in ministerial skill came when I heard a preacher adamantly refuse to allow the hymn “Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior” be sung in his church. He thought that the idea ...
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Yesterday a friend send me a song that was pertinent to Palm Sunday, called “Why” It reminded me of a great song by Ray Boltz called “Watch the Lamb” which is similar – the story of the man who carried Jesus’ cross to Calvary. I’ve seen this song performed many times and usually in a ...
