It is a great question. And that is because many people don’t want to think about whether they have done what they should have done in life. For many centuries the church has argued over the doctrines of salvation. For most of us we have settled our minds on one way of looking at salvation […]
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The Weeds & The Wheat 07/19/26
My priest said we should get Closer to God. Beside prayer how would a person be able to do that?
I remember when I first met my wife. She had a great attitude, she was friendly, even a bit flirtations, she looked good to me; indeed, I was attracted. My problem was How was I going to get to know this woman who lived all the way across the metroplex from me? This is the […]
Will God’s Word Take Root in You 07/12/26
Should I Apologize to God when my prayers are not answered the way I wanted but His answer was what was best for me?
I have some difficulties with this question. The first difficulty is the idea of apologizing to God. Somehow that doesn’t seem appropriate. If I hurt my wife or my best friend an apology is not only appropriate, it seems like it would be required. But with God? I would apologize to a peer, someone my […]
The Battle Within Ourselves 07/05/26
Is about the last part of the post communion prayer which says “To whom, with thee, and the Holy Ghost, be all honor and glory, world without end. Can you explain the last part “world without end”?
We run into the phrase “world without end” in many places and with some regularity. It is hard to know exactly how it all got started. The phrase, in English, first appeared in the 1549 edition of the Book of Common Prayer. This was King Henry VIII first prayer book which was created when the […]
Nonconformist John Bunon 06/28/26
How one should respond when asked to compromise an important belief or practice of faith.
Back when I was in business school, my ethics professor presented us with a problem. It was a common problem in the 1980s. You are a salesperson trying to make sales in the international market place where corruption is rampant. It is against US law to pay or receive a bribe. It is expected that […]
