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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Why I Stopped Using Social Media 06/21/26
Christ says; “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.” Do we know what will destroy our souls?
This is a rather odd saying from Jesus, but his point is clear; and it applies to life in all sorts of ways. Let’s try examining it in the most common application. The Jewish people were a people oppressed by the powerful Roman Empire. They also inhabited a geographic area that included the Silk Road […]
The “Leash” of God 06/14/26
In today’s gospel Christ says to the apostles: “enter the house, greet it. And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.” What do you think makes the house worthy and is the peace the Holy Spirit?
This may seem obvious, but let me first say that Jesus is not speaking of the building when he says “the house.” It would be bettertranslated as The Household. That is the people of the house. So let’s retranslate: “When you enter the house, greet it. And if the people of the house are worthy, let your peace come […]