Tag: Church

  • Ghosts of Christmas’ Past

    We are of course familiar with the image of ghosts of Christmas’ past thanks to Charles Dickens, ‘A Christmas Carol,’ penned in A.D. 1843. Dickens points toward a morality of generosity during a great 19th century division between a well-off gentry class and the working poor. Even today his theme of the repentance of Scrooge…

    Much has changed in Christianity and Church jargon since the 19th and 29th centuries. Tuesday, December 27, 2011: Ghost of Christmas Past This is a photograph that hangs inside Trinity depicting one of my predecessors on the front steps on a snowy day about a hundred years ago, 1872 church.
  • Talking for hours with the prophet Paul

    .. when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them.. Acts 20:7b ESV Talk of Jesus into the late night hours Our focus on this late-night incident in Troas is Paul’s midnight talk of JESUS and its impact on the Church. My secondary focus is a role of Paul we may not…

    Cape Baba in Babakale, Turkey is the westernmost point in Asia.
  • christianity-lite Doctrines of the Christ-less Era

    a Christ-less Church of the Common Era JESUS Christ was the SON worthy of Christians who once worshiped like this: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from…

    Do you really believe christianity-lite? Doctrine for a christ-less Common Era christianity-lite typically erases the lines where Scripture and doctrine holding to what is written.