Why I don’t go to church – excuse 103

Father Orthoduck saw this cartoon today and thought that it expressed very nicely some people’s thought pattern. This is the famous, “I don’t think of God until I am in trouble” thought pattern. And, if God does not answer the prayer, then they take that as proof that God does not really care. A variation of the theme above is when someone who has ignored God is in personal... [Read more]

What the second professor taught me

Yesterday, I wrote about the influence of one of my seminary professors on my life, and the lessons I learned from him, both about being logical and about knowing the limits of human logic. Today I want to talk about the second professor, Dr. Jerry Flora. He was raised as a good Brethren believer and was the son of my Greek professor. Yes, both father and son taught at the same seminary for a while.... [Read more]