When I say in the title that this post is on the difficulty of becoming a Christian, I am not talking about the initial acceptance of Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Evangelicals are correct in stating that this initial step is not an apparently difficult step to take. No, I am talking about […]
Memorial Day 2024
On behalf of the President of the United States, the United States (Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, or Coast Guard), and a grateful nation, please accept this flag as a symbol of our appreciation for your loved one’s honorable and faithful service. Traditional sentence spoken at the ceremony of the presentation of the flag […]
Eastern Orthodoxy and the KJV, part 2
In part 1, I pointed out that part of the support for the KJV Bible is founded on the argument that the Textus Receptus is a special text that God protected. The English Anglicans then translated that text, thus preserving God’s true word. Behind the argument concerning the transmission of the Textus Receptus is the […]
Eastern Orthodoxy and the KJV, part 1
Orthodoxy in the USA and Canada has an English conundrum. No, I am not talking about the country of England. I am talking about the language used. At least two of our jurisdictions argue that the only proper version of English to use in prayer and worship is 18th-19th-century English. No earlier or later English […]
Yeshua, Yehoshua, Jesus
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet;1 Recently I received an email sent to my church email address in which an entire argument was made as to whether we fail to receive power and/or blessing from God because we are using the wrong name […]
An answer to a set of questions
I received questions in the comments on one of my blog posts. I answered the person but then thought that I would include the answer as a post. You will not understand the context since you do not see the questions. Nevertheless, I think the answer is understandable enough for me to post. See what […]
The extremes cannot even agree among themselves
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/lia-thomas-calls-out-anti-trans-feminists-as-misogynistic-transphobes/ar-AA1akWBM?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=bd5de719a1e54230a3e1c111f82d2d89&ei=17&fbclid=IwAR3JVpoa6FbjhxC8V6CNpLjwTBKESGvMz-zg5IcuZv8YCh2pJd2GPkivVRQ Notice the continuing split in the far-left over trans-gender people in sports in the article linked above. Catch also how the tactic previously used against “those who disagree” is now used within that faction. Thus, any within the far-left who disagree are transphobes and not true feminists. No disagreement or discussion is permitted. As […]
LGBTQ in turmoil
“I wasn’t canceled; I’m still here. But what cancel culture does is make examples of high-profile people in order to frighten less high-profile people into submission. There are lots of ordinary cases, which won’t hit the headlines, of people biting their tongues or losing their jobs, their boss having a word with them, being disciplined […]
Far-left, far-right, but the same song between them
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/24/politics/ron-desantis-florida-universities-gender-studies/index.html The article cited above is conservative woke, for those of you who still think conservatives are for freedom of speech, religion, etc. They are not. Just like the far-left, they want freedom for their speech and the prohibition of the speech of others. They want freedom for their version of religion and prohibition of […]
It’s about how she (he) feels about it
First, a quick instruction. Far East manga read from right to left, the reverse of how the West mostly does it. So, to read the manga above, one starts at the upper right panel, then goes left, then down to the lower right panel, and then goes left. Though the manga panels address a male […]
