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For those of you who may have been wondering why MaryGog went off the deep end when I mentioned this man was Catholic...… Well, I really can't explain much about her. LOL But, he was Catholic, and he wrote many excellent things. Here is probably his most famous piece. My first wife...

That was one of the best State of The Union addresses I have heard.

The Lebanese Catholic, Kahlil Gibran, in his renowned poem, The Prophet, wrote: “Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.” So many people seem to claim to have "found the truth"... meaning that they are possessors and proclaimers of all truth in their...

My wife has this "app" on her phone... I have it on my computer. Through their venue, you can listen to sermons back to the 2015's. It is: "City on a Hill Church-FL", and it is free at your "app store." Mike's sermons aren't too long, and they are always good. *swipe the screen to the 'left'...

I found this forum on TV. Of course, being old, I have seen this episode of The Waltons at least six times, but I thought that there is a good lesson in this one for all of us right here on this forum.

I imagine just about all of us have, of course, read Pilgrim's Progress, but I don't think I got too much response to the question of who here has also read "Pilgrim's Regress?"

That's my personal opinion. Maybe I am over reacting, but you make up your own mind.

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Then I would most heartedly recommend this book I had almost forgotten, but am now rereading: C. S. Lewis', The Pilgrim's Regress. (It may confuse you, yet still intrigue you.) Here are but a couple of paragraphs from the book. Philosophy says that the existence of God would not answer the...

I ran across this in my reading. Does it ring a bell with what any of you have experienced? The term “muscular Christianity” appears to have first made its appearance in England during the late 1850s to describe the values embodied in two Victorian novels: Charles Kingsley’s Two Years Ago and...

T’was a Different Night Before Christmas The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light, I gazed round the room and cherished the sight. My wife was asleep, her head on my chest, My daughter beside me, angelic in rest. Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white, Transforming the yard to a...

I fully realize not many of us seem capable of giving any answer in just a few sentences. But, can we try this time, in this one thread, if nowhere else? Can we just point out what we think is the primary thing that distinguishes one as a Protestant? I'll start. I say a Protestant is one who...

(Just some words for information) The rise of Protestantism forced reconsideration of what had, up to that point, been a relatively unproblematic question: "what specific texts does the phrase “the Bible” denote?" At a fairly early stage in its history, the Christian church had to make some...

This is one of the most sensible explanations I have run across, so I thought I would share it: ************** For Warfield, the unique authority of the Bible lay in the fact that it is inspired. “Inspiration is that extra-ordinary, supernatural influence... exerted by the Holy Ghost on the...

…. worship the Bible as a text, I found this small passage from a book I have to be of interest. ************* One of the most enduring descriptions of Protestantism comes from the English theologian William Chillingworth (1602–44). In his The Religion of Protestants the Safe Way to Salvation...

A small town was having a massive squirrel problem and each local church was trying to find a solution. The Presbyterian church called a meeting to decide what to do about their squirrel infestation. After much prayer and consideration, they concluded that the squirrels were predestined to be...

This is a subject that I have taught a lot about for decades. I won't go into much more until we get some feedback on how perceptions may have played a part in the lives of some of you guys and gals. Any thoughts?