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You do make a good point, especially in that first paragraph.

You oughta try being raised by a Southern Conference Baptist, who daily passed on her indoctrination that 'all Catholics are Heathens.' It has taken me decades to flush out all the religious prejudices I was taught as being "God's Holy Word!"

This is where we give out false information to new believers, often discouraging them. We should never add (or subtract) words to or from what God actually says. (Not even 'little' words like "only", that we assume should be there. We can 'suggest' the idea, but never try to make it look like...

But, I am hijacking. Our focus tonight — and for many months to come — needs to be on our Brother, Aspen, and how we can be here for him.

I think God used that same song to speak to us again more than 50 years later:

Underlying it, is the story of so many of the afflictions that beset more of us than we would ever like to admit. None of us (Yes, even Homosexuals and Pedophiles) ever set out to carry, alone, the load we got.... no matter WHAT it is. And this is where I firmly believe and attest that those...

This was written on a blog about that story: Anyone who has dealt with alcoholics knows what happened here. Basically, the monk was left as many are in the modern Church to 'fend for himself' when it came to his alcoholism. You can hardly imagine in the Desert Fathers a monk being permitted to...

This story has touched me many times. Once on Mount Athos there was a monk who lived in Karyes. He drank and got drunk every day and was the cause of scandal to the pilgrims. Eventually he died and this relieved some of the faithful who went on to tell Elder Paisios that they were delighted that...

Thank God there are people who try to live the love of Jesus, hopefully offsetting the hoards of judgmental Christians that so often shut the doors of their churches against those needing Christ the most.

A very logical understanding of exactly what Christ taught.

But, that DOES blow any interpretations thus made by people who claim to be "Literalists" completely out of the water. However, I have NEVER believed anyone when they said they read all of the Bible, "literally."

Did you know Dave's Killer Bread costs $33 for four loaves?

I'm afraid few will see the present relevance of that simple statement.

I ran across this while reading: As noted, Revelation has historically generated an intensity of interest unparalleled among any of the books of Scripture. Yet, at the same time — as evidenced by the extreme diversity of the views on Revelation — it has been a most difficult book to interpret...

Is anything celebrated around September 11th, the day so many people believe Jesus was actually born?

Many Bibles also tell us the story of the woman caught in adultery was not originally included. Does that change anything when we read it, since it is also within the black leather covers of our sacred book?

I have to admit that I haven't the slightest clue what you just said.

I have the book "The God I Never Knew." (Also have, "The Jesus I Never Knew.")

Both my wife and I left the "dead", stogie church, and are now back, stronger than ever. We never left God... just man's religious "god."

One version has it this way: Proverbs 22:6 The Passion Translation (TPT) 6 Dedicate your children to God and point them in the way that they should go, and the values they’ve learned from you will be with them for life. Footnotes: Proverbs 22:6 Or “Train them in the direction they are...