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“Do not be misled by the world, do not be captivated by it. See the rottenness, the ugliness, the foulness; and do not allow it to monopolize your time and attention. You must see through it. Then having seen through it, keep yourself from it.” - Martyn Lloyd-Jones

That’s very kind of you to say. The congregation I pastored was small. I was blessed to be in a position where I would have declined financial compensation if it had been large, but the ability of the small congregation wouldn’t have been enough in any case to adequately provide what I needed to...

I’m a retired pastor. I declined to accept a salary and benefits that pastors typically receive and supported myself and my family with a salary and benefits that came from working as a civil servant / environmental engineer. I worked occasionally with police labs but never for them. I...

I worked for three decades in a job which at times required me to investigate crimes and suspected crimes. You’d be surprised how much insight I gained from asking people about their favorite books, movies, hobbies, food, etc. There are a lot of factors that go into constructing a profile.

I don’t know if this platform has anything like that or not. When a passage of scripture comes to mind for me, that is, when a verse or multiple verses light up in my memory, I either use a physical Bible to quote it / them or use an app - for example, Bible Gateway - to search multiple...

If a movie is made after 1990, there’s a very good chance that I haven’t seen it. Do you think we can learn something, anything, about people from the movies they consider favorites?

I’ll not wait for him to respond since you mentioned “you guys“ - it’s easy for anyone who has read the Bible over and over and over again to do. There’s no special skill needed to do it. Knowing how to properly interpret and apply them is a whole other matter.

“And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people to their tents, with gladness and and goodness of heart because of the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David and to Solomon and to Israel His people.” (2 Chronicles 7:10, LSB)