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Mathew 7:21-23 Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name...

Modern evangelicalism, you have to get saved before you get saved.

He forgave the ones who crucified him. He is our example.

Oh good lord. Would you extend communion to someone with an unpaid traffic ticket? To someone who fudged on their taxes?

It has more to do with Hebrew accounting of significant events. It’s a little difficult to explain and I don’t have my OT studies notes, they are in a box in my storage unit. But the Hebrews had a system for accounting for significant events and based on the system December is a reasonable time...

December 25th is a made up date, but December is a pretty good guess for his actual birth month.

Matthew 7:15

I can’t find anywhere in the Bible that states that signing a ballot petition is a condition of salvation. But Jesus in Matthew 7:15 warns us to beware of the wolf in sheep’s clothing, of the predators who disguise themselves with gentleness but preach division and hatred and their own gain. I...

When the redhead and I met she was making interest payments on her student loans and principalizing the interest. After we were married we were on the phone with the loan agent who was trying to explain to her how that worked and she simply couldn’t understand it. I finally broke in and said if...

Oh.... my... gawd... We really ought to start an "on the front lines" thread and share some stories, because that's a great one. I wish I had been there.

Three time NCAA champion in 1976, 1977, and 1978 at heavyweight. Won the gold medal at the Pan American games in 1979 in freestyle. At 6'6" and 350 pounds he would be too big to wrestle heavyweight now with a 285 lb limit in college. There's a story about JJ stopping a purse snatching on the...

Cognitive dissonance.

The rubric wouldn't have supported a C or D, though that would have been the easy way out. Oh, I'm sure there's a lot to the story that we don't know, and my approach was pretty simplistic, read the assignment, read the essay, apply the rubric objectively. But, simplistic approach, applying the...

I read the essay. I read the assignment. I read the TA's response to the essay. My objective response as both a professor and former department chair, and as a conservative Christian, though I no longer identify as an evangelical as this student clearly does: 1. The student did not complete...