Money

Money

    Not splitting words. It’s not money that is the root of all evil. It is the love of it.Nor is this splitting words over semantics; this is understanding that words mean things, and words in the scriptures need to be accurately defined and used,...
Wrath

Wrath

Wrath Inconceivably, I don’t think this word, wrath, means what you think it means. I have come to consider, more often than not, God’s wrath is about him removing himself from a situation rather than God opening the ground to swallow the rebellious, Him...
We have a murder mystery.

We have a murder mystery.

We have a murder mystery…. Someone brutally murdered Jesus, but who? RomansThere is an obviousness to this murder in the three or four or five Roman soldiers at the summit of Golgotha, throwing dice for the clothes of a naked man up on a cross.  This man, Jesus,...

Sacred Places

Sacred Places Can a place, absent of people, be sacred? Or could a place be cursed?   The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem Churches are peoples  ἐκκλησία ekklēsia;an assembly, a (religious) congregation. A church was never a place, it was always a...
A Tale of Three Cities, Part One

A Tale of Three Cities, Part One

A Tale of Three Cities, Part One My Grandfather was a Mason, meeting in a small nondescript hall (Waihenga St John’s Masonic Lodge) in the town of Martinborough. Supposedly he had a high rank.My dad got invited by my grandfather to become a Freemason but turned...
Our God is too small

Our God is too small

Our God is too small   I see many people “losing their faith” because the god of their childhood is eclipsed but their growing knowledge and understanding and their faith crumbles like a sandcastle before the incoming tide. There is of course a big problem if...