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Archive for the “I’m Just Saying…” Category


Human Reason Is Not All Its Cracked Up To Be

Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is […]

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Faith Versus Reason

It is assumed that there are no logical, philosophical, reasonable, rational argument for the existence of God. Further it often stated that all religious people (and/or people who affirm God’s existence) have to fall back to is “faith” – that somehow, FAITH is weakness and what we fall back to when all else fails. This […]

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Does God Need My Worship?

Does God need our worship? This was the  crux of a conversation I engage in via facebook not long ago. My first response was an hearty LOL.  The notion that GOD “needs” anything is an amusement.  God being God needs nothing.  God is complete within God’s self.  God enjoys the love relationship that exists within […]

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SOS

Here’s the manuscript and video for the sermon preached on October 27, 2014, at the Patterson Avenue Baptist Church in Richmond, VA. You can watch the video below.  A podcast can be downloaded at the church website:  Patterson Avenue Baptist Church Below the video, you will find a copy of the manuscript prepared in advance of the sermon. Whenever you visit […]

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Risk and Reward

It was a personal study project a few years ago.  I wanted to learn how the stock market worked. I studied the DOW, mutual funds, stock valuation, etc.  I learned about P/E, P/B, P/CF – all kinds of terms, many of which I have since forgotten. I decided to put my knowledge to work and […]

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An Answer For Anxiety

Things are tough all over. Sometimes it feels like we might break. Just look at what we’re dealing with: Ebola pandemic…The Enterovirus…Children in college disappearing…Mass shooting…The FBI Chief warns of impending major terrorist attack…Groups like ISAL/ISSA/ISIS (whatever we call them this week)…the Supreme Court punting on the issue of gay marriage…Unemployment remains WAY too high…Economic […]

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Is the Kingdom of God Dependent on ME?

I spent a great deal of my early years in ministry trying to lead congregations to engage with me in actions that might BRING the Kingdom of God to earth.I would list all the particular VALUES of the Kingdom (my list included things like peacemaking, justice, feeding the hungry, loving enemies, etc.). Then I would […]

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Does A Person Need To Turn To God To Be Forgiven?

I noticed something in a review of Luke 15 that got me thinking.  Especially in light of a Facebook comment I read which said:  “Forgiveness doesn’t start until we do turn back.” The thought behind that comment, if I am not mistaken, is that grace – mercy, God’s love, forgiveness, the whole package – is […]

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Don’t Be A Slave Again

Galatians 5:1 – It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. Paul has been discussing the difference of living under law and grace. Law (and its enforcement officers in religion) aim to hold people under thumb, forcing […]

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Logical “proofs”?

Truth as “logic” has often interested me. That is a construct of modernity. In the early days of the church up through the enlightenment, truth was not logic – it was beauty, romance, poetry. Where in scripture do we have logical proofs for …anything. Do we have logical proofs for creation? No…we have narratives, stories, […]

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