Conversations with God

Must human beings have male parts in order to be eligible to serve God as a member of the upper administration of His Church? Or, it put it more directly, can women be bishops? What does God want? Add why? Well, we’ve had some interesting conversations here the past several days around the subject of…

Does God ever deliberately “lead us into temptation”? If not, why would we ask God not to? Why would we pray to God that way in the Lord’s Prayer? = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =…

Does Jesus love us? Does God? Does God love us even if we are not Christians? Does God love us enough to let us into heaven even if we are not Christians? Is heaven meant only for the few and not for the many? What about the billions of human beings who have lived a…

I had an interesting conversation Wednesday with a kind and gentle man who happened to be a part time Christian minister. His full time job was as a health insurance salesman, and I had invited him over to the house to discuss Long Term Health Care. In our courtesy exchange prior to getting down to…

Many of the people who say that they know What God Wants are killing us. It is not lack of knowing What God Wants that is hurting us, it is thinking that we know without a doubt. Therein lies real danger. = = = = = = = = = = = = = =…

God touches our lives in remarkable ways…and never stops doing it. This is the experience of everyone who has a personal relationship with God, and it is my experience continually. For instance, some days I wonder why I am doing what I am doing. Why have I taken an experience as personal as the spiritual…

The Bible contains the Word of God. But is it the only Scripture? The One and Only? Is every other ‘Holy Scripture’ wrong? Inaccurate? Not the truth? = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =…

Imagine this. God comes down to Earth for one minute – one blessed 60-second moment – and announces to the world the solution to all of its problems and the way for every soul to experience heaven-on-earth and eternal salvation. God reveals this solution and this way with one sentence. What do you suppose that…

First Tim Russert…now George Carlin. What’s going on here? What’s the Universe trying to tell us? Could it be that each day might be your last? What if that were true? Clue: It is. I don’t care how healthy you are, you could get hit by a bus. You have no way of knowing when…

Many people may feel threatened and may become angry by what will be appearing in this blog on Sundays between now and Christmas. Yet in a society that is based on the free flow of ideas, that should not stop the expression of the thoughts here…and it won’t. = = = = = = =…

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