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How sweet are thy words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. Thy word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to observe thy righteous ordinances. Psalms 119:103-106

Does the thread title sound good? It comes from a verse in the bible. I suppose the way one reads it can make a difference in how good or bad it sounds. Do you long to have every thought captive? The verse reads thus: I, Paul, make a personal appeal to you---I who am said to be meek and mild...

Some religions tell us that keeping a day each week is important. They say it counts for something. Judaism says to keep "Saturday" meaning a day starting at sunset Friday and ending at sunset Saturday. Muslims talk of "Friday" as a day of prayer. Christians traditionally reserve "Sunday" for...

Sometimes I wonder why men and women write so much about God. It can seem as if they prefer to write about him more than to work with him. And as I nibble a cracker with cottage cheese on it I get to wondering about God and his perspective on me and us. Seems to me that theology is about...

In advertising one sometimes hears that some delicious food is naughty but nice. The idea apparently is that sweet (and probably fattening) food is a wicked pleasure that we can indulge but that in so doing we are a little bit naughty (probably harmlessly naughty). Underlying that idea is the...

Above all else, it is being said that there is fornication among you, even fornication of a such kind that is not among the Gentiles, so that someone would have the wife of his father. And yet you are inflated, and you have not instead been grieved, so that he who has done this thing would be...

What's the intended hermeneutic in the new testament letters and in the gospels? Is it to teach history and as a byproduct of the history to teach doctrinal and practical truth or is the hermeneutic pastoral with the purpose of strengthening faith, leading the wavering back to faith...

Daniel B. Wallace Executive Director of CSNTM & Senior Professor of NT Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary wrote: The Problem with Protestant*Ecclesiology I am unashamedly a Protestant. I believe in sola scriptura, sola fidei, solus Christus, and the rest. I am convinced that Luther was on...

In politics it's become common for political parties to act for their own advantage and to gain votes so they can win elections even if such action may harm the nation. Christians despite the admonition of the holy scriptures also engage in politics for their own advantage so that they can gain...

Cardinal Gibbons was born in the 19th century and died in the early 20th century but he wrote a book that left an imprint in Catholic and Protestant circles. The Book's title is The Faith of our Fathers. It was first published in 1876 and the last revision was in 1917 (not too long before he...

When Jesus said "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father, who is in heaven. And I say to you, that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give you the...

The Catholic Church has a liturgy that is followed at Sunday masses and other masses during the week and on special occasions. The Liturgy has its roots in ancient times goin back to apostolic times and to the centuries before Constantine tolerated Christianity within the pagan Roman empire. In...

Preaching the gospel to all nations, tribes, tongues, and peoples is an indisputable mission given to all Christians and especially to all Churches. Yet it is not always a simple task to undertake and it often requires great sensitivity to culture and folk beliefs before the gospel can be...

The Second council of the Vatican held in the 1960s is a life time ago for most folk on CH yet the issues raised in the council and debated by its members and also by those from other faith traditions that confess the Christian faith are still with us today and some have become more urgent...

Basing what I say in this thread upon the holy scriptures primarily and on the teaching of Christ preserved in the Catholic Church as supplemental to the holy scriptures by way of explanation and as providing a beneficial interpretive framework I want to discuss the meaning of "saints" and...

A radio announcer on one of our National Broadcaster channels (Radio National is the channel name) summarised a song by a 1920s Jaz singer as "you either read the bible or go to hell". The song was by Blind Willie Johnson. What do you think of the sentiment expressed in the song?

1 John 2:18-21 Children, these are the last days; you were told that an Antichrist must come, and now several antichrists have already appeared; we know from this that these are the last days. Those rivals of Christ came out of our own number, but they had never really belonged; if they had...

From 1951 with Alistair Sim as Scrooge this is a very good film of the story by Charles Dickens and very worth viewing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bih-nzhfb8s

Food for Thought The Book of Ruth affirms the possibility of a non-Israelite becoming a model of a true Israelite. Ruth reappears in the genealogy of Jesus according to Matthew to emphasize this possibility. Boaz redeems Ruth, we learn in chapter 4. The fact that redemption is a financial term...

In theology many doctrines and opinions are debated sometimes very heatedly. Each side forms its arguments like troops ready for battle. In theological journals and in books the war of opinion and facts and interpretation of the facts is waged. It is rare for one side to win comprehensively but...