Search results

Hi all, I've come across a slightly delicate situation. My knowledge is limited and what I can share on an open forum is more limited, but if people could pray for peace and wisdom for Rachel I'd appreciate it. God knows the full details.

https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/6-killed-28-wounded-in-chicago-weekend-shootings 6 dead and 28 wounded in shootings, in one weekend. In a city with the kind of stricter gun control that's supposed to stop shootings. You'd almost be forgiven for thinking criminals don't care about what the law...

The Easter story, with a slightly unconventional presentation: https://youtu.be/NkXnS4Cp914

aka Fun At Starbucks. You can have a lot of fun at a Starbucks in an area with multiple theological colleges. When you order your coffee and they ask your name, say "The Lord be with you". Then when your coffee is ready and they call your "name", see the confusion as one half replies "and also...

A Higgs Boson particle went into the Catholic church. The priest greeted it but said that subatomic particles weren't welcome there. So the Higgs Boson particle paused for a moment and then asked "but without me, how can you have Mass?" :)

There are cats. If the earth was flat everything would have been pushed off the edge by the cats by now.

I'm posting this in Speculative Theology because it seems like something that could easily drift from orthodox Christianity. One of the key features of the Christian faith compared to other faiths is that we don't expect to earn our way into heaven - thanks to the sacrifice made by Jesus Christ...

Having earned the somewhat dubious distinction of having inadvertently locked a thread twice now, I got to make the public statement regarding locked threads here. If staff here lock a thread intentionally we will post in the thread to state it's locked. If a thread is locked and doesn't have a...

http://babylonbee.com/news/santa-claus-converts-calvinism-moves-everybody-naughty-list/

Who would have thought the Pope of all people would invite a Mayan snake god to come and visit? VATICAN CITY—In an effort to strengthen their relationship and foster interfaith dialogue, Pope Francis reportedly welcomed the winged Mayan snake god Kukulkan to the Vatican this week as part of a...

It might not be immediately apparent what Uber has to do with signs of the end times, but roll with me a while. A friend recently linked a post on Faceache that described the plight of one particular Uber driver. The gist of the story was that he was a member of an ethnic minority who refused...

This is another Elijah thread... starting from the same base as the previous one. I often find it easy to doubt, especially during the times when God seems distant and even as one who has little interest in popular culture it sometimes feels like swimming against a tidal wave to maintain a...

I don't know what got me thinking about this recently, but looking at the life of Elijah I was intrigued to see something. We see Elijah on Mount Carmel taking on the prophets of Baal, where God sent fire from heaven and Elijah then set about slaughtering the false prophets. But shortly after...

I've been fascinated by mechanical clocks for years now. It started when I first visited the young woman who would later become my wife - her parents had clocks all through the house and I had very fond memories of sitting talking into the small hours, listening to the clocks chiming. When her...

I've got a bunch of stuff in my Amazon "save for later" pile, mostly things I may buy at some point but don't need right now. There is one particular item I do want and, since the price has been a bit volatile, I'm watching to see if I can get it for \$20-30 cheaper than the current price. So...

Here's an interesting one, with two consecutive verses apparently giving conflicting advice: Pro 26:4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly, Lest you also be like him. Pro 26:5 Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes. Do we answer a fool, or not?

Two verses from the same letter to think about: 1Jn 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 1Jn 3:6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him. On the face of it this looks like it's saying that if we...

We all know that water freezes if it goes below 32 degrees Fahrenheit. It's also curious in that when it freezes it enlarges slightly - if it did what most liquids do and condense then the earth would be uninhabitable. But here's a question. It's another one from Genesis: Gen 1:1-5 NKJV In...

We all know how long a day is. It's 24 hours, right? The time it takes the earth to revolve on its axis or, if you were living before the concept of heliocentricity was considered, the time it takes the sun to go around the earth. In modern terms it's 00:00:00 until 23:59:59; before modern...

I thought this was an interesting article. I'm not familiar with the source but the content of the text makes some interesting reading: https://theintercept.com/2016/11/09/democrats-trump-and-the-ongoing-dangerous-refusal-to-learn-the-lesson-of-brexit/