You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder’ and ‘Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.’ But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger
13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men. 14 “You are the light of the
Reading for the Third Sunday of Easter: After breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, ‘Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?’ ‘Yes, Master, you know I love you.’ Jesus said, ‘Feed my lambs.’ He then asked a second time, ‘Simon, son
One of the really frustrating things about living and working in the country is that cell phone reception is completely unreliable. While I was working one job where I had to travel county to county, there was one stretch of highway where my cell phone
Read the rest of the series We’ve discussed the purpose of Scripture and how two approaches to reading Scripture that work. Hopefully by now you have begun to pick out some Scriptures to read. Well, having opened the Bible and begun to read, how can
Read the rest of the series Last time we spoke about how the Bible is a tool whose misuse of the Bible by ministers and the church has cause a lot of hurt in many people. I shared some experiences I have seen along these
Read the rest of the series In my pastoral ministry work, one of the biggest problems I deal with is individuals who have had the Bible used in a way that hurt them. One young man my wife and I have come to know will
Recently, my wife Kat and I went to Columbia to network and share at the GLBT Black Pride event at University of South Carolina. All in all, except for me getting a little lost – ok , a lot lost – on the way back
As a part of my ministry, one of my most commonly received questions is “Well, if you believe God accepts both gays and straights and men and women as equals, if you don’t take all that stuff about the man as head of the woman
Previously I wrote about how many from a Fundamentalist Christian tradition struggle with pain, anger, and alienation due to the results of what is called “Bible abuse,” the lifting of select Scriptural verses out of their God-given context to use them as tools of discrimination