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Ask the Thoughtful Pastor: Idolatry and Contrasting Points of View
In Exodus, God hands down the Ten Commandments. The second commandment forbids any graven images. Later in the same book, God tells Moses how the tabernacle is to be built and decorated — and all those...
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Ask the Thoughtful Pastor: Is Acts 29 a cult? Why do they marry so young?
Two questions today over similar issues: Dear Thoughtful Pastor: I read your article about neo Calvinism and the Acts 29 network. I have attended a few Acts 29 churches. I am frustrated with how...
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Ask the Thoughtful Pastor: Finding a Church and Ted Cruz as Messiah
[Note: because of the complexity of these questions, I’ve posted an expanded version below of what is slated to appear in the religion section of the Denton Record-Chronicle on Feb. 26, 2016.] Dear...
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Ask the Thoughtful Pastor: Lords Prayer and Wading Pool Theology
Dear Thoughtful Pastor: Why is the Catholic Lord’s Prayer different from the Protestant Lord’s Prayer? What Protestants call the Lord’s Prayer and Catholics call the Our Father is found in both...
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Ask the Thoughtful Pastor: The Final Judgment and Church Demands
Dear Thoughtful Pastor: The Bible tells us that as Christians Jesus forgives us for our sins (our sins are erased), but then it also says we will answer for them when we get to heaven. There is comfort...
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Ask the Thoughtful Pastor: Is Mainline the Opposite of Evangelical?
Dear Thoughtful Pastor: I grew up in an “evangelical—fundamental” Christian home. My recollection is that this meant a high regard for scripture and belief in the basic tenets of the Christian faith....
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Ask the Thoughtful Pastor: When Will They Pray? Good Friday Meditations
Dear Thoughtful Pastor: I have visited a number of churches in the last few years. Often I wonder during the services, “When are they going to pray?” Every year on Good Friday, my mom made us sit still...
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Trump Voices the National Consciousness: Women are Evil
So, the news has exploded with one more statement from the almighty Trump: women who have abortions should be punished. Yes, he sought to retract it later, but the key is this: deep in his...
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‘Tis True: Evangelicals Really do Hate Women–Surely God Weeps
Yesterday, I noted here on the blog that the “make America white again” presidential contender simply voices the national consciousness of dislike and fear of the female with his increasingly rabid...
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Ask the Thoughtful Pastor: Sex and the Single Clergy and Human Sacrifices
Dear Thoughtful Pastor: If you believe it right and necessary for a woman to turn in her orders because she has violated part of her vows of ordination, how do you feel about an active clergy-person...
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Ask the Thoughtful Pastor: Loss of Faith, Pantheist or Panentheist?
Dear Thoughtful Pastor: In response to recent events in the world, particularly the bigotry and hate that have infected American politics, I have found myself quoting Scripture, rereading the parables...
View ArticleAsk the Thoughtful Pastor: Why Can't We Have an Ideology like ISIS?
Dear Thoughtful Pastor: Is there or should there be a push for an inter-faith message transmitted via sophisticated communication media that counters the narrative ISIS is using to seduce young people?...
View ArticleWhen Theology Drives a Presidential Race, It is Time to be Scared
We passed a campaign sign for a local race that read “Protect Your Religious Liberties. Vote for . . . ” I turn to my husband and said, “As one who has sought to live as Christianly as possible all my...
View ArticleAsk the Thoughtful Pastor: Idolatry and Contrasting Points of View
In Exodus, God hands down the Ten Commandments. The second commandment forbids any graven images. Later in the same book, God tells Moses how the tabernacle is to be built and decorated — and all those...
View ArticleAsk the Thoughtful Pastor: Is Acts 29 a cult? Why do they marry so young?
Two questions today over similar issues: Dear Thoughtful Pastor: I read your article about neo Calvinism and the Acts 29 network. I have attended a few Acts 29 churches. I am frustrated with how...
View ArticleAsk the Thoughtful Pastor: Finding a Church and Ted Cruz as Messiah
[Note: because of the complexity of these questions, I’ve posted an expanded version below of what is slated to appear in the religion section of the Denton Record-Chronicle on Feb. 26, 2016.] Dear...
View ArticleAsk the Thoughtful Pastor: Lords Prayer and Wading Pool Theology
Dear Thoughtful Pastor: Why is the Catholic Lord’s Prayer different from the Protestant Lord’s Prayer? What Protestants call the Lord’s Prayer and Catholics call the Our Father is found in both...
View ArticleAsk the Thoughtful Pastor: The Final Judgment and Church Demands
Dear Thoughtful Pastor: The Bible tells us that as Christians Jesus forgives us for our sins (our sins are erased), but then it also says we will answer for them when we get to heaven. There is comfort...
View ArticleAsk the Thoughtful Pastor: Is Mainline the Opposite of Evangelical?
Dear Thoughtful Pastor: I grew up in an “evangelical—fundamental” Christian home. My recollection is that this meant a high regard for scripture and belief in the basic tenets of the Christian faith....
View ArticleAsk the Thoughtful Pastor: When Will They Pray? Good Friday Meditations
Dear Thoughtful Pastor: I have visited a number of churches in the last few years. Often I wonder during the services, “When are they going to pray?” Every year on Good Friday, my mom made us sit still...
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