Ministry of the Word

Category for posts offering reflections and comments on important Bible passages and how a Christian perspective informs a person’s view of current events.

  • Newsletter: Nov. 2008

                As we conclude our newsletter series of writings on the nature of Christians and politics, I want to again encourage you to go and vote! Even so, my comments today refer not to the election, but to our response after the vote. How should a Christian respond especially if the “wrong” person is elected?

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  • Newsletter: October 2008

         Last month’s column established that faith and politics should mix, but in a very different way than expected. Our faith should inspire us to vote our convictions yet we must never forget the central place of evangelism to our mission as a church. We do not exist to get people elected, but to transform

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  • Why not Choose Life?

         For several months I have been hearing that within one of our major parties, a Pro-Life group has been lobying for the platform to be adapted to state that while they believe in a woman’s right to choose they also believe that efforts should be made to prevent abortions, thus supporting a woman’s decision to have a baby. The actual wording

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  • Newsletter September 2008

         This week the first of our nation’s two great poltical conventions is held. In just a few months Americans will be asked to exercise their right to vote. For those who believe this right should be considered a most sacred duty. A duty, perhaps only secondary to our duties to love God and love our fellow man, ensuring that our Christian witness

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  •      Does anyone really know what is right? Maybe the question should be how do we know what is right? Considering what is right in any situation baffles the brightest minds especially when the situation is real life instead of hypothetical. In reading the news headlines on the PRTC website (PRTC is our local telephone and cable company)

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  •                     The last I looked gas prices in our immediate area lacks only 25 cents before it will be four dollars a gallon. For most of us disposable income that we spent freely just a few years ago now goes directly into the fuel tank. Those of us who have received the Economic Stimulus check

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  • Not So Civil Unions

          In talking to a friend this weekend she shared an e-mail with me from her brother. He was telling her how upset he was that she would not participate in his “civil union” ceremony with his partner. Of course both his current angst and his lifestyle has upset my friend. In reading the e-mail, this

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