Category Archives: What Is Sin?

As reader Charles likes to point out, we have a tendency to abstract our God so that we love his love, love his faithfulness, love his salvation, but don’t love God himself because we don’t know God as a person … Continue reading →

I dunno. I’m not that happy with my last post. I mean, it’s right enough, I think, but not as pointed as I meant to be. I blame the drugs and slow recovery from mostly deadness. (I’m better, but it’s … Continue reading →

So how do we respond when the question is how to conduct the Lord’s Supper? We’ve wrapped this common meal with 2,000 years of tradition — much of it quite bad — and have nearly lost sight entirely of what … Continue reading →

The word sin means literally “missing the mark.” It means the failure to be what one should be and to do what one should do. According to Orthodox Handbook Series Vol 1 by Thomas Hopko, posted at the Orthodox Church of America website, … Continue reading →

The Romans saw the gods as beings to be manipulated into providing blessings. The gods themselves cared little, if at all, about the people. Indeed, the stories about the gods suggested that that gods might rape and commit murder at … Continue reading →

This brings us to the Nicene Creed — believe it or not. The fact that Jesus is the Messiah is the core of Paul’s gospel. And yet the modern Churches of Christ don’t teach this, not really. We ask our … Continue reading →

How did we get in this fix? What causes us to think that there is but one “right” way and that all others damn — even when it comes to how to take communion? Indeed, why especially communion? Well, part of the … Continue reading →

Reader Raymond Gonzalez asked in a comment, I have a question to those who advocate having a “larger meal” between the eating of the bread in memory and drinking of the cup in memory of our Lord. Are we in … Continue reading →