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Perspectives: The Conclusion & Verdict
This is the final 'Perspective:' hub of the series - of this original series with this writing team. I don't ever want to wish anyone any manner of heartache, but I do admit I hope this news is just a bit sad for some of you . . . because I hope...
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Wonder ~ Maintaining A Sense Of Wonder In Our Lives
We can contemplate, meditate, ponder, over ideas we think we already know but can still learn much about and from. We can enjoy wonderment in our lives if we continue to wonder about things.
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Why I Hate That Song Everyone Else Loves So Much
John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ might be the most overrated, unreasonably loved song there is.
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Loyalty ~ Measured Allegiance
Loyalty is not merely standing by those you happen to be associated with or supporting a group you find yourself aligned with . . . genuine loyalty is not an essential component of sharing a connection with or owning some manner of correlation with...
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Beauty ~ God Has Given Me The Desire Of My Heart
For an introduction to the 'Perspectives:' series and it's writing team, visit ~ "Perspectives: An Introduction" MartieCoetser * bravewarrior * Docmo * marcoujor * MickeySr * Vickiw * you? The idea of each of us having our own internal ‘happy...
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Albert King ~ Inducted Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
I just watched the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony for 2013 . . . not at all interested in Rush or Public Enemy, a bit interested in Quincy Jones and Lou Adler, very happy to see Heart inducted - but I was watching for Albert King. For...
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What Matters ~ Truth
MartieCoetser * bravewarrior * Docmo * marcoujor * MickeySr * Vickiw * you? For an introduction to the 'Perspectives:' series, visit ~ "Perspectives: An Introduction" It's an interesting circumstance to be writing a piece titled 'Truth' as...
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The Mastery Of Ray Harryhausen
Today, May 7th 2013, Ray Harryhausen died . . . many may not know him by name, but all have enjoyed the influence of his work. Before Star Wars & Harry Potter, long before computer generated effects, Ray Harryhausen labored alone in his workshop...
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Art ~ A Personal Perspective
For an introduction to the 'Perspectives:' series, visit ~ "Perspectives: An Introduction" In this 'Perspectives:' series I most commonly take a conceptual approach to our topics, I ramble on (and on) about underlying philosophic...
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Carmine Infantino ~ Reflecting On The Loss Of An Old Friend I Didn't Know
Comic book artist Carmine Infantino died yesterday, April 4th. When fellow comic book artist Joe Kubert died last August, I wrote something very similar to this; When a man like Carmine Infantino passes away, it's the kind of death where most will...
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What Don't You Know ~ I Don't Know Who I'm Going To Talk To (Perspectives)
When this month’s theme was first suggested, I thought I would be writing about the importance of knowing what you don’t know, about recognizing those subjects and ideas you have little information about or experience with, things you would do...
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45 Years After
Alvin Lee, master of Blues-based Rock guitar, dies.
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Perspectives: Loneliness ~ It's Not About Being Alone
For an introduction to premise and intent behind the 'Perspectives:' series visit the link provided below, and to enjoy the other perspectives by my fellow contributors visit the links listed at the end of this hub ~ Perspectives: An Introduction ...
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How To Be Nice A Person
There are of course many projects and organizations and policies and undertakings that are all about trying to improve the world, in big sweeping steps and in one-on-one efforts. In my lifetime I’ve watched the civil rights movement reshape this...
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Perspectives: Regret And Hope ~ Press On
I think perhaps the common thought that comes to most folks when they see the title ‘Regret And Hope’ is that these are two sentiments or circumstances are opposites, and that regret is bad while hope is good – sometimes I feel my occupation...
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Liberty, Personal Responsibility, and Guns
One of the most profoundly genius aspects of our Constitution is that it recognizes the need for it's own amending, that times change, that men in 2012 will not be living in the same world as men in 1787 . . . does limiting the accessibility of large clip rapid fire assault weapons intrude on the...
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Perspectives: The Charitable Spirit ~ Charity And It's Fruits
For an introduction to the 'Perspectives:' series, visit ~ "Perspectives: An Introduction" I must begin this hub with a confession . . . my title, "Charity And It's Fruits", is not of my own design. The New England puritan, Jonathan Edwards...
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Gratitude ~ Oy, What A Week I'm Having
For an introduction to the 'Perspectives:' series, visit ~ "Perspectives: An Introduction" Nancy Koons Wenrich - one goofy old lady, I am so grateful for. Rather than my usual approach of giving my attention to an idea, of blabbering on about the...
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So, What The Hell Happened?
It doesn’t seem to me unreasonable at all to suspect that world events, particularly in the Middle East, and most particularly in Iran, may derail President Obama from fundamentally changing the character and direction of America, and I wasn’t...
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Why Big Bird Should Choose Our Next President
It may strike most folks as a silly bit of diversion from the real issues at hand, but take away the puppet facade and the broad appeal and general assessment that Sesame Street is a worthwhile effort, and then look behind all that to the basic...
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Is Christianity The Only Way To God?
This video series is to presented as a kind of companion series to my "Regular, Normal Christianity" text series, which examines the theology behind the essential ideas of Christianity (God, The Trinity, redemption, etc). My intention with...
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Why Are There So Many Different Denominations?
This video series is to presented as a kind of companion series to my "Regular, Normal Christianity" text series. My intention with publishing these hubs on the kind of topical concerns that frequently come-up in discussions about religion and/or...
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Does The Bible Contradict Itself?
I've recently passed my one year anniversary here at HubPages, and I think the very first hubs I published here were for a series I called "Regular, Normal Christianity". What I intend with this video series is to present a kind of companion series...
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Perspectives: Vanity ~ The Romance Of The Vain
For an introduction to the premise and intent behind this 'Perspectives:' series visit the link provided below, and to enjoy the 'Perspectives:' of my fellow contributors on this theme visit the links listed at the end of this hub ~ "Perspectives:...
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Getting My Video Feet Wet ~
I present this, my first video hub, with an apology . . . no one I reference in this video sent me any notes, all of them are as unaware of my work in this hub as any of you viewing it, it was all a minor bit of frivolity - my only interest was to...
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Storytellers
HubPages is a place for writers, or, people who fancy themselves writers. I don't add that qualifier as a slight against any or some here - I add it in consideration of myself. I like to write, I don't think I'm dreadful or useless at it, but I'm...
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The Real Choice
Considering The Upcoming Presidential Election I'm not nearly knowledgeable or thoroughly informed enough on financial matters to speak to the logistics of monetary policy - the conclusions I own and share about these things I draw from knowing that...
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Perspectives: Knowing Your True Self ~ The Emperor's Old Clothes
For an introduction to premise and intent behind the 'Perspectives:' series visit the link provided below, and to enjoy the other perspectives by my fellow contributors visit the links listed at the end of this hub ~ Perspectives: An Introduction
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Perspectives: An Introduction
It's an unavoidable human reaction - when we're presented with an idea, a circumstance, an event, etc, as we observe and consider what's before us we are informed, and so swayed, by our own personal perspective of the idea, circumstance, or event....
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So, Republican Or Democrat?
After the conventions, after the speeches, perhaps a general overview might be useful. Please, look beyond the cadence and emotion, look underneath the rousing jargon; just moments after President Obama faulted Republicans for wanting to go back...
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Joe Kubert ~ Reflecting On The Loss Of An Old Friend I Didn't Know
When a man like Joe Kubert passes away, it's the kind of death where most will ask "Who's Joe Kubert?" but many, who never met him, will feel a great sense of loss. Joe Kubert died yesterday, August 12th, and I feel a great sense of loss. Joe...
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Why Former (or old) Hippies Ought To Be Conservatives
Liberals regularly like to prop-up the overly simplistic tactic of the dictionary meaning of the words 'conservative' & 'liberal' . . . and of course, who then wouldn't want to resist being conservative and delight to identify themselves liberal?...
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Are We Bodies With a Soul - Or Are We Souls With A Body?
Participating in PHILLYDREAMER's "Poetry Challenge: Faces Of Death" hub, I offer this minor poem . . . with this minor explanation; As a Christian I have experienced a second birth, a spiritual birth, I am no longer the man I was prior to this...
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The Best Top 5 Guaranteed Top Best Ways To Guarantee Increased Traffic To Your Hubs So You Get More Traffic
All of us here at HubPages are writers, or, at least all of us here at Hubpages imagine that we are writers . . . I mean, we do all write, but we here at HubPages count ourselves writers who ought to be published in some form, and that means we...
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The Man Who Gave Us America
In 1755, before the American revolution, near what is now Pittsburgh, 1,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded at The Battle on the Monongahela, part of the French and Indian War. The Native America warriors who fought alongside of the French...
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Pushing Through The Pain - Accomplishing Your goals
Muhammad Ali once commented that it's not if you get knocked down that counts, but how quickly you get up and what you do then. Often the real test of a person's character isn't if they attempt or what they attempt, it's if they overcome their own...
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Americanism - Is Patriotism Still Valid?
As we approach both the July 4th celebration of the founding of the independent nation of The United States Of America and the upcoming national election for the next presidential term, it seems to me reasonable and constructive to consider where...
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Slave To Who?
Riding a mount whose gait carries him across oceans, Wearing a cloak that darkens the full breadth of land; He thirsts to inflame our thoughts and provoke our motions, Against his relentless sowing of corruption who can stand? But while he...
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Why We Love Food ~ And What It Says About Us
I need to open my remarks with an apology; I fear I've tricked you . . . I'm not going to talk about why we love food at all - I'm going to talk about why I love food. As it came to me to write about food, I began to recognize that, as with most...
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The Treacherous Journey
This is my first ever short story. I'd never really considered writing a short story before, I feared they had to be too clever, too pungent, too literary for my meager abilities, but a friend recently suggested I try it - so, please be honest, but...
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We Had A Good Time
The classroom I didn't like, Spelling my name like the mouse; On the way home riding my bike, Past the cute little girl's house. Then home and all alone, Just me in my room; In a world all my own, My imagination could bloom. Saturday's...
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Jesus Was Not A Great Teacher ~ An Easter Reflection
Every Easter, every Christmas, every chance they get, the world tries to rediscover (read 'reinvent') the 'true' Jesus. Television schedules and magazine covers are littered with the 'search for the historic Jesus'. And throughout the year many...
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The Loneliest Ball In The World
My only introduction to this little piece ~ Leonard was the best dog ever. I came into the room with not much on my mind, Not expecting a stray tennis ball and a memory to find; My sweet old friend's not here to play with it any more, Now his...
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My Favorite Book Of The Bible
Paul's letter to the church at Philippi, The Book Of Philippians. First, Paul's letters are the portions of the Bible that is most immediately, directly addressing 'us' . . . by 'us' I mean New Testament believers, disciples of Jesus of Nazareth,...
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Coloring By Candlelight
When I was growing-up we didn't have much. My father left when I was an infant, my mom was a single mom struggling to care for two pre-school kids from the late 50s and then two pre-teen and full-blown teenagers through the 60s. We never lived in...
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There Actually Is A God
'Because there actually, really is a God who created all that exists, and He is the God of Abraham, the God of the Bible', answers the question; "Why do humans need love?" Many people think that religion, that the very idea of there being a god at...
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A Most Remarkable Woman
Answering the question "What is the best advice you've ever received from an older, wiser person?" is both very easy and not at all easy for me . . . identifying the "older, wiser" person is easy - my mom. Narrowing her career as a mother down to...
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Must A Christian Be Either A Calvinist Or An Arminian?
Answering the question - "What is Arminianism and is it Biblical?" Arminianism is one of two possible ways to view a, perhaps THE, central idea of the Christian gospel - to know what Arminianism is and if it's Biblical, we need to cover a bit of...
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What Is The Soul?
"What is the soul" is, of course a question that profound thinkers, theologians, and philosophers have attended to since the beginning of souls. We can see and feel our material form, our bodies, but we know 'we' are inside, we know there is some...
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YIPPEE! I Was Wrong!
This is probably not a good idea. I imagine this hub may very likely present me as quite an unattractive character to many, but I publish it only with an interest in understanding human nature, social norms, and community interaction. I am not here...
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Christianity Is Not The Most Peaceful Religion
Answering the question "Do you think that Christianity is the most peaceful religion?" To get directly to the point of my intentionally provocative title - Christianity is not the most peaceful religion because Christianity simply is not a...
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Five Dollar Bills From Heaven
My natural disposition is to be suspicious when someone tells of a miraculous experience, I'm not inclined to assume a favorable interest when folks start talking about '. . . and God showed me that I . . .' or when preacher assert that 'if you have...
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Great Female Guitarists
I count a female guitarist to be a good female guitarist if she's a good guitarist - if she's a pretty good guitarist 'for a girl' then, for me, that doesn't count. And I count 'good' to be if they (of course) actually play really well, have been...
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The Difference Between Pop And Rock Music
Let me first assure you that I understand what I'm doing here is sharing my own perception of things, I don't offer this as the authoritative and received rule, but merely as the way I see it. And let me also announce, before I begin, that my point...
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I Did Not See That Coming At All
I must set the stage a bit here; I was every teacher's most frustrating student . . . I could have been a 'straight A' student, but the classroom was excruciatingly dull to me - year after year after year my mom would receive notes from every...
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I Want To Be Yours
You see what I don't, Uncluttered by selfishness and unrestrained by desire; You speak what I won't. Delivering no hurtful blows but refining with fire; Truth from you pours, I want to be yours. You forgive my absent plea, Seeking no recompense...
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The #1 Most Bestest Tip For Those Frugal By Necessity
Growing up I had very little of the normal things my friends had (toys, clothes, etc) and most of our married life my wife and I lived very meagerly paycheck to paycheck. My wife learned, by necessity, how to spend a little and get by . . . she...
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Is Believing In God A Ridiculous Thing?
We live in an interesting age . . . the very element who, not too long ago at all, championed free-thinking, considering 'outside the box' ideas, and not merely going along with the flow of cultural reasoning you happen to have been born into, have...
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A Theory On Relatingativity
Now, admittedly, I tend to be very analytical and introspective, but I have also been clinically determined to be quite objective as well, so, I proceed. I think just about everybody feels, to some degree or another and at some points in their life,...
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Eric Clapton ~ More Significant Than You Think
One way you can consider the impact and significance of any specific musical artist is to consider their influence, what music was like before them and what music was like after them. There are only a handful of names in American popular music that...
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The Beauty Of The Blues
The fabled Highway 61 was the path that legendary Delta Bluesmen traveled taking an authentic American art form, Blues music, north through Memphis and on to Chicago. I say "an American art form" but should clarify that Blues is one of only two...
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(the sad story of) Our First Christmas Tree
This was us last year - having a very, very merry Christmas. Our first Christmas was the Christmas of a newly married couple of hippies who had been sweethearts for the previous three years in high school. I was not (am not) at all a very...
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Twas The (hubbers) Night Before Christmas
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through Hubpages, Not a member was frustrated at the absence of wages. All the counting of followers and fretting over traffic, Was left to the cold-hearted Scrooge-like fanatic. The best of the...
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Contemplating Christmas
Consider this; children's Sunday School classrooms all over America are adorned with images depicting Noah's Ark - this was a devastating world-wide flood. The point of the ark was to save Noah, his family, and some animals - but many, many more...
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The Consequence Of Christmas
Whether the date is inaccurate or not, whether the commemoration was lifted from ancient pagan festivals or not, whether materialism has overrun the 'true' meaning of Christmas or not, historically and essentially Christmas is a time and occasion...
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A Found Man
The old church hymn 'Amazing Grace' is the most recorded, and estimated to be the most sung, song ever. The U.S. Library of Congress alone has a collection of over 3,000 different versions of this one song - just about everybody knows the song...
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The Best Christmas Music
These are not songs that directly celebrate the birth of Jesus - they are not those kinds of Christmas songs . . . these are the songs that play at my house during the Christmas season, but during the rest of the year as well. For me, music is all...
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Life Can Confound, Ourselves We Can't Outrun
We take step after step knowing our course is unsound, We then assume success before we've even begun; We repeat what we've heard pretending we're profound, We demand respect from others but we offer none. We leap off the edge expecting...
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Who Is Our Most Dangerous Enemy?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What is it that we struggle against, What causes our hurt what gives us pain; Is it someone else attacking me, Or is it my own heart or my own brain? Is that callous force I feel upon me, The grip of an enemy's...
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An Anti-self-help Self-help Series ~ What Do You Believe In?
This is my third in a series of 'anti-self-help self-help' hubs, so I ought to explain why I count my observations & perceptions of how to live your life to be 'anti-self-help. In my introductory hub for this series, "Why Do We hurt?", I set forth...
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An Anti-self-help Self-help Series ~ Recognizing The Reality Of The Circumstance Of Your Life
I fear my point here will be no help, instruction, or encouragement to anyone - it seems like the kind of thing you either simply 'get' or you just don't . . . I'm not at all sure someone can be persuaded to grasp and use the sense of this argument....
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An Anti-self-help Self-help Series ~ Believing You Can Fly (I mean, accomplish & serve)
First let me firmly establish; I do not know what I'm talking about. I am sharing my own thoughts here, giving you my own interpretation of things, setting forth the way things seem to me. I understand there are people who suffer from genuine...
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An Anti-self-help Self-help Series ~ Why Do We hurt?
I think it's just about always advantageous to pause, step back, and scan the big picture we're all in the midst of - even to the point of considering the movement of history that we're being carried along by. It doesn't seem unreasonable to me to...
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You're Up!
I'm trying to act like a regular ten year old boy, in 1964, but inside my head I'm thinking "What do you mean just go down and introduce myself?! You mean, walk down the to the end of the street to interrupt a whole gang of ten year old boys playing...
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Those Photos That Tell A Story - About A Part Of You
There are photos that are an actual shot of you, a picture of you . . . and those photos can speak to those who know you, they see a look or a particular time in your life that they recognize. There are photos that are still images from life, things...
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To Be Kissing Her
I continually try to express the nature, depth, the concept of my love – with this poem I thought I would try to voice the more corporeal aspect, the touch . . . My wife and I come from very different experiences. Temperament wise we’re...
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Flipping Through The Channels
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So, I wasn't really 'up' for writing anything, nothing in my head or heart that I needed to get out, and there was no one around . . . I was all alone with nothing to do, so I turned on the...
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Those Photos That Tell A Story - A Story Within Themselves
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Photography is confining something to a single expression. A photograph seizes a single instant, a specific angle, an isolated perception of an ongoing process. Even a posed, staged photo...
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"What Is Fate or Destiny?" - A Response
This hub offers my own thoughts on some ideas published by fellow hubber shibashake on his own hub.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fellow hubber shibashake has published a hub titled "What Is Fate or Destiny?" In his...
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Collected Scratchings
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I could have titled this 'Crap From A Sack', or, I could call it "Kimberly Made Me" - these are various little poetic scribblings I've found recently in an old box . . . some are...
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Those Photos That Tell A Story - The Story You Are In
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As I moved from elementary school to jr high school we moved about fifteen miles from downtown Harrisburg to small town Linglestown . . . we moved from a sidewalk three steps from...
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Those Photos That Tell A Story - Your Story
Around 1750 Dawson Wade left Wales and settled in Virgina, though, perhaps 'settled' is exactly the wrong word . . . Dawson Wade, "bear fighting partner of Daniel Boone", left family in Kentucky who would continue the move west. Not the least...
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Perhaps I'm Just Getting Old
These are a variety of thoughts that I put to rhyme as I was struck to do so through the years - some are from a boy in his teens, some from and man nearing 60 - are they all from the same person . . . #1 What happened to the boy I used to be -...
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The Burden Of Love
I don't count myself a poet . . . perhaps a word-smith of sorts, but not a genuine poet. However, I was interested to hear what others might think of my little scratchings so I began to go through a stack of poems I've written through the years with...
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A Terribly Blunt Fable
. . . yea, that’s right, ‘once upon a time’ - not ‘twice upon a time’ or ‘once up on a time’ or anything trying to be adorable, but the standard, classic, old regular ‘once upon a time’ because this is a story where the hero...
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The Reunion
When I was growing-up we moved quite frequently – being the new kid at school was not at all an uncommon experience for me. And, these moves brought more changes than living in a different house and going to a different school. There were times we...
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The Christian & Private Study - The Christian Library
I've continually run into Christians who seem to have a disdain for theology, in general. I don't mean that they hold some specific theological view in contempt or that they discount in particular the usefulness of published systematic theologies -...
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The Most Married Man In America
Today, October 24th 2013, is our 40th wedding anniversary, so I'm updating this and sending it out again . . .
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The Christian & Private Study - How To Study The Bible
This is not textbook stuff, I'm not passing on classroom lessons - my interest here is to share with you the approach and some of the methods that have helped me through the years to gain a better and better understanding of what the Bible presents...
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The Christian & Private Study - A 'How To' Guide
A very common view that many have of Christians today is that Christians are Christian merely by default, that Christians are Christian because they were raised in a Christian culture or Christian family and lack the imagination and fortitude to...
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The Saturday Matinée ~ "This Island Earth"
Please see a spoiler alert and the design and intent of these "The Saturday Matinée" film recommendations at ~ "The Saturday Matinee ~ a preview". There have always been 'space' movies. As early as 1902 the French filmmaker Georges Méliès was...
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Leonard - The Best Dog Ever
I suppose like many dog lovers, the above photo is how we all think of Leonard - one of the family. And I assume, and hope, that others are just as certain that their dog is the best dog (and that their mom is the best mom, their wife is the best...
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LOGISMOS ~ Why Do We Write?
Of course, there are as many answers as there are writers . . . but there are a few basic groups most fall into. Not everybody does write, and certainly not everyone writes with the intent that others will be reading what they've written. But we,...
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LOGIMOS ~ The Seasons
Each season bears it's own characteristics, mood, you could even say, climate. In fact, the actual climate or atmosphere of each season presents so distinct a flavor or feel, that we've come to use the terms 'climate' and 'atmosphere' as descriptive...
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The Best Halloween Movie
There is an abundance of great Halloween films - that can't be said for every holiday or special occasion. I can't think of a ton of really good Thanksgiving movies . . . not a lot of birthday or anniversary movies. Halloween is fortunate to share...
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General Fussing About ~ Vampires
So, are people always just kind of lingering around waiting to see what the next big thing is, vampires came along, and now whenever and whatever the next big thing is people will be lured away . . . and then (of course) become annoyed with vampires...
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Regular, Normal Christianity ~ The Covenant, The Promise, The Covenants, And The Gospel
This is the sixth entry in my series of "Regular, Normal Christianity" articles. After first setting forth my intent, and disclaimers (that I am sharing my own understanding and not asserting that I am THE arbiter of what ought to be counted as...
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The Saturday Matinée ~ "Horror of Dracula"
Please see a spoiler alert and the design and intent of these "The Saturday Matinée" film recommendations at ~ "The Saturday Matinee ~ a preview". When I was 10 years old and sitting in the Penway Theater's Saturday matinée, nothing had me more...
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Regular, Normal Christianity ~ Man, Sin, And Spiritual Death
This is the sixth entry in my series of "Regular, Normal Christianity" hub articles. After first setting forth my intent, and disclaimers (that I am sharing my own understanding and not asserting that I am THE arbiter of what ought to be counted as...
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The Saturday Matinée ~ "Mysterious Island"
Please see a spoiler alert and the design and intent of these "The Saturday Matinée" film recommendations at ~ "The Saturday Matinee ~ a preview". The Civil War, Pirates, underwater cities, monster-sized animals, Captain Nemo - 1961's...
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The Saturday Matinee ~ a preview
There used to be Saturday matinées, I mean, theaters do still show features on Saturday afternoons, Saturday afternoon showings are on the schedule, but it's not at all the same as what used to be Saturday matinées. Not that long ago theaters...
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Do I believe in love at first sight? Yes - sort of . . .
Yes and no . . . I'm not trying to be cute (although, I am adorable and just can't help it) and I'm not inclined to evade direct answers to questions, but genuine love changes, it grows and matures. I fell for my high school sweetheart hard and...
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Regular, Normal Christianity ~ The Trinity
I started this series of "Regular, Normal Christianity" articles by setting forth my intent, and disclaimers (that I am sharing my own understanding and not asserting that I am THE arbiter of what ought to be counted as authentic Christianity), in...
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Regular, Normal Christianity ~ Jesus of Nazareth
I started this series of "Regular, Normal Christianity" articles by setting forth my intent, and disclaimers (that I am sharing my own understanding and not asserting that I am THE arbiter of what ought to be counted as authentic Christianity), in...
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Regular, Normal Christianity ~ God
I started this series of "Regular, Normal Christianity" articles by setting forth my intent, and disclaimers (that I am sharing my own understanding and not asserting that I am THE arbiter of what ought to be counted as authentic Christianity), in...
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Regular, Normal Christianity ~ The Bible
I started this series of "Regular, Normal Christianity" articles by setting forth my intent, and disclaimers (that I am sharing my own understanding and not asserting that I am THE arbiter of what ought to be counted as authentic Christianity), in...
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Regular, Normal Christianity ~ The Premise And Definitions
I believe the Bible is the inspired and inerrant word of the one true God, it is His authoritative revelation of eternal truth and I want to line-up with what it presents as the truth regardless of the age I live in or the sway of my culture, and...