Still thinking...

...that I thought some things.

“Some folks who object to using ‘proof texts’ have ‘no texts’ for their own doctrines.”

“Why is it that ‘Christian’ higher education often leads Christians to believe less of the Bible rather than more of the Bible?”

The inspiration of the Scriptures has no expiration of its standing.

“We do not use the Scriptures as our ‘sole resource’ – but it is the ‘sole recourse.’ There is no higher court of appeal.”

“If I read and interpret a passage of scripture and my interpretation is correct, while others who read that same passage interpret it wrongly, what makes the difference? Is it because I am more sincere, intelligent, and educated than the others are? More spiritual? What about others who are spiritual, sincere, intelligent, and educated? Will/should they read and interpret the Bible in exactly the same way I do? What makes the difference?”

“When health care becomes big business, the main business is no longer health care.”

“When you think God is four days late, he is really right on time.” -- Gospel of John, Chapter 11 (I did think of this, but thousands of others probably have also!)

“What’s the best soul food? The B-I-B-L-E.”

“Consistency is a jewel, unless you are consistently wrong!”

“Duty never ceases, and evil never sleeps.”

hate speech: Speech that is hated by the people defining it.

“Dissatisfaction rises from an unwarranted attention to circumstances. Contentment rests in a wise allegiance to God who is over the circumstances.”

If we would be faithful obeying “teach the generation following” (Deuteronomy 6:6-7; Psalm 48:13; 2 Timothy 2:2), there would not be a need for an every-generation update of the Bible.

“Conformity is doing what everyone else is doing, regardless of what is right. Biblical obedience is doing what is right, regardless of what everyone else is doing.”

“Cain did not become evil because he slew his brother; he slew his brother because he was evil.”

“Marriage should be a bomb shelter, not a bomb explosion.”

“If any of you could know all there is to know about me, you wouldn’t love me. You wouldn’t even like me. God knows it all, yet he loved me and sent his Son to die for my sins, that I might have everlasting life. It doesn’t get any better than that!”

Now I get me up to work;

Keep me, Lord, in all the murk.

Let me work until I die,

And then to heaven swiftly fly.