I am probably one of the few people in America who is siding with a corporation on this issue. Spirit Airlines, a low-cost carrier, has a policy in place in which a person can buy a non-refundable ticket or they can pay an extra fee for insurance on the ticket so that they can obtain a refund in the event of an emergency. Jerry Meekins, a 76 year old Former [ Read More ]
I recently read a blog post by Neil Cole where he wrote about why we must stop thinking of churches as businesses. This was in response to someone asking him his opinion on “church mergers.” His answer, in essence, is that churches don’t merge, businesses merge. Thinking of the church as a business is an unhealthy distortion. I tend to to agree wholeheartedly. Here is how he puts it [ Read More ]
After a gloriously owning the Egyptians - drowning them in the Red Sea – God brings his people into the wilderness for some training. They did not appreciate this. Early on in Israel’s training, God institutes the Sabbath. The people of Israel were to gather their food (honey bread, called Manna) for six days, then refrain on the seventh day. The seventh was to be “a day of solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to [ Read More ]
I am making my way through the Bible right now, and am currently in the book of Exodus. It is hard to understand why God left his people to suffer as slaves for 400 plus years before sending to them a savior. It is certainly a pattern which runs throughout the Bible, and redemptive history in general, but because it is God’s pattern does not instantly cause it to make sense to [ Read More ]
I was once told to read the Bible looking for: Sin to Confess Promises to Claim Examples to follow Commands to obey and Knowledge to gain However, I’ve come to believe that while one should run across of all of these things in the course of reading of the Bible, focusing only (or even primarily) on these five categories is a shortsighted approach, and misses the main thrust of the Bible. I [ Read More ]