Wrestling with Perfection, III

“Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matt 5:48)
We are wrestling with the question of whether or not this command reaches beyond the issue of salvation and carries any implications for how I live…how I clean my gutters…wash windows…or speak to the young man ringing up my groceries.
From the standpoint of salvation, we [...]

Thanksgiving Thoughts & Response to Charley

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My responsibility on Thanksgiving Day is to do battle with a 20-pound turkey. My objective is to get [...]

Wrestling with Perfection, II

Yesterday, we concluded three things:
God is perfect; we are not; and the creation is decaying.
Yet, in the midst of this, the Scripture seems to call us to perfection (Gen 17:1, Matt 5:48, 2 Cor 13:11, etc.).
But what does this mean to me, really? In the nitty gritty, nuts & bolts of my [...]

Wrestling with Perfection, I

It was almost a month ago when I first threw this issue on the table. In between then and today, I have logged two international trips, two eastern time zone trips, and a trip to College of the Ozarks.
I am looking forward to my first weekend at home in a month.
Now, I am [...]

Judging Nova’s “Judgment Day”

It is 4 am and I still can’t sleep. I have been tossing and turning all night. Why? Because I saw an unjust trial last night.
I watched Nova’s “Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial”.
I am not talking about the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover trial, the subject of Nova’s two-hour docudrama. The real Dover [...]

Veteran’s Day Thanks to the USS Greeneville Crew

Right now, somewhere beneath the polar ice cap, a young submarine crew is diligently at work in their role as watchmen and guardian. They are packed into unbelievably tight quarters, working long shifts that are broken only by the necessities of food, respite and sleep. Their average age is somewhere around 22 and they [...]

Wrestling with Perfection

I am impressed with your comments and thoughts!
This is not a simple issue. However, I believe it will lead us into some wonderful and extremely important truth claims from both general revelation (creation) and special revelation (Scripture) that we must deal with.
I intend to get through all of your comments and deal with the various [...]