Crazy Theological Thoughts

Hello My Name is Single: How I learned to ignore the World’s Expectations and Trust God. By Adraine Dorr Heins Overall this book is an excellent overview of multiple types of single people, as well as their struggles. All singles, like all people, face different experiences and to think you will ever find the silver bullet you are mistaken. This book cannot address every situation, nor every individual struggle. I think it has addressed the majority of struggles, though certain ones it would seem with more depth and breadth. Adraine starts off in the introduction by explaining what the book is not. “You won’t find Cosmo ’s ‘Three Reasons Being Single Is So Fabulous’ in the following pages. You’re not going to hear tips on how to spiff up your online profile so that you’ll be more attractive to the opposite sex. You’re not even going to have to decide if you should call yourself ‘single,’ which implies an inherent aloneness, or ‘unmarried,’ which presumes that your last step to...

I know that it seems to be true, but Ihate the statement. "If the women of this church didn't do it, then it would never get done." I know that it is easy to say when it comes to handyman projects and church repairs this statement may fall short, but if the women didn't force the men to do it would it really get done. If the women did not complain about the roof, siding, sidewalks, leaky sink, etc., would the men really do it. This statement makes me made because the women shouldn't be doing anything in the church. Okay maybe that was poorly phrased. But men are meant to serve. They are made to give. They are to follow the example of Christ and give of themselves. They should be seeking out things to make better, fix, and do. Women should be graciously receiving these gifts and assistance. But no, men have become lazy, and when they pop into the kitchen to help, often times they are kicked out. When men try to do something the women naturally imply they did it wro...

In a resent newspaper article it has been reported that only 8 times in the New Testament is there any reference made toward Homosexuality. The fallacy of this individuals argument is not this statement, but the correlation of these to the many references with regard to the distribution or harm of wealth. The term ἀρσενοκοίτης only occurs twice in the New Testament, this word has the meaning of men sleeping with other men, or committing sexual acts of a perverse nature. One could easily argue that this does not always mean homosexual behavior, but at its root does express homosexual activity. Likewise the other references to homosexuality do not use a specific term, but a description of behavior, or action. St Paul, in Romans 1, does not use any specific term but rather in describing how God gives sinners over to their passions, or sexual urges. “For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nat...