Your Big Shot for a Freebie

The rules of this game:
Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more.
(No cheating!) Find Page 123.
Find the first 5 sentences.
Post the next 3 sentences.
Tag 5 people.
I got tagged.  I like Suzanne, so I decided I’d cooperate.  The rules are above.  Ready…?
“Edwin stayed on afterwards.  Said he wanted a ‘chat.’  Felt a little nervous.”
First [...]

Sights Down the Road from My Alaskan Cabin

I wanted to take a picture and show you how beautiful today was.  But by the time I found our camera, I discovered why I’d forgotten it for so long.  It’s not working…  So I’m going to cheat, like all good kids born with my father’s blood in them (never ever turn your eyes from [...]

Quick Mushy Post

He hardly ever reads my blog, probably because he gets more than enough of my unceasing musings in Real Life, but I want to write about my husband anyway. 
Whenever I look at our wedding photo, I experience equal measures of grin and grimace, but even the grimace is laced with a merciful kindness.  I see two [...]

Musings on Authority and the Weak and Righteous Rebellions (against “Crying it Out,” and Beyond)

I once believed that Authority is a major crux upon which the  Christian either stands or falls.  Satan was the first to rebel against authority, therefore rebellion against authority was the “original sin,” so to speak, of the universe.   That rebellion was not something I wanted to participate in.   
In this system, God was believed to set [...]

Thoughtful Post

From Bonnie at Intermission, a post titled, “Biblical Dilemna’s Solved.”  I found it very thought provoking.
 A snippet,
…I do not believe in the inerrancy of scripture…  It has taken me quite a while to get to this realization. I feel like a heretic just saying it! But I have come to believe that while scripture is [...]

Once Saved, Always Saved (Unless, Of Course, We’re Not)

10:1 For I want you to know, brothers,  that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 and all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank [...]

Busy - Personal Update

1. My hair is now black.  I’m attempting to look Asian.  That means tanning too, which is a nice break (I close my eyes and pretend I’m on a Hawaiian beach).  A month from now, I should be nice and dark.  You’d think that the Alaskan Aleut in my blood would give me a tone [...]

Eastern Orthodox Theological Distinctives

As in all of Christianity, doctrine is important in Eastern Orthodoxy. Orthodox Christians attach great importance to the Bible, the conclusions of the Seven Ecumenical Councils, and right (”orthodox” belief. However, the Eastern Churches approach religious truth differently than the Western Churches. For Orthodox Christians, truth must be experienced personally. There is less focus on [...]

The Prodigal Son Meets Limited Atonement (Why I’m not a Calvinist)

Limited  Atonement is a Calvinist/Reformed doctrine that claims Jesus only died for the elect (salvation is not open to the whole world).  Learn more about it from this Wiki article here.
A conversation with Calvinist friends recently brought this subject up in my mind.  While there was much I admired, Limited Atonement was a deal-breaker [...]

More Blasts from the Past (Ouch!)

Inspired, no doubt, by this post, my friend, Jacob, took some of his video footage from “the old days” in our little Texas group and loaded it onto YouTube, like here or, say, here.  A few of us had formed a little coffee-house type band, and were playing in someone’s backyard for a party of some sort (I actually can’t remember [...]