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Article: Integrity
ByBenThe Bible mentions the word integrity 22 times and uses 5 different words (3 Hebrew and 2 Greek) to describe integrity. According to these “root words”, integrity describes someone who is honest, truthful, upstanding, righteous, morally upright and incorruptible. These are great descriptive words of for being a person of integrity. When we talk about…
Article: When Faith Gets Used: The Church, the State, and the Devil’s Bargain
ByBenI was re-reading a biography on Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the events leading up to World War II. Here is what I found most interesting. In the early 1930’s Germany was struggling. Their economy was bad. People were struggling. They thought their government had let them down. Their future appeared bleak. It was in this moment…
Article: We Need to Talk…
ByBenHello Church, we need to talk… I am concerned that parts of the Christian Church are spending too much time worrying about other people’s personal conduct. But it is more than that, parts of the Christian church expend way too much energy on what they perceive others are doing wrong while minimizing their own poor…
Article: God First
ByBenI am not an expert in most things. However, I am a theologian. You may even question my expertise in that field of study, yet that is what I am. I look at everything through the lens of God’s word as found in the scripture and through the filter of the living Word of God…
Article: The Problem at Our Border
ByBenOn Monday, May 7th, a decision was made to separate children from their parents at our southern border if they attempt to cross our southern border illegally (which is a misdemeanor). There is an estimated 2000 children (updated number) being held in facilities along the US-Mexican border. Some would say that if someone breaks the…
Article: Old Things and Eternal Things
ByBenI recently came across an article from the Good News Network about some very old trees. In 1993, a cypress tree stump in Chile was confirmed by tree-ring-counting as 3,622 years old—showing the capacity of these slow-growing relatives of sequoia to endure through centuries. However, another scientist recently found that a living individual, known as…

