Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Eugene Peterson, Message Bible Author Has Died.


        




        Eugene Peterson, the author of the message bible paraphrase, died of congestive heart failure at the age of 85. Peterson had served as pastor in the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America and was most famous for his Message paraphrase which although popular became controversial due to what some claimed went beyond a paraphrase to mishandling of God’s word.

Peterson was most recently in the news due to a 2017 interview with Journalist Jonathon Merritt, in which he said that if he were asked to conduct a same sex wedding he would perform the ceremony. Although Peterson later retracted that statement and said that he would not conduct such a wedding for many of his critics the initial statement had seemingly confirmed what they had already thought of him.

The life and death of Eugene Peterson should cause us to think hard about the type of person we are as a Christian. Are we handling God’s word correctly? Are we teaching the Bible as it actually is, or are we reading our own thoughts into the Bible? We should also take care to remember that it is God who has the right to judge man, it is God alone who determines the righteous from the guilty.


Wednesday, October 17, 2018

The Importance of Being Earnest or Being Yourself Despite The Cost.


The Importance of Being Earnest or Being Yourself Despite The Cost.

By Daniel Shultz

I got married a few years ago. My wife is lovely woman whom I love very dearly. She deserved a beautiful wedding, and she received one despite one of my groomsmen deciding to abandon his promise to me to be in the wedding. I wish him well, but he left me in the lurch because of an opinion I had voiced. An opinion he should have known I held to, an opinion that shouldn’t have come as surprise to him.