Inappropriate Conversations

"Whether we can take 'a life for a life' is one question; whether we should is another. Cain and Abel pose an answer. Rather than taking life for life and delivering a powerful message by killing Cain, God instead banished Cain from the community. To say the least, we must not be cavalier about death penalty decisions."

The Author

 

Genesis 4:13-16 (mark of Cain directly dismisses any death penalty rule)

 

#IC 62: Protecting Society With, and From, Capital Punishment (7/14/11)

 

"Honesty is not the best policy because of the pitfalls of lying; it is best because of the feeling of being deeply and genuinely known."
The Author

Ephesians 4:25 (speak the truth because we are part of one another)

#IC 167: Speaking Truth to Power (6/18/15)

#IC 217: Right Reasons

 

"Life's an essay test; we're obliged to give essay answers."
The Author

Acts 17:16-34 (I proclaim to you now what you worship as Unknown)

#IC 1: Introduction to Inappropriate Conversations (3/7/10)

#IC 150: Opening the Scriptures (9/23/14) 

#IC 97: Any One Being Ashamed (8/8/12)

 

 

"It's the things which aren't said that do the most damage."
Luc Longley

Acts 4:1-22 (we cannot keep from speaking about what we’ve seen and heard)

#IC 80: Revelation Weekend (2/5/12)

Walk The Earth 48 (11/18/17)

Lucien James Longley

 

The General, 

Aloma of the South Seas, 

Faust, 

among others.

 

“The world is like a book that can be read in either direction. There is the power of creation, to make something of nothing. And there is the power of destruction, to make nothing from something.” 
Rebbe Pinchas of Koretz

Galatians 5:13-26 (works of the flesh versus fruits of the spirit)

#IC 21: Permanent Things I Believe (7/27/10) 

Larry Crabb - The Silence of Adam

Rebbe Pinchas of Koretz

"I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you, and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh." 
Ezekiel of Jerusalem

Ezekiel 36:25-28 (a new heart and a new spirit as a baptism of sorts)

#IC 189: Apocalyptic Visions (9/20/16)

#IC 21: Permanent Things I Believe (7/27/10)

Walk The Earth 7  (12/26/13)