More Important Things…

A blog that will leave you as confused as ever, but on a higher level and about more important things.

  • Exploring the Prologues of the Gospels: Mark, Matthew, and Luke

    Exploring the Prologues of the Gospels: Mark, Matthew, and Luke

    Preface Chapter 1: The Prologues to Mark, Matthew, and Luke *This essay covers Mark 1:1, Matthew 1:1, and Luke 1:1-4. Beginning with the Gospels’ prologues is a useful entry point because each Gospel’s opening line reveals what its author thinks the Gospel is for. Mark opens by announcing a theological category (good news); Matthew opens…

  • Charlie and the Good Samaritan

    Charlie and the Good Samaritan

    https://embed.acast.com/661db71717216800165394bf/68c4ac3986eb67a6f63f4900 Fox News Host Jessie Watters: “Everybody’s accountable and we’re watching what they’re saying on television and who’s saying what,” Watters said, naming “the politicians, the media, and all these rats out there.” In 1942, Fritz Hippler made the film “The Eternal Jew” as Nazi propaganda. The film compares Jews to rats that carry contagion,…

  • Skrmetti in God’s Land

    Skrmetti in God’s Land

    UNITED STATES v SKRMETTI The case reviewed whether the Tennessee Law (SB1), “Prohibition on Medical Procedures Performed on Minors Related to Sexual Identity,” which bans certain medical <treatments> for transgender minors, violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. By a six-to-three majority, along party lines, the Supreme Court voted that it did not…

  • My Budde Bonhoeffer

    My Budde Bonhoeffer

    “Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is preaching forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, and absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate. […] “Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought repeatedly, the…

  • Four Key Principles for Effective Management

    Four Key Principles for Effective Management

    First Principle:                   Gain Consensus on What are the Facts Second Principle:             Provide Solutions, Not Complaints Third Principle:                 Center Our People in Every Decision We Make Fourth Principle:              Be Honest and Transparent About Who We Are I have been a customer-facing people manager since I was 18 years old. I have spent 20 years…