I have begun to post several times in the past six months and then stopped short for one reason or another. Mainly I have seen some other blogs where the comment section gets pretty vicious, even on "Christian" blogs. I guess I don't have to worry about that if no one reads this and/or comments about it.

One ideal that I have about this blog and my personal life in general is to concentrate on what I believe to be true rather than try to show where others are false. I began to take this approach after hearing a story about people trained by the government to recognize counterfit money. According to the story they never looked at a counterfit bill, only the real one. They spent so much time on the real one that a small mistake in a false one would be obvious to them. I think that should be true with our Christianity as well. Few of us (myself included) study the Bible and its teachings well enough to be able to easily point out the false teachings.

This is sad, because it is exactly what we are called to do, be ready in season and out to give an account and as pastors one of the requirements is to be able to teach sound doctrine and refute false doctrine. I believe that I can accomplish this best by focusing on the truth, then when the father of lies tries to get something past me, I have the sure Word of God ready at hand.

Therefore I will endevor to speak only of what I know and allow the natural contrast of what is different to speak for itself.

As a favorite t-shirt slogan says "Eschew Obsfucation!"(Avoid Confusion).

Soli Deo Gloria (to God alone be the glory)