Author: Steve Endress

We enjoyed hosting a church potluck yesterday and one brother posited the difficulty of mixing Christianity and politics. I told him I tended to agree…but there are so many angles to this subject that we spent the next hour discussing just a few. Eventually, I’ll get to the point! American Christianity is a unique thing.…

I’m not talking about the yo-yo effect of watching liquid assets bounce around like a ping pong ball in some publicly-traded mechanism. That’s more like the rush you get from gambling…maybe because it actually is closer to gambling, as in, “I think I’ll roll the dice with this stock, let’s play my hand at bitcoin…

“It’s what you get used to,” Betsy replies when one of our children exclaim the perils of being confronted with a jug of unknown milk. Betsy and I both grew up on 2% during a time when ‘experts’ recommended skim milk and now we buy nothing but whole milk–therefore that’s what our children enjoy drinking.…

As I have discussed previously in this post, it is way too easy to forget to consider context…making a specific sentence stand on its own which strips it of the balance that context provides. In this post, I’d like to posit that we can misapply a teaching by missing a key qualifier–turning that teaching into…

I have taken Bible verses out of context so many times in my life that I had to stop counting! WHY do I do this?!? Don’t I know better?! It is true that many Bible verses seem to stand on their own, so to speak. Think of Proverbs, or those wonderful nuggets sprinkled throughout the…

The word “worship” in English originates from the Old English word “weorþscipe”, which means worthiness or worth-ship. It signifies the act of recognizing and declaring something’s value or worth, often in a religious context.  My AI friend told me this, and I didn’t check it further because I had heard this concept from a trusted source. Yesterday,…