New link added to sidebar. Destructive Folly; Heavenly Wisdom. This sermon is about not becoming a bunch of school marms.

Basically Pastor Sam Powell preaches that we don't know the struggles that other people experience.  It's easy to tell someone to get over it, when you're not the one who still has nightmares, years after the fact. 

My biggest beef about chuch continues to be, how we're just supposed to not only forgive - which the Scriptures are quite clear about (NO getting around that one)...oh no, mere forgiveness (of that rotten lowdown who...) ain't enough for the marms.  The marms act (yeah, they do alot that also) as if you're supposed to continue being buddies with the person who has on several occasions ripped you off/tattled/lied/beat the living tar out of you (for really no reason).

Uh, where in the Bible does Jesus hang out with people who, in reality, hated His guts?  And weren't the apostles instructed to walk away from places where their message was scoffed at?  And not only that, the apostles were told to shake the very dirt from their sandals at the edge of those towns.  

Most churches, unfortunately, gloss over the reality of very wicked people.  So much damage done, to both saved and to lost - who were becoming interested in the Word, but left because of some marm-clique - and 30, 40, FIFTY years down the road - no longer have any interest whatsoever. 

So, i don't know where my mother is.  When she was 9 years old, she had her fill of the holy-show at church.  Don't know where dad is either - he had enough at around 15.