Post tagged with churches

  • Turned Unto Fables

    March 08th, 201103:47 AM ET
    By Dale Garris
    “A religion of mere emotion and sensationalism is the most terrible of all curses that can come upon any people.  The absence of reality is sad enough, but the aggravation of pretence is a deadly sin.”  - Samuel Chadwick Sound like any of the churches you’ve been to lately? Or like some of the televangelists that swarm the airwaves...

  • No Anointing

    February 04th, 201012:58 PM ET
    By Dale Garris
    "Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?"  Matthew 5:13 Whenever I have a get-together, I always invite Barry. Yeah, things can go just fine without him, but when he's there, he adds an extra spice to the party. I guess he's sort of half nuts, but the half of him that's nuts is a real...

  • Just a bunch of noise

    January 26th, 201012:35 AM ET
    By Dale Garris
     Noise  Ever been in a crowded room straining to hear what someone is trying to tell you, but you can't hear anything because of all the noise!  That's how I've been feeling lately in the Christian arena. There's so much noise that I can't seem to hear anything that makes sense anymore. It seems like everybody has a message they ha...

  • Drunkeness

    August 17th, 200908:59 PM ET
    By Dale Garris
    "Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: Where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? Are they restrained? ... O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine in...

  • By the Precept of Men

    June 09th, 200911:39 AM ET
    By Dale Garris
    "Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom o...
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