Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. —Ephesians 4:17 The perspective, known as postmillennialism or triumphalism, has fallen on hard times for…
Category: Culture
Issues and opinions about contemporary culture
Edify The World
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, –Ephesians 4:11-12 The work of the ministry is the building up…
The Eight Senses of Man
Dichotomous Human Sensory Inputs by Phillip A. Ross “seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear” —Matthew 13:13 For millennia it has been thought that human beings have five senses—smell, hearing, sight, touch and taste. Each of…
The Missing History
Bill Bryson has put together a fun read. A Short History of Nearly Everything (Broadway Books, 2003) provides a chronology of science, physics, biology, the standard model of particle physics, and their evolution into … well, the theory of evolution.…
Some Early American History
(from In Christ–the Church at Ephesus, forthcoming.) Christianity has not followed Paul’s leadership and instructions to not “walk as the Gentiles do” (Ephesians 4: 17) as well as it should have. Many Greek, Gentile and worldly ideas and practices have…
Money As Debt
Fascinating video about how money works, showing that money is actually nothing more than promises. So the correlation between keeping promises and financial health is made clear.
DOMA Revisited
“U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones ruled Wednesday that DOMA’s efforts to define marriage ‘intrude upon the states’ business of regulating domestic relations.’ Jones explained that DOMA fails because it tries to re-examine states’ decisions concerning same-sex marriage, Reuters reported.” (from http://www.christianpost.com/news/nyc-judge-rules-doma-unconstitutional-and-an-intrusion-of-states-affairs-76245/)…
Secret Service Kerfuffle
What does the recent Secret Service kerfuffle mean? Members of the Secret Service are drawn from the cream of the crop of American society, the best of the best that America can produce. The best what? The best people measured…
Peter’s Vision of The End
Add To Cart Price $12.95 ISBN: 978-0-9820385-9-8 Publisher: Pilgrim Platform Copyright: ©2012 by Phillip A. Ross 195 pages 195 pages by Phillip A. Ross Introduction A couple of years ago a friend asked me about my interpretation of 2 Peter…
Marriage Fidelity
What’s wrong with current marriage laws? In a recent article (Marriage Equality, 12/21/2011) the following scenario was suggested: the person you love is injured in an auto accident and is barely clinging to life in the hospital, but you cannot…