The way I will try to present this material is to provide an overview post and later provide the actual quick transcript of the meeting, as I made sure I recorded all of the subsequent sessions with my iPhone.  After our last meeting, although I can genuinely appreciate the fact that JW's go door to door on a regular basis spreading (what I thought was the gospel), I was troubled that it wasn't

Initial Knock at the door, November 30, 2009:I was working from home and had been at home all day while my wife, Tracey, had just gotten home from work.  As per our routine, we settled into the bedroom and closed the door while we watched TV and comtemplated the daily question, "What's for dinner?".  Our daughter, Naomi, was still living with us and had not left to go to school in Delaware

Thoughts on the WTBS and Jehovah's Witnessesby Chris E. EcholsBefore I started studying with the Jehovah Witnesses in December 2009, I had never had a desire to even converse with them, because our society, expecially in the modern Christian  church, tends to cause us to shun the Jehovah Witnesses, just like evangelists of the Mormon faith.  However, recently, I worked up the courage

My thoughts on the "Trinity Doctrine"While I see in scripture that there are indeed 3 distinct manifistations of God (YHWH) in the persons of God the spirit, his Son Jesus, and Holy Spirit, the Comforter, I don't agree that Jesus was God OR Divine during his time here on earth. The verse in John 1:14 that Christians quote clearly reads that The Word (Jesus) became flesh.  Jesus was

2 Samuel 1:25-26I've heard people try to use David's affection for Jonathan to suggest that homosexual love is okay. The only thing that is okay according to this relationship, is strong affection to a person of the same sex. This cannot be confused with homsexual sex. Though David lamented that Jonathan's love was more wonderful than that of women that he loved, you have to know

A lot of people say things like, "What doesn't kill you will make you stronger", so we automatically jump to the conclusion that trials, troubles, tribulations must come to make you stronger, which in turn leads us to the erroneous conclusion that God must be the one sending the trials, troubles and/or tribulations. After all, surely God is the one who would want us to be stronger, right?Now don't

Does God Hate Divorce? It has been long held by religious people that God hates divorce based on an inaccurate interpretation of Malachi 2:16, as well as verses in Matthew and Mark. So in this article, we'd like to take a real hard look at this question. When I first heard this, I was married and I was in a pretty bad marriage, but in my mind, divorce wasn’t an option. So I wanted to find

Communion is seen as a religious act carried out by Christians as just a part of something that we do either on the 1st Sunday or at other specially appointed times throughout the year.  Many people take communion or go through the ritual without really thinking about why.  Some churches use real wine and real bread, while other use grape juice and some type of styrofoam wafer that tends

Should we as Christians wait on the Lord to fix things in our lives?  When most people say, "Wait on the Lord," they are referring to the scripture in the bible that reads, "Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD."  (Psalms 27:14 KJVS)  Most people read this verse as saying when you're going through rough times

This is cross-posted from a Facebook discussion board 1,000,000 Christians praying for Obama. I didn't want it to get lost in the noise...I don't know if anyone else has mentioned what I'm about to say, but here goes. I've been amazed at how many white friends of mine who are Christians are really struggling with the Obama presidency while most of my black Christian friends are elated. For the record,