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I, OTOH, believe that a married Christian couple must decide what they believe Scripture prohibits/allows between them sexually. As for masturbation, well, I was once a teenage boy... I have no stone to cast.

Thank you. Your comment reminds me of every school I ever attended - I mean that in a good way - are you a teacher? I repeated English Comp II three times in college because, well, I'm an idiot. My friends just shook their heads because I made an A each time. They said, "You're an idiot."...

Thanks for the kind words. A sestina is almost devilishly difficult to write. I was researching various types of structured poems one day, as writing poetry is just something I've done since a child - as much a part of my life in high school as playing football, or chasing girls. My buddies...

Maybe. Sounds right. But I think that for all, it comes down to cases. Some things seem right to us that God sees in a much different way - more deeply.. We'll just have to let Him make those calls, He is the judge, not us. I don't like the chances for followers of Muhammad, myself.

This poem required forty-seven years to complete. Others I've posted were written in one or two sittings within the last few years. This one is special to me because it began as one of my earlier poems, as a teen, and because I thought it came out rather well in the end. A few years ago...

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Nighttime by HWatts As shadow veils the day in silent grace and night arrives to take the daylight's place, sunset turns the west a painted fountain spouting, then fades sunlight, fades the summer west, ades...

As he awaited his time to return home from occupied Germany, dad told me he played gin rummy with his buddies (not for money, as that would be gambling) until he was sick of it. Of course, most of the men drank, and daddy would sometimes go with them to a pub in town and drink Coca-Cola. I...

Paul in prison, nearing his own end, exhorts his younger protégé by letter to carry on teaching the gospel Paul taught. He likens the work to a soldier who suffers hardship - but one for Christ - and an athlete striving to master his effort who won't win a medal unless he follows the rules...

You think man's law can dictate God's? The apostle Paul spent time in prison for his beliefs, was his conversion then null and void?

No, the Muslim path does not lead to salvation for those who reject Jesus. That is what Christians generally believe. As someone said above, if a Muslim man or woman converts to Christianity, then he or she is no longer Muslim. Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Light. At least, that's the...

A Baptist church near my home as a child had a controversy. One man was convinced that when taking wine during communion, a communal cup from which everyone sipped must be used, and he convinced some of the group. However, some were unconvinced, and didn't feel obligated to share cups. The...

I'm still working on the great angels-dancing-pin debate myself.

Yeah, different perspectives and traditions of the same event. I'm going with the belief that the Hebrew writers got it most correctly recorded, regardless of who may have written their accounts previously. But then, I'm a simple kind of Occam's Razor guy.

When he came of age, my father was conscripted into the Army with the world enmeshed in war, WWII. He told me he briefly considered claiming conscientious objection, but that with such obvious evil in the world, he felt it his duty to help defeat it. Basically, he felt that Christians could...

round footsteps = a child's wheelchair

Thank you, Heart_Melody. He passed some years ago. I still miss him, of course, but I know he's bound for a better world, or there already. I hit the jackpot for parents - Christians who did much more than talk the talk; they walked the walk. Mom still is, as she nears a hundred years of age.

I bought a King James 1611 facsimile from greatsite.com a few years ago. Black letter, I think it's called. Not too hard to read, but some folks who look think it a foreign language. Some of the more obscure OT people and place names can be challenging, and now and then a familiar word will...

Bone of My Bone by HWatts Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone in concentrated pursuit errant fluttering monarch click-and-hum click... and hum as round footsteps through the garden gate. Stamen and pistil stalk and stem the monarch chooses click-and-hum click... then hum the watchers close in...

My Salty Tears (to honor my father, RIP) by HWatts Day I lost you, day of gloom, grey and wet, salty tears. A gathered few within the room; they forget all the fears. Black umbrellas line the walls, closed and silent as our hearts. A flowered trellis in the hall, of rose and hyacinth - so...

Roll It Back! by HWatts There's a rhythm from on high! Roll it back! Roll it back! A scroll up in the sky! Roll it back! You know that I believe that I have been reprieved, so gather up the clouds and roll 'em back! There's a Presence in this room! Roll it back! Roll it back! A stone before...