The Gomez Blog

Sounds weird, doesn’t it?  Seems like that would be an answer to prayer, not a prayer request.  But it is totally serious and here’s why it sounds weird and why its so important?
As Christians in our culture, we seem to have gotten into the habit of creating a false separation between prayer requests and praises [...]

Here’s another Wait, What? that happened to me recently in a discussion about tithing:
A:  Abraham tithed regularly because God had instructed him to do so.
B:  Can you show me where it says that in the Bible?
A:  No, you have to show me where he didn’t.
B:  Wait, what?

I recently wrote a post on tithing with a challenge to those who preach the tithe as a command for NT Christians.  A guy named EnnisP decided to stop by and discuss.  You can visit his blog for a defense of the tithe and to see further discussion on this issue.  EnnisP seems like a [...]

I’ve been tossing this around for a while and thought it was time to throw it out there.  I’ve discussed tithing with several ministers, most notably in this thread, and the argument is generally the same. It usually looks like this:  Abraham commenced it, Moses commanded it, Jesus commended it, Paul continued it.  I even [...]