#steve vice

A foundational truth mankind has struggled with since the garden of Eden is the fact that God is God and mankind is not.  It was not happenstance that the old serpent tempted Eve with the words, “For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil” (Gen. 3:5).  That makes God appear to be the suppressor of mankind, the unjust one,…

A longtime member of the Lord’s church said to the elders that a survey had been done that showed that our youth “who grew up in more conservative churches” were more likely to leave the church once they reached college age than those raised in not so conservative churches. This well-meaning member then suggested that we adopt a more “open-ended teaching method” that presented a challenging…

In a 2008 country song sung by Billy Currington and written by Bobby Braddock and Troy Jones which rose to #24 on the Billboard charts, the lyrics say the following:  Then I heard the ol’ man say, God is great, beer is good, and people are crazy. In 2020, Chase Rice, Cale Dodds, Corey Crowder, and Hunter Phelps wrote a song entitled “Drinking Beer, Talkin’ God. Amen.”  The song says: I ain’t ever…

When I was a young lad my granddad and I would often tease one another with harmless jokes, tricks and horseplay.  Sometimes, when I would “get one over on him,” he would take his cap off, rub his sparsely haired head, and reply, “Now Steve, you’re just not trying to get along, are you!”  That was all in good fun. In the world we are living in there are a growing number of people who, in all…

God’s Equipoise — Steve Vice

In 1978 John Conlee released a song called Rose Colored Glasses.  The chorus says, “But these rose colored glasses/That I’m looking through/Show only the beauty/’Cause they hide all the truth.”  John Conlee’s choice of words is very interesting.  Instead of saying that the rose colored glasses hide all the bad, he chose to say that it hides all the truth. Some choose to see God through…