“We ought to endeavor to live in peace with those who are of different opinions from us. ‘Tis a most unreasonable thing to take the liberty of contending with men because they cannot see with our eyes. If this were granted, we would be at war with the greatest part of the world. ‘Tis as unreasonable to strive with others because they can’t be in everything of our minds, as to quarrel with another because he differs in the color of his hair or the features of this face.”
Jonathan Edwards, Sermons and Discourses, 1723-1729 (The Works of Jonathan Edwards, vol. 14) New Haven, Conn.; Yale University Press, 1997, p. 122.
I am a husband, father, and grandfather. A small, town about fifteen miles west of Pittsburgh is home currently, though several other places have served that purpose before this. I maintain a YouTube channel of Bible teaching videos and a podcast of Bible teaching audio. I like to make things in my woodshop. I like taking photographs and use a lot of them in my blog posts. I go fishing in the local streams and lakes when I can. For thirty-nine years, I served as a pastor of churches in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York.
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