Jay's Blog part Deux

 I should mention that in regards to my post on Aug 17 which was titled What Church Do I Belong To that is was more of a case of entertaining my curiosity more than it was me actively seeking a new denomination. I am actually quite content of where I presently attend. I do have to admit that I have not been able to attend a house of worship since this COVID-19 crisis and between that my wife’s autoimmune disease as well as my job now requiring me to work every other Sunday that I have only check out worship services online. Plus, with the restrictions in place right now there are only a certain amount of seats available at church. I still have however checked out other church services online (usually via YouTube). These include Anglican,Presbyterian, Lutheran,Eastern and Greek Orthodox and Wesleyan churches. I found most of these interesting but I had trouble with the Wesleyan too “hip” and “seeker friendly “ I know this may be not be true of all Wesleyan churches and may have to c...

 Last night as many of you know Erin O’Toole (Durham MP ) won the leadership for the Conservative Party Of Canada. It comes a bit of a surprise as I thought for sure that Peter McKay (who finished second)had a lock on the leadership as he was the front runner O’Toole may be too right-wing to win the next election and may have been dismissed as an also-ran a few months ago. However, with the governing Liberals in the middle of the WE charity scandal which saw the resignation of the Minister of Finance and put Justin Trudeau’s leadership into question. I would say that he has a very good shot of becoming Prime Minister. However, he can’t merely preach to the choir but will have to at least appear moderate in order to appeal to voters in Ontario and Quebec where the Conservatives need to win in order to form a government. Also,I’m not sure about how well O’Toole speaks French but he may want to brush up on it. Not only he is going to have to share his policies with the public but also...

 The short answer to that is the Baptist church which is part of the Canadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec. But recently I across a series of surveys which tell you what Christian denomination best suits you or in some cases what religion best suits you. The first one is from Playbuzz and Asks What Christian Denomination Should You Be Part Of? I took the survey and the answer I got was Lutheran which is a bit strange since I have never foot in a Lutheran church. But I do use a Lutheran Book of Prayer in my devotions sometimes. I came across a blog by Internet Monk and the post was titled Where do I belong? On it he had a bunch of surveys he had taken the results given. One was Belief Net-Belief-O-Matic and I learned that I am a Conservative Christian Protestant The next one was What is Your Spiritual type which learned that I am a Confident Believer. Two other ones were the Christian Denomination Selector which has as 100% Wesleyan/Methodist and 100% Southern Baptist but would be...

 My politics have shifted over the past few years as I have gone from being a libertarian to social conservative to being middle of the road. The position I have embraced is Red Toryism as I was a supported of the Progressive Conservative Party Of Canada and later the Conservative Party Of Canada but I have not supported the later in years. My political heroes have included former Prime Ministers Sir.John A MacDonald, Sir Robert Borden and John Diefenbaker. But the problem I am having is what does it mean to be a Red Tory and what Red Toryism is. It is often described by the media as “fiscally conservative and socially liberal” but many Neo-conservative governments such as Mike Harris in Ontario and Ralph Klein in Alberta espoused these views are definitely not Red Tories. What is a Red Tory then?  In Oxford”s Dictionary it is defined in Canada “a member of a political group who,while maintaining some conservative principles,supports many liberal and socialist policies “. Wiki...

Lately, I have been doing some reading about various Bible-based cults and one group that has stood out is the IFB which stands for Independent Fundamentalist Baptist. The reason was I attended and was a member of an IFB congregation for two years. I just figured they were another Christian denomination and never thought of them as a cult but there are some issues bought up the make me believe it is a cult. How I got involved the IFB was there was new Baptist church near a grandmother’s house that held services at an Inn. I was disgruntled with evangelicalism particularly my former denomination and was seeking and looking for a new church home. Although the piano music was not my cup of tea the fact that they used the KJV Bible(King James Version) was to my liking. Also, it was a lot different from most of the evangelical churches I attended (I would later there was a reason for that).The pastor was a Hyles-Anderson graduate. Like most IFB churches it was KJV only and there was the bel...