Cain’s followers prefer death to life.

Mark 3:  1-6 tells us why the religious/political institution that ruled the Jewish people hated Jesus, and later, His Church.  Today, Cain still hates Abel.   Death hates life.   Hate hates love.  Lies hate truth.   All the hate on earth is summed up in six words:   Cain’s followers prefer death to life.   In every age, […]

Sanity is Catholicism.

Jer. 7, 23:28 tells us “This is what I commanded My people:  Listen to My voice;  then, I will be your God and you shall be My people.  Walk in all the ways that I command you, so that you may prosper.”  In the Old Testament, God did not say “Listen to some self-important man […]

Marketing Plan for Dying Protestant Groups

I learned Protestant Theology in my lunch with Pastor Bob.   By our third glass of wine, I heard about “Oldster Affinity Clubs” in the Marketing Plan for Dying Protestant Groups. “I never heard of Oldster Affinity Clubs.” Pastor Bob explained:  “The Marketing Plan for Dying Protestant Groups gets us to focus on who has […]

Marketing Plan for Dying Protestant Groups

Lunch with Pastor Bob was fascinating!  It was absolutely amazing to solve the great mystery:  What kind of Marketing Plan for Dying Protestant Groups could overcome the disappearing congregations? “Frankly, Pastor Bob, I thought you would have been closed down by now.  When I left to become Catholic, your church was already running out of […]

All need The Church of The Perfect Baptism

Catholic Fundamentalism was viciously attacked with the following when a Protestant reader urgently informed us, in all Capital Letters: “I READ HEBREW 6:1–6. HOW CAN YOU CATHOLICS GO ON TO MATURE UNDERSTANDING WHEN YOU CATHOLICS HAVEN’T GOTTEN THE BASICS–THE FIRST LESSONS ABOUT JESUS CHRIST RIGHT YET. YOU HAVEN’T BEEN SAVED, YOU PERFORM BAPTISM CONTRARY TO […]

Marketing Plan for Dying Protestant Groups

As lunch continued, I wondered “Pastor Bob, how is your church doing with all the changes?  Is church attendance keeping up?” “Well, the congregation is getting older.   When someone dies, their part of the pew stays empty.” “Are you making ends meet?” “Better than ever!” I was stunned.  “That’s amazing!  How can you be doing […]

The hardest part of Protestant Marketing

As lunch progressed, I continued to ask Pastor Bob about the hardest part of Protestant Marketing. “Pastor Bob, why do you guys make such a concerted effort to reach lapsed Catholics.” “That’s all there are.  For a generation, maybe two, the Mainline Protestants have been disappearing.  No children.  More and more churches don’t even have […]

The hardest part of Protestant Marketing?

I met an old friend, the pastor of my former Church, for lunch.  After we ordered, asked him, “What’s the hardest part of Protestant Marketing?” He answered quickly.  “All of us Protestants wish that Jesus had not said so very specifically to one person, in front of credible witnesses, ‘Verily, verily I say onto you […]

The first Protestant man’s Marketing Plan

Clever marketing leads people to choose one brand of car, soap, paint, candidate, denomination, or any other product over another.   Broadcast and print media spew clouds of facts and feelings to influence choices.  Marketing experts  use every kind of media to put favorable thoughts about their clients’ products into our minds. Few know:   the […]

Lapsed Cat’lics is wha’r the money is!

“Now, we is all dun wif’ yer trainin’.  Y’all knows how ter wurk The Gian’ Baptismal Font.  Y’all has been trained in operatin’ the Giant Baptismal Crane.  N’, ya’ll kin handle the Baptismal Rotor.  So, we be  givin’ each ob you yer Offishal Engineerin’ Certyfication thereof.  N’, we be giving each of you yer very […]