Our behavior reflects our mindset. Our mindset reflects our heart. Our heart reflects our spirit. Our spirit reflects our relationship with God. How’s it going? ♦ A couple lashes out at each other in anger, spewing harsh words of criticism and rebuke…. Read More ›
Evil
Evolution and Intellectual Honesty
If only the scientific, academic and journalistic communities would really and truthfully discuss the elephant in the room. ♦ Do you ever wonder if you’re getting the real truth from teachers, newspapers, media pundits, politicians, school textbooks, or even the scientific… Read More ›
Monkeys on Trial
After all the hoopla associated with the Scopes “Monkey” Trial, what was the actual verdict and who really won and lost, the evolutionists or the creationists? ♦ The crowds were large, the media was abuzz. The people across the country debated… Read More ›
Maybe Marriage is for Everybody?
Many around the world believe that homosexuality is as natural as life itself and therefore should be accepted in all aspects of society, even celebrated. The marriage institution is the next pillar to fall, inevitably. Right? ♦ In Genesis 32… Read More ›
Dreams Shattered. What Do You Do?
Have you ever wanted something so much that it crushed you when things fell through? Does that loss of your aspiration hurt and confuse you to the point of questioning God and his plan? ♦ Abraham felt it. Isaac did too…. Read More ›
Prodigal Sons, Daughters, and Parents
We’re all prodigals at some level – reckless, selfish and rebellious. There’s a good news gospel thread in the popular Bible story of a wayward child that gives hope and assurance to all of us whether a son, a daughter,… Read More ›
Small and Too Proud: the Atheists
There is widespread secularism if not growing atheism. Their position is understandable yet woefully misguided and even ignorant of that which they criticize or choose to ignore. ♦ There is a modern-day assumption that atheism is on the rise and that… Read More ›
Evil – Nature or Nurture?
A mass killing in Santa Barbara revives the longstanding debate on evil. Is evil in our nature or is it developed and nurtured? Yes and yes; of course it is. ♦ We’ve all now heard the horrific story of the deranged… Read More ›
Got Biblical Historical Context?
Context is everything. Do you really know when things happened? Have you thought through the implications of documented Bible history? ♦ Like many people I used to get the years and periods of history mixed up. When was the US Civil… Read More ›
Essentials for Men
What’s it take to be a guy these days? A man of men? A godly man? It’s a journey we men never quite finish. But we can progress and be better men than we’ve been. ♦ This weekend over 200… Read More ›
So Really…Why Do Bad Things Happen?
Death, poverty, suffering, evil, war. Set-backs, trials, accidents, tragedies. If God is so good, why does He allow bad things to happen? Does He control this world? Does He even care? ♦ An innocent 9 year-old girl is plowed into by a 240 pound errant… Read More ›
A Unified Old and New Testament?
How often we are asked or consider our own doubts about the unity of the Bible? Isn’t the tone and coherence of the Old Testament so very different from the New Testament? ♦ Have you ever doubted the unity of… Read More ›