The Thing That Would Make Everything Okay Forever – A review.
I believe our culture is saying goodbye to the spiritual darkness left behind by the enlightenment and actively working to reignite the religious flame that once lit its way. However, while the postmodern turn of the modernist knob reopened the spiritual door it did so with many of its materialist sensibilities still intact. It resurrected the traditional religious pursuit of…..
Justin Brierley has written two excellent books exploring the intersection of Christianity and atheism. In his first book, “Unbelievable?: Why After Ten Years of Talking with Atheists, I’m Still a Christian,” Justin engaged the common objections to Christianity put forth by the New Atheists and explained why after listening to them for ten years he was even more convinced of the truth of his Christian beliefs. In…..
Breaking the Spell
Our culture is undergoing a crisis of meaning. A crisis, which I believe is the consequence of swallowing Richard Dawkins lie that “The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind,…..
We all have a shadow that follows us around. A dark side that no one else knows. Friends and family look in from the outside and see a black hole but we know it intimately because we are forced to navigate its murky waters on a daily basis. We are all flawed. The greatest women and men…..
Many Christian young people leave home for college and return with a shattered faith. The Christian bank card we handed them as they walked out the door quickly became overdrawn as they tried to pay off the rapidly accumulating intellectual debt brought on by the demands of friends, professors, and course material. Did we make them religiously secure…..
It’s striking that the Old Testament (OT) speaks very little of the devil and his minions, but once we turn the page and enter into the world of the New Testament (NT) they seem to crawl out of the (worm)woodwork. Why?
Genesis introduces us to Satan but it isn’t until the NT that his mask is torn…..
I’m tired of being what you want me to be Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface I don’t know what you’re expecting of me Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow Every step that I take is another mistake to you Caught in the undertow,…..
The heavens declare the glory of God – the whole creation has been groaning.
(Psalm 19:1 & Romans 8:22)
How do we make sense of a planet that simultaneously sings and sobs?
In the beginning, God gave a spoken word performance of cosmic proportions.
And…..
What makes Erik, Erik? What is my essence? If my physical body is taken away from me what then defines me? If my resurrection body will be different from my current body then how will I be known? Even Jesus, after His resurrection, wasn’t immediately recognized by Mary at the open tomb or by His disciples on the…..
Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse,…..
