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We all have a worldview home. A safe space where we go to be protected from the thorns and thistles. A domicile built with sweat and tears. Most of us, however, have been oblivious to the emotional, intellectual, and societal subcontractors who have snuck in and engaged in unsolicited renovations. Sadly, our lack of architectural awareness has resulted in an…..
The disciples were a nice bunch of guys who would hang on Jesus’ every word yet didn’t seem to hear a word He said. The Romans treated these Jesus followers like a localized religious infection that gave them a bit of a rash but which could be cured by a generous slathering of crucifixion cream. However, at Pentecost, everything changed……
Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been…..
Christian orthodoxy is the set of beliefs that have been put in place to protect the integrity of the deposit of faith handed down to us from Jesus. Orthodoxy is like a drawbridge into a castle of truth that allows one to enter without having to swim through the crocodile-laden moat of heresy. It is built with solid planks…..
Have you ever wondered why so many Christian converts are on fire for the Lord?
Paul says that our bodies are temples. If that is true then we each have a Holy of Holies that is unoccupied. Sadly, most of us set the bar for divine occupancy so low that we rent the space out to any “god’ that…..
The Bible makes it clear that wisdom is obtained through fear of the Lord, but what is fear?
Biblical fear is defined as awe, respect, reverence, and terror. In essence, it is the humility to admit that He is God and we are not.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy…..
Another school shooting and once again the finger pointing begins. We blame school security, gun lobbies, parents, and lack of mental health services, but we seem to have forgotten that this problem didn’t exist 40 years ago. Something has changed. When I was a child, access to guns was easier, mental health services sparser, and bullying more common, and yet my classmates didn’t…..
One of the failings of modern Christianity has been its inability to recognize new cultural trends and proactively form appropriate apologetic responses.
Most recently, our obsession with debating modernists has left us deaf to the song of the postmodern pied piper luring our children away. Unfortunately, while we argued with our atheist friends, our youth began tapping their feet to another…..
I’m afraid that our current Christian apologetic is missing the mark. We are faced with an increasingly postmodern culture that values autonomy over authority and feelings over facts, yet we persist in lecturing with logic. I believe that disappointment in the ability of our young people to engage in rational argument is justified and should motivate us to return to teaching logic and philosophy in our schools, but in the meantime, we…..
Studies consistently show that 90 percent of all people believe in a god of some sort or another. Spirituality, therefore, is not a demographic outlier but rather the statistically significant air we breathe. It is not a hobby for the scientifically illiterate but one of the basic elements in the periodic table of human experience. The real question before us…..
