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So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it’s sinking Racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older, Shorter of breath and one day closer to death. (Time – Pink Floyd)
I remember, as a child, feeling…..
I always try to find interesting ways of helping people know that God is real but sometimes these fancy arguments just pale in comparison to the awe we experience when confronted by the world that He has created. We can construct clever proofs for God’s existence but sometimes it’s just better to let the stones cry out.
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What does it mean to be a human?
Are we just highly evolved primordial dirt or are we divinely inspired dust? Are we smart monkeys or image-bearers? Did we climb out of a warm little pond, or did we drop from the heavens? Did we haphazardly come together on the evolutionary fly or were we fearfully and wonderfully…..
My wife runs a home for wayward felines. She takes in abandoned cats, diseased kittens, and mom’s with litters, fostering them until they can find a forever home. While my wife’s obsession occasionally causes marital conflicts, it is also the reason why I love her so much. She has a heart for God’s creation. She is the…..
Scientists refer to the immaterial human characteristics of consciousness, intentionality, and human agency as emergent properties. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy states that emergent entities (properties or substances) ‘arise’ out of more fundamental entities and yet are ‘novel’ or ‘irreducible’ with respect to them. (For example, it is sometimes said that consciousness is an emergent property of the brain.) In…..
I have always loved the sea. I remember making my way down to Huntington Beach many times during my residency when my stress level began to rise. I would just stand on the shoreline and stare out at the vast ocean beyond and watch my worries and cares recede with each subsequent wave. It is really quite…..
Chronological snobbery is defined as, “an argument that the thinking, art, or science of an earlier time is inherently inferior to that of the present, simply by virtue of its temporal priority.”(1) I would argue that this phrase also applies to our use of ancient thinking as a plumb line for modern thought. We love to make our cases by quoting…..
I have been making the case that our lofty apologetics needs to be brought back to earth because our young people tend to prefer arguments that tug on their heart strings rather than yank the wires of their neural networks. They generally believe God exists, but want to see His footprint in the sand, and not a forensic sketch…..
Postmodernism arose as a reaction to the modernist claims that absolute truth was found only through science and that the spiritual realm didn’t exist. Postmodernism responded by establishing personal experience as the yardstick of reality and adopting the new spirituality as the way to reclaim the transcendent. Our youth have embraced this worldview because they know life is more than natural laws and religious legalisms, randomized controlled experiments and canon law. They have become what Pew refers to as the, “nones,” a group…..
Think about this: before there were cities, it was just God and man, side by side, working the land, raising families, and creating community. Man was intimately connected to God’s creation for survival. However, with the development of the urban concrete jungle, we have progressively distanced ourselves from God’s world and become immersed in man’s. We don’t see…..
