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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…..
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 then…..
God created the heavens and the earth and declared it a very good place to live. Adam and Eve then rejected His rule and were expelled into the wilderness. God’s children filed for separation because they confused slavery to sin with being emancipated minors. The Holy playground that God had created became an unholy crime scene. God’s daily walks were transformed into a once-a-year sacrificially supervised…..
It seems every company has an online help desk to assist us with technical difficulties. The website usually begins by directing us to the FAQ page for solutions to commonly encountered problems, a holy screen that instructs us to perform a few digital Hail Mary’s or Our Fathers to achieve technological absolution. However, when these fail, we are…..
We are in danger of losing our identities as unique beings created in the image of God. Our culture, fearing divine restrictions on its self-indulgent lifestyle, tries to remove God from the planet, but in the process strips off the very image that makes us human. Fearing religious maximalism, it doesn’t even allow divine minimalism.
The reason…..
Our postmodern culture has adopted the poorly informed, yet profoundly tolerant stance that, “All paths lead to God!” We are all just spiritual mountain climbers taking different approaches to the same divine peak. While it is true that all religious paths do end on a summit, the problem is that each summit is located on a completely different mountain…..
The gods of Assyria, Babylon, Greece, Egypt, and Rome have all gone under the historical postmortem knife. We have extensive pathology reports documenting their demise. The cause of death – religious natural selection. Interestingly, while these deities decomposed, the one true living God began to take over the world.
Atheists know that religion must be explained so they offer the usual…..
Postmodernism arose as a response to the modernist claims that truth is determined scientifically and that life is nothing but chemicals. It didn’t like the idea of universal truth whether it was scientific, religious, or philosophical. It bristled at the thought of science as the new sheriff in town, especially since they thought they had already demoted the previous religious and government law…..
We Christians are frequently attacked for our beliefs, but instead of shrinking away from the criticism we need to embrace the challenge. The fact we have been singled out in this debate is the ultimate compliment. It implies that our beliefs have serious implications, not just for us personally, but also for the world in general. Ask yourself why it is that Christianity is being assaulted and yet New Age religion is given a free pass. Why are there efforts…..
