There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. - G.K. Chesterton
Last week I watched a debate between William Lane Craig and Bart Ehrman (Author of Misquoting Jesus) on the historical reliability of the resurrection of Jesus.
Ehrman claims that historians only deal with what can “probably” happen (This seems to be part of how he defines the discipline.) And since miracles are statistically “improbable”, that [...]
It seems that most people have a sense that we ought to be thankful for what we have.
What are the ramifications of this? Doesn’t thankfulness imply an intelligent mind to be thankful towards? What else should we express thankfulness towards if not someone? The universe? A collection of atoms [...]
A few weeks ago I got into a brief conversation revolving around God’s “gender”. The person I was talking to referred to God as “he” and immediately said:
“Or SHE. I can’t believe I just said “he”.
“So you have a problem with God being a ‘he’?” I asked.
“Yeah.”
“Why is that?”
“Why does it [...]
As I look back at what I learned over the course of 2007, one of the things that immediately springs to mind is something I came to realize over the course of a few months. That is, if you’re going to discuss Christianity in an intelligent way, or attempt to, with an unbeliever [...]
There are a few Christmas songs that deserve to be hated. Happy Christmas by John Lennon, and Christmas Shoes by…that guy, are the first two that pop into my mind, and I have managed to avoid them for the last 2 seasons. This year, the “Holiday” music channel on Dish Network has [...]
Sometimes I don’t understand the lengths people will go to attempt to defend their positions. I’m not going to pretend that Christians are innocent of nonsensical arguments, as detractors are so adept at pointing out…but this unfortunate characteristic is a human condition, not merely a Christian one.
How about this attempt I recently [...]
I don’t mean to be a curmudgeon. But in recent years, as I reflect on my faith and think about the heritage of Christianity and those who have come before, there’s a lot that I don’t get about current trends in our corporate worship. Certain lyrics, for example, leave me a bit puzzled…especially [...]
Alisa had mentioned in her post, Living Simply, that we were talking about simplifying our lives the other night at church. She makes a good point, that the simplification of our lives is, itself, not that simple. The process seems a battle with the hydra…we chop off one head and five others [...]
.. in much wisdom there is much grief, and increasing knowledge results in increasing pain.
Ecc. 1:18
The message of your Holy Scriptures has set my heart throbbing, O Lord, and with the meager powers that are mine in this life I struggle hard to understand it. The poverty of our human intellect generally produces an abundance of words, for more talk is spent in search than in discovery. It [...]
Can we truly expect something to be true of a community of believer (“church”) that isn’t true of ourselves individually? When Acts 2 talks of the church being “devoted to the apostles teaching, to the fellowship and the breaking of bread, and to prayer,” can we expect to just avoid making spending significant time [...]
In Genesis, God said that it was not good that man be alone, so he created woman. Even though Adam had uninterrupted fellowship with God, it seems he needed human interaction in order to be complete. So the question came up, isn’t God enough? If God were enough then why would man need [...]
Do we think that iron can sharpen iron without some friction?
Does encouragement always mean making someone feel better? Or pushing them on towards being better?
One of the purposes I have in blogging is to work out some ideas that pop into my mind. There are some ideas that I’m strongly convinced of, others I struggle through whether I want to or not because I feel the weight of reason behind them, and still others I throw out as [...]
Sometimes when we read scripture do we come across verses that hit us in such a way that it not only takes us out of the context, but makes us create an entirely new meaning for it that the author did not intend?
Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.†~Matthew 22:37-40
Is it possible [...]
For the last 4 months I’ve been in an ongoing email-debate with someone who could be described as what’s been dubbed the “New Atheist.” The newness of their atheism isn’t their argument but their attitude. The public faces of this branch of atheism comes from those such as Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and [...]
Today I was asked the question: How is your walk with Christ?
For a moment, I hesitated to answer for several reasons. First, I’m rarely asked that question. Second, That’s one of those areas where I managed to slip through the Christian sub-culture without being programmed with the Christianese response. Consequently, the question [...]
My last post got me to thinking about the pursuit of wealth. Paul tells us that the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. That many who want to get wealthy peirce themselves with many griefs. Proverbs speaks to those wearing themselves out to get rich, that they [...]