What are the payoffs to working through your doubts about Christianity? One is you won’t base your faith on half-baked ideas. There are more. I’m out of the office today. Either tromping around the with the girl and boy or fingering dusty binders on some old books at . My wife? She’s on the lam in Colorado Springs…
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You can start reading a PDF version of right now. Shortly after Jesus heals a blind man, he walks toward the villages of Caesarea Philippi with his disciples. Along the way about who people think he is. They tell him John the Baptist. Or Elijah. Or one of the prophets. He asks them, “Who do you think…
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How do you think you’ll respond when you realize you’ve made it to heaven? My answer surprised me. Not long ago, on a small hillside east of St. Louis, MO, I was cutting grass. Naturally, my mind was a million miles away from that small hillside… Somewhere between a lump of books in a…
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“What does the meaningless, value-absent creed of humanism have to offer? It might surprise you. Part of a series on truth. One of the reasons I’m enormously disenchanted with humanism is due to it’s inevitable, blissful slide into subjectivity. I mean blissful in two senses: 1. It changes without much fuss or notice. 2. And…
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Ten creative steps to help sequential, reductive, computational-challenged types understand the Bible to the fullest. No matter how hard I try, I can’t get into . What is Bible arcing? It’s the graphical tool used to determine and document the flow of thought in biblical texts. It’s a hot item in Reformed circles. But I just can’t…
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In which you discover if God’s righteousness is inadequate, overbearing, ethically challenged or merely misunderstood. Four classic problems plague the nature of God’s righteousness: evil, vindication, corruption and ignorance. Evil: Some claim that God can’t solve the problem of pain–if God is good, then why does evil still exist? Vindictive: Other people claim that God is…
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the people who’ve influenced me. Specifically pastors. Pastors who’ve risked fame and friends in favor of speaking truth. Ever wonder what life would be like WITHOUT people who weren’t afraid to cut across the grain? Luckily, there are pastors who refused to sleep with the enemy. Some of these…
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Here’s the deal. I’m not quite done with the Atheists series. I’d like to conduct at least two more interviews so I’ll have ten in total. But I want to take a short sabbatical to launch an ex-atheist series. [This idea came from a reader.] So, if you are a former atheist who is now a Christian,…
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Want to know the basic point behind the complex message of the Bible… without reading the whole thing? I can tell you what it is in three simple words. But you have to promise me something… You have to promise me you’ll dig deeper beyond this simple cheat sheet. You have to promise me that…
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Given the space I devoted yesterday to spiritual death, I thought I’d follow up today with a post on the biblical case for man’s spirit. Here we go. 1. Man has a spirit. 2. Man’s spirit is immortal. [See the heading ] 3. Man’s spirit can be divided from the body and destroyed. . 4. God’s spirit contends with man’s…
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