Part of the10 Hard Truths about Being Born Againseries. You are either dead or alive. If you’re reading this, I vote alive. But there’s another way in which you could still read this and be dead. Because, in the wake of a tangle with a non-believer the truth of their condition becomes so apparent…
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Part of the 10 Questions with an Atheist series. John Loftus was a philosophy instructor at a secular college when he decided to walk away from Christianity. It wasn’t easy. The only thing Loftus had known since he was 18 was learning, teaching and defending Christianity. During that time he had chased several divinity degrees and a…
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Manage to balance job, family, friends and blog using the 5 A.M. secret. I have a FULL-time job. A family of four. A close-knit group of friends. And a robust blog writing schedule. That seems to impress some of you. What’s my secret? Simple. Call me at 5 in the morning… Or 9:00 P.M. on…
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“When one sees eternity in things that pass away and infinity in finite things, then one has pure knowledge.” Bhagavad Gita That’s the quote that greets you on the home page of The … A society founded by one and one in 1875. The original purpose behind the society was to investigate, study and explain mediums and their claims. After…
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All Christians want to understand the Bible. But why is it so hard to find substantial meaning when we study it? More to the point: How can we get the words to pop off the paper? The pages to zing by? The stories to carry us up, up and away like did? [Okay, maybe I’m the only…
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Mercy. Wrath. Jealousy. Just three of the 25 attributes of God we explore in this fast and easy guide on the nature of God. One of my original motives for launching this blog was to dig deep into the foundations of my faith…to understand whom I worship…what I believe. I could’ve done this by…
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Remember my post on Dan Barker’s Easter Challenge last month? Well, a few things have happened since then. Let me fill in the gaps. In that post I pointed out that even after a few days of research I came up with only two Christian responses to Barker’s challenge. One by . Another by a small-town [pop. 350]…
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What is the Gospel? It’s merely this: Peace with God through the blood of Jesus Christ. Granted, that’s a back-of-the-napkin summary. So much to unpack. But that’s the essence. It’s , “Peace with God,” that began with the birth of Jesus Christ. And that’s what I need to return to. Day in. And day out….
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These six mistakes are arguments that are ambiguous. In other words, they stem from use of language having more than one meaning. No doubt you’ve seen this yellow diamond road sign. You have a hunch you know what it means, but… Is the City trying to tell you that the children playing on this street…
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It stands apart–unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. God’s holiness that is. We know nothing like divine holiness. It stands apart–unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. But what does holiness in God MEAN? Holiness means God is morally spotless in character, motives, thoughts, words and actions. He is pure of evil desires. And he is the…
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