Creed and catechism. Two words that scare a lot of people. Do they scare you? Turn you off? If so, it doesn’t have to be that way. Maybe catechisms scare you because of your rigorous Catholic school upbringing. Perhaps creeds appall you because of your experience in a church that split over “doctrine.” Or…
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In the Buddhist version of the , a young man approaches Buddha with a dilemma…. Part of a series on truth. Dozens of hermits and wandering scholars are making contradictory claims about reality. Some claim everything is infinite. Others claim all is finite. Then some claim just certain artifacts are infinite while other artifacts are…
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In the end, there are only two responses to the Bible–either you receive it or you reject it. I recommend you receive it. Here’s why. Basic to the Christian faith is the conviction that God, far from being dead and dumb, is living and vocal. This means you can get to know him on a…
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Where you learn that God’s sovereignty means the absolute rule, authority and government of God over all His creation…including man’s freedom. Supreme. Superior. Chief. Foremost. Highest. Preeminent. Superb. Superlative. Ultimate. Utmost. Predominate. Unsurpassable. Ruler. These are all words used to describe sovereign. And they apply to God’s sovereignty. God’s sovereignty means the absolute rule…the absolute…
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What happens when orthodox Christians neglect the doctrine of hell? We begin to tinker with orthodoxy in some unhealthy ways. Hell doesn’t get much press. Blame it on the and its fear of all things supernatural. To be fair, Enlightenment writers were reacting to a gross abundance of commentary on hell. In fact, this environment forced to remark that some…
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The great commission for creative types like musicians, illustrators or writers. Subdue the earth explained. Finally. It’s 33 A. D. You’re on the side of a mountain in Galilee within earshot of the resurrected Jesus. You hear him , “Go and make disciples of all nations.” Now, travel back in time to just after the…
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Haunted. Convicted. Blessed. Condemned. These are words that often describe people’s response to Jesus’ death. But before we can even talk about that, we first need to establish what Jesus’ death accomplished. We need to talk about propitiation. What DID Jesus’ Death Accomplish? Propitiation. Big word. Probably means nothing to you. But this is…
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This post is dedicated to my friend . Better known as BJ. BJ is young. Intelligent. And feisty. About 10 days ago BJ jumped in a frenzy over my post on Osteen. In that post I pointed out 6 things you’ll never hear out of Osteen’s mouth. In a nutshell, BJ complained that Christians tend to treat Christianity…
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While wandering around the yesterday with my family I kept thinking to myself, “I wonder if my children will grow up to be geologists or pollen scientists.” Then it hit me. I could encourage them to go this route…and for the rest of their lives they’d pour over geology books… Sift through the sediment found at…
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Where I try to gather a lot of resources on why annihilationism is wrong. Annihilationism is the belief that the final fate of those who are not saved is literal and final destruction… A belief that runs against the traditional Christian understanding of hell. So naturally as I worked through the doctrine of hell during my stint…
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