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Happy New Year! Another One Closer to Death!
I'm such a Debbie Downer! I can't help it. After I became a Christian when I was 18, I haven't been able to attend or see a New Year's celebration with out being struck by how ridiculous it all is. Do not these people, I always think, realize that they are celebrating...
Every Birth is as Miraculous as the Virgin’s Birth
Since this is Christmas, and we’re focused on the miraculous birth of a baby over 2,000 years ago, a baby who would be the Savior of the world, I thought it an opportunity to broaden our focus on the one who made that birth possible.
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These medieval attitudes contrast sharply with our own. We have fewer plagues but more wars and of a far bloodier nature. Our approach is to hide death. It is another of our new secrets. There is absolutely no general conviction that death is something to be faced....
Articles on Theology
How To Make Sure Your Kids’ Faith is Not All About Them
In my last post I wrote about the best way to ruin your kids faith is to make it all about them. It's an extremely easy thing to let happen if you don't actively take responsibility for the content and shape of your kids' faith. We live in a culture where the...
One Simple Idea to Eviscerate Your Kid’s Faith
Make it all about them! Yes, I know this is a blog, and book, about keeping our kids Christian, but what we must warn them against is also important if we are to make that keeping more likely. I recently learned about a Christian women. a famous "mommy blogger," who...
Jesus is never mentioned in Psalms, but best-selling author Tim Keller sees him there
When I saw the title of this piece by Jonathan Merritt who writes for the Religion News Service, I wasn't sure how to take it. Was he implying that Jesus isn't in the Psalms, and that Keller was reading that into the text. After reading the interview, I'm not sure...
Articles on Explanatory Power
Science is Becoming God’s Best Friend
We live in a secular age, at least in the West, in which the dominion of science for all the good it has done has essentially replaced God for many people who find religion untenable. If "Science" says it, people believe it, few questions asked. In a little discussion...
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[T]he disciples of scientism had a material explanation for the universe that they thought was rock solid. Now that explanation has collapsed, and we have the discovery of fine tuning pointing toward intelligent design strongly enough that it has convinced several...
#ShoutYourAbortion
The Planned Parenthood videos (see a "Quick and Easy Guide" to them at the Federalist) have put the pro-abortion movement on the defensive unlike at any time in the sordid history of legal abortion in America. Of course many abortion defenders have just attacked the...
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