“What is Truth?” Part 2 “Judgement begins with the house of God” (I Peter 4:17). Accordingly, Jesus is a hard reality for us as Christians to bump up against in this way, and we frequently do, and can at times, feel nearly crushed by it. However, He knows what He’s doing, and, in the midst […]
” In 2004, I took my 13-year-old son to watch Mel Gibson’s acclaimed masterpiece, “The Passion of the Christ”. Neither of us knew what to expect, as the film had just come out. Two hours later, walking across the nearly empty parking lot to my car, both of us left the theater a bit numbed […]
When I became a Christian on December 14, 2005 at 44 years old – a son of a Christian mother and father who prayed for me from the time I was in the womb until that cold, snowy day in December 44 years after my birth, and after a lifetime of sinful living, I could […]
Are You a Dead Fish? Most of these blogs are intended for our young people, who find themselves in situations most of their parents never dreamed of. For instance, why are so many young people today wanting to change their sex, as though by doing so, they’d be happier? Why are so many young people […]
“Church vs State” As the Church today continues to tug on the buttons of when and where to cross the line drawn between Church and State, it seems that both sides of the fence are in the wrong if either thought that abortion and homosexual marriage were ever going to be acceptable before God. Yet, […]
Is there any point in your life when you say to yourself, ‘the party’s over’? Most of us don’t look back over our lives until there is a reason to cry. Growing up as a teenager in the ‘70’s, the party seemed to go on forever. As a teen, there was no worry about politics […]
A really great question. First of all, what is it that makes up a “Christian”, and second of all, what makes up an “Anti-Christian World”? Whatever it is that being a “Christian” means to you and what it means to me could be miles apart. So again, what is the standard? Well, the Bible is […]
Why Did God Make Me So Ugly? During a week-long road trip through the southern United States with my manager and a colleague in the early 2000’s, one of our many conversations shifted to religion. My manager said, “If there even is a God, he is a hateful one because He allows so much suffering […]
My father is a retired Reformed Presbyterian minister. As a teenager in the free-wheeling ‘70’s, I rebelled against him and his faith, but I did so in a quiet, deceitful way – always letting him believe that I was “a believer” yet doing as I wished in the background. When I was 14, there was […]
Several years ago, I struck up a friendship with a Muslim at work. He firmly believed that “Jesus was a very “good man”, but that He was NOT the Son of God, and most definitely, NOT God.” Over many lunch hours, we would banter back and forth, but anything I said in rebuttal never made […]