AGNOSTIC, ATHEIST OR CHRISTIAN (2)
Why do you believe in God? I have already written in my previous post about my first reason: the human mind. Our consciousness of this life, our reasoning and imagination logically requires an eternal perspective. But secondly, I believe in God because of Moral Sense....
AGNOSTIC, ATHEIST OR CHRISTIAN
Television personality Greg Gutfeld describes himself as an agnostic atheist. So do many otherwise intelligent men and women, despite being raised Christians. I have members of my family who describe themselves in the same way. Do you believe in God? Why? Or why...
WHERE DO WE COME FROM?
One of the most frequent questions I get from strangers is, “Where are you from?” They detect that my accent is different from theirs. I have lived in the USA from 1971 and yet I still have a problem with “r’s”, and my “a’s” and “i’s” are similar. What an...
GENESIS AND SCIENCE
The book of Genesis is a divinely inspired collection of ancient writings that provide a remarkable narrative of primeval history. It is not a scientific dissertation in which one academic speaks only to another academic about his research. Instead it reflects the...
SCIENCE AND FAITH
When I first held my newest grand-daughter, Erika, in my arms and looked at her, I asked, “Who are you? Where have you come from? What will your life be like?” Her perfectly formed face, eyes, nose, ears, fingers and toes fascinated me, as did my two daughters’ when...
TURNING EIGHTY
Today I turn eighty! How to make sense of attaining, what I have thought of as old age? I have outlived my father’s age and many of my friends. What will life be like in my eighties? My body has survived knee surgeries, a heart attack and arthritis. Thankfully my mind...
THE TWO WAYS
Jesus said, “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” (Matthew 7:13,14) A characteristic of...
ALONENESS
"The ever-disquieting realization that we just might be alone is the singly most avoided thought studiously escaped whenever possible. It is the proverbial elephant in the living room. When we hear songs about it, read books about it, see movies that haunt us with...
THE GOSPEL FOR TODAY
"Our struggle today, is how to be faithful to this apostolic gospel, while at the same time presenting it in a way which resonates with modern men and women. What is immediately clear, is that, like the apostles, we must focus on Jesus Christ. Peter's beginning...
THE COMING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
“Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without the Spirit of truth, no fellowship without the unity of the Spirit, no Christlikeness of character apart...
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