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The Resurrection: Significant or not?
As I began this column, I was torn by the need to present the evidences for the resurrection of Jesus and the necessity of discussing its significance. That is when I decided to compromise and deal with both, as space allowed. First, and perhaps most significantly, is the fact that ...
Obama Consigns Traditional Values to the Dark Side
As often happens, science fiction somehow manages to emerge as reality. From the fictional communicators used by the original captain Kirk on the Star Ship Enterprise to the use of lasers in ways once only imagined, some ideas seem to rise from the realm of mere imagination into real life. ...
Happy New Year
The New Year is a solemn time. So solemn, in fact, that I don’t mind telling you that, for me at least, it is a time of deep reflection. It is a time in which I look to the past, its successes and failures, and then to the future with ...
Is There Really a War on Christmas?
For those who insist that there is a war on Christmas, I want to insert my puny two-cents-worth into the debate. I, for one, don't believe there is such a war, and for those who think so, let me ask a few questions. Do you really believe there is a ...
Revolution
Listen! Did you hear that? I knew I heard something other than the anguish associated with this tragedy, and if you listen closely, you can hear it too. With the atrocities perpetrated upon such innocence in Newtown, Connecticut, I heard what everybody else heard as the news unfolded that day. ...
Jesus, Give Back the Wheel!
"Jesus Take the Wheel" was a hit for the American Idol turned superstar, Carrie Underwood, when it came out, and the song seemed fitting for the young lady who touted her Christian faith throughout her rise to stardom. The song featured a troubled woman whose life, just like the car ...
The Golden Rule: Not Always so Golden
With the amount of reading and writing I do, I run across various views regarding just about everything. That is my "job," I guess, and it helps keep me abreast to those ideas floating around the pool of public opinion. One such idea came to my attention when in another ...
What's good for the Goose, is good for the Gander
(For those who believe that homosexuality is "genetic" and eliminate choice altogether) "They were born that way!" I know you've heard this argument, as have I, in defense of the homosexual lifestyle. In fact, this sentiment exists at almost every level of society these days and the way things are ...
Amendment One: The Right Thing
I know many will dismiss this column as a “religious” intrusion into political and legal affairs, a typical response for our day, but since most columns I've read are devoid of any consideration of the divine in regard to the gay marriage issue, I thought it important to balance the ...
Do Judaism, Christianity, and Islam really worship the same God?
Over the years, I’ve come to realize that rationality, logic, and just “good-ole” common sense usually play some role in a good discussion or debate, but all of that seems to change when a discussion takes a religious or theological turn. It’s almost like the mere mention of the word ...
Christmas: The Declaration of Human Uniqueness
We live in a strange age. We live in a time when men seek freedom while other men, evolutionary scientists particularly, tell us that we are not free. We do seem to live in an age when men are more comfortable with reducing human nature to mere matter, a reductionism ...
Christmas: The Scariest Time of Year
Well, Christmas is upon us - again - and unlike years gone by, I wanted to give my readers, assuming I have any, enough time to circulate the column that I think expresses the reason that our culture hates Christmas as it does. While there may be numbers of reasons ...
Robert Jeffress had it Right: Let Mormon’s Speak for Themselves
Sometimes, it helps to just keep ones mouth shut and let people “hang” themselves,” as my dad says, and such is the case with the recent incident of Pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church, Dallas, for calling Mormonism a “cult.” Since that statement, the detractors of the Christian Faith ...
President Obama Joins Religious Right?
Sitting at my computer and listening to some of the 9/11 memorial service, I heard a strange voice reading scripture. The voice I heard was a familiar one, as was the passage, but for some odd reason the two didn’t seem to go together. It was akin to a barking ...
Atheists are Thieves
I don’t mind somebody borrowing my tools from time to time, but what makes me angry is when they borrow them and then refuse to bring them back. Imagine approaching a friend and/or neighbor, the same one to whom you graciously loaned one of your tools, and then hearing him ...
Gay Marriage: A Philosophical and Theological Statement
I don’t know anybody on the “right” or “left” of the political isle who doesn’t believe that we’re in financial mess as a nation, and while we argue over the solution, some people saw it coming many years ago. Oh, the validity of the old adage, then, “an ounce of ...
The Resurrection: The Physical Link to Eternity
Those who read the New Testament will quickly discover the emphasis upon which the disciples placed on the physical resurrection. It was so important, in fact, that the apostle Paul – the persecutor turned evangelist – declared it to be so essential that if not true then Christianity is the ...
No Gay Gene? (choice re-emerges)
In 1998 the American Psychological Association rocked the world with its discovery of what some called the “gay gene,” concluding as one might expect, that homosexuality had a genetic cause. "There is considerable recent evidence,” the report read, “to suggest that biology, including genetic or inborn hormonal factors, play a ...
Martin Luther King Joins Religious Right
Martin Luther King Joins Religious Right No, I haven’t lost my mind and the above title is not a misprint. As many celebrate both King and his mission this month, I am inclined to believe that the Civil Rights Movement with Martin Luther King, Jr. at the helm, emerged from ...
Creation, Compromise, and Contention
Any swimmer who has taken-on the beach knows that the visible waves aren't the most dangerous obstacles to his efforts. The greater danger lies in the undercurrents that can sweep the most avid swimmer to his death. So it is with the underlying belief system behind some Christian’s teachings on ...
