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Monday, September 08, 2014
Sunday, September 07, 2014
Is Christianity a Religion?
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Acts
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Apostle Paul
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Christianity
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Religion
Saturday, September 06, 2014
Agnosticism and Folly
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Apostle Paul
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Proverbs
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Solomon
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Friday, September 05, 2014
Too Hot to Handle: A Reason Outside Ourselves
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Christopher Hitchens
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Ecclesiastes
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Meaning
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Purpose
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Too Hot to Handle
Thursday, September 04, 2014
The Moment That A Human Being Encounters
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Christ
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Inspiration
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Scripture
Wednesday, September 03, 2014
The Deadliest Attack on Happiness
Author Trent Hand lists what he believes are the deadliest attacks on happiness:
1. Comparing
yourself to others
2. Talking
about your dreams instead of going to work on them
3. Listening to
people with nothing positive to say
4. Focusing on
the news
5. Deciding
someone else needs to change
6. Thinking
“happiness” is a destination you can reach
7. Forgetting
to say “thank you”
Clearing negative influences out of our lives does have a
certain utility.
Tuesday, September 02, 2014
You Don’t Want to be ‘That Guy’
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Acts
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David
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Psalms
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Revelation
Monday, September 01, 2014
Sunday, August 31, 2014
It Ain’t Over ’til It’s Over
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Christ
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Christian Life
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Eternal Reign
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Psalms
Saturday, August 30, 2014
The Bible Contains the Word of God
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Apostle Paul
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Authority
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Peter
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Scripture
Friday, August 29, 2014
Too Hot to Handle: Why I Don’t Share My Faith
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Evangelism
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Obedience
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Too Hot to Handle
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Witnessing
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
The ‘Moral Hazard’ of Calling ISIS a ‘Cancer’
The New York Times,
or at least one Michael J. Boyle, wants us to be careful about calling wickedness wicked:
“But if the ‘war on terror’ has taught us anything, it is that such moralistic language can blind its users to consequences. Describing a group as ‘inexplicable’ and ‘nihilistic,’ as Mr. Kerry did, tends to obscure the group’s strategic aims and preclude further analysis. Resorting to ritualized rhetoric can be a very costly mistake if it leads one to misunderstand an enemy and to take actions that inadvertently help its cause.”
Mr. Boyle is correct to express reserve about Mr. Kerry’s choice of epithets: the behavior of ISIS in Iraq is far from inexplicable and quite strategic, though its consequences are horrific.
But the Times’ concern about moralistic language is misplaced.
But the Times’ concern about moralistic language is misplaced.
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James Foley
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Jude
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Mercy
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Inbox: Qman Asks the $64,000 Question
“Very interesting and relevant blog. The question I have at this point is who actually benefits from it at this site? Is there anyone else out there? There seems to be little response as far as I can tell. I did not see a mission statement for this site and if it’s only very local, then wouldn’t a wider distribution be better for getting across insights like this?”
Ask and you shall receive ...
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Monday, August 25, 2014
Science Redux
David Berlinski does what I can’t (but certainly tried to)
in a Peter Robinson interview appropriately entitled Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions. He quotes from his book The Devil’s Delusion:
“In many respects, the word ‘naturalism’ comes closest to conveying what scientists regard as the spirit of science: the source of its superiority to religious thought. But what reason is there to conclude that everything is, to quote philosopher Alexander Byrne, ‘an aspect of the universe … revealed by the natural sciences’? There is no reason at all.”
He comments on the validity of certain scientists’ claim to authority:
“The comparable claim would be, ‘(a) I’m a scientist; (b) I’m an expert on contract law’. You’re an expert on contract law because you’ve studied particle physics? Give me a break. An expert on the existence of God because you’ve studied particle physics? I request the same break, the same suspension of belief, the same absence of commitment to whatever it is you’re saying.”
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David Berlinski
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Evolution
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Faith
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Richard Dawkins
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Throwing the Old Testament Under the Science Bus [Pt 2]
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Evolution
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Faith vs Science
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Michael Gungor
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Science
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Throwing the Old Testament Under the Science Bus [Pt 1]
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Evolution
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Faith vs Science
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Michael Gungor
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Science
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
When Life Really Hurts
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Apostle Paul
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Romans
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Suffering
Monday, August 18, 2014
I’ll Wait, Thanks (or, I guess this makes me a ‘Huddle Person’)
Uh oh. Apparently, I’m told (and not for the first time)
biblical literalism is not healthy. Not healthy for those I would like to win
to Christ, and not healthy for me. It’s (at least potentially) repressive, and
possibly worse.
In it, Michael Gungor coins the term ‘huddle people’ to
describe me and my ilk, then gives us a lecture about the dangers of failing to
accommodate ‘science’ in our Christian worldview:
“... you can still love God and love people and read those early Genesis stories as myth with some important things to teach us. Not all of you will be ready to do that, and that’s perfectly ok. But know that if you create these dichotomies where we force people to either fall into the camp of scientifically blind biblical literalism or a camp where they totally write off the Bible as a complete lie, you’re going to rob a lot of people of some of the richness that the Bible offers. You’re going to create a lot more jaded, cynical people that are completely anti-religion out there. And you are going to continue to repress the questions that lurk in the back of your own mind. And that’s just not healthy. That sort of thinking actually quashes and limits human thriving in the world.”
— Michael Gungor
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Literalism
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Michael Gungor
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Myth
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Noah
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Peter
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