They Have No Hope
“They have no hope.” That was the sum of what we were talking about. My wife and I had lunch yesterday with a gentleman who, in all likelihood, would know what he was talking about. A personable man. An intelligent …
Tag: Theology
Theology is the systematic study of the nature, character, and attributes of God as contained in the Bible. It is a way for people to work their way through the myriad claims about Who God is, and is essential to correctly understand the truth about the Creator of the universe.
How To Look At Changes
We all face changes in our lives. Some of these changes are welcomed, like graduating from school, getting our first (or a better) job, and marrying the person God has chosen for us. Other changes are not welcome at all, …
Freedom
Most children, when confronted with something that they don’t want to do (like go to bed, eat their vegetables or be denied a new toy they want, etc.) respond many times with statements of mild resistance. As they unwillingly submit, …
Current Beauty
As I research the trends in television these days it is obvious that programing has changed over the past thirty years. It appears that some of the most popular and regularly viewed programs involve taking an old, run-down house and …
American Government is Christian
I frequently encounter people who try to refute that the American form of republican government was founded upon the principles of the Bible – the Word of God. They insist many of the Founding Fathers were simple deists, and that …
Trey Pearson
Where do I begin? Another Christian musician has ‘come out’ in a recent article in Billboard. The tragedy of Trey Pearson is, unfortunately, becoming a little more common. The article recounts Trey Pearson being filled with conflicting emotions, mental anguish …
Transgendered
Transgendered, sexual orientation disturbance, androgynous, genderqueer, gender dysphoria, multi-gendered, gender non-conforming. These are some of the terms used to describe those who have a mental disorder which contradicts their physical makeup and assigned sex at birth. This topic recently came …
God’s Desire
God loves the lost, and God’s desire is that the lost should be saved. This fact is missed because many people have an image of God as some old bearded guy sitting on a throne somewhere ‘up there.’ He’s just …
Do It Again!
Teenagers are notorious for short attention spans and a focus that is easily distracted. Such was my demeanor at 16 years of age when I spent the summer with my grandfather helping him remodel a fishing cabin into his retirement …
Seeing the Invisible
I frequently have opportunities to talk to unbelievers about God, and it just so happens that because of my work in healthcare many of them are very intelligent and/or highly educated. They are not dummies. The have all kinds of …