In the fall of 1975, during my junior year of college, I took a seminar course which focused on ethics and morality. The course required a lot of reading, including the entire New Testament. I remember thinking as I read Read more…
I have written in the past about why Jesus’s resurrection mattered, and how we can know that it really happened. Unbelievers seldom bother to wrestle with the New Testament accounts about Jesus’s resurrection, but those who do generally discount them Read more…
After the Artemis II returned from its trip around the dark side of the moon and was safely back on Earth, one of the four astronauts, Christina Koch, reflected on what it meant to be a “crew”:[1] A crew is Read more…
If you are part of a Chrisitan church that teaches that the Bible must be strictly followed, to the letter, in all aspects, and without regard for the different cultures and circumstances prevailing when the biblical books were written, then Read more…
In the United States today, some are using the word “diversity” as a pejorative, as if diversity were a bad thing. But from the earliest days of Christianity, diversity was part of God’s plan. In the New Testament, Pentecost is Read more…
John 3:16 famously says, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.” In my teenage years, before I became a Christian, Christians Read more…
I recently watched a video that broke my heart. On the video was a lady who had left the church and embraced atheism because she was disillusioned and disheartened by what her church leaders were teaching about the Gospel. They Read more…
Christians talk a lot about the importance of “belief.” After all, perhaps the most famous verse in the New Testament, John 3:16, says, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes Read more…
(I confess that I stole the idea for this blog entry from a sermon by one of my pastors.) I am lousy at praying—at least, that’s what I feel. If I am invited to pray at church or at a Read more…
One of my favorite Old Testament stories is that of Gideon in the book of Judges.[1] Perhaps no one tested the Lord’s patience as much as Gideon and lived to tell about it. By the time of Gideon, the Israelites Read more…