THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A DAYDREAM AND A PLAN IS STRATEGY Harold Kushner made the following observation in his book, When All You Ever Wanted Isn’t Enough: “Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve....
THE CREATOR GOD OF THE UNIVERSE IS LYING IN THE MANGER One of the challenges for earnest Christians at Christmas time is for the cultural realities of Christmas not to overshadow the spiritual realities. The nativity story is an engaging and heartwarming story, and the temptation...
DNA IS SO COMPLEX IT IS UNREASONABLE TO ACCOUNT FOR IT BY CHANCE If we don’t understand who God is, we’ll never understand what/who humanity is. That is why we started our study of worldview issues with who God is. Get that right and everything right...
SOMEONE WITH JUST A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE HOLDS SWAY OVER SOMEONE WHO HAS NONE Two weeks ago, we looked at three reasons to believe that God exists: The existence of the universe The design of the universe The uniqueness of humanity Last week we said that if God exists, we have...
IF WE DECIDE GOD EXISTS, WE THEN MUST DECIDE WHICH GOD There are three categories of divinity from which to choose when deciding which God is the creator God: Naturalistic gods of groups such as Native Americans or Amazonian Tribal People or African Shamans, etc. Gods...
THE FUNDAMENTAL WORLDVIEW QUESTION IS: “IS THERE A GOD?” Whether or not there is a God should be serious business to us all. Do you want to get to the end of life and discover you were wrong? I don’t! And, I want evidence to make...
EVERYONE HAS A WORLDVIEW WHETHER THEY REALIZE IT OR NOT Have you wondered...
Life is more easily caught than taught, and we tend to catch life by imitating the culture around us. But we are not all identical. There are liberals and conservatives. There are theists and atheists. There are big-picture and detail perspectives. We live in a...
MAKE YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS BRAIN THINK THE SAME THING AS YOUR CONSCIOUS BRAIN We used to think that the brain was poured in concrete at birth, and could not change in adulthood. That idea was turned on its head in the 1980s and 1990s when science made...
YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO ALTER YOUR BRAIN, FOR BETTER OR WORSE Years ago, I read the quote, “Every moment of every day, something in your soul is being fed and something is being starved.” It struck me as immediately and undeniably true. Even back then,...