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,...
THE MIND CAN CHANGE THE BRAIN TO DO WHAT THE MIND WANTS IT TO In her book, Switch on Your Brain, Dr. Caroline Leaf, a neuroscientist who is also a Christian, makes the case that your mind and your brain are two different things. Your brain...
TRUTH NEEDS TO BE REPEATED OFTEN ENOUGH THAT IT CHANGES US Neuroplasticity is the science of how the brain changes: Neuro = brain Plasticity = change It is an exciting new field of study that is showing science catching up to the Bible. We used to believe that the...
USE RESISTANCE TO BUILD STRENGTH I am concerned that if we don’t create a better way of power-feeding our souls with biblical truth, future generations of Christians may be swept out to sea by the rip-tide of modern culture. I have made the point in earlier blogs that...