Blog Series Why Believe in God? ~ If You Reject God, You’ve Only Done Half the Job. The focus on this blog series is that if you reject God, you have only done half the job. The other half of the job is that you must explain...
Blog Series Why Believe in God? ~ If You Reject God, You’ve Only Done Half the Job. In our second installment in this new series here on the blog, I want to lay a bit more of a foundation to introducing the subject before diving deeper into...
Introduction Today, we begin a new blog series: Why Believe in God? I've subtitled it, "If you reject God, you've only done half the job." The other half of the job is that you have to explain reality without God which, in my estimation, is impossible. But earlier...
On the desktop of my computer, I have a picture taken from the deck of a sailboat in a stormy sea. On the picture is the quote: We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will someday rest. We must learn to sail...
Light reveals the presence of God Last week, we saw that God created light on the first day of creation. We saw the light was good. We saw the light revealed the glory of God. We see God’s light when the angel appeared to the shepherds in...
If we understand it, light is very important and very meaningful to Christmas. In Genesis 1:1-4, we read one of the most astonishing things ever written – a description of the creation of the universe: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth...
Socrates once said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Questions to examine What would I say if I could go back to when I was my younger self and tell myself what I wish someone had told me then? What does it take to...
I have the privilege of serving on the board of unfoldingWord, a Bible translation ministry dedicated to “the church in every people group, and the Bible in every language.” This is such an important ministry that I thought I would acquaint you with this revolutionary new...
In the United States this week, we will celebrate Thanksgiving, a national holiday set aside to give thanks to God for His blessings on us as a nation. Its origin was a "First Thanksgiving" celebrated by 53 pilgrims and 90 Native Americans in October 1621. It...
The story is told of an experiment that was done with the Mercury astronauts to probe the limits of the human body. They fitted some astronauts with a pair of goggles with multiple lenses that, when you put them on and looked through them, turned...