Lord, can I go home now?
The scariest words from the Bible would be having Jesus tell me, I don’t know you. Sometimes though, these words are right up there - Jn 17:15 My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. Especially when they come ...
Hope, Desperation, and Hope
First came the churches, then came the schools Then came the lawyers, then came the rules Just in case you don't recognize it, the quote above is from my favorite song Telegraph Road, by Dire Straits. It's about hope. And desperation. And hope. Not unlike one of David's psalms. Not unlike our ...
All you get from love is …
All you get from love is ... There's a conflict here. Can you see it? Hint - look at the title of this post - and look at the graphic. One seems to be hopeless. The other full of hope. So how can both be true? First of all, do ...
Can the God of Islam take care of Himself?
We saw earlier in the Qur'an where it says God can take care of Himself. It shows up again in Sura 73. But again - it's abrogated. This really begs the question - does Islam truly believe that their God can take care of Himself - or does He need ...
Ishmael, Esau, and the Armor of God
What ISIS Really Wants I was going to do this one later. It came to me this morning, while I was sort of half awake and half asleep. I'm still trying to get completely over this pneumonia thing - it's a real pain. Then I saw an interview with Graeme ...
Praying at night – the Qur’an and the Bible
The Qur'an, in Sura 73, encourages praying at night. How does this compare with what's in the Bible? We'll look at the New Testament to see how the two compare and contrast. And then look at what the differences mean. The first thing I thought of when I read ...
Would Jesus heal an ISIS fighter?
Would Jesus heal an ISIS fighter? But maybe just as important is the answer to why this question is so important. Would Jesus heal an ISIS fighter? I believe there's no doubt as to how this would be answered. The Faith of the Centurion Mt 8:5 When Jesus had entered ...
The problem of rules, part 2
We hate rules. But could we live without them? Take the game of Monopoly for example. There's lot of rules. And we follow them. Especially when we can use one of them to nail one of the other players. Like when someone else gets the advance token to Boardwalk card, ...
It’s time for Christians to acknowledge what Darwin REALLY did
What Darwin really did was prove the Bible was correct! And who told Moses what we read in Genesis today? God. It's about time Christians stopped attacking Darwin for his order of creation of species - and start telling it like it really is - that Darwin merely discovered an order ...
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. But just how "self-evident" are they? Maybe that depends on just who "self" is? The Declaration ...
