Is Utopia on Earth Possible?

January 9, 2020   |  

These days, one particular political party, including most of its presidential candidates, are pushing hard to promote Socialist policies that will supposedly create utopia on earth. Just a sampling of the policies include: national rent control, welfare for illegal immigrants, doing away with prisons, abolishing the U.S. Immigration and Customs…
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Why Worldview Understanding is Important for Witness

January 4, 2020   |  

When I served in Japan as a missionary and had the opportunity to share my faith with a Japanese person, it was generally not enough for me to simply share the Christian faith. The worldview background of Japanese culture consists of a unique combination of Animism and Far Eastern Thought.…
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Why Political Discourse Has Become So Contentious

December 13, 2019   |  

Over the last two to three years, public political discourse has become increasingly contentious. In some cases it has gotten to the point that people are criticized, particularly on social media, for even being friends with someone on the “other side.” Take the recent dust up when TV star Ellen…
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Biblical Misinterpretation

December 7, 2019   |  

There are many people that claim to be Christians, but who base their core theological beliefs on a philosophy that is not biblical at all. In fact, there are even entire historically Christian denominations that have dropped their reliance on the Bible and picked up naturalistic philosophy as their primary…
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Conversation with a Jehovah’s Witness

December 3, 2019   |  

In August of 2006, I wrote an article which was printed in the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper. This article led to an e-mail conversation with a Jehovah’s Witness believer. In order to give some context to the conversation, the original article is copied below. Following that is the conversation. Disagreement Needn’t…
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