Were You Ever a Donkey or a Sheep?

December 16, 2019   |  

Many of us when we were children, youth, or adults, participated in Christmas pageants or living nativity scenes. They used to be common. Most churches had little dramas depicting the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem as depicted in the Gospel: Matthew 1:18-2:12 and Luke 2:1-21. A young teenage girl would…
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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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I’m Shocked They Apologized

November 30, 2019   |  

Rap music is all the rage these days among many in the younger set, but almost all of it is filled with gross immorality. Of course, it is not all that way. There are rap singers who perform cleaner music. That said, there is a strong tendency among the more…
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Who was Phillip Johnson? If You Don’t Know, It’s Time to Learn!

November 19, 2019   |  

About twenty years ago I began reading and hearing about a new movement among scientists, most of them Christian (but certainly not all). The movement has become known as Intelligent Design (ID). That theory says that the evidence found in biology, paleontology, zoology, geology, astronomy, and other sciences increasingly contradicts…
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