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I’ve been rereading Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning. It is an excellent book. After I had been reading it for a while, I was also watching Dr David Wood’s YouTube video on George Orwell’s 1940 review of Mein Kompf. What I found interesting was in last section where Orwell said, “human beings don’t only want…
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In chapter one of the book of Acts just before Christ ascension back to the Father, the Apostles asked Jesus, “Will you now restore the Kingdom of Israel?” After three years of following Jesus, seeing him resurrected, and touching the nail prints in his hands, they still didn’t get it. Even after Pentecost and the…
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It is often asked “Where is God’s justice?” We look to God to right every wrong and to prevent every hardship. We fail to recall that God placed us to have dominion over the world and from that power He expects us to dispense justice as His representative. If there is a lack of justice,…
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People, especially non-Christians, like to point to Matthew 7:1 and tell us not to judge. They usually use this to excuse all sorts of sin and evil. But if you look at the next verse you realize this is a misapplication of scripture. Jesus is not telling us to ignore sin but to realize we…
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Many like to think they have courage, but really don’t. Because courage is not the normal state. Courage requires soul searching and preparation of the body, the heart and the mind. People like to point to soldiers and first responders many acts of courage, but you must realize they have years of training and every…
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The gifts of the Holy Spirit were one of the most contentious parts of first century Christianity. It is still so twenty centuries later. By gifts of the Spirit, I’m referring to working miracles and outward signs. These gifts are enumerated by the Apostle Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians. The most noted…
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There is a story – the truth of which is questionable – about Schrödinger. It claims that his doctoral dissertation was so advanced and revolutionary that none of the evaluation committee could understand it. So, they asked Einstein to review it and give his opinion. He came back and said, “It’s very interesting and is…
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Let’s reflect on how God is all knowing. I’ve heard some very erudite Christians quote Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, and let us reason together,” as proof of God’s has some limitation in viewing the future. They usually go on to explain His method of presenting the future to the prophets in one of two ways.…
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As you look at Bambie Ray Robinson and see that she made herself into Bambie Thug a self-proclaimed queer witch you find yourself amazed that someone would willingly fall so far. Yes, this make over did allow her to be Ireland’s entry in the latest Eurovision but at what cost? I would say her soul…
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There has been a series of characters in popular movies and television that can be seen as archetypes. Andrea “Andy” Sachs in the Devil Wears Prada, Susan “Rita” White in Educating Rita, and Diane Chambers in Cheers to name a few. These characters are striving to be, or even claiming to be, intellectuals. And in…
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In a previous post I talked about some movies that would on the surface seem truly horrible. These are movies with a hard R rating that have a lot of sex, violence, and vulgarity. However, when you consider them more objectively, they show to have some really Christian themes. Conversely there are some that appear…
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Have you ever noticed that Jesus tears into the Pharisees quite a lot in the Gospels, but the only time he goes after the Sadducees is when they come to question him. Why is it that he takes the Pharisees to task and says next to nothing about the excesses and wrongs of the Sadducees?…
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