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We pray and pray and pray, but God doesn’t seem to answer. We wonder why this is so? After all Jesus told us, “Seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened.” And yet, our prayers go unanswered. And we wonder why. I think James, the brother of the Lord, had the…
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Righteous men will from time-to-time sin. They might have even blinded themselves to their sin and are completely oblivious to their crimes. But if you go to them quietly and respectfully the will often weep at their weakness, beg forgiveness and thank you for your concern and love. That won’t happen with a sinful man.…
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I recently read the book You Are What You Love by James A. K. Smith. Like so many of the Christian books today it is fairly redundant. He often makes a point and then has the tendency to over emphasize the point. More than once he would take five pages to say again what he…
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Why did God allow Hitler to come to power? And why did He allow the Holocaust to happen? These are two questions often asked by both believers and sceptics alike. And these are fair questions even if they are unanswerable since as scripture says, “the ways of God are above the ways of man.” I…
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This is a post I should have written days earlier to commemorate the Doolittle Raid that occurred on April 18, 1942. You would think this was forever burned in the American memory, but I was surprised to find so many not knowing the story, even in the Baby Boom generation. The Doolittle Raid was America’s…
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I’ve finished reading the book How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur, the creator of the television show The Good Place. It could be titled Secular Ethics Philosophy for Dummies. It is an easy read and I’ve read about a third of it. But as the alternate title I gave suggest, it doesn’t touch the…
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In all honesty I have to admit that I’m not Pro-Life, I’m Anti-Abortion. I think it’s important that we stop hiding behind euphemisms that we think will be more acceptable to the public. I think those who say they’re Pro-Choice should admit they are not Pro-Choice. Many of them don’t believe a law-abiding citizen should…
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I have not been to Jerusalem, but I do hope to visit there some day. However, in a recent Bible class the teacher showed a photo he took from the top of the Mount of Olives with the Kidron Valley between it and the Temple Mound. He was showing this to explain how Jesus wept…
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A question Christians often hear from non-Christians is, “Why do I have to go through Jesus to reach God?” More often than not this question come for a universalist who sees all religions as being the same. But anyone who has taken even a cursory look at different religions know this is not the case.…
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I just recently watched the mini-series Under the Banner of Heaven. It wasn’t very complementary to the Mormon church. But it did get me to thinking, mainly about Joseph Smith. I’m not going to take this time to deconstruct the man or speculate his sanity and morality. Instead, I’m going to give him the benefit…
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Lately I’ve been reading the Bible with a Greek Interlinear. (That’s the wonder of the internet. You have easy access to so many study aids.) And I was reading the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount. There were several that struck me reading it as a word for word translation. The first was “Blessed…
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I’ve heard many, both believers and nonbelievers ask, “How can a loving God send anyone to hell?” To which I respond, “He has to send people to hell because He is a loving God.” I know that surprises you, and it seems like an oxymoron, but let me explain. First let us consider what hell…