“I believe in justice: but I am not a preacher of the gospel of justice, but the Gospel of Christ who calls us to justice. I believe in love, but I am not a preacher of the gospel of love, but the Gospel of Christ who calls us to love. I am committed to peace, [...]

Why Christianity? Do you think that religious beliefs are a cause of disruptions or even violence in society? As we have been looking into Kingdom Grace, what it is to be accepted into the Kingdom, live in the Kingdom, live with each other and with God, a few questions may come to mind.

This is a continued discussion from three gentlemen in one of the men’s Bible studies online here. It is, in part, a discussion between Catholics and Protestants, and I will not take sides, though it surely seem I do. It is my goal to simply look at the language and hermeneutics of the passages as [...]

Someone asked a group of us what we thought the opposite of love is. Hate, Selfishness, Rebellion, Apathy, and Fear all came up as possible answers. Good answers. Even some fairly interesting theology shuffling around in there. I prayed on it a bit and thought it over and after a while I decided perhaps LOVE [...]

Q. What makes you think Christianity is true? A.Now comes the difficult part, as Chesterton said; to put all these things down. It would take a book that others have written(1), so I suggest you read those and I will say only this: When one knows something so completely and believes it so fundamentally, it [...]

The law is essentially a reflection of who God is. When we try to reach God by obeying the law though, we try to reflect a reflection and hence become ever more distorted. Like fun-house mirrors, reflections on reflections, twisted and misshapen. Following a law in order to be like God is nothing short of [...]

I have built my house to my specs and now, in order to fit the building code of the Kingdom I attempt a little reform. Knock a wall down here, a wall down there, put in a window, a garage for my SUV that I’m praying expectantly for. This is merely adherence to the law, [...]

Are the existence of God and the presence of evil mutually exclusive? Does the death and suffering we witness in the world around us every day somehow speak against God? In these posts I argue that not only is it possible for God to have a morally sound reason for allowing suffering, but without God evil could not even be said to exist.

Haiti As many people know by now, Haiti has been devastated by an earthquake that registered 7.0 on the Richter scale. Many are wondering what can be done, how can we help, what do they need, how bad is it and is it getting worse. Photos here. Be warned, it is somewhat graphic. CNN’s IMPACT [...]

Humans strive for balance but tend to extremes. In fact, we all strive for balance precisely because we know we tend to extremes. Extreme right, extreme left or extremely center. Front of the bus, middle of the road, back of the church.

The white snow, the holly, mistletoe and plaster nativity. Christmas trees and Christmas cake. Lots of presents and eggnog! Yay! Sleigh bells jingle, a ring jing jingle away.  Such warmth and love! Chestnuts by the fire, as we sing with ones we know and love, cozy and friendly. So this is Christmas! Wait… how did [...]

Question Short answer: No. Longer answer:  No. At least, probably not. We have an idea that He may have been born sometime in the late Spring or early Summer given the likely time of the census. But we really have no idea. A lawyer in the States using astronomy software probably (at least in my [...]

Sept 17th, 1948 – Dec. 11 2009. We shouldn’t suffer Del’s life to be reduced to that tiny “dash” between dates. His passing was quite sudden and that certainly never makes it any easier.

A Call of Christian Conscience Christians, when they have lived up to the highest ideals of their faith, have defended the weak and vulnerable and worked tirelessly to protect and strengthen vital institutions of civil society, beginning with the family.

Shelfari: Book reviews on your book blog Find new books and literate friends with Shelfari, the online book club.

The hardest people to reach with the Gospel of Jesus Christ are arguably “nice people.” There are so many who see “religion” as simply a way to make the world ‘nicer,’ to make people ‘good’ or to keep society from, as the Joker put it, ‘eating itself’ instead of simply the response required of Man [...]

Intelligent Design A lot of people allege that the ID movement is nothing more than the old God-of-the-gaps idea, dressed in new clothing.  But is this the case?  I don’t think so, and I’ll tell you why.  IDers aren’t merely waiting for evolutionists to say “We don’t know” so that they can jump in and [...]

Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men; as far as he is concerned he wipes out the world. His act is worse (symbolically considered) than any rape or dynamite outrage. For it destroys all buildings; it insults all women.

“Make sure you floss regularly and brush your teeth after every meal.”Floss

That was a rule in my parent’s house that I heard every day growing up. Before bed, “Did you brush your teeth?”
“Yes.”
“Tonight?”
“… no.”

There was no real discussion; it had to be done in our house as I am sure it was so in others.
My own daughter denies it as vehemently now as I once did (and sometimes still do when my wife asks). “Brush your teeth” is not a rule for the discomfort and anguish that children imagine, but to instill in us the good habit of keeping our teeth clean; one that responds to the natural inclination of teeth rotting and falling out.

The same may be said for the Law of Moses. God’s Law is not intended as the Ultimate Party-pooper, but simply a check to the fallen nature of Man; Laws that show us the reality of the world around us, meant to protect us from our teeth falling out: to keep us from harms way.

I’m currently reading “The Challenge of Jesus” by N T Wright, and he makes an interesting statement on p21. He says, “The Enlightenment notoriously insisted on splitting apart history and faith, facts and values, religion and politics, nature and supernature, in a way whose consequences are written into the history of the last two hundred [...]

I’ve just finished reading the complete Chronicles of Narnia (thanks to Robin!) and finally made it to one of the parts I’ve been looking forward to since I began the seventh book, The Last Battle. This is the section I’m sure you’ve heard about even if you haven’t read the series. It is the bit [...]

Something here before we start our series needs to be said, and it is a most important point. Some roads in our apologetic walk should not be trod upon. You will quickly find yourself in a mire. The same can be said for scientific claims. As J.P. Moreland points out in the Saddleback conference, about [...]

I was listening to Bill Craig’s address at the Saddleback Apologetics Conference held at Saddleback Church in California yesterday (the whole conference is available here) and he was talking about the Kalam Cosmological Argument. This would have to be one of the first, maybe actually the first, philosophical arguments for God’s existence that I heard [...]

Time to expand upon the fourth point I mentioned in my first post on this topic: the propaganda put about by the people behind the gay rights movement in the late 80s and 90s. The people behind this campaign saw that the best way to halt the growing public aversion to homosexual behaviour (that resulted [...]

In keeping with our theme of going Science Mad, and as a follow up to James’ post on homosexuality, I thought it might be good to examine this idea that homosexuality is a product of nature, a genetically determined behaviour, rather than a choice. But first – why are we doing this? Why the posts [...]