Category: apologetics
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Music has significant power in worship influencing emotions and spiritual experience. In 1 Samuel 16:23, it is recorded that when David played the lyre, the harmful spirit that tormented Saul departed, illustrating music’s ability to bring peace and healing. Music has the power to expose us to something that is…
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For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in…
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Timothy Paul Jones posted a link to an interesting article here authored by a Gen Z female Christian, Freya India, entitled “The Commodification Of Christianity.” For a while I thought my generation might be finding God. Now I worry we are just finding content about God . . . Of…
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John MacArthur has a masterful exposition here of the wrath of God that is presented in Romans 1:18-32. It is the wrath of abandonment that God exercises by taking his hand off a culture and letting them go their own way. At the age of 73 now, I agree with…
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Nathan Learner has an important opinion piece here entitled “Why Christians can’t sit out the AI debate.” “The challenge before us is not whether Christians have expertise to contribute to AI development, but whether we faithfully steward the responsibility God has given us.“ As Nancy Pearcey said in her powerful…
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I have always been fascinated with time. Time is a great mystery that physicists, philosophers and theologians don’t understand. I have often pondered the theological implications of time and hope one day to write a book. The more I wrestle with time, the more mysterious it becomes. The one watch…
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Thw wife of a Green Beret writes here of a funeral she went to for a fellow Green Beret who was killed in combat. Looking around at the windows I found it so strange then that the stained glass included soldiers with guns in a church. Guns and church didn’t…
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RJ Snell is currently a visiting lecturer at Princeton University and directs the Center on the University and Intellectual Life for the Witherspoon Institute. Prior to that appointment he was Professor of Philosophy at Eastern University and the Templeton Honors College. He has an insightful essay here entitled “Reason Takes…
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The key Bible verse that describes the rapture of the church is 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, which states that the Lord will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first, followed by those who are alive being caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the…
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Carl Trueman warns here about the criminalizing of the preaching of John 3:16. “Recently, Northern Ireland provided an example when Clive Johnston, a 78-year-old retired pastor, was fined for preaching John 3:16 outside an abortion clinic and within the exclusion zone specified by law. At least, I guess, he was not…
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