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Illiteracy in the Church

Surveys taken over the past several years reveal that over two thirds of Christians/church goers never read their Bibles. [1]  Now there are people who do not know how to read and throughout history many depended upon the clerics of … Continue reading

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Free Will

Christianity has debated human free will forever.  Some argue that if God is sovereign, omnipotent, and omniscience, how can we humans have free will?  The Bible constantly details how God is involved in our world so if God decides on … Continue reading

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Pilgrim’s Progress

I read Pilgrim’s Progress a very long ago and really don’t remember the details of the story.  What prompted me to read it again was reading the version from “the minds behind ‘The Babylon Bee’” titled The Postmodern Pilgrim’s Progress.  … Continue reading

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Force Rules the World

I have just finished reading Edmund Morris’s two volume biography of Theordore Roosevelt.  Roosevelt’s favorite poem was Henry Longfellow’s The Saga of King Olaf of which Morris placed an epigraph at the beginning of each chapter.  One epigraph was: Force … Continue reading

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Sufficiently Revolutionary

If you have read my book The Renovation of Our Soul (and from looking at the sales numbers it is obvious most of you have not), you will know that I have been profoundly influenced by the Christian philosopher Elton … Continue reading

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Our Will

At a recent church service we were singing the hymn “Take My Life and Let It Be” by Frances Ridley Havergal.  One phase of this hymn states:  “Take my will and make it thine, It shall be no longer mine”.  … Continue reading

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Gratitude

It happened in the Auschwitz extermination camp in World War II.  There was an escape from the camp and as was the custom at that camp, for every escapee 10 other prisoners were selected at random and placed in a … Continue reading

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Stones

I recently came across a observation from a Christian in India, Sandhu Singh.  Singh pulled a rock from a river and when he broke it open, he observed the inside of the stone was  perfectly dry.  Even though the rock … Continue reading

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Thy Kingdom Come

David Livingston was a missionary to Africa in the 1800’s.  He was also considered to be a prominent explorer and is created with doing much through his writings to end the slave trade in Africa.  His moral standing among all … Continue reading

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Strong Enough

In the exploration of the source of the Nile river in the late 1800’s, one explorer quoted a minor chief in central Africa named Comora as saying:  “The good people are all weak:  they are good because they are not … Continue reading

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