Category Archives: Application

Reasons for Unbelief

The Christian organization called the European Leadership Form is debating the reasons why Europe “has the world’s highest percentage of atheists and agnostics”. [1]  From what I read, they do not have an answer.  However, another article I read has … Continue reading

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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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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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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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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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Science

Lately we have heard a great deal about following “the science” but different persons seem to have different ideas of what constitutes “the science”.  So what is “the science”? I recently was at a church at which the pastor declared … Continue reading

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Personal Tragedy

A woman was lamenting the death of her son in a car accident.  She asks why God did this to her.  A hospital chaplain replies that God did not have anything to do with her son’s death and the woman … Continue reading

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The Original Rebellion

Why did God make us finite?  If he wants us to believe in him, why does he hide himself from us (Isaiah 45:15)?  Why does God, in the words of Orual, the main character in C. S. Lewis’ novel Till … Continue reading

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