Post 75 - The Cross: Part III - A Cosmological Perspective
In the past few posts, we have been looking at the cross from four different perspectives. Our goal is to gain a more complete...
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Post 74 - The Cross: Part II - A Humanistic Perspective
This is part II of a four-part series on the effects of the cross. In the last post we looked at the cross from a temporal perspective....
Sep 154 min read
Post 73 - The Cross: Part I- A Temporal Perspective
The cross is like an anamorphic piece of art. There are many ways it can be viewed, yet it seems that each perspective only yields a...
Aug 154 min read
Post 72 - The Cross: an Introduction
Just Another Day? At the outset, to most of the people of Judea, this day was not much different from any other day. It was early morning...
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Post 71 - Thoughts on Marriage and Family
"Marriages and families are all about disappointment." I confess, that's a quote from my recent sermon. I'll explain in a moment. A few...
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Post 70 - Pride and Shame
Well, June is our national "LGBT Pride Month"--more on that later. When a Jesuit priest named Gregory Boyle witnessed the devastating...
May 155 min read
Post 69 - Human Free Will & the Will of God
" I dropped that pencil. I did that" cried a desperate seminary student named John Piper as he confronted his professor of systematic...
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Post 68 - A Third Temple?
"If you stay in school and stay out of trouble, you can have my truck." That was the conditional offer I made to my then16-year-old son...
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Post 67 - The Top Three Posts - #1
The blog below is the most-read post of the past three years, titled "Post 3 - What About Love?" “Why did God give (man) free will?...
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Post 66: The Top Three Posts - #2
I have been re-posting the top three blogs from the past three years. Last month I re-issued the third most-read post, "Post 24 - This...
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Post 65 - The Top Three Posts - #3
It's hard to believe that my first post on this site was over three years ago! I sincerely appreciate those of you who have been...
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Post 64: Know Wonder - a Christmas Message
After another year of head-shaking, mind-numbing, faith-challenging world events, I thought I would re-post my Christmas message from...
Nov 15, 20234 min read
Post 63 - Seeing With the Eyes of Your Heart
Mary Magdalene Mary Magdalene's first encounter with the risen Jesus is a truly remarkable event (John 20:11-18). Although she had been a...
Oct 15, 20234 min read
Post 62 - Wars and Rumors of Wars
And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. (Matthew...
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Post 61: The Foreknowledge of God
No Christian who has studied his Bible denies that God knows future events, but one of the most controversial topics among Christians is...
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Post 60: The Power of Hope
I ended the previous post with this exhortation: "Since abiding faith is the only guarantee of obtaining heaven, this should prompt us...
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Post 59: Once Saved, Always Saved?
First, a warning: this post is going to be somewhat controversial. There are many who strongly believe in a doctrine often referred to as...
Jun 15, 20235 min read
Post 58: Heaven - Part III
"Ahh... it doesn't get any better than this!" While we experience many wonderful moments in this life--times when it seems like life...
May 14, 20235 min read
Post 57: Heaven - Part II
When asked if he was afraid of dying, Woody Allen once famously responded, “I’m not afraid of dying, I just don’t want to be there when...
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Post 56: Heaven - Part I
What if Earth Be but the shadow of Heav'n, and things therein Each to other like, more than on Earth is thought? John Milton - Paradise...
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