The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." --Psalm 14:1 Lately, the atheists have been busy writing books. Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything I interact via the internet with the type …
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Knowing God – Chapter 7 Quotes
Chapter 7 of Knowing God is entitled "God Unchanging," and is about the immutability of God (i.e. the fact that God does not change). This is part of what makes the Bible such an incredibly relevant book for us today. We don't have to make Christianity relevant by modernizing it in some way. The Word …
Creation Museum Open in Kentucky
At the risk of getting myself in trouble... Today is the grand opening of the Creation Museum in northern Kentucky. For the record, I think this is a bad idea. I could write a rather long critique of the philosophy and "science" behind this museum, but I'll save that for some other time. Here's my …
Knowing God — Chapter 6 Quotes
Chapter 6 of Knowing God by J.I. Packer is called "He Shall Testify", and is about the Holy Spirit. It is the sovereign prerogative of Christ's Spirit to convince men's consciences of the truth of Christ's gospel; and Christ's human witnesses must learn to ground their hopes of success, not on clever presentation of the …
Boys and the Army
Albert Mohler has written an article called "The Army We Have" -- Young Men, Responsibility, and Leadership for the Twenty-First Century. He writes about the difficulty of recruiting soldiers for today's volunteer army. It seems the problem isn't just that the Iraq war is scaring off recruits, but that it is awfully difficult to find …
Good Days/Bad Days
This item was originally posted in May 2006. It is one of the best quotes I have come across in my reading, and is certainly worth repeating Here's a quote from The Discipline of Grace by Jerry Bridges: Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And …
Earthquakes and the End Times
This item was originally posted on April 18, 2006 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. It is now part of my blog recycling program. Because I have more people reading The Earth is Not Flat! now than I did a year ago, I will occasionally go back and …
The Bad News of the Gospel
This item was originally posted in March, 2006. It is now part of my blog recycling program. Because I have more people reading The Earth is Not Flat! now than I did a year ago, I will occasionally go back and re-use some of my best blog entries. As a teacher, I've seen a few …
Even the skeptics are skeptical
I posted last week about the Discovery Channel "documentary" "The Lost Tomb of Jesus". My one word summary was, "absurd." Don't lose sleep over this one; even the folks at Scientific American magazine (who are normally not very friendly to Christianity) are ripping this one apart. Says Scholar Whose Work Was Used in the Upcoming …
Knowing God – Chapter 5 Quotes
Chapter 5 of Knowing God is "God Incarnate". One of the foundational truths of Christianity is the incarnation of Christ. Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human at the same time. It is from misbelief, or at least inadequate belief, about the incarnation that difficulties at other points in the gospel story usually spring. …
Absurd
Absurd. That is how I summarize my thoughts about the upcoming Discovery Channel "documentary" "The Lost Tomb of Jesus". If you've missed all the hoopla over this, here's the story in brief: Archeologists discover a tomb near Jerusalem. People who are buried there have names such as Yeshua (Jesus), Maria, and Joseph. Movie producer James …
Knowing God – Chapter 4 Quotes
Chapter 4 of Knowing God is "The Only True God," and it has to do with the prohibition in the Ten Commandments against making idols. "Idolatry consists not only in the worship of false gods, but also in the worship of the true God by images" (quoted from Charles Hodge). Just as it forbids us …
Knowing God – Chapter 3 Quotes
We continue to read Knowing God by J.I. Packer at the dinner table. Chapter three is "Knowing and Being Known." What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we set ourselves in life? To know God. What is the 'eternal life' that Jesus gives? Knowledge of God. 'This is life eternal, that …
Bible Reading in 2007
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. (Psalm 119:105 ESV) They received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. (Acts 17:11 ESV) Some use reading schedules to guide them through the Bible in a year. I am disciplined to …
Knowing God – Chapter 2 Quotes
Chapter 2 of Knowing God is entitled "The People Who Know Their God." The focus passage for this chapter is the Book of Daniel, and here are some quotes: A little knowledge of God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge about Him. One can know a great deal about God without much …
O ce veste minunata
Tonight (Sunday night) our church in Bucharest, Biserica Evanghelică Liberă Trinitatea (Trinity Evangelical Free Church), had its Christmas program. It was much like many Christmas Eve services I've been at in the U.S., with traditional Christmas carols and a short message. The candlelight carol was an old, traditional Romanian song, "O ce veste minunată" ("O …
Denominations in the U.S.
The Map Gallery of Religion in the United States has maps showing the distribution of various religious groups in the United States. To view any of these maps in more detail, you can right click on the image, then select "view image." Leading Church Bodies — this map shows the group that has the largest …
The Cambridge Declaration
Those who know me know that I am very concerned about: Worship that is focused on what Christ does for us rather than on what we do for Christ. Preaching that is focused on what Christ does for us rather than how to be a better ______________. Evangelism that is focused on what Christ does …
Knowing God – Chapter 1 Quotes
For dinner time edification, our family is going through Knowing God by J.I. Packer. This was one of the first Christian books I read, and it laid a firm foundation for much of what I believe today as a Christian. Here are some quotes from Chapter One, "The Study of God." If we pursue theological …
Bonhoeffer Quotes #3
Nothing that we despise in the other man is entirely absent from ourselves. If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. Grace and Peace
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