Category Archives: Biblical Doctrines

Classic Sacred Marriage- Dissing Your Spouse

This week’s classic Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Resting in His Providence, Working For His Kingdom

To suggest that wisdom is always balanced seems to me to be a bit, well, unbalanced. Whoever first uttered the words of wisdom, “moderation in all things,” should, I believe, have healed himself. All things? Isn’t that a bit extreme? … Continue reading

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The Bride Wore Black: Protesting Our Pride

A week or so ago the folks at Protestia tweeted this: Better to marry a former OF model who has come to know the depths of her sin and the mercy of the Lord, than an unkissed virgin with a … Continue reading

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Angels, Angels Everywhere- Messengers of Unbelief

Being sick has its advantages. I am constantly encouraged when sick by the willingness of others to pray. I am grateful for the prayers, and goaded to be a more faithful prayer warrior myself. It is also a timely reminder … Continue reading

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Some Dance to Forget: Walking in His Garden

It is a sure sign of the fall that we so egregiously miss what we lost. Jesus calls us to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness precisely because our priorities are all out of line. Even that … Continue reading

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Narcissists Gonna Narcissize: Popping Psychology’s Bubble

It is bad enough when a group of scholars determine themselves to be experts on the human psyche, while leaving behind God’s Word. Sometime in the late nineteenth century psychology as a field of study was birthed at the University … Continue reading

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Why do good things happen by bad people? Mirrors Crack’d

Perhaps my most shared tweet answers the age old question- why do bad things happen to good people? My answer- “That only happened once, and He volunteered.” The lesson, of course, is that apart from Jesus there are no good … Continue reading

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To Be is to Be Perceived: Falling Trees in the Woods

Like Xeno’s paradox, the counter-intuitive claim of Bishop Berkeley (pronounced Bark-lee for some strange reason) that esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, is difficult to refute. The good bishop argued the world outside of us is only … Continue reading

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Conquering the World In Our Own Neighborhood

Aquinas was a great gift, among the greatest minds the world has known. Which doesn’t mean that he had no flaws. One of which goes to the heart of his intellectual labors. He sought to synthesize the wisdom of Aristotle … Continue reading

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Why is there so much demon possession in the Bible?

I don’t know. The Bible doesn’t say. I do, however, have a few thoughts. The first I remember learning from my father. He suggested that it may that the scope of demon possession when Jesus walked the earth may have … Continue reading

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