Category Archives: creation

May the Best Man Win

It begins, I suspect, with a far too small view of the fall. There is plenty we lament about that dark day in history’s most beautiful spot. We know that sin brought division to Adam and Eve. The two were … Continue reading

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No Middle Ground

There is in the broader world a constant search for some safe, middle ground on the issue of abortion. Pro-lifers and pro-choicers desperately seek a via media between an outright ban and the heartless destruction of fully grown babies moments … Continue reading

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Fighting From Freedom

I have, on more than one occasion, taught a class on dystopian novels. We’ve read Brave New World, 1984, That Hideous Strength and more. I always ask my class “Why do these men, the rulers over these dark and domineering … Continue reading

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Us and Them

It certainly is, comparatively speaking, a subplot. But it is plenty important. As God’s Word describes the power of God’s words in creation, we ought to be astonished. God speaks, and there is light. He speaks and the whole of … Continue reading

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The World and All

The Sadducees and Pharisees were no dummies. They just weren’t as smart as their enemy. As we read through the gospel accounts, it seems their strategy was simple: they would put an end to Jesus by forcing Him to destroy … Continue reading

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Encouraging Husbands; God and the Super Bowl and More

This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Christos Ho Kurios

Rome could not help but trip over her own feet. When you get the gospel wrong the error does not stay hermetically sealed, leaving everything else safe. Rather, the whole ship goes down. Rome, seeking to elevate the church, created … Continue reading

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How are souls made?

There are any number of theological questions that manage, at one and the same time, to elicit arguments and yet create no division. These are issues over which both sides, while disagreeing on the issue at hand agree that the … Continue reading

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The Wonder of It All

Is it not true that most bad ideas are good ideas that took a wrong turn? That the thing pursued by the idea is a good thing, but the directions are off? Consider our desire, born right out of God’s … Continue reading

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Interesting Times

There is a sort of application of the Observer Effect that applies to the news of the day. Sometimes confused with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which argues that at the subatomic level we can discern either the velocity of a … Continue reading

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