Category Archives: Devil’s Arsenal

Classic Episode- Ex Cathedra, and What Do We Need to Know?

This week’s Classic Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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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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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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Lessons in the Crucible of Tyranny, in the Hand of Grace

C.S. Lewis, in his essay “On the Reading of Old Books,” which is found in the collection of essays, God in the Dock, argues that we are all by nature time bound. This frailty will, of necessity, give us a … Continue reading

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People Are the Worst And Too Evil To Admit It

About six years ago Inc.com published a survey that showed that 83% of people believe that people are basically good. My own assessment is that 100% of those people who believe people are basically good are basically not the sharpest … Continue reading

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The Specious Origin of The Origin of Species

Dear Dr. Darwin: There is an interesting angle on teleology that is rather like tossing a bat to see which team is up first, in the reverse. You may not remember that children’s game. One captain tosses the bat to … Continue reading

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Will AI Take Over the World? Ghosts in the Machine

Though he was by no means the first nor the last to make this point, my father did a great service to the church by reminding it that “chance” has no causal power. Indeed it has no power at all, … Continue reading

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Discerning Why We Are So Greedy: Sinners Gonna Sin

We, not just they, but we are greedy because we’re people. The problem isn’t in the money. Which means, by the way, that one does not become more greedy than someone else by having more money than someone else. Greed … Continue reading

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The Rise of the Next Reich and the Part We Play

We must remember two great truths from the wisdom of Solomon- there is nothing new under the sun (Eccl. 1:9) and that there is a time for peace and time for war (Eccl. 3:8). This notion that we are entering … Continue reading

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American Idols: Worshipping the Work of Our Hands

Sophistication, more often than not, comes complete with toilet paper stuck to the heel of your shoe. We enter the world seeking to look au courant. We carry with us the latest news, opinions, tastes. All while wearing the latest … Continue reading

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