I am confident that all of you have encountered people who have not yet made Jesus Christ their Lord and their Savior. I am also confident that no two people are alike and while one person knows that 'facts' about Christianity but hasn't surrendered, another person is misinformed, and yet another person knows nothing. These people can be difficult...
One of the most notorious and outspoken atheists of the twentieth century, Anthony Flew, converted to deism for a number of scientific and philosophical reasons. One of the main points of contention he faced and could not adequately explain was the first emergence of life from nonliving matter. Even in his ardent atheist days, he maintained that...
Currently, we see a number of "essential oil" businesses popping up everywhere. Historically, oil was needed for heat and food. Biblically, oil symbolized the presence of God's Spirit on a person. Oil has always been and will continue to be important on many levels including the fact that it is one of the many obvious design features of...
Did you know that a tear is not just a tear? This morning as I was praying, I was overwhelmed with emotion and compassion and I just started crying. I remembered learning about the differences in tear composition. There are, in fact, three types of tears that the human body produces. 1) Basal tears. These are in constant production...
How many of you have heard someone declare, "You can't argue someone into the kingdom?" This is usually followed up by a sermonette of sorts about how Christians are called to 'love' people into the kingdom. As if 'love' somehow excludes the proclamation of truth. Wake up church! Yes, love is huge. We are called to love God and...
There is a famous road on the island of Maui that is on the 'must do' for tourists. It is called the road to Hana. Hana is a little city on the east side of the island and up until the 1900s was not connected with the more populated west side of the island. Hundreds of years and much manpower later, the road to Hana was completed....
There is a popular ethical phrase attributed to Immanuel Kant that states, "ought implies can." As Christian's we ought to (should) do many things, and if we know we ought to (should) do them, it means that we are capable of doing them (especially given the power of the Holy Spirit living inside of us). For example, I know I ...
Thomas Sowell, an economist and social theorist at Stanford University once remarked, "The problem isn't that Johnny can't read or even that Johnny can't think. It's that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is. He's confused it with feeling."
Did you know that the World Health Organization (WHO) has classified certain meats as carcinogens, meaning they cause cancer!?! Well, if you didn't know, now you do.
It has been said that God has revealed Himself to humanity not only through special revelation, but also through general revelation. Special revelation is held in the biblical texts/holy Scripture and is acquired when the Holy Spirit takes up residence in our heart. General revelation is that which is seen in nature; the design, intricacy,...
