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A poem I wrote about September 11.
Very early, on a sunny September morning in 2001, I was working for Coca-Cola as a sales representative. I remember hearing on the radio about some terrorist attacks in America– especially on the World Trade Center. I recall pulling into a McDonalds for some breakfast and on the TV screens inside there was footage of… Continue reading
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Did the universe come from nothing?
One of the more popular atheistic, scientistic, myths is that the universe came from nothing. Sensing the powerful tug of logic that suggests the universe had a cause beyond itself, it has been the mission of some to leverage findings from quantum field theory to remove the possibility of a transcendent cause to everything. In 2012, Lawrence… Continue reading
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Acts is whack, man.
whack \ˈhwak, ˈwak\ – adjective: appalling in nature, unconventional. According to the folks at urbandictionary.com, that’s one way to define the word “whack”. It can be used to describe something that’s strange and out of the ordinary. Though it’s not a theological term, in some ways it describes the book of Acts. Since Acts contains information that is… Continue reading
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A Shropshire Lad, XL
Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. E. A. Housman 1859 – 1936 Continue reading
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Hyperbole? It’s pretty much the best thing ever.
According to the font of all knowledge – Wikipedia – “hyperbole” comes from the Greek word huperbole, meaning ‘exaggeration’. Hyperbole is the use, or an instance of, exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. It may be used to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression but is not meant to be taken literally. As a literary device it is often… Continue reading
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Reymond on Genesis 1-11
“The fact that the Bible sweeps across the thousands of years between the creation of man and Abraham in only eleven chapters, with the call of Abraham coming in Genesis 12, suggests that the information given in the first eleven chapters of the Bible was intended as preparatory “background” to the revelation of the Abrahamic… Continue reading
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Christians, death, crying and grief.
Death. It’s all around us. There’s no avoiding it. We drive past cemeteries. We see it on the news. We read about it in the paper. From time to time, we experience in our own families. And it’s never a happy occasion. While as a Christian I rejoice in the hope I have in Jesus,… Continue reading
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Things children love
My children are in their late teens. As I look back at their younger years, I remember noticing certain commonalities in things children love. For your convenience, I have complied a short list: 1. Blowing and popping bubbles. 2. Sleeping on the top bunk. 3. Making a ‘robot voice’ by speaking into a pedestal fan.… Continue reading
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Can we stop with all the NIV hate? Thanks.
You don’t need to spend long online to find many Christians (especially males in the USA) expressing or implying their disdain for the New International Version (NIV). Their dislike for that translation is only compounded by its popularity. After the venerable King James Version, the NIV is easily the most popular English translation of the… Continue reading
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Augustine said infant baptism is Apostolic
“What the universal church holds, not as instituted by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down by apostolic authority. Since others respond for children, so that the celebration of the sacrament may be complete for them, it is certainly availing to them for their consecration, because they… Continue reading
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