Pro-choice leaders worried?

I recently explored some reasons why the pro-life movement might eventually win (in the sense of making abortion on demand illegal; we know we’ll never have a 100% win).
Jill Stanek had a thorough analysis as to why some pro-choice leaders were conceding that their movement has lost ground.  Here are a few of the points they acknowledged:

decreased public [...]

Copycats

Many skeptics like to use the copycat argument to assert that Christianity borrowed its tenets from other religions.  In their view, this proves that Christianity must be false.  There are a few major problems with this line of thinking.
1. They weren’t borrowed as most suggest. The Mithra borrowing was a myth, for example.  For example, Mithra [...]

Who can understand the Bible?

It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain
The Bible can be challenging to understand.  66 books, 1,189 chapters, 31,173 verses, ~40 authors over a 1,500 year period, etc.  But that doesn’t mean that it isn’t accessible.  As Twain noted, some [...]

Best present wrapping job ever

My daughters gave me a DVD of season 1 of The Office for my birthday.  To “wrap” it they enclosed it in Jello.   If you’ve seen the show you’ll get the joke.  I’ll explain it for the rest: One of the practical jokes one character plays on a co-worker is to put his office supplies, such as [...]

Weekly roundup

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Can we trust the Gospels? - Short answer: Yes.  Click the link for a lot of great analysis.
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Seven benefits from reading the Bible
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Abortion #1 killer of blacks, says Tennessee pastor Joseph Parker
“Planned Parenthood kills more black people in three days than the Klan has killed in its entire history of existence,” he states emphatically. “Yet many [...]

What I’d really, really like to ask the Democratic candidates

I would gladly pay $$$ to be able to ask this.
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Hi Hillary, Barack and John,
If a genetic predisposition to homosexuality were proved and could be identified in utero, would you favor a ban on abortions to protect the unborn in this category?
Follow up questions:
If yes, then why not extend these protections to the unborn who are being [...]

Prison ministry closing ceremony

I’m working another prison ministry weekend in March.  If anyone in the Houston area wants to come to the closing ceremony, it will be at 5:00 on Sunday, March 9.  Just click in the “Email Neil” box to the upper right and ask for the application instructions (you’ll need send an email with your driver license # [...]

Ethnocentricity

Ethnocentricity is the belief in the inherent superiority of one’s own ethnic group or culture or the tendency to view alien groups or cultures from the perspective of one’s own.  
Many people misinterpret the Bible because of ethnocentricity.  They think it is anti-women, for example, while Christianity is actually the great liberator of women. 
Some things in [...]

Joel Osteen’s theology – too wide, too narrow, too shallow

Ms. Green had a good piece on Joel Osteen – another false teacher / preacher, where Joel was either ignorant of what Mormons believe (bad) or aware of it and not willing to speak the truth (really bad).  I previously wrote a little about him here.
In my view his theology is too wide, too narrow [...]

Grace & Truth

I stole the idea for this from a comment by Tony on his blog.  It is a passage from Randy Alcorn’s book, “The Grace And Truth Paradox.”  It is a wise way of illustrating how gracious God was in providing a path back to him and how empty it is to argue that it is unfair to [...]

Weekly roundup

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Sunday is Sanctity of Human Life day.  I’ll be doing a couple short presentations about CareNet Pregnancy Center for Sunday School classes at a local church. 
Crisis Pregnancy Centers are staffed largely with volunteers and funded mostly by donations (100% in many cases).  They help women and families in their time of need. They significantly outnumber abortion [...]

Changing abortion’s pronoun

The LA Times had a good article on men and the aftermath of abortions.
One of the major lies of the abortion movement is that there is nothing to feel guilty about, because abortion isn’t immoral.  But even if you repeat it over and over, deep down people know there is something wrong with it.
Pro-choicers may [...]

Mother Teresa

I’m just getting around to some thoughts about Mother Teresa’s well-publicized crisis of faith.  Hey, we can all have doubts, and it is healthy and Biblical to examine our faith.  But her doubts did seem to be rather extended and deep.
 The letters, many of them preserved against her wishes (she had requested that they be destroyed [...]

Grace

Ephesians 2:8-9 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.
The most unique thing about Christianity (other than Jesus, of course) is the concept of grace.  All other religions and worldviews are basically systems [...]

Weekly roundup

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Re. Hillary’s tears: One of my employees is a Certified Fraud Examiner and studies some interesting things.  For what it is worth, he had this to say:
I was watching the Hillary Clinton crying incident on the news last night.
While on vacation I was reading a book on body language and detecting lies and deceit.
If a [...]

What is truth?

Pontius Pilate famously posed the title question in John 18:37-38:
“You are a king, then!” said Pilate.
Jesus answered, “You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens [...]