Weekend at Bernie’s theology

I saw this great metaphor over at Lone Star Times about how those who don’t believe the essentials of the Christian faith have taken over many churches and propped them up to suit their motives.
In the not-so-classic movie “Weekend at Bernie’s,” two friends prop up a dead guy to make him appear alive so they can [...]

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Government run lotteries are an awful joke.  Instead of sending a message that success is possible with hard work and thrift, our leaders tell the poor that the way out is to spend what little you have on a gambling program with the biggest sucker odds of all.
A household with income under $13,000 spends, on [...]

Death bed conversions Q&A

Q. Can someone convert to Christianity on their deathbed and still be forgiven and go to Heaven?
A. Yes. See the story of the criminal on the cross as well as many other stories of people who converted late in life or on their death bed, such as the father-in-law of Lee Strobel (author of The [...]

The “teen pregnancy pact”

Jill Stanek has an important piece about the “teen pregnancy pact” from the school in Massachusetts, where 18 students aged 16 or younger are pregnant and there may have been some type of pact to try and get pregnant.  Surprisingly (!) the media is missing some rather obvious questions and story lines. 
[Principal] Sullivan was mandated to [...]

When was the New Testament written?

There are a lot of myths and misunderstandings about how and when the Bible was formed. Some liberal historians try to date the Gospels and other New Testament writings as far from the death of Jesus as possible because it supports their hypothesis that they were largely made up. Of course, if the Gospels really [...]

Death taxes are ghoulish

While the estate tax debate is typically framed as a soak-the-rich proposition, I find the whole concept to be immoral. If the government desperately needs those tax revenues it should find them somewhere else. It is simply wrong for the government to profit from the death of anyone, rich or poor.  If actions such as [...]

Moral schizophrenia

If you haven’t seen the video and story of the boy with autism who got to play in a high school basketball game and proceeded to score 20 points in 3 minutes, you need to watch it. It is truly inspiring.
When I watched this, I couldn’t help but think about the bizarre extremes our society [...]

Reruns

So I’m going to re-post some of my favorite pieces the next few weeks and take a partial sabbatical.  Some of you old-timers may recognize them, but the newer folks may not.  Many are from my pre-WordPress days. 
I edited and updated many as I went along.  I didn’t necessarily pick the most popular (or the [...]

The audacity of being an abortion survivor

Please read this whole article about Gianna Jessen, a woman who wasn’t supposed to exist and who Barack Obama thinks could have been legally and morally killed after surviving an abortion. 
By the way, I don’t mean she was the mother who survived an abortion, she was the baby.
After being burned alive for approximately 18 hours [...]

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Good summary of the counterproductive futility of the Democrats on fuel prices – Pelosi & Reid: The Drill Nothing Congress
In November of 2006, House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi issued a press release touting the Democrats’ “common-sense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices.”
She accused the oil companies of “price gouging.”
The average price of regular gas [...]

International Cooperating Ministries

One of our favorite organizations is International Cooperating Ministries, a “non-profit, trans-denominational Christian organization that works toward the mission of nurturing believers and assisting church growth worldwide. With our partners, we leverage simple church growth principles to see our vision of growth in the faith of individual believers, the number of people within each church, [...]

No such thing as moral neutrality with “same-sex marriage”

A Stand to Reason blog post titled Same-sex Marriage Isn’t – Can’t Be – Morally Neutral made a lot of good points.  I encourage you to read it all, including the comments section.  Here are some snippets from the post and the comments:

Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse points to instances of discrimination against a moral and religious [...]

Botox

I read this morning that people in the U.S. spend over $1B per year on Botox.  Wow.  One bank will even give you a loan for this all important procedure of injecting poison into your head to temporarily reduce your wrinkles.
I was getting a haircut once and a lady who was waiting recounted her most [...]

Happy Father’s Day!

It’s the 17th most important holiday of the year.   
Seriously, I love being a dad.  I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
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Here’s some great advice on fatherhood by Randy Alcorn.
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Josh McDowell did some research and found that it is extremely rare for people to remember what commencement speakers said (even very famous ones, and even just a [...]

Disputed matters

I’ve seen skeptics, Catholics, Mormons and others criticize Christianity for having too many disagreements and denominations, as if that somehow disproved the Bible or the core beliefs of the denominations.  But that reasoning doesn’t compute.
Romans 14 and other passages address how we are to handle disputed matters. From this we can immediately infer two things:

God [...]

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Is this tolerance? – Liberals in Canada hate free speech.  You can’t criticize Islam, homosexual behavior or even pro-abortion views!  Coming soon to a country you live in . . .?
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Christianity is good news for science
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 The Infanticide Shibboleth – Obama is super-duper pro-abortion, and pro-infanticide as well.  But he’s for change, right, so is he [...]