Atheist kids camp

[Times Online]
GIVE Richard Dawkins a child for a week’s summer camp and he will try to give you an atheist for life.
The author of The God Delusion is helping to launch Britain’s first summer retreat for non-believers, where children will have lessons in evolution and sing along to John Lennon’s Imagine.
The five-day camp in Somerset [...]

Charles Krauthammer on Honduras: Obama is Wrong

The leaders of the Hope for Honduras ministry referenced this on Facebook and agreed with Krauthammer. 

BTW, it is a great ministry.  I went on a mission trip there with my youngest last year and am planning to go later this year.

A great pro-life answer to a common pro-legalized abortion argument

A recent post brought out a common pro-legalized abortion argument that ignores the humanity of the unborn (and even her existence) while playing on the “autonomy of the woman’s body” sound bite.  The commenter takes the view that the unborn are parasites and that they are fair game for destruction given that they are dependent [...]

The Sin of Sodom

The sin that resulted in the destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah has traditionally been viewed to be homosexuality (hence the term sodomy). 
But many pro-gay theology apologists now try to say that it was due to inhospitality or other reasons, but definitely not homosexual behavior.  They point to some verses that appear to support their view [...]

More bad pro-abortion reasoning

Another bad pro-abortion post tried to wax eloquent about the rights of a woman to control her body:
No one has any right to your body but you. Your body is the one and only thing in your life that is unquestionably yours, that absolutely can never be “made up” to you in any way, shape [...]

Got questions?

Marie reminded me of a link on my blogroll to Got Questions?  I recommend it to skeptics and believers.  The answers seem to be well thought out and readable.  Go do some browsing.  I’ll wait here.
Do you have a question about God, Jesus, the Bible, or theology?
Have you ever needed help understanding a Bible verse or [...]

Roundup

I have to confess that until Wednesday of this week I didn’t even know who Mark Sanford (aka Stupidity On Steroids) was.  It has been analyzed to death, so I’ll just sum up the political side by saying that Sanford’s sins don’t impact the truth of conservative ideas and that he is the hypocrite, not [...]

Beyond parody

As we left Manhattan at the end of our vacation on one of those wild the-stereotypes-about-NY-drivers-are-true rides, I saw a Methodist church with a big gay pride parade banner outside of it.  I looked up the website of the Church of the Village today and found this notice:
Join us as we observe Pentecost, Agape Sunday, Gay [...]

Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and a couple hundred thousand not-so-famous people . . .

. . . all died today.  I hope that many of them trusted in Jesus for their salvation before they died, because:
Hebrews 9:27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment
Their eternal destiny is fixed.  I saw one blogger say he hoped Fawcett was at peace now.  [...]

The “still, small voice” was a voice

The Bible passage below is often misinterpreted.  It pertains to the Prophet Elijah after his amazing victory over the prophets of Baal at Mount Carmel.  He has run away to avoid the wrath of Jezebel and is hiding in a cave.
1 Kings 12-13 After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in [...]

Roundup

Fact: There will be much more rationing of health care if Obama’s plans go through
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It is hard to believe that the media is saying that Obama’s finance proposals are the first time in decades that regulations have countered free market solutions.  Are they that ignorant of Sarbanes-Oxley, the requirements that cost public companies millions of [...]

Ministry Spotlight – Faith Comes By Hearing

Faith Comes By Hearing is a ministry that produces audio recordings of the Bible in 371 languages and all are available for free download. Some countries are 80-90% illiterate, so getting the spoken Word to them is a powerful evangelistic tool. But as you can imagine, getting tape players (and power) to remote regions of [...]

“Don’t have sex, because you will get pregnant and die.”

The title is a memorable line from the movie Mean Girls, where the gym coach is teaching sex education (see the video below).  Whether by design or not, it demonstrated the ineffectiveness of both extremes of teaching kids about an extremely important topic.
Don’t have sex, because you will get pregnant and die.  Don’t have sex [...]

Some good news out of the Methodist Book of Discipline

Bishop Timothy W. Whitaker is one of the bright spots in the Methodist Church in the U.S.  In the midst of so many false teachers he continually speaks the truth in a compelling way.  His comments on the UMC progress on the issue of abortion are encouraging:
The 2008 General Conference of The United Methodist Church [...]

From Paul to Saul? Not exactly.

It is a common view that the Apostle Paul had his name changed from Saul after his Damascus road experience.  I always assumed it was biblical.  But as our Associate Pastor pointed out one day, that is not what the text says.  Here is the grand total of verses about his name:
Acts 13:9-10 But Saul, who was [...]

Roundup

25 rich and famous athletes who went broke — bad advisors, greed and bad decisions happen to non-athletes as well.  Lots of lessons there.
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Taking back the schools — Now teachers are getting fired just for being conservative. 
The Left’s stranglehold on education is going almost completely unchallenged, which is one of the Right’s greatest failings, and [...]