“Love your enemies?” Oh, Jesus was probably just being sarcastic.

I’m kidding, of course.  I don’t think Jesus was being sarcastic when He commanded us to love our enemies.  I used that title to point out two things:

It is easy for people to play games with scripture if they don’t follow some basic rules.  Most scripture-twisting isn’t as transparent as above, but it is just [...]

The Apostle Paul: Two major salvation lessons

There is a fabulous paradoxical combo-lesson about salvation from the life of Paul: (1) If someone as bad as Paul can be saved, then so can we and (2) If someone as good as Paul needed to trust in Jesus to be saved, then so do we.  In other words, he was so bad but [...]

Here’s a pro-choice position I support: School choice

This is some encouraging news out of L.A., where 250 of 800 public schools are going the charter route – Cracking the education monopoly.  It must have been difficult to overcome the anti-choice union opposition.  Good for these parents!

We have a winner . . .

. . .in the contest to give away a copy of Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing your Christian Convictions by Greg Koukl: Matthew from iPandora is the winner!
My youngest daughter picked a number at random to determine the winner.  She is part way through the book herself and knows a few of the tactics (Full disclosure: [...]

Roundup

I am not making this up: Dave Barry on free speech and his opinions about a quote of his being banned from a campus dorm room door.  What a bizarre place American universities have become.  Politically Correct nonsense and the “right not to be offended” are beyond parody.  He is correct that people are rightly afraid [...]

Guest post: The Day of the Covenant

Welcome to another guest post, this one by Michael (aka Racing Boo).  I enjoy Michael’s thoughtful and often humorous comments so I asked him to do a guest post on a topic of his choice.  I hope you read and enjoy a fascinating look in to the history and politics of South Africa. 
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December 16 is [...]

Atheist debater objects to his own book being quoted

Wow, this is one of the more bizarre debating events I’ve heard of.  See the video of Debate 101: the Schooling of Dan Barker.
Dan Barker has made a career out of being a  former minister.  The skeptics love guys like him and Bart Ehrman.  I mean, you can easily ignore all the people who convert [...]

Roundup

Too funny: Oh Crap. My Parents Joined Facebook.   I post that as an unapologetic Facebook “creeper” (my daughters’ term) who enjoys the humor, photos and updates from the pages of his children.   We try not to abuse the privilege by posting stupid and/or too many comments, though I imagine that it is a purely subjective assessment on our [...]

One free crime!

Super Policeman Mike catches bad guys with 1,375 POUNDS OF MARIJUANA. Cheech and Chong couldn’t even claim that was for personal use, so they were obviously big dealers.  So of course they go to prison for a really long time, right?   Not exactly:

It has been nearly 2 years since I seized this jackpot of green-ness. Know [...]

Is this legal for the Capitol Hill Switchboard to do? — UPDATE — IT WAS A LEFT-WING SCAM

UPDATE — Some good news — it wasn’t the real Capitol Hill switchboard.  Kudos to the Stop the ACLU site for posting a prominent correction.  That is one of the reasons I trust them and various other conservative sites.  When they make a mistake it isn’t put on page 19 in small font, if published [...]

Off to prison (ministry)

I’m going to be participating in a Kairos Prison Ministry weekend in a couple weeks so thought I’d re-run this overview.  If you have any interest in this or other prison ministry programs, I encourage you to check them out.  They may not be for everyone, but you won’t know for sure until you try.  There [...]

Notice any differences . . .

 . . . between the G-20 protestors and the conservative marchers in Washington, D.C. a couple weeks back?
Did you notice any differences in how the media covered them?
Go see Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: CNN discovers what an unruly protest looks like.

So many denominations!

I saw another blog make the claim that there are an inordinate number of Christian denominations. 
According to a quick Google search, there appears to be over 38,000 different Christian denominations.
Yes, there are many denominations. No, there aren’t 38,000. In fact, the previous urban legend claimed that there were 33,000, so I see that the figure has grown [...]

Roundup

TV anchor’s baby defies terminal diagnosis 
Doctors diagnosed their son with holoprosencephaly, a severe malformation of the brain….
The doctors were WRONG!
I know several people who had similar things happen.  Sometimes the bad news really is bad.  Sometimes it isn’t.  Many doctors steer any potentially problem cases towards abortion to make sure they won’t get sued.  But [...]

Roundup

Headline: Teacher Steals IPOD in Public School–Student Laughs – we need more teachers like this.
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Amazing(ly bad) Leftist video shown to countless schoolkids — Lots of gross errors and unrestrained bias.  She’s like the alter ego of the crazy Texas guy on The Simpsons who lives to destroy the environment.  The problem is that he is a cartoon [...]

Words, part 2

Another word that causes confusion in religious conversations is faith.  People use that word in many ways and it is easy to generate confusion if people operate from different definitions, no matter how well intentioned.
When addressing religious topics, some people (Christians and non-Christians) use it in the sense of “blind faith,” faith without evidence, or worst [...]