Happy Halloween! Sort of!

2009 update: Not only is it a great excuse to eat candy, but we get to turn back the clocks 1 hour tonight (either that or get to church an hour early tomorrow).  Doubly sweet!  Better yet, we moved this year so I can try my stupid joke on new kids.  And it is Reformation [...]

Obama & Pelosi lied, the unborn will die — funded by your tax dollars!

Despite the repeated lies from President Obama and Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi’s healthcare plan would directly fund abortion.  Anyone surprised by that is beyond naive. 
As I noted in Of course the health care bill includes abortion, if the bill didn’t have (barely) hidden abortion coverage, why wouldn’t pro-abortion groups be lobbying for its inclusion?   This is the mother-of-all-health-care-bills and we’re [...]

How many translations did your Bible go through?

One. 
Really. Just one time from the original language to the language and version of your Bible.  The original writings were copied many times, but the Bible you hold was probably only translated once.
Many people – including some Christians – are quick to say that the Bible has been translated and changed so many times over [...]

What are the odds of that?

This is by no means a definitive argument against evolution, but I offer it to put the “time, chance and random mutation” theory in perspective. 
Everyone knows that micro-evolution occurs, such as dog breeding and bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics.  But macro-evolutionists believe that with enough time an amazingly complex single cell of unknown origin could make [...]

Don’t be suckers: Twenty Questions on Reid’s Opt Out Plan

From Twenty Questions on Reid’s Opt Out Plan » The Foundry:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced that he would bring to the Senate floor a bill that includes a new “public plan,” but with a provision allowing states to “opt-out.” In response to a reporter’s question, Reid said that states would have until 2014 [...]

Confronting false teachings with truth and love

Oh no. He’s refuting my sermon points before I even speak.  Jesus, there’s either going to be radical transformation today, or I’m going to be chased to my car.  I shouldn’t have worn flip-flops.
Read this for a great example of how and why to preach the truth in love.   Someone from the congregation in Pretoria, South Africa, gave [...]

Roundup

People with ‘no religion’ gain on major denominations – But as with most polls, you have to dig to determine what is really going on.  This does not mean that the % claiming to be atheists has increased:
The percentage of atheist Nones — who say there’s no such thing as God — hasn’t budged in years. [...]

Roundup

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Germany leads us in stem cell solutions – not because of embryonic stem cell research and cloning, but because they banned those completely and focused on adult stem cells — the research methodology that is ethical and successful.  I realize that not destroying unborn human beings for medical research gets in the way of pro-abortion [...]

Materialistic philosophy: A heaping mound of FAIL

. . . nobody will ever die from thinking God created the universe or having some doubts about the proposition that hydrogen is a substance which, if you leave it alone for 13.5 billion years, will turn into Angelina Jolie.
Mark Shea (Hat tip: regular commenter LCB)
By materialistic philosophy I don’t mean the “acquire all the things you [...]

The value of trials

None of us seek out trials.  We work hard to avoid them.  But as John MacArthur pointed out in a recent Podcast sermon, they serve many purposes.
Trials test us so we know how strong our faith is, for good or bad.  God already knows how strong our faith is, but we may not know.  Thomas [...]

Roundup

Inherit the Myth summarizes the falsehoods of the anti-religious movie Inherit the Wind.  Sadly, countless public school students were forced to watch it and took it at face value.
Ironically, today the roles of the Inherit the Wind players are reversed — only now, the characteristics are real.  The Darwinists will do everything they can to end your career and assault your [...]

A classically poor atheistic argument

PZ Myers, one of the “New Atheists” (just like the old ones except rude and lacking reasoning skills) plays the same tricks that Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and others do.   Richard Dawkins went on the radio show of Hugh Hewitt, who  Myers considers to be a “far right radio wingnut” and a “ridiculous puffed-up blowhard of [...]

Whoa! This was on TV?!

It was surprising but so encouraging to see that the clip below was on the TV show ER a couple years back. 
The chaplain is the classic fake Christian you’d expect to find in most theologically liberal churches today.  I love how the patient doesn’t buy her “just make up a god in your own image” type of platitudes.
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Inerrant, infallible, inspired

I’m re-running this post with some more thoughts.  Even though I believe that the original writings of the Bible were without error, God-breathed and incapable of error, those views aren’t required for belief in God or the resurrection.  You can take a minimal facts approach and see that even if there were slight discrepancies in the [...]

Roundup

Yes, I’m a Conservative.  No, I don’t need a Conservative Bible.  I just want the Bible.  Glenn has a more thorough analysis here.
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Wow, ACORN nailed again.  That’s gonna leave a mark . . . provided that a network other than Fox reports on it.  Seems that the ACORN folks lied about throwing James O’Keefe and [...]

(Unhinged) Birds of a feather

Many advocates for legalized abortion, oxymoronic “same sex marriage,” New Atheism / macro-evolution, global warming  and any non-Liberal speech in general (i.e., the war on Fox) have something in common: They fear open debate and want to shut up their opponents.  They will tell you with a straight face that freedom of speech only applies [...]