Cracks in the Foundation of Relativism If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing. —Rebecca Manley Pippert— The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable. —Patrick Henry— View summaries of […]
Encouraging People to See Relativism’s Fatal Flaw Imagine that you woke up today and saw this news flash: “All bills in American currency declared equal.” No longer is the $100 bill more valuable than the $1 bill. Under the new system the only thing that matters is who has the most bills of any kind. […]
The Seven Pillars Christianity, an Authentic Faith Genuine Christianity is more than a relationship with Jesus, as expressed in personal piety, church attendance, Bible study, and works of charity. It is more than discipleship, more than believing a system of doctrines about God. Genuine Christianity is a way of seeing and comprehending all reality. It […]
Jesus’ Death and the Internal Consistency of the Christian Faith Many people quite naturally think to themselves, If I live a good life and my good deeds outweigh my bad ones, I should be saved. Yes, in the abstract that sounds good, but it ignores so many things that a perfect God cannot allow to […]
Why Jesus Is the Only Way to God, and Why Truth Claims to the Contrary Are False We are living in a post truth era, where people are searching for solid ground, they’re looking for something to say this is true, I can rely on this. Christianity claims to be true. It says it’s not […]
God Reveals Truth About Himself: Eleven Things You Need to Know God cloaks himself in invisibility and leaves the world to guess, hope, and kill over his identity and existence? This is love? —author C. J. Anderson in No Kingdom Come— He said to him, “If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, […]
Leftists Can’t Have It Both Ways, But that Won’t Keep Them from Trying We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it. —Blaise Pascal— Key point: In the name of tolerance and freedom, the progressive left promotes bondage and tyranny—and many of them don’t even realize […]
Tolerance once referred to mutual respect among parties who disagreed; but today it’s a one-way street that permits movement in a direction Christians cannot travel without violating their deeply held beliefs. If the government can shut down a family farmer just because of the religious views he expresses on Facebook—by denying him a license to […]
Observations Highlighting the Ironies and the Blindness of the “Progressive” Left Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments. —Dennis Prager— Key point: Liberty and license cannot coexist indefinitely, but leftists pretend they can. Their version of liberty actually is a cruel form of tyranny, and this is why they […]
From “In God We Trust” to “Anything Goes” Twelve Principles on Drifting that Show How America Has Slipped Far Away From Her Starting Point Crumbling is not an instant’s Act A fundamental pause Dilapidation’s processes Are organized Decays. ’Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul A Cuticle of Dust A Borer in the Axis An Elemental […]
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. —Benjamin Franklin, pictured above in the center as he works at a printing press— You show me a world where bakers can be fined $135,000 for declining to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding because of their beliefs […]
If any human society—large or small, simple or complex, based upon the most rudimentary hunting and fishing, or on the whole elaborate interchange of manufactured products—is to survive, it must have a pattern of social life that comes to terms with the differences between the sexes. —Margaret Mead, anthropologist1— John and Beth had lived in […]
The Importance of Seeing the Big Picture, Part 1: Philosophical and Religious Underpinnings 10/2/15 Do you really thing advocates of abortion, homosexuality, and same-sex marriage have rejected religion? Think again. They are fervently religious. We just need to understand what religion they espouse. The Importance of Seeing the Big Picture, Part 2: Practical Implications 10/9/15 How […]
A Five-Part Series with an Epilogue No one would look at a tornado and call the weather calm and beautiful. Yet today many are doing something just as bizarre. They’re denying nature’s clear teachings regarding marriage, sexuality, and human relationships. These denials have derailed our culture from stability and cohesiveness. By lovingly affirming the truth […]
Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various books came from, and about when they were written. We know that they were written by human beings who had no knowledge of science, little knowledge of life, and were influenced by the […]
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In what we now know as chapter 10 of his second letter to the Corinthian Christians, Paul declared, 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down […]
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