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The Trip to Europe Continued (Twenty-First Post In Total)
One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen Sixteen Seventeen Eighteen Nineteen Twenty I’ve been asked various people whether we saw different spots in Rome, some of which I’ve said, “No.” At this point in our trip, we had been several places in England, then Scotland and Venice. […]
Bart D. Ehrman’s Did Jesus Exist? Useful Quotes for Christians, part 4 of 4
This is the final post in a series of useful quotes for Christians from Dr. Bart Ehrman’s book Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth (New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2012). Posting these quotations is not an endorsement of Dr. Ehrman in general or even of this book in particular, but these quotations are, […]
Refreshing Honesty from “Desiring God” on Men Acting Effeminate
I want to keep up my series on Relationship, having finished part one, and I will, but when I saw this article and then read it, I knew I had to write this instead. I will be coming back to finish the Relationship series, Lord-willing, however. I don’t know how many parts it will be, […]
Relationship, pt. 1
Most often happiness tops the list of what people want. Most say happiness is the result of strong relationships. Without strong relationships, people say they aren’t happy, and they want to be happy more than anything. Even if people want happiness and require strong relationships to be happy, should happiness and strong relationships be the […]
Kent Brandenburg and Frank Turk Debate on the Preservation of Scripture — Part Two
Introduction to the Debate Part One (please reread the end, Mr. Turk’s question answered here) by Kent Brandenburg To Answer Q1 The KJV translators in their preface do not disclose the rectitude of the original language text from which they translate. On a completely different subject, they do comment on the caliber of their translation. […]
Intelligent Design advocate Michael J. Behe’s new book Darwin Devolves with a free video course and other extras by Dr. Behe
Dr. Michael J. Behe, professor of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University, has written a new book called Darwin Devolves. Dr. Behe is considered the father of the intelligent design movement, and his books Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution and The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism, do a great job arguing that […]
Rearranging the Deck Chairs: Negotiating or Managing the Demise of Evangelicalism
“Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic,” which describes futile activity in the face of impending catastrophe, first appeared in print in 1969 in Time Magazine and with reference to reforms in Roman Catholicism. Its origination is appropriate for the parallel with the present sinking of evangelicalism. An equivalent metaphor might be a spy keeping […]
All That Is Written: God’s Transference of Leadership to Joshua and What That Leadership Was
After Moses died and God transferred leadership of His people to Joshua, He commanded Him (Joshua 1:7-9): 7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that […]
The Trip to Europe Continued (Twentieth Post In Total)
One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen Sixteen Seventeen Eighteen Nineteen On June 14, 2018, my wife, two youngest daughters, and I rose in our eighth floor apartment in Rome on Via Gallia about a twenty minutes walk south of the Colosseum. We stayed at this place […]
Bart D. Ehrman’s Did Jesus Exist? Useful Quotes for Christians, part 3 of 4
This post is the third in a series of useful quotations for Christians from Dr. Bart Ehrman’s Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth (New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2012). If you interact with skeptics who deny that Jesus Christ existed, or who believe in mythicism (the idea that Christ is copied from […]
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