Christian Mutual Funds With Great Rate of Return
Eventide, the family of mutual funds with Christian values that I have reviewed on my website and written about at What is Truth previously (here and here) has, I am pleased to report, won awards for having some of the highest rates of return within their mutual fund categories. Investor’s Business Daily named the Eventide Gilead […]
One of the Two Primary Distortions of the Gospel in the New Testament, and The Most Prominent Today
Gospel means “good news,” good news that we can be saved, that God wants to save us. We need to be saved, but we also can be saved. We don’t deserve it, but God in His nature saves, wants to save us, and we can be saved. Nothing is more important to anything and everything […]
Major Message in Scripture: Suffering for Evil Doing Isn’t Actually Suffering
In this postmodern age, people don’t want to suffer at all and they “succeed” by avoiding any and all suffering. This includes suffering for evil doing. The feel entitled not to suffer for evil doing. You could see how postmodern that is. There can’t be evil doing in a post modern world, except for bringing […]
The Ancient Text of the New Testament, part one
In 1975, Jakob Van Bruggen (Wikipedia link), longtime professor of New Testament at the Theological College of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, gave a lecture on the text of the New Testament in Broederwig, Kampen at the anniversary of the College. The transcript of the lecture was translated into English and was published into a […]
Tax the Poor: The Rich Are Paying Far More Than Their Fair Share
With April 15, tax day in the USA, having just recently passed, it is appropriate to reflect on the mantra that the rich are not paying their “fair share” of taxes, but are ripping off the poor, who allegedly are overwhelmed by the burdens the federal government is imposing on them to give to the […]
Relationship, pt. 13
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven Part Eight Part Nine Part Ten Part Eleven Part Twelve In a church, all parties must reconcile based upon the truth. Mediation might be necessary. It is required in a church because unity is required in a church. Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians […]
Things Are Much Worse Now: The Growth of the Nones
From what I’ve read and heard, almost every generation of older people think things are worse now than before. It’s almost a rite of passage into old age to complain about what young people are doing now, comparing it to the way things were done. This expectation of each succeeding generation of old people is […]
Preparation for the Lord’s Supper, part 6 of 6, from Wilhelmus a Brakel’s The Christian’s Reasonable Service
Reflection Upon the Lord’s Supper After having been to the Lord’s Supper, you must not conduct yourself as if you have left behind a heavy burden about which you had been so concerned, and you are now quite satisfied because you hope that you have neither eaten nor drunk judgment to yourself—and thus return to […]
Faith, Epistemology, Worldview, Preservation of Scripture, and Apostasy: They Are Related Closely and How They Are Related
In the late nineteenth century, so-called bible or theological scholars began conforming their views of origins and Genesis to Darwin. This was the influence of modernism, which changed the basis of epistemology from know by faith to know by human reasoning. One could say that this was the time of the bifurcation of science and […]
One Christianity and Alternative Forms of Christianity: What Has Happened?
Two term Democrat mayor of South Bend, IN, and presidential hopeful, Pete Buttigieg, made the news this last week talking about “faith,” calling his own same-sex marriage “conservative” and something that “moves me closer to God.” Furthermore, he called Mike Pence, “cheerleader of the porn star presidency,” and continuing, said: I’m reluctant to comment on […]