(You need to pretend you are in church for this one. Okay?) A QUESTION ABOUT ALL THOSE SERMONS Welcome to church this morning, my friends. I’ve got a question to ask you. I need to set it up, first. Here goes. Those of you who have been Christians for a while, I want you to […]
Always and Forever Faithful
May 23, 2015 by
Pastor Mike here. In the 1980s a terrorist blew up the Marine barracks in Beirut killing hundreds of Americans. Days after the bombing a severely wounded, corporal Jeffrey Lee Nashton, with so many tubes running in and out of his body making him look more like a machine than a man a witness described, motioned […]
31 Ice Cream Flavors of Bible Translations
May 18, 2015 by
“Jesus wept” (KJV). “Jesus started crying” (CEV). “Jesus burst into tears” (ISV). “And the tears of Jesus came” (Murdock). SO MANY BIBLE TRANSLATIONS Bible translations. It can make the best of Christian’s head spin, there are so many out there. And it’s kind of like going to Baskin Robbins Ice Parlor with their 31 flavors […]
We Were All There When Mom Breathed Her Last
May 13, 2015 by
ONE YEAR AGO It was a year ago today that my mother died (May 13, 2014). We were all there (my brothers, my sister, my dad) when she breathed her last. LUNG CANCER It all started ten months earlier with a chest pain. The diagnosis was Stage 4 Non Smokers Lung Cancer. There was no […]
“Monster” and the Theory of Evolution
May 8, 2015 by
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) THEORY OF EVOLUTION “Monster.” It’s the name of the best-selling Christian fiction author, Frank Peretti’s, book that I read many years ago. You talk about a page-turner. This was it. And without giving the story away, the main issue Peretti dealt with in […]
Pre-Tribulation or Pre-Wrath Rapture? (redux)
May 4, 2015 by
“And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, ‘Come up here.’ Then they went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies watched them.” (Revelation 11:12) I’ve done a lot of studying of the book of Revelation over the course of time as a Christian. In the midst of my research […]
Is Bruce Jenner a Christian?
April 28, 2015 by
“Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.’” (John 3:3) OLYMPIC HERO TURNED TRANSGENDER He was the hero of the 1976 Olympics winning a gold medal in the decathlon and setting a world record. Fast forward 4 decades and […]
The Gap Theory of Creation
April 23, 2015 by
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form and empty. And darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters. And God said, ‘Let there be light.’ And there was light.” (Genesis 1:1-3; MKJV) TWO CREATION […]
Mistaken Identity and Awful Surprises: How to Cope When Tragedy Strikes
April 19, 2015 by
“While he was still speaking, another also came and said [to Job], ‘Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, and behold, a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people and they died, […]
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