Pro-life speaker Bruce Coleman (Choices Of Life) spoke in our school this week, regarding the value of life and the Christian response to abortion. Several students expressed thanks for the informative and practical presentation, which also prompted me to do some research. Some online statistics I gathered: Australia’s abortion […]
A friend asked me recently “Jason, what does imputed mean?” No, she wasn’t a Christian. And no we weren’t studying the Bible. We were studying for an accounting exam at uni. The reason she asked is that one of our questions had a factor called “the imputed interest rate.” “I […]
Having recently finished the rigours of college life, he was enjoying the free time living with his parents allowed. Only the day before he had finished reading missionary David Brainerd’s journals and wrote “I have prayed for new words, explosive, direct, simple words.” Sixty years ago today, as he sat […]
Elizabeth, New Jersey. Great joy in a missionary meeting for prayer and testimony. Spoke afterward with Carl Johnson of Congo. He counseled Pete and me thus: 1) Never let the sun go down on the slightest miff between us. Walk in the light with no darkness between us; 2) Always […]
I’ve really enjoyed using my Twitter account to store all my momentary profundities. Here are ten recent tweets… tweet 1: Mao’s Last Dancer… freedom is precious to those who have lived without it. tweet 2: Oh yeah, Darwin’s that guy who discovered the amazing adaptability God built into His creation… […]
I was introduced to biblical archaeology back in seminary. (“What do you mean, Indiana Jones isn’t real?!”) I learned that archaeology is not essential to prove the veracity of the Scriptures, yet archaeology has unearthed many evidences that affirm the Bible’s reliability. Old Testament scholar Walter Kaiser has listed fifteen […]
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Dale Morgan married tonight, and as usual, I came away soured. Twentieth-century Christian weddings are the vainest, most meaningless forms. There is no vestige of reality. The witnesses dress for a show. The flesh is given all the place. The songs are absurd if one paid any attention to the […]
We didn’t want to see our children go through pain, so we coddled them until they grew up to be lawless brats. We didn’t want to cause our friends pain, so we refused to ever confront them about their self-destructive patterns. We didn’t want to cause our bodies pain, so […]
You’ve probably heard sermons on the sins of drunkenness, drug abuse and greed. The Bible also commands us to flee from sexual immorality. So Christians often hear warnings about the contents of TV programs or internet pornography, and rightly so!—because Christians should not be enslaved to immorality, just as we […]
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1 Samuel 16 Saul was anointed while seeking asses; David while tending sheep. The kings came from things commonplace. “God looketh on the heart” (v. 7). Skill, fine features, pleasing manners—”personality”—can be had by external imposition, and God cares little for such. His eye is on the heart. Now external […]
