06 Mar 2020

Dispensationalist Charges William Lane Craig with ‘Willful Ignorance’ on the Rapture

While doing my daily trek through Facebook looking for relevant news stories, I came across a post with a link to an article with this title: “The Willful Ignorance of William Lane Craig.” The author of the article takes Dr. Craig to task for his comments on the historicity of

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05 Mar 2020

Human Capital is What Makes Capitalism Work

Politics can be tiring. I need a rest from it, but it can never be escaped. In reality, politics cannot do what most people believe it can do, and when politics tries to do the things that it was never designed to do, it makes things worse. If you want

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03 Mar 2020

The Bible and Western Civilization

An article in GQ magazine written by the editors declared that the Bible is one of 21 books that you don’t need to read. It’s 12th on the list, and the description by Jesse Ball begins with the following comment: The Holy Bible is rated very highly by all the

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28 Feb 2020

Courageous Preachers Serve as the Nation’s Conscience

The following article was written by Rev. Mark H. Creech of the Christian Action League and is used here by permission. More than thirty years ago, Christian author, W. Phillip Keller, in his book, Predators in our Pulpits, wrote an indictment of most preachers today. He declared: “Pastors, ministers, evangelists, and teachers

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27 Feb 2020

Atheism: No moral Difference between Adolf Hitler and Corrie Ten Boom’s Family

Atheism cannot account for morality. I am not accusing atheists of being immoral, but I do accuse them of borrowing their choice of moral living from concepts derived from the Christian worldview, the very worldview they denounce. They express moral outrage on several fronts, but they cannot account for any

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25 Feb 2020

A Warning from a Former Communist

As I was getting ready for work, I was watching the 1949 film The Red Danube. It stars Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, a very young and trim Angela Landsbury (Murder She Wrote), Ethel Barrymore, and Janet Leigh. Pidgeon plays British Col. Michael “Hooky” Nicobar who is assigned to assist in

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24 Feb 2020

If Something Can Come from Nothing Can Anything be Wrong?

Nothing comes from nothing, Nothing ever could.1 Lawrence M. Krauss is a renowned cosmologist and professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including the best-selling The Physics of Star Trek and A Universe from Nothing

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21 Feb 2020

Should We Trust an Evolved Monkey Brain?

With the death of Stephen Hawking in 2018, there were numerous articles written about his life and work. As to his life, Hawking deserves credit for not giving up in the face of nearly insurmountable odds. Living completely incapacitated for decades, not able to speak or move a voluntary muscle,

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19 Feb 2020

The Evolution of Everything and the Rise of Moral Nihilism

The Evolution of Everything author Matt Ridley attempts to account for morality among evolved human animals as “a spontaneous thing produced by social interaction among people seeking to find ways to get along.” How does he know this since it’s hard to trust an evolved brain that arose from lower

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18 Feb 2020

Do Only Old Testament Laws Repeated in the New Testament Apply Today?

A young woman asked Christian apologist Frank Turek a question about the applicability of Old Testament law in the New Testament in this short video clip that has been posted on Facebook: There are a lot of things we don’t follow now that are in the Old Testament. Like Don’t

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17 Feb 2020

Some Surprising Things About Sex and Slavery in the Constitution

California Congressman and previous 2020 Democratic hopeful Eric Swalwell and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) took an oath to uphold the Constitution. Here’s the oath: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear

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14 Feb 2020

How Did Nothingness Program DNA?

Christians begin with the presupposition that God created the universe and created man as a special creation different in kind from both inanimate and other animate creations. In fact, man is so special, the Bible tells us, that he is the very “image of God” (Gen. 1:27). One of these

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13 Feb 2020

Don’t Know Much About America’s Christian History

With a title like The Myth of a Christian Nation, one would think that the author would have spent more time on the nuances of how the phrase “Christian Nation” is used by scholars in the field. If you’re going to critique a concept, it’s necessary to deal with those

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13 Feb 2020

New Book: ‘The Rapture and the Fig Tree Generation’

On January 21, 2020, I traveled to Dinosaur Adventure Land in Conecuh County, Alabama, where I debated the topic of the Rapture with Kent Hovind. Kent took the Post Trib/Pre-Wrath position while I took the position that there was no rapture since there is no future seven-year period in which

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12 Feb 2020

‘As It Is in Heaven’: What’s Often Missing in Today’s Biblical Teaching

The medieval church saw a vital connection between heaven and earth, with heaven being the pattern for earthly activity. “Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” (Matt. 6:5–15). The eternal serves as a standard for the temporal. The Creator outlines parameters for living

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11 Feb 2020

What Would Jesus Say at the National Prayer Breakfast?

Some Christian writers have attacked Pres. Trump’s comments at the National Prayer Breakfast. Here’s what Cal Thomas wrote in his article “A Missed Opportunity”: For 68 years the National Prayer Breakfast has been a political oasis, a chance for Republicans, Democrats, national and world leaders to assemble and pray for

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10 Feb 2020

Muslims Celebrate When Harvard Declares Koran ‘Best Book on Justice.’ But is it True?

I found the following at FrontPage Magazine: Muslims around the world are thrilled at the recent news: “Harvard University ranks the Koran as the best book on justice,” is the January 20, 2020 headline of a report published by Youm7, a popular Egyptian news site visited by millions of Arabic readers.  It writes

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08 Feb 2020

PayPal Suspended My Account and My Wife’s Account for ‘Security Reasons’

I received an email on January 22, 2020, from PayPal telling me that my account had been “permanently limited.” That’s a slick way of saying that PayPal cancelled my account. The reason? Supposedly I violated “PayPal’s Acceptable Use Policy.” And what is that? Anything PayPal wants it to mean. I

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