Protection Not Punishment “When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, , and reason like a child” (1 Cor. 13:11). Didn’t we all? What did our parents know when we were tweens and teens? We didn’t realize that most discipline was to correct or stop something before it could happen. You know, […]
Has God Said? How do we know what God has said? Why does it even matter? Before there was sin, Adam and Eve had a personal, intimate relationship with God, walking and talking with Him in the garden. Everything in the garden was created for man to enjoy…except one thing. God told Adam, “From any tree of the garden you […]
Be Different Stay Different In school, the worst thing we could do was be different. We wanted desperately to fit in, to be accepted, to be part of the “in” crowd. In 1965, the song written by Billy Page and sung by Dobie Gray titled “The In Crowd” had the lyrics, “I’m in with the in crowd, I go where […]
Irreducible Complexity This may be a solution without a problem, but I go on. In random surfing today, I came across a debate thread around intelligent design vs. evolution. To be fair and forewarn you, my opinion is solidly in the “creation” camp. But it’s interesting to see how science and logic lean heavily toward my camp. There is a […]
Remember…But Don’t Stay There Remembering the past, both good memories and bad, can be a good thing…if. There are two big ifs to consider. First, we’re told that if we don’t learn from the past, we’re doomed to repeat it. Second, we have to move on from it; we can’t stay there in our minds and relive it. We have […]
What Is Truth? Yesterday, we focused on who and what is false. Today, it’s truth’s turn. Philosophers for centuries have asked, “What is truth?” In our current social arena, there’s “your truth” and “my truth.” But the very definition of truth, which, in part, posits a logical proposition of non-contradiction, doesn’t allow for that. It’s like trying to combine oil […]