By Simon Edwards Lately, I have been spending a vast amount of time on the subject of apologetics. If you don't know what apologetics is, don't feel bad. It's one of those almost insider words that theology nerds throw around. However, it is a terribly important subject. It comes from the Greek word, Apologia, which …
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I am working my way through a book titled Exclusion and Embrace by Yale theologian, Miroslav Volf. It is an incredibly rich and dense book written by a Croatian Christian who has had to wrestle with forgiveness of people guilty of numerous war crimes and acts of genocide against his people, following the breakup of …
Want to make people uncomfortable? Just bring up the topic of justice in American culture today. There will be immediate reactions of every conceivable type. Some will cry out about the level of injustice with claims that America has never been concerned about justice and that the entire enterprise is rotten to the core. Others …
For several years I have been hearing and reading lots of Christians, many of them leaders in churches, talk about the persecution that Christians are under in the United States and how it is going to get worse. In the last few days I have read and heard numerous doom and gloom scenarios about the …
In light of recent events at our nation's Capitol Building and the close association of Christian banners and symbols with that event, I began to think about the whole question of when Christians may or even should defy the governing authorities over them. The fact that yesterday was the day celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King …
ON JANUARY 13, 2021 BY DAN LACICH There is a line from The Hobbit where Bilbo Baggins is perplexed, and alone, and unsure of where to go, or what to do. In that moment he says, “I have lost my dwarves, my wizard, and my way”. The dwarves were his traveling companions on a mission to restore the …
We are taking a deep dive into the first two chapters of the Gospel of Luke to get a better appreciation for the events leading up to and following the birth of Jesus. https://subspla.sh/9nm4y4k
In the history of the United States of America we have held 58 Presidential elections prior to 2020. Just to give you some historical perspective, in 18 of those elections, the person who went on to the White House received LESS THAN 50% of the popular vote. In 47 of the 58 elections a swing …
Well actually I am color blind, the physical eyesight red/green color blind kind. Before you ask, yes I see apples as red and not grey, same with firetrucks and other things that are very red. Grass is green and when I have been to Ireland I have seen more shades of green than I can …
38 And he said to them, “Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also, for that is why I came out.” Jesus has driven the demons out of a man by the power of his word. He has healed numerous people, including Simon Peter's mother-in-law. But now he is moving on to …
Continue reading A Year of Listening to Jesus Day 34 Mark 1:38
Sorry for the hiatus of writing. It is amazing how a week of being down with an illness can put you weeks behind in so many areas of life. But we are back with A Year of Listening to Jesus. But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!” Mark 1:25 The Bible begins …
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50 Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. After chastising the crowd for their desire for a show of miracles and wonders, Jesus speaks a very simple command to the man who came and asked for healing for his son. "Go, …
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