by Charlie Wolcott
What constitutes scientific evidence? I have already written that science cannot be done in a vacuum, nor should science be confused with history. I left last week with a question about the nature of scientific evidence, how it is used, and how it supports or refutes...
by Jason DeZurik
Followers of Jesus Christ,
Where do you see God working in your life?
Where do you see God working in others’ lives?
Are you allowing God to work in and through you, not only in action but in word?
Remember, love is not easily angered and love keeps no records of...
by David Odegard
If you were to conduct a survey of the top values of almost any individual, these three would be among the top: love, happiness, and peace. What most people do not know is that these are the first three signs of God’s Spirit living in a person’s life (Galatians 5:22-23):...
by Katie Erickson
“Then the five men who had spied out the land of Laish said to their fellow Danites, 'Do you know that one of these houses has an ephod, some household gods and an image overlaid with silver? Now you know what to do.' So they turned in there and went to the house of...
by Ami Samuels
What is the condition of your heart? I fear we are often afraid to let God in. We guard our hearts and aren’t pliable like soil that is ready to be molded into Christlikeness.
Are we hard and unapproachable? Are we easily offended? Are we accepting of new people? Are...
by Charlie Wolcott
When it comes to the origins debate regarding Creation and Evolution, very few fields of study are confused more than science and history. I would suggest this is a problem on all sides of the debate, not just the secularists and the Old Earth crowd. Ken Ham of Answers...
by Jason DeZurik
“Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life” (Galatians 6:7-8).
I am blessed...
by David Odegard
Those who do not know God cannot know the good life (Romans 8:8). In the Garden, Adam and Eve turned their backs on paradise. They rejected God as the source of all life; they turned away from the water of life and instead “dug wells for themselves, broken wells that...
by Katie Erickson
“So the five men left and came to Laish, where they saw that the people were living in safety, like the Sidonians, at peace and secure. And since their land lacked nothing, they were prosperous. Also, they lived a long way from the Sidonians and had no relationship...
by Ami Samuels
Have you ever felt like everything you touched crumbled in your hands, like everything you plant dies at the root? I have heard it said, “Bloom where you are planted.” But what if everything you plant doesn’t take root, and doesn’t grow?
My family and I experienced a...
by Charlie Wolcott
The origins debate has brought in an interesting aspect about the use of science. The Evolutionary side practices this aspect religiously and demands the creation side do the same. What is it? Doing science in a vacuum. Does that mean we go up into space and perform...
by David Odegard
When writing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson directly quoted John Locke’s phrase “life, liberty, and property” but substituted “the pursuit of happiness” in place of property. What was behind this? As I mentioned last week, this did not destroy the...
by Katie Erickson
“In those days Israel had no king.
And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking a place of their own where they might settle, because they had not yet come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel. So the Danites sent five of their leading men from...
by Ami Samuels
What is your forbidden fruit? What is the one thing that you think will fill that empty place inside? Is it food, excessive shopping, alcohol, being a workaholic, drugs? What is your temporary fix?
I have to say food is my weakness. When I am stressed, tired, or sad,...
by Charlie Wolcott
The “free thinkers” are those who claim to be able to think for themselves freely from the influences of religion, namely the God of the Bible. But are they really free? Are we as Christians free to think on our own? The answer is none of us are truly free as the idea...
by David Odegard
“Life, liberty, property.” John Locke lists these as inalienable rights. He claimed that they come from God and are not granted by the state. but that good government will guarantee them to its people. Rather, these rights are retained within the individual person and...
by Bill Fortenberry
America’s founding fathers claimed repeatedly to have found the principles of republican government in the Bible, but what did they mean by that? Modern theologians claim that the Bible promotes either monarchy or theocracy as the ideal form of government. What did...
by Katie Erickson
After a month of writing on topics pertaining to the Judges narrative and other things, I’m back to writing on the passages themselves. Between Judges 16 and 17 was a good place for the break, since the tone of the book changes starting in chapter 17. Israel is no longer...
by Ami Samuels
I wanted to share with you a prayer that I pray often:
Empty me of me
Fill me up with you, Lord
Full to overflowing
So that ALL that I say and ALL that I do
Glorifies you!
On several occasions, I have taken the time to break it down like this:
Empty me of my sin, anger,...
by Nathan Buck
Family traditions can be really simple, or they can have very deep significance, like getting ice cream after a little league game, or like a special rite of passage for a teenage daughter or son. It is what we remember from those moments that makes those traditions meaningful...
