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Christ At Christmas: The Ordinary Meets the Extraordinary
The day of his birth was ordinary and extraordinary. That is the way of Jesus Christ. He was and is God, the eternal one, the creator and king of all that exists. He took on the nature and form of a human being (Philippians 2:5-8). The ordinary met t...
Year-End Partnership Opportunity
Glory! We hear that word more at Christmas than any other time of year. All year long, though, if someone asks me what motivates me to do what I do, I answer, “that the earth may be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the wat...
Wishing and Celebrating
The Starbucks coffee cup reads, We invite you to listen to your desires and to renew your hope. To see the world not as it is, but as it could be. Go ahead. Wish. It’s what makes the holidays the holidays. Wishing, it says, is “what mak...
What Does Your Church Feel Like?
I asked a different kind of question in my current column for the Newport News Daily Press: What does your church feel like? Recently, I heard a talk by Gary Hamel, a Christian business consultant, who raised the issue of what we value most. Next to...
Our Own Worst Enemies
I was looking for background related to this article when I came across this from Patricia Churchland. (Churchland is a strictly naturalistic philosopher of mind at the University of California, San Diego.) the axiom that values come from reason o...
Christians face trial for criticising Islam
From the home of the Magna Carta: Christians face trial for criticising Islam (via Confident Christianity)...
Who Defines ID?
This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Is ID Creationism?In my earlier post this morning I covered definitions of creationism quite thoroughly but I didn’t include a definition of Intelligent Design. There was one in the post I wro...
On Prayer
In response to this comment and those preceding: I am sure there is much manipulative prayer prayed by Christians. I am equally certain there is no truly Christian manipulative prayer. The difference is in “Not my will but thine be done.” Prayer ...
“Francis de Sales on Christian Blogging”
This comes from one of my new favorite bloggers, Jennifer Fulwiler, who says this about herself: Five years ago I had never once believed in God, not even as a child. I was a content atheist and thought it was simply obvious that God did not exist. I...
Sidestepping a Problem?
David Ellis wrote, So when one person has a religious experience in which he recalls past lives and another has a religious experience in which he sees a vision of Jesus telling him that he alone is the way to salvation the most reasonable conclusion...
National Conference on Christian Apologetics
It’s time to mark your calendar for the National Conference on Christian Apologetics: Apologetics and the Local Church in mid-November, in Charlotte, NC. I’ll be there, helping with some behind-the-scenes work. If you come, let me know ...
Prayer Journal for Bento
If you’re a pray-er using the Bento database for Mac, you might like the prayer journal template I’ve added to Bento’s template exchange....
Bradley Monton Interview
Here is Part One of a series of interviews Casey Luskin of the Discovery Institute is holding with Bradley Monton, author of Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design. There is some real substance here. Seeking God in Science: ...
Who Do You Say Jesus Is?
Now the followers of Christ get their turn to answer this question: Who is Jesus, and what was his central message when he walked this earth? A few days ago I gave atheists and skeptics the first opportunity to answer this question. There was a mixed...
Who Do You Say Jesus Was?
Jesus asked in Matthew 16:13-20, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?” (”Son of Man” was one of the ways he referred to himself.) Then he asked his followers who they thought he was. I have a similar question for any reader h...
“Ordinary Misconceptions”
“There are many misconceptions about Christianity in today’s world, but the greatest is this: that there’s something ordinary about following Jesus Christ.” That’s the opening of my latest Daily Press guest column. The l...
Blogging Break
Some very unexpected and challenging circumstances have come up here, so I have not been taking part in discussions as much as I would like. I hope to be back in touch again in a day or so. Tweet This Post...
Resources for Keeping Your Faith In College
Books on Christianity In College Website: Boundless.org Focus Section—highly recommended! Campus Ministry Groups Campus Crusade for Christ Intervarsity Christian Fellowship Navigators Baptist Student Union (I cannot find a national level websi...
For Students and Parents, On Staying Christian In College
Students are heading back to college soon. What’s it like for Christians on secular campuses? For some it’s a spiritually rich experience where pressures and opportunities come together to build faith. These students often discover great ...
Sam Harris Contra Francis Collins as NIH Head
I was thinking of writing a response to Sam Harris’s recent bleat against Francis Collins. Collins, a world-class researcher, is also a medical doctor to whom my family owes considerable gratitude for treating one of our family members when he ...
“A Thousand Questions”
Seen at a Campus Crusade for Christ conference this evening. Powerful!...
“Fine Tuned Cosmos” by David Heddle (Faith and Science Part 2)
David Heddle, Ph.D., physicist at Jefferson Laboratory and Christopher Newport University and a fellow blogger, was Seaford Baptist Church’s guest speaker for Part Two of the series, “Does Faith Make Sense In An Age of Science?” (Pa...
“Maverick Philosopher: Dennett on the Deformation of the God Concept”
From Bill Vallicella: One of the striking features of Daniel C. Dennett’s Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Viking 2006) is that Dennett seems bent on having a straw man to attack. This is illustrated by his talk of the R...
“Religion and violence”
From Victor Reppert: Religion doesn’t lead to violence. A willingness to use the powers of the state to enforce religious or non-religious conformity is what leads to violence. Political power carries with it temptations. Christians have a tra...
“The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is” by N.T. Wright
Book Review I should have anticipated it from the title, but N.T. Wright’s The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is presented me with an unexpected personal challenge. Wright is an historian of the New Testament era, and in th...
“BBC NEWS | Health | Religion ‘linked to happy life’”
Via Shadow To Light: A belief in God could lead to a more contented life, research suggests. Religious people are better able to cope with shocks such as losing a job or divorce, claims the study presented to a Royal Economic Society conference. Dat...
Change the World From Your Computer
As a Thinking Christian reader, if you’re one of our readers who is a believer in Christ, you may have just what it takes to help change the world from right where you are. Global Media Outreach gives you the opportunity to touch lives anywhere...
The Map or the Fuel? (Living By Grace)
Is the Christian life a life of rules? The Bible is full of commands, but it also says we’ve been freed from the law. Is that as confusing to you as it has been to me? Last November Discipleship Journal published an article I wrote to sort out ...
Ralph Winter’s Task Is Finished
I had the privilege of studying with Dr. Ralph Winter at the U.S. Center for World Mission a little over 25 years ago. He was a giant in the world of missions already, and he continued strong until his going home to be with the Lord yesterday. Few ha...
A Conversation On the Problem of Evil
A couple of weeks ago I got an email with an extended question on the problem of evil. The sender and I worked it through some over email, and then I asked if I could move it here to the blog, to which he said yes. The conversation so far is presente...
