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Resolution

A few weeks ago, I wrote down titles and ideas for articles to place on this website.  I came up with 38 ideas for articles.  I wrote skeletons for each, and all that was needed was a little flesh before I could place them here for everyone to think about and comment on.  I had a great article on the story [...]

The Virginia Tech Shooting - Christian Responses

Everybody else is writting about it.  I might as well write about it also, to keep from being an irrelevant dinosaur.  Speaking of dinosaurs, here is Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis placing blame on the Virginia Tech shooting on those of us who do not take Genesis Chapters 2 and 3 as literal history.  [...]

Does God Talk to you?

I have a few simple questions to those who have some sort of relationship with God.  This is not setting you up for ridicule - I really want to know.

How does God talk to you?  Do you hear an audible voice?  Does God speak to you by testings and trials?  A feeling?
What sorts of things [...]

To be Like the Most High

On Easter Morning, I published an article which challenged my previous assumption that Jesus Christ physically rose from the dead about 2000 years ago.  Concerning the debate that the article generated, Reader Stan offers the following comment:
But it is quite evident that the process taken here is based on the goal. Christians want to believe [...]

More Resurrection Fuel to the Fire

Regarding the Resurrection, and continuing the comments from the last article:  
But to me, it is not what is possible, but what seems most plausible. The Synoptic Gospels line up the events of Jesus life fairly well. The Synoptics line up the events of the cross pretty well also, despite the differing sayings of Jesus in [...]

Is He Live or is He Memorex?

Last year about this time, I celebrated Easter as a committed believer of our Risen and Living Savior.  I have done so every Easter I can remember except for a rebellious stint I had while in my 20s (we all have those, no?).  The one thing I knew for certain was that it was impossible to be a [...]

Death of a Small Group

I tend to stay away from topics that are too emotionally charged.  I am more of the systematic type – here is a Bible verse, here is what I think it means, here is a creed, here is my polemic spew on it.  But a lot of our beliefs are based on highly charged emotion, [...]

Knowing God’s Secret Handshake

Reader Heather submites the following comment and open question:
Here’s a general question for anyone — in terms of the Bible, what are the clear-cut, no way around it, ways that one knows one is saved? All I’ve really found is believe in the Son, and ‘publicaly confess that Jesus is Lord and believe in one’s [...]

Is this my Future?

I am a little drained from writing so much last week.  I have a lot to think about, and a lot to sort through.  I want to have faith in God, but it is whittling away despite my fervent prayers and study. 
In the meantime, I found this article by DagoodS called Can’t Win.  He is a [...]

Trusting Jesus for my Salvation

When I was in my early to mid 20’s, I went through a phase of doubting my own salvation in Jesus Christ.  I lost faith in him and desperately wanted it back.  My lack of faith came from the string of broken promises that are in the Bible.  Consider this whopper, from the Great Commission [...]