Few Americans have understood the temptation of earthly power and the possibility of redemption through Christ as clearly as Chuck Colson. Those of us old enough to remember the Watergate era and the televised hearings it generated can remember Colson as the “evil genius” who ruthlessly spught to discredit political opponents while serving as special [...]
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While death claimed the King of Glory, it could not hold Him in its grasp. The greatest of all enemies has been broken and has no claim on those who believe. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Christ is Risen!! Even having been told what would happen, even having [...]
Can we imagine the shock of the twelve and their followers. They were convinced Jesus was the Messiah. They had followed Him, they saw the signs and wonders, and witnessed His triumphant march into Jerusalem. One of the twelve betrayed Him and another denied knowing Him three times to save his own skin. When He [...]
The Lord Jesus Christ had taught, healed, and prophesied the coming events. Yet even as His words were fulfilled, those closest were not to be found. Tradition says only the Apostle John was there of the twelve. It was mainly the women who stood by Jesus at he hung on the cross. Yet even there, [...]
Today is Maundy Thursday on the church calendar of the West. Tonight we remember both the Last Supper the Lord Jesus Christ had with his Apostles and his institution of Holy Communion or what has come to be known as the Eucharist. It is this feast that gives us the spiritual strength for our journey [...]
Today is Palm Sunday and the beginning of what is celebrated among Western Christians as Holy Week (Holy Week for the Eastern Christians will be next week). Today is Palm Sunday when the crowds in Jerusalem welcomed Jesus as Messiah. Soon they would turn their back upon him and he would die by the end [...]
Having been blogging again for two months, I think I should approach the topic of how I do apologetics. There is a lot of debate going on right now between two methods: evidentialism and presuppositionalism. The first attempts to demonstrate the truth of the Christian faith from the standpoint of neutral philosophical principles that do [...]
Now that I have at least settled into a somewhat regular blogging routine, I will take outline where I plan to go with this blog in the future. Beginning next week, I will begin addressing some concerns relating to Christian apologetics including items on “Jesus Mythicism” (the claim by some that Jesus never existed) and [...]
Recently, I have become aware of a group that is claiming to have found the “Original Scriptures” and translated them into English. The Biblical manuscripts we possess are allegedly all terribly corrupted and this group claims they have found the “true” Bible. Such a find would, of course, be revolutionary if true, but is there [...]
It seems the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the mainstream Lutheran body that entered some sort of joint recognition agreement with the Epicocpal Church (TEC), did not pick up the many legal traps made popular by their Anglican bedfellows. Although the ELCA has begun to follow the TEC on its road to apostasy, their Anglican [...]
