The Apostle Paul describes the believer as an artistic creation when he says, "For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago" (Ephesians 2:10). Others have pointed out how the Greek word translated here as "masterpiece" is the same word from which we…...
Read MoreI've written about the rap turned country artist Jelly Roll here before. His songs are filled with religious references from "Son of a Sinner" to his thoughts on prayer in "Favor" or his confession of "Hungover in a Church Pew." What would you do if a big buy like Jelly Roll with tattoos on his face sat next to you…...
Read MoreShe describes herself as a "Bible believing, powerlifting, cancer surviving, PhD astrophysicist." I've followed Sarah Salviander on social media for a few years and always find her stories interesting. Her recent post is worth consideration. "One thing I could not get past as an atheist was the lack of internal consistency of my worldview. When I began to question the foundation…...
Read MoreThe poet William Herbert Carruth, after extolling the beauty and mystery of nature, notes how humans respond in different, yet similar ways. Each stanza of his poem "Each in His Own Tongue" ends with a couplet containing the same last line. The first set ends with this contrast, "Some call it Evolution, And others call it God." Other stanzas juxtapose…...
Read MoreHere's Your Worldview Reader with links to articles, essays, reviews, & videos I consider to be interesting or important from a biblical worldview. Join me on the first & third Friday every month as I discuss topics from the post with Carmen LaBerge on My Faith Radio around 7:30AM (EST). ⊕ The Miraculous Sermon I Have to Preach All the…...
Read MoreDo you ever find yourself reading the Bible with something less than enthusiastic belief when it comes to stories about talking donkeys, floating axe heads, and rising corpses? Welcome to the club. We don't see that kind of stuff every day, or any day for that matter, so it can feel unreasonable even when we want to believe. Whey doesn't…...
Read MoreIt's stuck with me all these years later. The well-known theologian began his talk with the words, "I've written more about the Greek word for head than any other scholar." The talk was about biblical complementarianism and the speaker was none other than Wayne Grudem. He went on to say, "Yet it took me a lifetime to understand the head…...
Read More"Pied Beauty" by Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough; And àll tràdes, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle,…...
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