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Bible Verses

My presets on my car radio include KLove, NPR, an oldies station, and a couple country ones as well. It's always funny to me when a song or program comes on and I assume it's on a particular station only to find out I'm wrong. Or sometimes my kids will ask me, "Is this KLove?" and I'll know it's on…...

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Transformers or Translators

In his helpful book on theology, author Millard Erickson outlines two different approaches to talking about God in our modern day. He describes one method as "transformers" and the other "translators." One category speaks to a temptation and the other to Christian duty. The transformers are those who recognize that culture is always changing. They believe people are always changing…...

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Your Weekend Worldview Reader

  Here's Your Weekend 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 7:40AM (EST).     ⊕  Give Heaven Some Hell ⊕  Mortal Heroes…...

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Give Heaven Some Hell

The song-writer turned singer, Michael Hardy, tells the story of a man saying goodbye to a good friend in his song "Give Heaven Some Hell." He describes a packed funeral with a line outside of people waiting to say goodbye. "You had a wild side," Hardy writes, "but you had amazing grace." The song illustrates themes familiar to anyone who…...

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Your Weekend Worldview Reader

  Here's Your Weekend 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 7:40AM (EST).     ⊕  The Trinity and Reality (Part…...

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Towards a Theology of Science

Every semester I wrap things up with a talk I call "Towards a Theology of Science." This is a way of pointing students back to my central thesis for the class, that we we must begin our theology with Scripture and not experience. This is impossible to do, however, as we all bring baggage with us to our understanding of…...

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The Trinity and Reality (Part 1)

As long as their have been humans, there have been big questions to fill their heads during the day and haunt their dreams by night. One of the mysteries that has always loomed large in the human mind is that of unity. How can we have some unified way of making sense of our world with all of its diversity.…...

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If Marvel Can, Why Can’t We?

The Marvel Comics Universe (MCU) continues to expand in fascinating ways. I've really enjoyed the most recent series with actors Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan. The ethnic diversity of the starring duo plays out in powerful ways in the script as well. Here's a trailer for the final episode of this season (mild language warning). From their recent movies and…...

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