Most Americans celebrated the fourth of July yesterday, a fact social media could not pass over. Twitter was chirping all day Saturday about whether or not religious leaders in America should even give the slightest of head nods to the national holiday. Is patriotism a sin? First, anything can become an idol. Anything we place over our identity in Christ…...
Read MoreHere'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 Not So Odd Couple,…...
Read MoreWell, fundamentalism is as fundamentalism does. For anyone who grew up around religious fundamentalism, the secular orthodoxy of the New Atheist movement smelled oddly familiar. The two have a lot in common. The New Atheist movement wasn't even new when it started about twenty years ago. It was a campaign kicked off by Sam Harris after the terrorist attacks of…...
Read MoreTime is an enigma. Dr. Suess once asked, "How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?" Albert Einstein said time is what keeps everything from happening at once. The columnist Dave Berry remarked, "Aside…...
Read MoreHere'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). ⊕  Get Literary ⊕  Bible Verses ⊕  Translators or…...
Read MoreA few years back a friend mentioned on social media that I should make my sketches available on Etsy. My wife chimed in and offered to run the "store" for me. So we put a few sketches online and have had fun hearing from people who have enjoyed my art. Last week I decided to make more of an investment…...
Read MoreMy 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…...
Read MoreIn 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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