In John 18:38 Pontius Pilate famously asked Jesus the question “what is truth?” I once heard R.C. Sproul give this definition: “That which corresponds to reality.” One of the interesting things about a Biblical Christian Worldview is that it assumes the existence of an absolute objective truth that is external to mankind. We are not…
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The Non-Marriage Marriage
I just read this article at CNN.com: My daughter and her partner were married in 2004 and I couldn’t ask for a better spouse for my daughter, or daughter-in-law for me. However, my attitude traveling to the wedding was far different from my attitude on the trip home. God attends gay weddings. Who knew? People…
The Death Penalty Values Human Life
Illinois recently abolished the death penalty. I posted a comment about that on one off my Facebook friend’s wall about how this action devalued human life. He asked me what I meant and I wrote the following comment which I hope will be useful to you: In Genesis there is a description of an increase…
Kingdom Come
In Matthew 6:9ff Jesus teaches us how to pray. I find that what he teaches us challenges some basic, and often unspoken, presuppositions of the modern Christian. The contemporary believer believes that God is concerned about spiritual things primarily; things like prayer, going to church, looking forward to heaven. Jesus does start with a spiritual…