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From my X / Twitter “For you” feed today - “Is there a particular book of the Bible that you read more often than others?” https://x.com/wendelltalks/status/2046264438106271841?s=61 The question is drawing a good number of responses on X / Twitter. Maybe it will here too. If there is, what...

“One of the greatest apologetic challenges In a post-Christian world is just getting unbelievers to imagine that the world could possibly be otherwise.” - Michael J. Svigel

No thoughts? Here’s a take on the incident from a Messianic Jew - “My opinion as a Messianic Jew: It’s plain wrong to vandalize other people’s religious artifacts, but let’s be honest: Worshipping a statue of Jesus is totally pagan. Tens of millions of Christians in the world do not worship...

“… ‘liturgy’ refers to the order of a corporate worship service. All churches from every denominational stripe have an order of worship.” https://learn.ligonier.org/articles/liturgy A particular ritual may be wrong but there is nothing inherently wrong with ritual.

“The Israel Defense Forces confirmed the authenticity of a photo showing a soldier in Southern Lebanon smashing a statue of Jesus with a slegehammer ...” https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-says-image-of-soldier-destroying-jesus-statue-in-lebanon-is-real-vows-action/ What are your thoughts about...

An interesting read, from my X / Twitter “For you” feed today - https://x.com/gdalmiathinks/status/2046166393490657534?s=61

“Right now, the nation’s capital is in the middle of accomplishing something that only 17% of Americans say they’ve done: reading the Bible from cover to cover. The historic event, called @AmericaRTBible, is believed to be the largest of its kind in U.S. history.” (Family Research Council)...

“The world is always at peace with a lukewarm church, and such a church is always pleased with itself.” - C.H. Spurgeon

Having looked at the definition of “religion,“ let’s look at the definition of “irreligious”. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irreligious ”Religious” is a term applicable to Jesus, the apostles, and the followers of Jesus. “Irreligious” isn’t a term that is applicable to any of them.

There may be something wrong with religion but there doesn’t have to be anything wrong with religion. What was the Messiah’s religion? https://jewsforjesus.org/learn/what-religion-was-jesus

For example, “Most Christians traditionally worship on Sunday.” https://www.gotquestions.org/worship-on-Sunday.html There may be something wrong with that tradition but there doesn’t have to be anything wrong about the tradition.

There doesn’t have to be anything wrong with that.

“Peace will be established only by the reign of the prince of peace.” - C.H. Spurgeon If that is true - and I firmly believe that it is - what are the followers of the prince of peace (Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah, Son of the living God) to do while we wait for him to return and sit on the...

Is killing enemies compatible with Jesus’ teaching / command to his followers, “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you”? Is killing enemies compatible with Paul’s teaching / observation, “We [followers of Jesus] do not use the weapons of the world”?

“Never stop educating yourself, curiosity is the quiet engine of growth.” https://x.com/readswithravi/status/2046202470687203582?s=61