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Are we ready to return to the burdens others have placed before us? What arguments do you as a Christian provide to a Cannibal who has accepted Christ as their Lord and Savior, but wishes to retain their dietary habits? If a fellow convert to Christianity is told that they can't eat pork...

If you had to choose, which one sounds like good news, and which one sounds like a nightmare? COUNTERFEIT GRACE Says it's not necessary to keep the law. Jesus saves you in your sins. Jesus covers me with his righteousness, but I'm still dirty on the inside, like a painted sepulchre. I don't...

The skeptic loves to point out contradictions, and if there is only one law, then there are plenty. I have listed below the contention of the skeptic, but I have also pointed out that my answer to the skeptic is that the bible distinguishes between the moral law (the commandments) and the...

From WWI. Some may not be old enough to know about what happened in No Man's Land when the first Christmas of WWI was celebrated by Christians who spontaneously called a truce despite the fact that they were committing treason. The official trailer of “Joyeux Noel”: A pictorial history...

It's been a long time since someone said, "Merry Christmas" to me. Last year a telemarketer somewhere in India said it, but today (12/23/19) a clerk in Winn Dixie said it as well as a librarian as she checked out a book for me. I have grown used to people saying "Happy Holidays" so it caught...

Lately I've been posting a perspective that deviates from the standard interpretation of who Christ is, who we are in Christ, as well as what it means to live a resurrected life. I see the focal point of the crucifixion and resurrection illustrating Christ's teaching of self denial, or self...

"Think not that I am come to destroy the Law or the prophets: I am not come to destroy but to fulfill.For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." (Matthew 5:17,18). Fulfill - PLEROO (GRK.) - to make...

Facebook has just deleted someone's Christmas post because it doesn't comply with their guidelines. It was a passage from the bible. It wasn't anything to do with condemning homosexuality, or subjugating women. It was the most commonly referenced passage of the nativity. Facebook has a...

These are constantly conflated by Christians, and can only lead to gross error. The Law Which Is Established The writings of the Disciples of Christ contain clear evidence that the Law is still relevant to Christians and the Ten Commandments are highlighted...

Christ abrogates the Golden Rule by saying "Love others as I have loved you". How many can honestly claim that they love others the way Christ loves the world? The fact is that only those who are in Christ can love as Christ loves the world. Everyone else is a fraud. At the core of Christ's...

There is a bit of historical evidence pointing to Christian persecution in the Roman empire for the first few centuries of this new sect of Judaism. One thing that is conspicuously absent is any evidence that they were persecuted for believing in the resurrection. The Roman empire didn't have a...

That passage is often quoted to support our diligent study of God's word, and yet Isaiah points out that anyone with less than a pure heart will be broken and snared by it. Seems ironic that most people never notice that little bit of critical information Why is that? It reminds me of a song...

Of course they should, but only in a free society. In a free society, business owners have the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason on any basis. In a free society, “public accommodations” are still private businesses and therefore don’t have to accommodate all members of the...

Proclaiming the gospel can be difficult as times, and sometimes I try to see how to boil it down to the essential message. Here are three verses that I think sum it up: "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Who can know it?" Jer.17:9 Jeremiah presents the state of...

Just heard Tim Tebow was suspended for using performance enhancing Bible verses. Anyone know which ones he was using?

I have been debating atheists, skeptics, agnostics for decades, and have come to the unfortunate conclusion (one which most Christians already know) that they're hopelessly confused. Here's an example of what one just recently posted to me: "As far as knowing something doesn't exist, the lack...

There is no effective difference between laws which prohibit theft, murder, adultery, etc., and those same laws which have been codified. Codification of laws simply makes them easier to classify, reference, etc. When Paul claims that the "law which was added because of transgressions" have...

No identity is better than any identity The Tao, Buddhism, Christianity, etc. all have this idea of self denial/self sacrifice, non-self,an emptying of self, etc. On the other end of the spectrum there's psychology, and psychiatry which claim that a well developed sense of self is healthy...

Do you know of any examples of when the exception becomes the rule? God says work six days, and rest on the Sabbath. The term essentially means "rest". rest from servile work. Even a servant deserves to rest. Jesus heals people on the Sabbath, but this is an exception to the rule. The Mosaic...

The arguments against, and requests for proof by atheists, skeptics, etc. for the existence of the Christian god are incoherent and contradictory. As some have admitted already, some of the core tenets of Christianity are that "God" is omniscient, omnipotent, transcendent as well as the origin...