As we approach the 237th anniversary of July 4, 1776, I have several disparate but related thoughts. We are a young nation. It seems impossible to me, but in just my sixty-six years I have lived through over one quarter of our nation’s history. If you trace back...
Secular Atheist Demolishes Darwinian Evolution Thomas Nagel is a University Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Law at New YorkUniversity. He is a well known secularist and atheist. And yet, in his new book Mind and Cosmos, or Why the...
Last week Mark Tidwell spoke at Ken Boa’s Bible Study in Atlanta. Please, when you have forty-two minutes, watch Mark’s talk at https://www.kenboa.org/video/2013-01-30-wed/--nothing I could write today will have the impact of Mark’s story. And he has a powerful...
[Thanks to Rowland Cocks at Men’s Fraternity for pointing me in this direction.] This Tuesday will be the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade ruling, and I very much appreciate President Obama’s words in preparation for the anniversary, mourning that...
We need a Savior. Even as our family gathers this week, blessed with good health, a thriving new generation, and jobs, our joy is balanced by the ever-present reminders of evil, chaos and death. Mass murder of innocents at an elementary school. The fiscal cliff about...
Looking forward from the November election, I have these thoughts, by category. Spiritual It’s hard to imagine a better summary than Randy Alcorn’s article in his Eternal Perspectives Ministries current newsletter. He reminds us that we "vote" every day by our...
The first Christmas was God’s intervention in human events with His plan for our salvation--easily the most important event in history. The Light came into the darkness. Christmas led to Christ’s death and resurrection--the once-for-all atonement for our sins....
It’s amazing how important worldview can be. Take the secular vs. the Judeo-Christian view of bad behavior and unfairly advancing self, family or friends. The secular worldview, if it were honest, would not criticize such selfish behavior, because if we are just...
As noted in previous posts, there are several facets to the U.S. being a Christian nation, and here I want to focus on how the U.S. should be Christian nation. I ask the question: at the beginning of the twenty-first century, how should we live? The same way as the...
In a December post I gave both general and specific reasons why I am certain that the Founders of this nation clearly intended for its laws and its society to be founded on Judeo-Christian principles. And that they expected the unhindered propagation of Christian...
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