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Forgiveness

Posted on January 10, 2018 by admin

After Jesus taught us what we now call the Lord’s Prayer, the first comment he made was: For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, … Continue reading →

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What We Recall

Posted on January 1, 2018 by admin

Over the holidays I chanced upon a book about a crew member of the USS Arizona who survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.  This book was about his experience during the war and included information … Continue reading →

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Critical Thinking

Posted on December 10, 2017 by admin

I met Al Arnold at a Civil War reenactment where he was selling his book.  His book is about his grandfather who was a slave and who worked for Robert E. Lee as an orderly during the war.  This led … Continue reading →

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The Purpose of Scars and Dents

Posted on November 19, 2017 by admin

In a recent aviation oriented magazine, the owner of an airplane who leased out her airplane to a local flight school lamented the fact that whenever she flew the airplane she would notice new damage that was caused by student … Continue reading →

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The Fleeting Moments of Our Lives

Posted on November 12, 2017 by admin

Depending upon which translation you read, the Preacher tells us that all of life is vanity, is meaningless, or is like a vapor (Ecclesiastes 1:2).  If we spend time evaluating his claim, we would need to acknowledge that he is … Continue reading →

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Rules or Relationship

Posted on October 16, 2017 by admin

People have many different opinions on what constitutes Christianity and Janie B. Cheaney points out a couple of these differing opinions in a recent article.  Some believe Christianity is discovering the right rules God has setup for us and then … Continue reading →

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The Great Lisbon Apocalypse of 1755

Posted on September 24, 2017 by admin

On All Saint’s Day, November 1, 1755, Lisbon, Portugal was hit with an earthquake, tsunami, and then fire that destroyed a great part of the city.  Communication was slow in those days but when the other nations of the world … Continue reading →

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Open to Criticism

Posted on September 18, 2017 by admin

In the last blog we quoted Michael Ward who asserts that true religion should be “. . .both self-critical and open to criticism from without, open to revision in the light of new knowledge and in response to new situations.” … Continue reading →

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True Religion

Posted on September 10, 2017 by admin

Michael Ward is a professor of Apologetics at Houston Baptist University and a Fellow of Blackfriars Hall at the University of Oxford.  He asks a question that not too many Christians ask these days. Is it possible to be too … Continue reading →

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Data Driven

Posted on August 20, 2017 by admin

If you are in the scientific or business community you have heard the term “data driven”.  This term means that we base our conclusions and decision on the basis of data, not upon our intuition or personal experience, or what … Continue reading →

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