Category Archives: Application

Several years ago in a philosophy class I was taking, a fellow classmate gave me a list of three books he suggested that I read.   Well, I finally got around to reading one of those books.  It was a book … Continue reading →

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow says it more eloquently than the above title does.  At times it does seem that this world is a lost cause.  It is only because we have “the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things … Continue reading →

When things go our way, we tend to think of ourselves as lucky.  When things do not go our way, we think of ourselves as unlucky.  A recent column in Flying magazine puts a different perspective on this issue. Peter … Continue reading →

I have been reading John Hick’s book Evil and the God of Love.  It is one of the better books I have read on the subject of human free will vs. God’s sovereignty and how a loving God can permit … Continue reading →

Back in June we wrote about the book Killers of the Flower Moon which details the murders of several Osage Indians in order to concentrate and control the wealth of the Osage Indians.  The FBI only convicted one person of … Continue reading →

I recently read a book about the World War II battle for Okinawa.  Now books about World War II are not uncommon but what was different about this book was that it was written by a Japanese officer who was … Continue reading →

So why do we continue to ask questions of God in this blog? First, the Bible instructs us to ask questions.  The writer of Hebrews states:  “. . .whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and … Continue reading →

A little over a year ago, I wrote about a book, Batavia’s Graveyard, and talked about how disturbing it was to read.  It disturbed me because it was incredible how those who claimed to be Christians could distort the teaching … Continue reading →

In the last blog, we made mention of the fact that Christians will disagree on what are our essentials of our faith.  Since the Bible is the source of our doctrine, we should pay attention to it says about this … Continue reading →

In the past couple of blogs we have asked why our Christian community is so fractious when Jesus prayed that we should be as one.  The first question we must ask is:  What does Christian unity mean?  Does it require … Continue reading →