How you think changes everything
Naturalism as a philosophy¹ is the idea or belief that only natural laws and forces operate in the world. In other words, only material things are real. This is a worldview accepted as the truth and taught in secular education. It is the only thing science can tell us—what we experience materially with our five senses, […]
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Many Christians are confined to what they can only see within time or space. This mindset (even if unconscious) limits our ability to understand how the Holy Spirit works. Since we live in a scientific age, everything we think we know is based on observable facts. This is what is known as an “empirical view” of […]
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Three Important Truths I learned about Penal Substitution It’s troubling that some theologians don’t see penal substitution for what it is—a Holy God affecting retributive justice at immoral man for committing a crime against Him. Some of their objections are absurd. To me, it’s perfectly clear that the doctrine of penal substitution is not only […]
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The belief that morals are grounded in a transcendent source (God) is something worth fighting for, if you understand what author CS Lewis was trying to communicate. Lewis conveyed in his writings that if subjectivism, the belief that morals are based on personal feelings or opinions, is left unchecked it tends toward evil. This is […]
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I have a sacred space to commune with God. It’s a beautiful gift of office space in our new house. My husband knew I needed “my own place” to meet with God, pray, study and write. He insisted that I’d get a small office space built into the basement. I am so blessed to have this sacred […]
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Transgendered people have stated they feel safe and more comfortable using the bathroom of the gender with which they identify. However, to demand to use public restrooms or other facilities of the opposite sex can potentially hurt others. This is where we should draw the line. If the transgendered community wants to dress differently that choice doesn’t […]
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In Westernized culture today, it’s clear there is no longer a shared value existing that teaches people how to live or to know the nature of virtue. (Heck, some don’t even know what the word virtue means!) In the time before Christ, philosophical ideas from Plato to Aristotle infiltrated all of ancient Greece, and existed […]
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In Ethics and the Descent of Man, Charles Darwin attempts to explain how morals evolved naturalistically and why mankind has a sense of remorse when other, lower animals do not exhibit such a behavior. Darwin argues that man has a “well-marked social instinct” that aided in the development of a moral sense. He attempts to […]
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He spent years scanning for cancer as a radiologist, and now that he’d become a Christian, he could not be silent about sharing the hope that was within him to patients facing possible death. Michael Edwards, MD, is an invasive radiologist, trained to read MRIs, CTs and ultrasounds. He came to know Christ as […]
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Details of the horrific murder of Nicole, a 13-year old Virginia girl, are being revealed to the public in the slaying of this innocent child. Two college-aged teens are responsible. The 18-year-old boy probably enticed this gullible girl into an inappropriate relationship with him, and she was going to expose it. Reports say that the other […]
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