I’ve met many people over the years who tell me that if God would just show up personally, in a visible manifestation of Himself, then they’d believe. When I answer that God did show up on Earth in the person of Jesus Christ about two-thousand years ago, they say, “That’s not good enough!” They […]
A personal testimony of Shelley Singh
Although I think Social Media has drawbacks (like reducing real ‘face-time’ and circulating false info), many good things can come from it. Some of those are meeting sincere people who love Christ. One I’ve met is a woman who’s been following my Think Divinely blog named Shelley Singh. Shelley’s […]
Skeptics often point their fingers at evil done by Christians to validate their belief that there is no God. The Crusades, witch hunts and racism have definitely left their scars on Christianity. It’s easy for skeptics to discard the Christian faith based on these horrific acts, but Dr. Clay Jones, associate professor at Biola […]
The battle cry of critics when Christians go wrong
Anytime a Christian leader, be it the Pope or an Evangelical preacher, commits a sin, it reflects poorly on the whole Body of Christ. We are, after all, in this faith together (1 Cor. 12:27). Believers are part of a bigger picture, a meta-narrative called the […]
by contributing writer, Sally Fam
In the previous post, I pointed out how we tend to misunderstand and misapply the Golden Rule. I also offered a different interpretation of the Golden Rule claiming that it is the proper interpretation given its context. Here, I will offer more detail of the evidence supporting Jesus’s intended meaning […]
We live in an age of confusion – no one seems to know how to define truth, so it simply isn’t defined. After all, who really has the corner on truth? What is true for you is not true for me, and who are you to tell me how I should live my life? You stay in your corner with your truth, and I will stay in mine; that’s tolerance, that’s kindness, that will create peace... or will it? What happens when my truth collides with yours… where is the peace then?
Who has time to even think about this stuff? In our fast-paced American culture, where busyness rules, it’s hard to stop and think about things that greatly affect our lives. Who has time to really think? But I want to challenge you, if we fail to think about the times in which we live, we fail to truly live. So the question is: how do we think? We need to think… divinely.