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Category Archives: Christian Living
Happy Thanksgiving
Just in time for Thanksgiving, Baptist Press has published my article on, well, Thanksgiving: “Repairing Family Squabbles on Thanksgiving Day.” A lot of families get together on Thanksgiving Day and the article gives some advice on navigating this at-times awkward situation, … Continue reading
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Happy Halloween
A few years back I wrote an article on the history and meaning of Halloween entitled “What Should Christians Think of Halloween?” In fact, that article was one of the first that I posted to First Baptist Church’s blog. Four … Continue reading
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The Resurrection and Colossians 3
This last week the family and I visited Forest Lawn in Glendale to see the Hall of the Crucifixion and Resurrection. It was pretty impressive and well worth the trip. Interestingly enough, that same week someone sent me a question … Continue reading
The Reality of Good and Evil
Here at the First Baptist Church of Granada Hills we are studying C. S. Lewis’s wonderful little book Miracles on Wednesday nights. Chapter five of Miracles focuses on morality and the problem notions of right and wrong pose for thorough-going … Continue reading
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Tagged C. S. Lewis, ethics, evil, good, miracles, moral argument for god, moral realism, morality, obiwan, objective, vader
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Easter goes on… and on.
The entire month of May this year is part of the season of Easter. While we tend to think of Easter as a single day, historically speaking the Christian Church has spread the fun out a bit, setting a full … Continue reading
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North American Missions
April is the month in which we focus on the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering this year, an offering that benefits the North American Mission Board of our Southern Baptist Convention. The offering doesn’t just help to support professional missionaries working … Continue reading
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“Questions from the Congregation” Part 2: Jesus’ Promises, the Modern Believer, and Miracles
Wednesday night’s study was the second installment of our renew series of “Questions from the Congregation.” In our first session we discussed the relationship between freewill and omnipotence. This time the topic was a bit more… theatrical, let’s say. Question: … Continue reading
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Tagged cessationism, faith healing, miracles, promise, tongues
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The Ethics of Jesus and the Resurrection
The Christian faith is a complex thing with all sorts of remarkable components: theological doctrines like the Trinity and justification by faith, predictive claims like the resurrection of the dead, and ethical imperatives like turning the proverbial cheek are all … Continue reading
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Tagged ethics, historical Jesus, non-violence, pacifism, resurrection
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Faith and Doubt
Faith is integral to Christianity. It is, after all, often called the Christian faith. And of course all that means is that Christians believe in certain things which they do not currently see. The virgin conception of Jesus, His … Continue reading
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Tagged belief, Christianity, doubt, faith, fear, irrational, rational, resurrection, skeptic, wishful
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Homecoming
For many youth, the month of September means one thing above all else: the return of school. After weeks upon weeks of enjoying the warmth of summer and all the freedom that goes with it, once again these students … Continue reading
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