Abundant Toughness
What does nature really tell us about life? As a young boy, I absorbed the message of the fledgling environmental movement by watching The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau on television. Today, a new “green” generation has been raised on PBS...
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The Sound of Music
Is there more to it than meets the ear? The arrival and passing of summer in the central plains of North America is marked by characteristic sounds. The call of chorus frogs means the spring rains have awakened eggs laid last...
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Pilate Wasn’t the Only One
The other Roman governor who fulfilled prophecy About twenty years before Pontius Pilate assumed control of Judea, a procurator by the name of Caponius was installed by Rome. The year was AD 6. His governorship would set in motion the fulfillment...
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Why Might an Assembly Die?
The removal of a lampstand Some proclaim that all is well in Christendom by pointing to the growth of mega churches. But the truth is that mega churches often grow by pulling people away from smaller churches. People might be attracted...
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War Correspondents
They might be giants. The one event that shaped the world more than any other during the last century was World War II. Conservative estimates place the number killed during the conflict as well north of 55,000,000.1 In Europe, the war...
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Messianic Judaism
Shadow or substance? Messianic Judaism, like all movements, is diverse. But it has two major problematic characteristics that are common throughout the movement. The first is the “recovery” of the Name of God that supposedly leads to proper worship by removing...
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New and Improved?
Is belief in beneficial mutations scientific? For years, engineers who designed Mercedes-Benz cars refused to offer electric windows as an option to standard hand crank windows. In characteristic German fashion, they argued that the simple structure of the hand crank mechanism...
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Add-Ons
Originally they may have been meant to fill in details where the New Testament seemed strangely silent. Perhaps they began as temporary supports that, in time, became part of the building. Or maybe they were practical applications of principles, but...
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A God of Judgment
Everyone who seeks to share the gospel will face this question sooner or later: “If your God is a God of love, how could He command the slaughter of men, women and children in the Old Testament—for example, such passages...
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