Is the Lord Enough
A question for dark days. He was a dying man. He had been strong and vigorous, a hard worker, always providing for his family. He had come to know the Lord while he was young, had grown in the Lord, had...
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The CSI Test and the Bible
The tests for reliability where it matters most. There is an interesting phenomenon in our culture—we are fascinated by crime stories. For years, many of the top-rated programs on television have been criminal dramas. Check out the Nielsen Ratings that measure...
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Scientific Secrets
The “facts” need to be brought into focus. Science has many secrets. Not deep, dark, conspiratorial secrets, but practical secrets that are well-known to trained scientists yet not often revealed to the public, and for good reason. Scientists like to project...
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Prepared to Give an Answer
Educational television is rarely without an agenda. In May 25th of this year, The History Channel broadcast a primetime program entitled The Link. Advertisements for the premier stated, “Missing link found! An incredible 95 percent complete fossil of a 47-million-year-old human...
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Survivor
The horseshoe crab: Just lucky? The North American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) is a real survivor. The standard evolution-based interpretation of fossil evidence is that horseshoe crabs have survived virtually unchanged for 445 million years despite living through times of massive...
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An Acceptable Sin?
A growing problem Most Christians take a strong stand against certain sins. There is a holy rejection of sexual immorality. The pro-life movement is strong with its plea for the life of the unborn. Alcoholism and drug abuse are rightly condemned....
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Reader’s Guide to the Origins Debate (part 3)
Dealing with Dawkins In this third and final installment of “Reader’s Guide to the Origins Debate,” I recommend books which respond to the writings of Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion 1—a harshly worded attack on religion in general and...
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The Direction of the Emerging Church Movement
Moving the church away from Christ and the gospel? The emerging church movement insists that change in the identity, life, and message of the church is necessary if the church is going to be relevant in the present postmodern world society....
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Reader’s Guide to the Origins Debate (part 2)
Scientific evidence within a consistent Bible framework Charles Darwin hesitated to publish his ideas on how new species of animals came to exist because he knew they would cause major controversy in the scientific and theological worlds of the 1850’s.1 He...
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