Cutting It Straight
“Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.”
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Steerage
When a ship is crippled in naval warfare, it becomes hors de combat or “out of the fight.” Its masts broken, with sails shredded and hull or rudder damaged, the ship is at risk of being boarded and taken by the enemy.
Read MoreA Light To My Path
“The unfolding of Your words gives light;
It gives understanding to the simple.”
Psalm 119:130
“The Mark of a Christian”
Several months after I became a Christian I attended a fall conference for college students from several universities within the state. I wasn’t doing very well that weekend, and Saturday evening when I went to my bunk I found a small packet on my pillow.
Read MoreEyewitnesses
Despite the denial of absolute truth by postmodernism, our own eyes bear witness to the reality that truth is truth for all because to all the universe gives evidence of God. In the New Testament we have the record of other eyewitnesses—eyewitnesses to the resurrected Christ. What was from the beginning, what we have heard, […]
Read MoreMirrors
I first heard Graham Kendrick’s Shine Jesus Shine sung by a choir of children from a Christian orphanage in Africa. Shining with smiles, when they came to the chorus they started swinging flashlights in time to the music, and we rejoiced together in Jesus who had brought light into our lives. The song contains the […]
Read More“Truth For All”
The title of this post is from the 1968 Star Trek quote I mentioned in The Era of Six Impossible Things: “Is truth not truth for all?” A Christian answers with a resounding, “Yes!”
When truth is in the realm of the physical universe each of us must answer, “Yes, truth is truth for all.”…
It’s another story, however, when it comes to discussing truth in the moral and metaphysical universe in our postmodern society…
Read MoreThe Era Of Six Impossible Things
Sometimes I think I have gone Through the Looking-Glass with Alice, there are so many today who, like Lewis Carroll’s White Queen, are able to believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast. A few can handle more than six! It doesn’t matter if there is no basis for the truth of any of those things nor does it seem to matter if there is contradiction between them.
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Kindling for Candles 