There’s a challenge to Christianity that seems to be growing in popularity:  The Jesus we worship is just a fiction, a conglomeration of myths from the past.  A film on the Internet called “Zeitgeist,â€� apparently well done, attempts to make the case that Jesus was a fiction created...

Return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and He relents over disaster.  Joel 2:13 At the heart of repentance, the very core of the life of the believer, is the call to turn again toward God.  We, God's chosen and ho...

There's a lot to digest in this study that finds that a growing number of Americans say they have no religion. Fifteen percent of respondents said they had no religion, an increase from 14.2 percent in 2001 and 8.2 percent in 1990, according to the American Religious Identification Survey. Here&...

John Stonestreet of Summit Ministries has some direct counsel for the church's sacred responsibility of passing the torch to the next generation, and it's totally in sync with what Brett Kunkle at STR is doing. [O]ur key concern in regards to the next generation is that they “get� Christ...

One of my favorite guilty pleasures is the Dateline DEA newsletter, the Drug Enforcement Agency's a "bi-weekly email informant." The DD is drug war news you can use. This week's edition is especially juicy. We learn that the DEA helped arrest 750 alleged members of the Sinaloa drug cartel after 21-m...

Fred Sanders has a beautiful reflection on experiencing God as Trinity.  He expands on Francis Schaeffer's writing about the true and proper desire to experience reality, the hunger we all have for reality.  And Christianity offers that reality to fill our spiritual hunger. The road ...

Genesis 3:16-19 To the woman He said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth, in pain you will bring forth children; yet your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you." Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eat...

It is my time to go. I knew that eventually Owain and I would go head to head over a business meeting and tonight was that night. The punk wants my job and wants to rotate all the positions - well he can have my job. I will be turning in my keys this week to Rick and bidding farewell to Tuesday Begi...

...don't go into the field with Jack Bauer.  FBI agent Renee Walker's meltdown last night was embarrassing.  I'm not saying she doesn't have courage.  She's already doing a job I don't have the courage to do.  What was embarrassing was the leap she mad...

MC spoke about them today and I’d like to join the queue; One of the many places online with info is the Silkworth site where Dick B. has had his writing reproduced. This is the beginning of that… What Are These “Four Absolutes?” You have to be around A.A. for quite a while b...