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I’m not going to link to it because it contains a lot of immature language, but a while ago I caught part of a video where someone posed the question, “If you didn’t know anything about the Bible and came across one and started reading it, would you believe it?” The guy talking was a [...]

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Although I’m old enough to feel old sometimes… like yesterday (after hoops and squash on Sunday)… and today (after 40k on the bike on Monday - with a cat)… I’m not probably old enough to know for sure that Ravi Zacharias is right about The Dying Art of Thinking, although I suspect that he is.
A [...]

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No… not that evolution… just changes… that’s all.
For one… I’ve always shared a lot of things I like in the “Shared Items” section in the sidebar… but I think I’ll start choosing a few of those and dedicating a post to them. I don’t really have time to blog more often… to write more… to [...]

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As usual… the “main stream” media gets it wrong. They’ve chosen to take a political angle in reporting the recent release of An Evangelical Manifesto.
Joe Carter writes at Evangelical Outpost:
Indeed, every single news article focused on the political implications rather than on what it really said. Consider these headlines:

     AP: Evangelical leaders say their faith [...]

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From RLP
This is prayer. You do not have to speak. Do not let anyone tell you that you must speak. You may speak if you wish, or you may simply listen in the darkness.

Of course… we all like it when we hear things we agree with…
I spend hours listening… sometimes I hear from God… sometimes [...]

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I haven’t heard much about this book yet… The Shack … but it sounds like it is getting pretty popular. It is currently #10 on Amazon.com of ALL books.
When a Christian book gets to be that popular… alarms should be sounding all over the place… see The Prayer of Jabez and Left Behind for examples.
I [...]

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A nun pleads for mercy for the young man who attacked her… but he’s going to prison anyway.
The story from the Baltimore Sun
Here’s the reaction to her plea…
Police officers waiting for other cases listened in astonishment.
The defendant’s aunt and grandmother wept openly. Even strangers sitting in the courtroom sat spellbound and dabbed at their eyes. [...]

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The “Problem of Suffering” is an old one… and IMO it will never be truly solved - truly figured out - truly understood - truly reasonable…
I’ve linked to Real Live Preacher before and he often shows up in my shared items in the sidebar.
But this needs more than just a link in the sidebar…
RLP invited [...]

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Thanks to Wayne at ekklisia for linking to What Kind of Resurrection? on Dr. Darrell Bock’s blog.
Dr. Bock is one of the main speakers at the Taiwan Missionary Fellowship 2008 Summer Conference.
Although I’ve done some work on the TMF website and currently sit on the administrative committee, I didn’t know Dr. Bock had a blog.
Thanks [...]

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I think this is the right moment to consider a question which is often asked: If Christianity is true why are not all Christians obviously nicer than all non-Christians? What lies behind that question is partly something very reasonable and partly something that is not reasonable at all. The reasonable part is this. If conversion [...]

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