One of the greatest practical jokes ever played on me was when some friends actually hid my car from me while I was at work. As a teenage boy, my car was my ticket to freedom. It represented my passage from a child to a man! Besides, I looked really cool driving it around the…
"Who touched Me?" What? Lord, the whole crowd is pressing in to touch You, and you ask "Who touched Me?" Lord, it doesn't make sense. Everybody is touching You.
I imagine that is what most of the disciples were either thinking or saying when the Lord asked this question in a large crowd one day. In…
You know the old saying "God works in mysterious ways." Well, that may be true, but that doesn't make my confusion over why things happen in my life any better! In fact, I have to confess to you that most of the short and cute little theological phrases ("Just trust the Lord" or "It's all…
The latest Faith Encouraged LIVE focused on Human Exceptionalism with my special guest Wesley J. Smith. Listen and learn about the dangers of reducing human life to nothing more than an intelligent ape and why modern society's emphasis on the evils of suffering may just see us extinguish the sufferer!
Listen and share with your friends.
http://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/faithencouragedlive/human_exceptionalism
The old coder adage "Garbage in - Garbage out." It meant that if the computer programmer got his code wrong, then it just stands to reason that the program wouldn't work properly.
What is true for computer programming is true for all of life. There is a current dust up about Genetically Modified Organism science and…
“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” This saying has been around a long time and been attributed to several famous and not-so-famous people, but it rings true, doesn't it?: It's hard to communicate AND…
The act of communication is an amazingly difficult task, because we humans communicate on so many levels: Verbal (obviously), Visual (both in writing and gestures, facial expressions), Auditory, and Sensory. We communicate, intentionally and unintentionally along all these spectrums all the time. And guess what, we still struggle with misunderstanding!
Just think of the multitude of…
I laughed out loud when a comedian started talking about words that seem to contradict each other. Phrases like "Jumbo Shrimp" and "Military Intelligence" and "Government Efficiency." They just seem to cancel each other out!
On a more serious note, St. Anthony the Great, the desert dweller, once said: "A time is coming when men will…
We were talking in Bible study recently about "First Principles." It seems this is something we so rarely consider, but if we miss fundamental truths, we always end up in places we never intended to go.
For instance, if you don't build your life on the fundamental truth that when you say "God" you mean the…