Beyond The Rim…

This article was originally written on September 3, 2003. I post it today for your reflection and edification. Early Sunday morning I was listening to WRBS, our local Christian radio station, casually enjoying the presentation by Ravi Zacharias, when something…

“Islam has ordered us to terrorize our enemies and whoever denies that is an infidel himself.” So says the Algerian Salafist Group for Prayer and Combat (GSPC) which is a known North African Al-Qaida affiliate group as it applauded the…

I have been thinking about J. I. Packer’s assertion in the last chapter we looked at (Sons Of God), and I had a possible insight about the “Great Commission” that I would like to develop. Packer’s point as I see…

I was going through on a deleting pass of the approximately 200-300 spam comments I get a day when I forgot to click the “Invert Checkbox Selection” link and deleted the good comments rather than the spam. Real comments get…

Packer starts out this chapter with a provocative question: “What is a Christian?” Admitting that there are many ways to answer that question, he states that the richest answer is that a “Christian is one who has God as Father.”…

The Theospeak Guy has posted The Hardest Verse in the Bible in which he discusses “He must increase, I must decrease” (John 3:30 KJV). It got me to thinking about what believers find most difficult to deal with in Scripture….

Discovery is off. At 10:39 a.m. EDT the shuttle Discovery lifted off from Launch Pad 39B on the historic Return to Flight mission STS-114. As the nomenclature shows this is the 114th Space Shuttle flight. It is also the 31st…

One of the beautiful things about the Hubble is its ability to capture images that show changes over time. Our universe is in constant motion and undergoing constant change. Some of those changes are revealing, much as pictures of an…

“You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:32. Of all of the words of Jesus used by secular speakers, this is one of the favorites. Gloria Steinem even used a form of this biblical…

Due to computer problems today (my server has a failing boot disk) I have not been able to finish the Knowing God lesson on the first half of Chapter Nineteen: Sons of God. It will be up tomorrow, computers and…