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The Vain Pursuit of Happiness
Everything we do, we do in the pursuit of one goal. It is the permanent mainspring which drives all human activity. It may take a different outward form for each of us, but the same fundamental desire drives us all. We organize all the days of our lives and all their activities around this one goal. That goal is happiness. We are each seeking...
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As Christ in the Father
Christ had taught His disciples that to abide in Him was to abide in His love. The hour of His suffering is nigh, and He cannot speak much more to them. They doubtless have many questions to ask as to what that abiding in Him and His love is. He anticipates and meets their wishes, and gives them HIS OWN LIFE as the best exposition of His command....
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Early Persecution of the Church
During the early Christian period, prior to the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, the Roman authorities regarded Christians as a branch of the Jewish faith. Rome was very tolerant of the religions of subject people and took no interest in their worship unless it threatened the tranquility of the state. Christianity was treated as a legal religio...
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The American History of Us
The history of Christianity in the United States is a controversial topic in our modern day and age. Secularists and humanists want to claim that Christianity had little influence on the formation of this country, and that the influence that it did have was detrimental at best, tyrannical at worst. On the opposite side are Christian historians and...
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A New Kind of Narrative
In his new book, A New Kind of Christianity, author Brian McLaren seeks to address "ten questions that are transforming the [Christian] faith." As promised in the introductory article, we will be taking our own look at McLaren's ten questions and his responses to them. Although I am going to assume that readers to these articles have not read McLar...
Bible Reading
March 10, 2010
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, Shall a wise man speak words of the wind? and fill his belly with the East wind? Shall he dispute with words not comely? or with talk that is not profitable? Surely thou hast cast off fear, and restrainest prayer before God...
Earthly prosperity is no sign of the special love of heaven, nor are sorrow and care any mark of God's disfavor. God's love is robust, true, and eager—not for our comfort, but for our lasting blessedness. It is bent on achieving this, and it is strong enough to bear misrepresentation...
Daily Devotion
March 10, 2010
Book Reviews
March 05, 2010
The history of Christianity in the United States is a controversial topic in our modern day and age. Secularists and humanists want to claim that Christianity had little influence on the formation of this country, and that the influence that it did have was detrimental at best, tyrannical at worst. On the opposite side are Christian historians and scholars that want to find Christianity behind every event and decision that was made in the more than 400 years that have elapsed since the Mayflower crossed the Atlantic. While it is true that the secularists generally understate the case, it is also true that many Christians tend to overstate it. The real story, as it so often does, lies somewhere between these two extremes.
