This is the fourth chapter of Paul Little’s classic book, “Know Why You Believe” for my Sunday Bible study class.
The resurrection is the foundation of the Christian faith – 1 Corinthians 15:14. Since we have already looked into the big questions of life (Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we [...]
This is the second chapter of Paul Little’s classic book, “Know Why You Believe” for my Sunday Bible study class.
Quite a profound question, since the dawn of time:
· “More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.” – Mortimer Adler.
· The whole tenor [...]
This is the first chapter of Paul Little’s classic book, “Know Why You Believe” for my Sunday Bible study class.
What is faith? Does it mean to believe in something you know isn’t true?
Don’t check your brains at the door:
· It is not only essential to know what we believe but to know why we believe [...]
Dinesh D’Souza takes on leading critics of the church from E.O. Wilson to Richard Dawkins, from Sam Harris to Christopher Hitchens, extolling how Christianity is at home in the arena of science and philosophy and can offer a recipe for lasting happiness in a disillusioned world. While considering the book, I found this review very insightful, [...]
More»There is a fascinating book called, unChristian (Kinnaman and Lyons) that declares Christianity has an image problem. I’ve known it for years but did not really have any research to support it. I often heard stories like:
The church is only after my money
Look at the lifestyles of TV evangelists
Church is boring or irrelevant
Remember Ted Haggard [...]
More»I read a lecture by Stephen Hawking about Space and Time Warps. It’s not that I had extra time on my hands (no pun intended) but because of a comment on my post regarding Blind Faith or Logical Reasons to Believe God Exists. His comment was that the laws of physics break down prior to [...]
More»The drought in Atlanta brought out people of faith to the capital steps to pray for rain. Across the street, the Freethought Society protested. I remembered from school, America stood for freedom of religion, but today it is being reinterpreted to mean freedom from religion, like religious expression should never be in the public arena. [...]
More»If we are to believe the media, atheism appears to be taking the offensive. “We’re good people, we’re just not God people.” Sounds like positive PR. According to the Barna Group, over 81 percent of Americans claim to pray at least weekly, which means to me that for people to pray, they must pray to or believe in some [...]
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