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The ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments that Don’t Hold Water
The ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments that Don’t Hold Water (Michael Poole, Lion, 2009) Somewhere in Surprised by Joy, before he became ‘the most reluctant convert in all England’, C S Lewis wrote that he did not believe God existed, and that he was very angry at God for not existing. Two contemporary atheists who do [...]
The Differential Feature of Christianity
“Without the hypothesis that Jesus is God-incarnate it is hard to make sense of any part of the New Testament. These claims by Jesus and the apostles, taken together, have led Christians to conclude that the valid beginning point for understanding this particular man is plainly and simply that he is truly God while not [...]
The Best Books I’ve Ever Read
My journey as a Christian, lover/husband, father, and pastor/teacher/ evangelist has covered different terrains during threescore and ten-plus years. Here’s a rough chronological journey listing books that influenced me at the time. Remember, I’m not back there, stuck where-I-was. I was brought up in a ‘gentle fundamentalist’ church (Open or Plymouth Brethren) and I’m still [...]
CONVERSION
I don’t know Who – or what – put the question. I don’t know when it was put. I don’t even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone – or Something – and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that therefore my life in self-surrender [...]
The Essence of Christianity
Excerpts from an Expository Times article by Rev. Selwyn Dawson (Auckland NZ) December 1975. Google for the full article… ***** * For some ‘the faith’ is clearly set out in the Scriptures, as ‘containing all things necessary for salvation’. How true – yet how specious. It is rather like saying ‘All of Shakespeare is to [...]
Reviews: ‘Freedom in Christ’ (Steve Goss)
Steve Goss: ‘Free to Be Yourself’, ‘Win the Daily Battle’, ‘Break Free, Stay Free’, ‘The YOU God Planned’, (Monarch Books, 2008, each about 100 pages). As a pastor-evangelist, I’m always looking for materials to give to new Christians. If they’re adults or young adults, and not necessarily tertiary-educated, and perhaps a bit disenchanted with routine-church, [...]
Free Biblical Training Classes
*Free Biblical Training Classes* New Testament scholar Bill Mounce has a great online Bible training institute. Scholars like Craig Blomberg, Bruce Ware, and Paul House have joined Mounce to provide these free classes in several downloadable audio formats. Cources for lay and professional ministers are available. http://www.biblicaltraining.org/index.php Grab Bag of Interesting SITES # Fruits and [...]
Archbishop of Canterbury at the Islamic University, Islamabad
23 NOVEMBER 2005 Lecture delivered by the Archbishop of Canterbury at the Islamic University, Islamabad Imagine someone watching, over a period of about one year, the things that happen in a Christian church. They would be aware that one day of the week had special significance. Particularly if they were observing what happens in a [...]
Fixing the Car
Ephesians 5:18 ll week long, my car ran great. Here and there, across town and back, up hills and down; no problems. I turned the key, the engine fired and I was on my way. Then, suddenly, on Friday a terrible thing happened. I was cruising along when it coughed a couple of times, sputtered, [...]
Is there a God?
Bob: If you claim there is a god, it is up to you to prove it exists. Jewish friend: Well, I find the evidence is circumstantial, having had no direct communication with the Supreme Being. To me, I find life itself to be a proof for the existence of God, then there is history, the [...]
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