(Torch graphic above is from LiverpoolFC.com – the symbol of the search for justice and remembrance of those who died in the Hillsborough tragedy 15 April 1989) Everyone who knows me knows how much I love Liverpool Football Club and, as with any die-hard fan, I’ve experienced joy and utter frustration through the years…
After getting some pretty hefty slag from a few of my fellow Liverpool FC supporters regarding my concern about the appropriateness of utilizing God’s name as a nickname for a mere mortal (former Striker Robbie Fowler is called “God” by many LFC fans), I started to think about what actually drives a lot of…
NOTE #1: This article is not in any way meant to be taken as the end-all apologetic for the existence/non-existence of God. Frankly, I think God does a good enough job showing that He exists all by Himself and He doesn’t need my feeble defense. All that I intend to illustrate in this post…
This is a rather lengthy piece. So, in an effort to hopefully shorten it a bit by creating a common starting point, here’s a silly metaphor as an introduction: In a large American city was a church with an innovative and captivating minister. The minister had grown the church over a couple of decades…
The oft-wrong and perpetually-biased New York Times recently (14 Jan 16) ran an article entitled “Anglican Church Disciplines U.S. Episcopals Over Gay Marriages.” The article both misunderstands Christianity and misrepresents the “discipline” laid out by the Anglican Communion (neither of which is necessarily surprising from the NYT). These are two things that I’d like to…
[NOTE: This is a fairly lengthy post … but is about an issue which simply MUST be addressed within Christianity today. Please read it and feel free to comment. I welcome the discussion] Those people are zealous to win you over, but for no good. What they want is to alienate you from us,…
Like a coating of silver dross on earthenware are fervent lips with an evil heart. Proverbs 26:23 I was listening to the 2015 year in review (entitled “A Look Back and Ahead”) podcast of BreakPoint This Week and John Stonestreet, Host of BreakPoint and President of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, made…
