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How can we ever know that God exist? We can’t see, hear, touch or taste Him. We can’t weigh Him, like we would a five-pound bag of potatoes or put Him under an electron microscope to see what He’s made of at an atomic level. So how can we know that He does exist?
We freely admit that belief in God is not the result of literally seeing God’s Spirit or touching His actual essence. What we have at our fingertips, however, is a mountain of irrefutable, indirect, credible evidence that testifies on God’s behalf.
First, consider the fact that matter…
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MAKING CHRISTIANITY ATTRACTIVE
The value of appeal is recognized by all business firms. When businesses advertise a woman’s dress on TV, they do not use unattractive women with flawed features or blemished bodies. They know that such would not appeal to women. Alcohol manufacturers also demonstrate this knowledge of appeal in their commercials. They do not attempt to allure potential partakers by showing a drunk man wallowing in a ditch or the misery of a dysfunctional alcoholic whose life has been ruined by his addiction. No. Instead, they appeal to you by way of…
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AM Sermon
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Winston Churchill, British prime minister during the Second World War, was serving in his second term when he celebrated his 80th birthday. Graham Sutherland was contracted to do a portrait to honor the famous statesman, and the painting was unveiled in a public ceremony. Churchill detested the portrait, and it was never hung in the Parliament building as originally intended. After he died, his widow destroyed the painting out of respect for her husband, an act that the artist considered to be vandalism.
It is not difficult to imagine the pride or even vanity of a man whose name appears on…
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Don't Chase the Snake
Terribly painful, shocking misfortune happens to us all. Sometimes others wrong us (Mt. 5:44). Sometimes we suffer for our faith (II Tim.3:12). Sometimes we suffer the consequences (I Pt. 4:15). Sometimes it is time and chance (Ecc. 9:11). No matter the reason, we are always left with the same choice – what do…
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CLOSED.
You woke up this morning to a new normal. Schools closed. Restaurant dining rooms closed. Public events closed. Life as we know it: CLOSED.
Yesterday, the CDC announced recommendations of no gatherings of more than 50. That affects everything (weddings, funerals, church assemblies) and everyone. It will have a huge economic impact -on all of us.
Health care professionals know the crisis is real and worse than most of us think. The older population is especially at high risk and the risk is real. In countries like Italy, citizens are confined to home by…
