Beliefs

  • Something

    Something

    “Something is eternal. Something has always been and always will be. Nothing comes from nothing, and since we are looking around at a great deal of something, all around us, in every direction, then something must have always been. The question before us therefore concerns whether that everlasting something is personal or impersonal.” Doug Wilson,…

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  • Helping Shape My Philosophy

    Helping Shape My Philosophy

    A few years back I read a book entitled, “Already Gone” by Ken Ham and Britt Beemer. The subtitle of the book gives a good summary of its overall focus: “Why your kids will quit church and what you can do to stop it.” This was during my first pastorate in Chesterhill, Ohio. In the…

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  • Debate and Argumentation: Part III

    This is the third and final installment of Debate and Argumentation (if you’d like to catch up here they are in order:  Debate and Argumentation for the Sake of Unity and Love; Debate and Argumentation: Part II ). We live in a day and age that avoids all forms of debate like the Black Plague.  And yet,…

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  • Debate and Argumentation for the Sake of Unity and Love

    Satan is an expert at taking the truth and mingling it with just a tiny bit of lie. For instance, think about the question that he presented Eve in the beginning: “Did God actually say…?” (Gen 3.1).[i] When we read that statement, we immediately pick up that the serpent is trying to get Eve to…

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  • Freewill is a Misnomer

    Freewill is a Misnomer

    Freewill is a misnomer. There I said it. “Parties on both sides of the aisle (believer’s and non-believer’s) please keep your voices down. Yelling and sneering at me will not convince me to adopt your way of thought,” the author of this writing rationally pleads. The fact of the matter is I do not believe…

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