Secular Predominance in Education: Who's to blame?

"Are we to blame educators for the predominance of secular outlooks and attitudes in the university, or ought we rather to blame ourselves for fostering an anti-intellectualism that took us out of leadership in that arena in the first place?" - Kim Riddlebarger

Mystical Exercises and the Bible

"The Bible moreover prescribes no mystical exercises or occultists techniques for approaching deity; it proclaims instead the intelligible comprehensibility of divine revelation and approves intelligible verbal prayer to God, as Jesus himself exhorted his followers to address the father." - Carl F.H. Henry

Hirelings Who Desire A Bigger Audience

How many church leaders are like Micah's priest? Hirelings who allow those they serve to be pillaged in order that they may have a larger audience.

"Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or the priest to a tribe and clan in Israel? And the priest's heart was glad." - Judges 18:19-21

Guard your hearts men of God.

Doug

Attacks on the Word Made Flesh

Attacks on the ability of words to communicate truth is an attack not only on the image of God in man, but on the Word made flesh (John 1:14) Himself.

Doug

A Christian without Discernment

A Christian without discernment is like a body without an immune system.

Logical Arguments Against the Existence of Truth

The only logical argument that someone can make against the existence of truth is silence.

Sophisticated Castles of Sand

We should not shrink back from contending for the faith no matter how sophisticated its opponents may appear, because castles of sand have a natural tendency to collapse regardless of their complexity.

The Right to a Secular Government

Atheistic naturalism destroys the possibility of natural rights, which would mean that no person has any inherent rights. The only rights anyone can have are those conferred to them by the people who are in power. Yet proponents of this worldview still argue for a completely secular government void of any reference to God as if it is their right.

Devotion and Inner Promptings

A spiritual life based on feelings and inner promptings that is not based on a firm understanding of the Word of God has injured many. Eventually, most find out that what they were really devoted to was not God, but themselves.

So Much for Free Thought

One of the foundational assertions of atheistic naturalism is that everything has a naturalistic cause, and to think outside of that framework would mean you are not a free thinker. Until, of course, you apply that assertion to their thought-life and beliefs, which would imply determinism. So much for free thought

Dawkins' Fideism

"What I can't understand is why you can't see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing." -Richard Dawkins // Absurdity = Truth and Beauty? Looks like Dawkins drinks deeply from the well of fideism that he so frequently derides.

Irrelevant Churches

If a church is not regularly preaching and teaching on sin and the Gospel, they are irrelevant and have very little to offer, because sin is our biggest problem and the Gospel is our only hope.

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The Bible Was Not Given to Give Us Information

When someone tells me that the Bible was not given to give us information but to transform our lives, I always like to ask if they were informed of that by Scripture.

Doug

Counting the Cost and Modern Evangelism

Jesus tells people to count the cost before following Him (Luke 14:28), but much of modern evangelism, by hiding the hard truths, says don’t give them a chance.

Doug

Love and Polemics

When someone attempts to use Paul’s definition of Love in 1 Cor. 13 to tell you that you that you shouldn’t argue against false teaching, they fail to see that that passage is part of a polemic against false teaching.

Doug

Opium and Preaching

For years opium has been popular because it gives people a false sense of peace and stupefies them to any legitimate fears, which seems to be the same method used to gain popularity by many modern preachers.

Doug

God and Public Policy

It seems these days that the only people who are allowed to influence the State and its public policy with their views of God, are those who believe that God does not exist and those who believe that even if He does exist He would want a completely secular government where he is removed from the picture.

Doug

Capitalism and the Nature of Man

Why is it that people attack capitalism by stating that it is driven by greed and assume that man is basically evil and cannot be trusted with their success, yet in their “redistribution of wealth” models they assume that man is virtuous and will continue to be industrious to produce wealth for the country to redistribute even when their success is taken away from them and used at the government’s discretion?

Doug

God and the Establishment Clause

If the founders were moved to include the establishment clause in the Constitution because of their understanding of God, was that a violation of the establishment clause?

Doug

Deceived to Believe the Truth

If we use an argument that we know is fallacious simply because we know most people will not catch the fallacy and it will move them closer to the truth, we are being deceptive.

Doug