Posts from April 2024
SOUND WORDS, APRIL 28, 2024
IF MIRACLES GO, SO DOES NAPOLEON Christianity’s veracity rests on the factuality of certain miraculous happenings. If these happenings didn’t happen, Christianity is worthless (1 Cor. 15.12–19). In the 18th century, a Scottish philosopher by the name of David Hume argued that the miraculous happenings undergirding Christianity didn’t occur. His argument against miracles has persisted, in various forms, to the present. In philosophy books it’s usually found in the chapter on religion to prove that you can’t use miracles to…
SOUND WORDS, APRIL 21, 2024
HOW WILL YOU ANSWER THE QUESTION? “What is your life?” asks James, the Lord’s brother. He then gives his own answer, as one inspired of God to do so: “It is even as a vapor that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away” (4:14). Life is time. Time is life. Nobody knows just how much of it he has. “What is my life?” That is the question. And it’s a question ever man must answer for…
SOUND WORDS, APRIL 14, 2024
TAKE TIME TO BE HOLY Scriptural Text: 1 Peter 1:13-16 As Christians, we are commanded to be holy. To be holy means to belong to God. We are consecrated & separated for the service of God. When we are holy, like God is holy, then we are conforming in all things to the will of the Father in Heaven. Personal holiness is a work of gradual development. We are called to be holy, even in the midst of hindrances. For…
SOUND WORDS, APRIL 6, 2024
FIGHT FOR YOUR FAITH “But since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled and put on the armor of faith and love, and a helmet of the hope of salvation. For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him” (1 Thess 5:8-10). There are different ways in which we may think about…