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Since cremation is now becoming more common questions are being raised about its relationship to Christian faith. Cremation was the custom in the Roman society of the first century but by the third century earth burial had replaced cremation as the usual custom. The...
HOW DO YOU COUNTER THE POPULAR CULTURE OF THE BIG ME?
Writer and commentator David Brooks in his latest book, The Road to Character, has addressed the shift in our society from a culture of humility to the culture of what he calls the Big Me, from a culture that encouraged people to think humbly of themselves to a...
WHY I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST
I have just published an e-book on Amazon entitled, Why I Believe in Jesus Christ. It is a short explanation of why I believe in God and Jesus Christ as God. I commend it to you as an apologia and personal witness in the hope that it will encourage you to think...
WHY POLITICIANS ARE LIKE GAMBLERS
In The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture, playwright, screenwriter, film director and essayist, David Mamet takes on all the key political and cultural issues of our times, from religion to political correctness to global warming. With great...
WHAT MAKES CHRISTIANITY UNIQUE?
“Through God alone can God be known. The knowledge of God comes only through revelation. This assertion is not peculiar to the Christian Faith, it is found in all religions. The Christian faith, however, claims that only in it, that is, in the revelation of God in...
WHAT IS THE MOSLEM VIEW OF GOD?
“Mohammed’s idea of God is out and out deistic. God and the world are in exclusive, external and eternal opposition. Of an entrance of God into the world or any kind of human fellowship with God he knows nothing….His character is impersonal – that of an infinite,...
MEMORIAL DAY
On Memorial Day we remember all those who laid down their lives for their country. What do you say to a member of the armed forces, or the police, who have to face death for us every day? German theologian Helmut Thielicke wrote a letter to a soldier who was wounded...
MOTHER TERESA AT HARVARD COMMENCEMENT
Mother Teresa spoke to the 1982 Class at Harvard about a hunger for God especially among the young. She said, “We must find Jesus and satisfy that hunger. Nakedness is not only for a piece of cloth. Nakedness is the loss of human dignity, the loss of respect, the loss...
A PRAYER FOR PENTECOST
Come, Holy Spirit, inflame my heart, set it on fire with love. Burn away my self-centeredness so that I can love unselfishly. Breathe your life-giving breath into my soul so that I can live freely and joyously, unrestricted by self-consciousness, and may be ready to...
STRONG SPIRITS FROM SCOTLAND
James S. Stewart (1896-1990) was ranked as the best preacher of the twentieth century by Preaching Magazine in 1999. A minister of the Church of Scotland and professor of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology at the University of Edinburgh he authored many...
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