Archive for 2009
Think About IT: “Mistakes Were Made” – The Decline of Responsibility
Whatever happened to repentance? The phrase, “mistakes were made” is popular in politics, education, and in virtually any area where personal responsibility and sin used to be the reigning culprit. However, it does not take much to see why “mistakes were made” rather than “I have sinned” has become so popular. Someone has noted that:…
Read MoreThink About IT: Forsaking History is to Forsake the Gospel
On May 12, 2005, Donald Kagan, Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale University, delivered the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. Speaking “In Defense of History,” he made three points that I would like to apply to the dangerous trend of marginalizing history in much of contemporary preaching. First, I begin with one of…
Read MoreThink About IT: No Bias?
Science claims to be the unbiased evaluation of the empirical facts, but anyone who looks at the facts, realizes that far too often, philosophical commitments drive them more than just the facts. For example, Nobel Prize winner Steven Weinberg said that the “steady state theory is philosophically the most attractive theory because it least resembles…
Read MoreThink About HIM: Christ
Someone once wrote: He knew the unknowable: the human heart and all things; He loved the unlovable: the human sinner; He did the impossible: He died and rose again; He was the impossible: a sinless character. “Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen…
Read MoreGlobal Warming, Some Things to Consider
Recently I read a very interesting book regarding Global Warming entitled, “Unstoppable Global Warming” by S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery ((Singer is a climate physicist and is internationally known for his work on climate, energy, and environmental issues. He is Distinguished Research Professor at George Mason University. He is also president of The…
Read MoreThink About IT: Islam and the Eroding West
When I was in England in 2004, the number of Muslims attending a mosque surpassed the number of Brits attending the State Church of England. I asked a friend of mine, who has served for a number of years planting churches in London, if this meant that they now would request parity? To which he…
Read MoreThink About IT: What Americans Do Not Remember Can Destroy Them
David Aikman, initially educated at Oxford, completed a Ph.D. in Russian and Chinese history at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist and a foreign policy consultant based in the Washington, D.C. area. For a time he was the TIME magazine Beijing bureau chief. In his book, Jesus in…
Read MoreThink About IT: Man Made Global Warming . . . Are You Sure?
“On Feb. 24, 1895, The New York Times warned of the next Ice Age, and in 1923, the Chicago Tribune warned that ice would soon make Canada uninhabitable. But by 1933, the same papers were warning of the greatest rise in temperatures since 1776. Reports two decades later also spoke of a spike in global…
Read MoreThink About IT: Prayer a Frightening Practice
Christians oftentimes seem frightened by prayer. They are either afraid that praying really does not work, that they are doing it wrong, or that they may get what is best for them rather than what they want at that moment. Once the mercurial Mary Queen of Scots once fretted, “I fear the prayers of John…
Read MoreDefending the Faith
Like it or not, the time in which we live demands that we as Christians be able to give some reasons for our belief in the truthfulness of Christianity and the Scripture. For example, Christians must be able to answer questions like are the disciples reliable resources? Are miracles possible? How can we test the…
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