Ronnie W. Rogers

Think About IT: Deep Devotionals are A-OK!

By Ronnie W. Rogers / July 16, 2012 / Comments Off on Think About IT: Deep Devotionals are A-OK!

In the first few years of my Christian life, I did not talk about my devotionals much because they simply did not fit the common understanding of a devotional. Rather than reading a light devotional or just skimming the Scripture for personal application, I loved delving into the verses, words, theology, and original language. One…

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Think About IT: King George Meets the KING!

By Ronnie W. Rogers / July 9, 2012 / Comments Off on Think About IT: King George Meets the KING!

When Handel’s Messiah was first performed in London, 1743, in the presence of King George the II, King George rose from his seat, with head bowed, when he heard the Hallelujah chorus. By this he signified that Jesus was the true King of Kings and Lord of Lords. “And on His robe and on His…

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Response to a Review of “Reflections of a Disenchanted Calvinist”

By Ronnie W. Rogers / July 1, 2012 / Comments Off on Response to a Review of “Reflections of a Disenchanted Calvinist”

Although I do not normally read or respond to reviews of my books, I did respond to this one that appeared on Amazon. It is precisely the puddle jumping techniques that I address in the book. The first is what the reviewer said, and then my response. (We did not seek to correct his grammar,…

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Think About IT: Gentle like Our High Priest

By Ronnie W. Rogers / June 23, 2012 / Comments Off on Think About IT: Gentle like Our High Priest

The writer of Hebrews says that one of the qualifications of a high priest is that he had to be gentle toward those whom he served; “he can deal gently with the ignorant and misguided, since he himself also is beset with weakness.” (Hebrews 5:2)

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Think About IT: Pastor’s Complicity with Science’s Debasement of MAN

By Ronnie W. Rogers / June 13, 2012 / Comments Off on Think About IT: Pastor’s Complicity with Science’s Debasement of MAN

The Primates House was the main attraction at the famous Bronx Zoological Gardens in 1906. But what brought amazed smiles from curious adults and squeals of joy from happy children was no ape–it was a human being named Ota Benga. (For the sources from which this biographical sketch is drawn, see Phillips Verner Bradford and…

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Think About IT: Theology Is the Essential in Politics

By Ronnie W. Rogers / June 7, 2012 / Comments Off on Think About IT: Theology Is the Essential in Politics

You know the refrain; do not mix religion and politics. Au contraire, I say mix Christianity and politics, lest the politically perceptive be seen as wizards of what ought to be, and the only ones who can make it so. Christianity informs us how things are to be. For example, why work is important, why…

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Think About IT: Altering Hippocrates Leads to Government Health Care

By Ronnie W. Rogers / June 1, 2012 / Comments Off on Think About IT: Altering Hippocrates Leads to Government Health Care

The Hippocratic Oath has gone through many revisions in the quest for the western world to be able to justify abortions, infanticide, and euthanasia. However, like other things, once one starts to unravel it, it unravels to the end. Often unnoticed is that not only did Hippocrates’s oath elevate human life in not allowing abortions,…

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Answering Arguments That Claim Biblical Support of Homosexuality

By Ronnie W. Rogers / May 24, 2012 / Comments Off on Answering Arguments That Claim Biblical Support of Homosexuality

Doug Gray presented a paper in The Ethics Round Table on the biblical perspective on homosexuality that I thought might be helpful. He presents the arguments used to support homosexuality from the Bible and culture. Then he gives a biblical response.

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Think About IT: Islam Is Coming to a City near You

By Ronnie W. Rogers / May 18, 2012 / Comments Off on Think About IT: Islam Is Coming to a City near You

The Ottoman Empire was founded in 1300 and collapsed after World War I. What if it had not, and what if the Muslims were able to establish such an empire today? What might it look like? Here is an example of what they required of the Armenian Christians in the Ottoman Empire.

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Think About IT: Christianity Is Not Just Good!

By Ronnie W. Rogers / May 7, 2012 / Comments Off on Think About IT: Christianity Is Not Just Good!

If Christianity were simply good, one could be inclined towards it or not. There are many good things, ideas, sayings, etc. Even the way we present the desirability of Christianity is oftentimes based upon the goodness of Christianity, e.g. emphasizing what it can do for you or has done for others, etc. This leads to…

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