Posts from 2017

The Mighty Ear

Proverbs 18:15 “Wise men and women are always learning, always listening for fresh insights.” Message I heard a country song this week “Shut Up and Kiss Me”. You never know where inspiration will spring from. If I could write a song I think I would title it “Shut Up and Listen”. (Thank God, my mom…

Pragmatism

Isaiah 55:8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. Proverbs 14:12 “There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death. Our contemporary culture has been formed by pragmatism; a philosophy that measures truth by its practical value. We…

Materialism

John 18:36 “My kingdom is not founded of this world…” Philosophically, materialism, is the doctrine that nothing exists except matter and its movements and modifications. In other words, nothing exists but what is material or measurable, and if there is any value to be found in life, it must be in material terms. The materialism…

Good Reasons to Join a Small Group

In principio creavit Deus caelum et terram. Propterea sicut per unum hominem in hunc mundum peccatum intravit et per peccatum mors et ita in omnes homines mors pertransiit in quo omnes peccaverunt. Iustificati igitur ex fide pacem habeamus ad Deum per Dominum nostrum Iesum Christum. Omnes enim peccaverunt et egent gloriam Dei.

Humanism

Daniel 4:30 “…Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?” Verse 31 begins; While the words were still in the Kings mouth…! Nebuchadnezzar’s fall was quick and complete. I want to clarify that I am speaking to secular humanism…

Secularism

“The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be” – Carl Sagan Secularism is a worldview bound up entirely by the limits of the material universe, by what we can see, touch, weigh, and measure. There is only now. Only what we can quantify or observe is counted as reality. R.C.…