Archive for May, 2009
Can We Trust the Bible?
Sunday, May 31st, 2009
In the famous scene in A Few Good Men, Jack Nicholson says, “You want the truth, you can’t handle the truth.” It seems this is the case today in a wishy-washy “believe whatever I want to” world, regardless of the logic in it. People claim they want to know the truth, then reject it if it’s not to their liking. We are living in a time of “relative truth” in which people only select the truth they want to be true; it is cafeteria knowledge. “I’ll believe some of this, and a scoop of that, but none of that, it doesn’t suit my pallet.” (more…)
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I Was Invisible!
Sunday, May 17th, 2009
As any other kid, I had imagined what it would be like to be invisible. The things you could do, the fun you could have. A couple of months ago I experienced what it was like to be invisible. There I was, standing in a room of people and there was no acknowledgment of my presence. My words just floated over the people and had no weight. The touch of my hands was not perceived. I wondered, “Am I truly invisible?” (more…)
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Taste and See!
Sunday, May 10th, 2009
Question: How is Preparing a meal for a large group of people like preparing a sermon?
Few people prepare a meal for 80+ people on a regular basis, unless they happen to be cooks or own a restaurant. Equally, few people prepare a sermon on a regular basis, unless they happen to be a minister. There are surprising similarities. (more…)
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True North
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
Many people may say that science disproves the existence of God. Let me propose that science not only proves the existence of God, and if anything, science historically disproves itself. The ancient minds understood there to be only 1300 or so planets. Present knowledge has determined that there is somewhere around 21 billion trillion planets. Also, take for example the brilliant minds of the first fourteen centuries AD that insisted that the world was flat. It was not until the work of Columbus that scientist and the civilized world knew this was false. How about the scientific community that declared that the sun revolved around the earth? That wasn’t true either. It wasn’t until the work of Copernicus that the science reversed its position. How many other scientific assertions are being promoted as absolute truth? (more…)
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