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God Sometimes Withdraws Protection
Frequently, due to sin, rebellion, and the other factors, God simply withdraws His protective hand and allows sin, Satan, and chaos to have their way. Everything we have seen in the Chaos Theory leads...
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10 Christian Clichés To Avoid Like the Plague
There are numerous Christian clichés get people nodding their heads in agreement and saying “Amen!” in sermons, but when you stop to think about them, they are not only meaningless, but also border on...
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Troubled Translations of Genesis 6:13
When I first sat down to study and research the flood account through the lens of Jesus Christ, I initially thought that the key to this text was found in faulty English translations. We must admit...
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The Flood of Genesis 6-8 in Context
In the flood of Genesis 6-8, did God really send water to kill every living thing on earth? We have been considering the issue of the violence of the flood for several posts now, and will continue to...
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What to Say when You Stop Attending Church
Are you one of the millions of people who have stopped “attending church” so that you can better follow Jesus into the world? If so, you have probably noticed two things: First, you have rediscovered...
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God is like a Cosmic Cowboy
The following comes from an email that was sent in to me through the “Contact Me” form on the right sidebar. I asked the sender if I could post it on this blog for others to respond to, and was given...
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Is it wrong for Christians to call God “Allah”? You might be surprised at my...
Most think of Allah as the god of Islam. And yet there are many Eastern and Middle-Eastern Christians who call God “Allah.” Is this wrong? Recently a reader sent in this question: I love your...
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We are of our father, the Devil
Yesterday we learned that if we had lived in the days of Jesus, we probably would have been among those calling for His death. The reason we do this is because we use violence to cover up violence, and...
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God Takes on Our Violence
If it is on the cross that Jesus most fully reveals God, and it is on the cross that Jesus became sin for the world, then this means that in the Old Testament, God also was becoming sin for the world....
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The Bible is More Violent than Video Games
In light of my series on the violence of God in the Bible, in which I said that the Bible is the most violent religious text in the world, someone sent this picture to me. It made me think… Hmmm, why...
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