The Miraculous DescentI awoke one morning, a lot on my mind, and reflected on the sleepless night before. I rolled out of my bed and, still somewhat dizzy, started to get dressed. Long pants and a long sleeved shirt. It was springtime where I was. But I had little interest in the weather conditions in Grapevine, Texas. I only worried about Whitefish, Montana. I lay down in my bed, completely dressed, and closed my eyes, thinking hard about the family reunion I had taken the summer before. We had hiked eight miles up a mountain in Whitefish, Montana, a few thousand miles above sea level. I focused on the breathtaking natural beauty of the mountain, and when I openeThe Miraculous Descent
Taking out the TrashTaking out the Trash: the Sermon on the MountTaking out the Trash
Perhaps the church itself cannot be dismissed with the scholar’s sneer, but not because everyone in it is vulgar or illiterate. The most important question that can be asked in the church is this: what can we offer those who are not believers but wish to followers? Just imagine that we could take an industrial-size garbage bag and fill it with every discredited myth in the church—the inerrancy of scripture, the virgin birth, the miracles as suspension of natural law, the blood atonement, the bodily resurrection, and the second coming—twist it, tie it up, and carry it ou
Anti-Semitism?Anti-SemitismAnti-Semitism?
Where did the hideous beliefs of anti-Semitism come from? Why is it that much of today’s people, today’s youth, find it acceptable and welcome to hate our Jewish brothers and sisters? Why is it that many youths today say that something is “Jewish” when they feel it is bad or a drag? One possible answer is the belief that Jesus was a Christian man captured and executed by Jewish people. This is a myth that has greatly contributed to the modern, skewed view of the Jewish religion and its followers. It is true that Jewish men killed Jesus upon the cross, but they were Jewish men who acted not for th
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