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Whether we call it “Flipping the switch,” or “Mashing the button,” when we do it, we expect the light to come on.  But if there’s no power all we end up with is a futile finger exercise.  Even a flashlight needs batteries.  No power, no light.  It’s the power of the sun’s thermonuclear inferno thatContinue reading “The 5th Law of Thermodynamics”

Many people believe they can find their own way to heaven.  They think they can figure it out on their own.  That’s sort of like trying to lift yourself up by your own bootstraps. I’ve often offered a one-hundred-dollar bill to anyone who can do that.  I still have that hundred-dollar bill.    Some people thinkContinue reading “How Do I Get to Heaven?”

Sometimes we try to define God’s words and actions too perfectly.  In our arrogance we think we can adequately describe exactly what God always means in all situations.  This easily can lead us into thinking our doctrines are God’s doctrines.  We act as if God is sitting on the throne studying our catechisms and judgingContinue reading “How Can I Trust the Bible?”

The idea that God speaks to us is in a deeply personal way is nonsensical to the worldly.  The truth of the matter is: God speaks. And that says it all. Dr. Owens offers here the sixth volume of New Old Sayings.  He doesn’t end this book by saying, “Thus said the Lord.”  He doesn’tContinue reading “Dr. Owens’ Latest Book: New Old Sayings Volume Six”

Rudyard Kipling in If, which I believe is the best poem ever written begins, “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you,” setting the stage for a recitation for the human qualities needed to rise above worldly circumstances.  These are the types of mature actions and reactions visible whenContinue reading “Finding Peace Amid Chaos”

Here’s one of those fifty cent words we Christians throw around, Omniscient. In other words, God is all knowing.  Since He’s the Alpha and the Omega the first and the last He knows the end from the beginning and everything in between.    All of which brings forward a question that’s a mystery often presented as aContinue reading “Believe it Confess it Receive it Live it”

Back when I was an atheist, and I believed this is all there is I was passionately interested in politics, economics, and current events.  I was committed to working for my side and to defeating the other guy.  Now that I’m a born-again child of God, a citizen of Heaven, and merely a pilgrim here[1] I followContinue reading “All That Really Matters”