Intelligence and Design
What happens when people see themselves as by-products of chance rather than design?
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Three Reasons to Trust Jesus
With all the chaos and confusion in the world, think again about Jesus — the One who claimed to be life and sustenance, truth and light.
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Day of False Prophets
I recently watched a minister online. He gave a scathing critique of those who dare call out purveyors of false doctrine. He said we should love our fellow Christians. Paradoxically, he criticized those who criticize others. He seemed intent on inoculating his followers — making them immune to
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State of Joy
Most people regard Michael Crichton’s 2004 novel, State of Fear, as an attack on the prevailing view of global warming. While the book has a lot to say on that topic, its real target is even bigger — the increasing use of fear to manipulate people. For big business, especially the media, fear
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The Price of Open Borders
On July 31, The New York Times reported, “As many as 60,000 people were estimated to have surged from Morocco into Ceuta, the small exclave at the center of a crisis for Spain’s pro-immigration government.” A New York Post headline read, “Thousands of illegal African migrants overrun Spanish
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Do Americans Still Want Liberty?
Fascism, Nazism, and communism are different streams flowing from the same spring — socialism. The communist branch of socialism alone killed far in excess of 100 million people in the last century. Fascists and Nazis added millions more. Why would Americans ever want it here?
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Carnival World
Walk down the midway of a fair or the main corridor of a carnival. You encounter a mass of people and an explosion of sights, sounds, and smells. Every attraction competes for your attention. They know that wherever your eyes go, your wallet soon follows. Their appeals are not high art. They are
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Amplification
War, idolatry, sexual perversions, the occult, and people generally behaving monstrously are all biblical signs of the approach of the end of the age. Yet none of those signs is new.
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The Times
Laments about the folly of “today’s young people” are almost as old as civilization itself. Adam and Eve must have felt the world was ending when their firstborn son murdered their second son. In 63 BC, the Roman statesman, Cicero, fretted, “O the times! O the customs!” In 1925, the Hull Daily
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Self-Evident
The United States has a born-on date — July 4, 1776. Even by themselves “July 4” and “1776” have a powerful impact on American minds. Together, that day and year designation carries an appeal for most of us even more powerful than the day and year of our own births. Many nations have existed across