Welcome to the first of several posts on making the case for God’s existence and involvement in the world, and in our lives personally. In this series, I want to discuss human experience and observation from many different fields, and how God is the best explanation for it all. This is a more hard-science-themed post, and a few others will […]
I was seven years old when I asked. My parents and I were sitting in the living room, and I asked them whether Santa Claus was actually real. At that point I really already knew the answer, but I wanted to hear it for certain. After a long moment, my parents told me the truth: Our Christmas presents each year […]
The Bible uses lots of titles for Jesus. Son of God, Alpha and Omega, Lord, Son of Man. Most of these names, while they may be somewhat unfamiliar language, are easy to explain. But of all the titles used for Jesus in the Bible, there’s one used in the beginning of John’s Gospel that’s probably the most obscure and hard […]
Words have meanings. I point out this painfully obvious fact because, even though we are aware from our first year that words have meanings, we don’t always put much effort into figuring out the meanings of the words we use. This is egregiously obvious when you listen to our political discussions these days. People seem to throw around -isms and […]
If you had been asked, before reading the title of this post, to come up with some descriptions of Jesus, what would you have said? In my case, I probably would have said Savior, Healer, Lord, even friend. But I would never have thought of “brother.” That’s a very bold, audacious thing to say — to call God in the […]
On Thursday, NASA is expected to hold a press conference about a new find made by its Kepler planet-hunting telescope. It’s possible it could involve finding an extrasolar planet that’s very similar to Earth. This isn’t 20th-century science fiction anymore. Gone are the days when talk of extraterrestrial life centered around UFOs and abductions by little green men. It’s no […]
Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, has made news for being one of the most unconventional recent popes. He has suggested that the Catholic Church needs to change its attitude toward certain issues, opted to eschew the typical papal residence for a modest guesthouse, and occasionally drawn the ire of both political conservatives and theologically conservative Catholics. He […]
We don’t like it when people speak highly of themselves. No matter who it is, whether it’s the President of the United States, or the most skilled athlete, or the most eloquent speaker, or the most compelling writer, there’s something about people talking themselves up that many of us find off-putting and obnoxious — even if it’s true. But even […]
Just another jar of clay, named Clay. I’m a Christ-follower who messes up a lot, blessed to be a husband and youth worker, trying to share the message that saved me. My aim with this blog is to explore how we ought to live and think as Christ-followers in the midst of the realities of today’s world.
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