Just a few weeks ago, I had some thoughts on the deconversion of Jon Steingard, the former lead singer of Hawk Nelson. The driving force he cited behind his deconversion was a declining view of Scripture. He came to realize, he says, that the writers of Scripture were flawed like anyone else. Therefore, Scripture itself must be flawed like any […]
In the modern age, there’s not much reason to go out of our way to memorize anything. Just about any piece of information we could want to know is easily accessible with just a few touches of a screen, or even by summoning Siri, Cortana, and Alexa. We can look up most anything anytime we want this way, from scientific […]
Last month around this time was the International Day for the Persecuted Church. One of my first posts was on that very topic. My pastor preached in church that morning using a book called The Insanity of God. It was full of stories about people who, under the threat of persecution and death, did absolutely insane things, completely disregarding their […]
Does God speak to us? Most people would say yes. Even though very few people actually hear an audible, heavenly voice, we recognize that God speaks to us in other ways. We have the Bible, which we call the word of God. We also spend time in prayer to communicate with God, and it’s hard to imagine that’s a one-way […]
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