GOD - AND THE GREAT GOD CHANCE - PART II
Consider the common authorities for answering the origin question. Some years ago we visited beautiful Smokey Mountain National Park with...
GOD - AND THE GREAT GOD CHANCE - Part I
(Please read: Genesis 1: 1-5; John 1: 1-5; Hebrews 11: 1-3) It all happened on a beautiful sunny September afternoon. Little Jimmy,...
THE “ISMS” BY WHICH WE LIVE – Part IV
And that leads us to our third “ism”, that of mysticism. The root of the word mysticism is, of course, the word mystery. In fact, my...
THE "ISMS" BY WHICH WE LIVE - PART III
And that leads us quite naturally to our second popular “ism”, secularism. The age of secularism made its dramatic debut in 1965 in Time...
THE ISMS BY WHICH WE LIVE - part II
Consider the “ism” of materialism. Materialism is very popular today and very much in vogue. But it has an ancient history. For...
THE “ISMS” BY WHICH WE LIVE: MATERIALISM – SECULARISM – MYSTICISM
Please read: Proverbs 8: 22-32, John 1: 1-14 It all happened some years ago in Edina, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. I had gone...
PATRIOTISM AND THE DECLINE OF A CHRISTIAN NATION - Part V
It was in our country the movement was launched to end slavery, much of it promoted by our Congregational minsters of New England...
PATRIOTISM AND THE DECLINE OF A CHRISTIAN NATION - Part IV
One might wonder then at the alarm raised by some over the announced decline of a Christian America. Newsweek Magazine’s John Meacham...
PATRIOTISM AND THE DECLINE OF A CHRISTIAN NATAION - PART III
But some people might object suggesting Paul had in mind Christian rulers like the Emperor Theodosius I, who came to power some three...
PATRIOTISM - AND THE DECLINE OF A CHRISTIAN NATION - PART II
Part ll The Christian Emperor, Theodosius I, in 395 A.D. was continuing what the soon-to-be Emperor, Constantine, began in 311 A.D. with...