Archive for 2008
The Shack, a 2007 Novel by William P. Young
By Billy Wolfe Like many readers of this current best-selling novel, I was given a copy of The Shack by a colleague at work. She said her husband was teaching it in their Sunday School class. While I had not even heard of this book, I’ve since discovered that it is being given high profile…
Read MoreThink About IT: A Consensus on Global Warming: REALLY?
More than 200 scientists and other experts on climate change from Australia, Canada, England, France, Hungary, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and of course the United States met to discuss and debunk the claims of Global Warming alarmists at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change Al Gore, along with scientists whom he says support…
Read MoreThink About IT: The New Atheism, Undermining Western Civilization
Anthony Daniels, a self-proclaimed atheist and a contributing editor of City Journal and the Dietrich Weismann Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, who now writes using the pseudonym “Theodore Dalrymple” takes on the “new atheist misrepresenting the essential role of religious faith in establishing Western civilization and its future survival” in an article “What the New…
Read MoreThink About IT: All Sin Is Sin, but Not All Sin Is the Same
It is common for people to view all sin as equally sinful, but that is not correct. It is true that all sin is sin, and any sin is serious enough to send a person to hell; however, not all sin is equally serious or results in the same judgment. Sin is made more serious…
Read MoreScience, Evolution, and Intelligent Design
Recently, Richard Carpenter ((Dr. Carpenter holds a Ph. D. in meteorology from the University of Oklahoma and is currently Vice President for Numerical Weather Prediction at Weather Decision Technologies, Inc.)) presented a superb paper to The Roundtable in Ideology at Trinity Baptist Church. His précis, which he derived from the full paper, was read to…
Read MoreThink About IT: Thanksgiving to Whom?
Thanksgiving, quite contrary to political correctness and revisionist historians, began as an act of faith and worship by the Pilgrims. The first Thanksgiving was held in the autumn of 1621 in Plymouth, and it was a celebration of God’s bountiful blessing, which the Pilgrims shared with the Indians. The Pilgrims’ lives had been characterized by…
Read MoreThink About IT: Naturalism is Extraordinarily Unnatural
Some scientists claim that what one can experience with the five senses is all there is; hence there is nothing outside of the material universe. But wait a moment. If scientific naturalism is true, nature is all there is, religion is merely an expression of need, want, or a quest for power, and only what…
Read MoreThink About IT: Lowered Standards Result in Lower Results!!
Since the cultural shift of the 1960s, the driving ideology for cultural change has been to do away with any and all objective moral standards. This has included even cultural mores based upon those objective standards. For anyone who knows anything about the way things were, these standards were basically drawn from either the implicit…
Read MoreThink About IT: Pulpit Politics and History
Should pastors address political issues and/or the moral and political positions of candidates? The answer from many is a resounding NO! This is particularly true of those who seek to trivialize faith or live contrary to their espoused faith. Historically, pastors have been very outspoken in critiquing political issues and politicians in light of Scripture.…
Read MoreThink About IT: Bill Ayers’ Classroom Radicalism TODAY!
As Christianity and Christian principles are systematically expunged from the classroom, radicals like Bill Ayers fill the void with radical social justice and anti-Christian values. He still considers himself an “anarchist” and “Marxist” and said concerning the struggle with “religious fundamentalism” of which “jihad” is “the most visible”, that “The religious fundamentalism of the Christians…
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