Living The Damascus Moment
We’ve all been there. The Damascus moment comes when a deeply held truth or belief is suddenly shattered. It’s never expected. It just happens. It’s always shocking. You’re living the Damascus moment. If you know much about the Bible, you know what a Damascus moment is. It comes from Acts chapter 9 and Saul of […]
4 Enemies of Truth
“and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” John 8:32 “relating to or existing in an environment in which facts are viewed as irrelevant, or less important than personal beliefs and opinions, and emotional appeals are used to influence public opinion: “ definition of “post-truth” from www.dictionary.com Truth is not […]
God Is Here
“For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them” (Romans 1:19) Easter marked what many hold to be the holiest weekend of the year. The Jews celebrate Passover this weekend, and Christians remember that Jesus’ crucifixion was on the Friday before Passover with his resurrection […]
Fact Checking Your Preacher
We’ve warned that your should never trust your preacher. It is not that preachers are dishonest (although some are) but that your soul is too important to entrust to anyone other than Jesus. After all, preachers have no innate authority other than that which flows from Scripture. They are just as fragile and breakable as […]
Finding a Church
You have made an important decision. You want to find a church and improve your spiritual life. That is a commendable goal but it could be more difficult than you think. Finding a church that will help you learn and grow is not easy. More and more groups call themselves a church but in reality […]
Truth Series
We posted a few articles on truth recently. Truth always battles to be heard. Often we stifle truth by denying it exists, or allowing its existence but denying that we can know it. Such agnosticism is the result of the multiculturalism that swept our culture. Suddenly, everybody is right and no one is wrong. While […]
Implications of Knowing Truth (part 3)
Having previously examined the reality of truth and the ability of humanity to know truth, we turn to the implications that the knowledge of truth brings. We confine ourselves to spiritual truths and leave the discussion of earthly truths (mathematical, scientific, logical, et cetera) to others. Spiritual, or we might say, Biblical, truths are especially […]
Can I Know Truth? (part 2)
Objective truth exists. Objective good and evil exist. But can a mortal man know that truth? Can he recognize real good and discern real evil? The answer is a certain yes. However, some adopt an agnostic view of truth and declare that men are so limited that they cannot know the truth. The consequence is […]
Truth
A co-worker once said that “truth is what the people believe.” From his perspective as an advertising executive, that was a good working definition. Infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels once said, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” Both definitions hold the same fallacy: […]
Who are Jannes and Jambres?
Jannes and Jambres appear only once, by name, in the Bible at 2 Timothy 3:8. While our knowledge is limited there some things that can be known and more importantly, some things that we should learn from them. Jewish tradition taught that Jannes and Jambres were Pharaoh’s two magicians who stood against Moses in Exodus […]
