Pastors: Please paint precise word pictures

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“This is my body which is given for you.” Luke 22:19 ESV

As important as alliteration in attracting attention, is the precision with which we use our words of wisdom offered to the world. The book of James includes a warning to teachers, which we do well to take as a reminder to be accurate in our teaching:

Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.
James 3.1

I know you’re busy as pastors and teachers, so let me get straight to the point. We need to be careful about how we describe the biblical accounts, and we should be more precise in our language regarding the Lord’s Supper. Continue Reading

Q.20 Science tells us how to build airplanes, religion tells people to fly them into buildings

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The second plane heads for then hits the south tower of the WTC 9/11/01

The second plane heads for then hits the south tower of the WTC 9/11/01

The prophet Hosea records a lament from God: “my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.”(Hosea 4:6) I was struct by the lack of knowledge and perception exhibited in this question. In Hosea’s day, because the people were so ignorant of God and his ways, he rejected and punished them. Lest you fall into the same judgment, let me clear up the two glaring errors in this statement. Continue Reading

Q.46 The Gospels were created by a “Telephone” game process that turned a real person named Jesus into a god

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Mark records the teachings of the Apostle Peter

Mark records the teachings of the Apostle Peter

Since this concerns the game “Telephone”, let me ask, have you ever played the game? As I recall it, this is how it was played at a summer camp I went to in my youth many years ago. The proctor created two teams and lined them up. Then he split each team so there’s a short distance between the two halves of the team. There were two teams, each team with members in a line and the line separated in the middle by a short distance. The opposing teams were far away enough so they couldn’t hear what the other team was saying. 

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Q.60 Religion shouldn’t give anyone the right to refuse service

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Cakes for Traditional couples only

The full question (or in this case statement) is: Religion shouldn’t give anyone the right to refuse service to people just because they disagree with them. I asked ChatGPT to summarize the case of the Christian baker who refused to bake a gay-themed cake because it went against his Christian convictions. Here are some excerpts: Continue Reading

A Great Awakening – A Review

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George Whitefield on the court house balcony - scene from

George Whitefield on the court house Balcony in “A Great Awakening“

In the late 1980’s and early 90s, David Mains, host of “The Chapel of The Air“, (a brief, daily Christian radio broadcast) did a series on revival. His message was so clear and he repeated the point so many times, I can remember to this day how he defined revival: “The overwhelming sense of the presence of God.”[1] That sense, when it falls on God’s people who have become lethargic in the faith, following a religion with little or no expression in life, going through the motions of a religious life robotically with no feeling or emotion; when such experience an awakening, they manifest one or a number of profound changes when the presence of God is felt.

According to Revival Comes To Wales[2], the types of changes seen when the presence of God is sensed include: Continue Reading

The Understated, Misunderstood King of the Jews

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Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews
A Resurrection Day Meditation

“Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”
(Zec 9:9)

“Are you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate. “Yes, it is as you say,” Jesus replied.
(Mark 15:2)

I write this on Palm Sunday, the day we remember when Jesus made a triumphal entry into the Jerusalem. It  is estimated that over a million pilgrims and residents[1] were there in the city for the coming Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread. (Mk 14.1) As Jesus approached, the people shouted:

9 Those who went ahead and those who followed shouted, “Hosanna!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”
10 “Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!” “Hosanna in the highest!”
Mark 11.9-10

Why were the people so excited? What was it that seemed to put electricity in the air? In short, it was the messianic hope of the people. The people recognized Jesus as the son of David. They knew the messiah would be the son of David. They also knew the prophecy in Zechariah about the messiah coming on a donkey. Perhaps most of all, they were all aware of the King David, whose military career was not only legendary, but they assumed such exploits would be repeated by the messiah to come since he would be the “son of David”. Even in David’s day the people chanted about his prowess in battle: Continue Reading

Should Christians Believe Relativity? Einstein and the Bogeyman

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Einstein ponders matter curving space

Einstein ponders matter curving space

Should Christians believe Einstein’s theories (there are two) of Relativity? Should anyone? Since I haven’t seen any scientists oppose the theory (test it, yes; oppose no), I have always assumed that pretty much everyone accepted Einstein’s General and Special Relativity. That’s the position I was writing from when about a decade ago I wrote an article about how people can be convinced to move from believing something is impossible, to believing that that very thing is not only possible, but true. The article is titled Science and the Paradox of the Unbelievable.

The article uses as its illustration the change in the understanding of how gravity works which was ushered in by Einstein’s theory of General Relativity. It starts with the original concept of gravity, formulated by the person many consider to be the father of modern science, Isaac Newton, and went on to show how Newton’s understanding, based in straight forward Euclidean space and standard time, which passes at a steady, unchanging rate, has given way to a new concept of gravity formulated by Albert Einstein in his theory of General Relativity. The point in that article was that many concepts that are common in Einstein’s theory of General Relativity were previously considered impossible and thus inconceivable, particularly to those with a good understanding of Newtonian dynamics.

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Question Evolution Day 2026 – Molecular Machines

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Bacterium Flagellum  molecular machine

Do you believe that complex machines can come about by random processes without a designer? I don’t know anyone who believes the engine under the hood of their car, or the outboard motor on a boat, came about without designers or engineer, i.e. without people intending to design an engine and then using their knowledge and intelligence to bring the ideas in their minds to fruition by putting on paper (or computer) their ideas, and then using those ideas to mold and shape the actual parts, then using an intelligent process to put those parts together.

As I noted in my article titled 15 Reasons Why Evolution has Never Happened, Part 3  I pointed out that: Continue Reading

Question Evolution Day 2025: Birds using Quantum Physics?

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For this Question Evolution day article I want to revisit a topic I discussed briefly in my article “Earth’s magnetic field: Testament to more than a young earth.” In the article I discussed how earth’s magnetic field, due to its rapid decay rate, is young. This demonstrates that the earth is much younger than the 4.5 billion years secularists claim it to to be, and that proves that both Darwinian evolution and the Big bang are false. I went on to discuss how the earth’s magnetic field displays properties of intelligent design—namely that it is used by some of God’s creatures for navigation. It’s that topic I return to for this Question Evolution article.

Some migrating birds navigate over hundreds or thousands of miles in order to find the same tree that they left months earlier. As the following X (nee Twitter) posts indicate, researchers  indicate birds use quantum physics to achieve this. You read that correctly. Birds are using properties of quantum theory—the theory of very small particles  which we only recently (relative to how long birds have been around) learned about—to navigate. Take a look: Continue Reading

Q.64 Why don’t you want immigrants coming in?

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Martha's vineyard and Illegal aliens

This question needs both to be put in context and to be clarified. We are answering the questions and challenges collected by the late Tom Gilson on TheStream. As originally posted the question is:

“Hypocrite! If you love like you say God tells you to love, why don’t you immigrants coming in?“

So first off, we need to decide what the actual question is. The phrase “why don’t you [ ] immigrants coming in?” is missing a verb. Why don’t we what?  Want? Allow? Assist? Since the United States allows immigrants to come in once approved, and there are a number of Christian charities that assist immigrants who come, I will answer the question “Why don’t you want immigrants coming in the United States?” And I will also address the charge of hypocrisy. Continue Reading