Christianity

Contemporary culture has made a virtue out of “tolerance”. If being tolerant means that you are nice to people no matter what their circumstances are or beliefs, then I agree. But I often find that the most intolerant people are those who preach this and if you don’t agree with their definition of what they think is right or wrong, they become angry and hateful. Contemporary culture also has a warped sense of what “truth” is. It embraces existentialism, which creates a bubble

I can’t say that our relationship was perfect. Though Vivian and I had been together as a couple 50 years and was married almost 49 years, we still had rough spots that needed sanding. We had signed up for a marriage mentorship where we studied the Love and Respect series taught by Emerson Eggrichs. We learned that the needs of a man and a woman are different. A woman’s primary need is love and the man’s need is respect. Because these needs are different, and if we don’t unde

We know that by grace we are saved through faith, and that not of ourselves, it is a gift of God, not by works lest any man boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Our reward is based on how well we follow that path. It’s like driving on the highway. How we end up is a combination of our obedience to God’s laws and a measure of God’s grace. Read Psalm 18:20-36. God is blameless. The

The Holy Bible, Wholly Bible, or Holey Bible? In some of the modern translations of the Bible such as the Revised Standard Version, passages of scripture have been omitted, some of which deal with serious doctrinal issues. The Trinitarian passage of I John 5:7, the ending of Mark, verses 16:9-20, and also John 7:53-8:11 have been targets of textual criticism. There is a three-headed monster, centered around the exaltation of human reason over divine revelation that consists o

EXAMINATION OF THREE ATTACKS OF SCRIPTURE JEDP THEORY Various sections of the Pentateuch assigned to various authors who are identified by the letters JEDP. Also called the documentary hypothesis. Developed by a number of liberal Christian and Jewish scholars. 18th and 19thcentury. The letters stand for the different supposed documents by different writers. J: Jawist document – Writers preferred the name Jahweh for God 900-850 B.C. E: Elohist document – Writers preferr

MANY CREATION PASSAGES IN THE BIBLE OUTSIDE OF GENESIS 1. God Created the Earth: Isaiah 45:18 For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else. 2. God Created Physical Science: Isaiah 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth the

UNCHAINED is a new book release by Freddy Torres that tells about life in a gang in Chicago and how he got caught up in a life of drugs and violence as a kid. God spared him many times from certain death and narrowly escaped dying when he was shot. Moving to Michigan, he found that many of his problems followed him, but he found it much more difficult to escape the consequences when he got into trouble. Finally his life was turned around when he was sent to jail boot camp and

Sometimes the devil will use the truth and pervert it to promote a lie. At other times, he will speak the truth to gain credibility or to use reverse psychology in order to get you to believe the opposite. There are many cases where this applies to the creation-evolution issue. A mixture of truth and lies is deadly, like a little arsenic in the salt.You can have observations in the present that are scientific, but often the conclusions are false because of fallacial logic. Fo

Doug, Rich and Derek observe that many people are mad at God. It’s a problem with sin in this world. They think that either God is unable to stop it, God created it, or God allows it. The truth is much more profound than that. A number of influential people in the past were mad at God. This was true of Voltaire, Lyell, Darwin and Huxley. Personal circumstances caused them to hate God and desire to get rid of him. Science has suffered as a result, and so has the world. The que

Northern Michigan provides many opportunities to explore the outdoors and experience God’s creation. There is a sense that when you are in the fresh air and in the woods by a lake, that the oppression that you feel when you are in the city or at work leaves. Demons don’t like to dwell there and they don’t take hold of you. In Romans Chapter 1, we understand that because of the evidence from God’s creation, there is no excuse because what He has made reveals his eternal power

Doug and Rich honors the life of Vivian Sharp, Doug’s wife, who passed away unexpectedly. How does a Christian deal with this major life event?

OK, Now What Am I Supposed to Do? A series of questions. There is a God. He is the God of the Bible. (Why?) Jesus Christ is God’s son who died on the cross to pay for our sins. Jesus Christ is worthy to be made your Lord. Invite Jesus Christ to come into you and rule your life. Repent of your sins and be baptized.The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity. Invite the Holy Spirit to empower you to life a Christian life. The Holy Spirit will give you gifts to help y

Federal agents are trained to detect counterfeit money by studying the genuine. So should we. The more that we seek after the truth no matter how it shakes out, the better we become at identifying false spiritual fakes. Sometimes the devil tells the truth, and it is because he will want you to reject it by his association, or to corrupt it. Jesus faced this in his temptation by the devil in the wilderness. You need to consider the source and examine the life of a person makin

If you are on a long trip and all of a sudden you realize that you are on the wrong road, no matter how much you out of your way, you take the next exit, turn around, and go back to the spot where you got misdirected and then continue on your way. So it is with your spiritual life. There are many signposts on the reprobate road, and as you are traveling on your spiritual path and you start seeing these signs, it is time to make a decision to turn around (repent) and figure ou

Is God fair when he allows judgment to fall upon His people? God told the prophet Ezekiel that he was to warn Israel that because they were following the gods of the nations around them and ignoring the statutes and laws that God provided, they would incur the consequences of their disobedience. Atheists accuse God of genocide, but God is simply giving the people what they ask. They do not want God to be involved in their lives, and because of that, He withdraws His hand of p

You can view the beauty of God’s Creation, or you can see the scum. It’s all a matter of perspective. Art is imitating God’s creation in all of its glory. There are elements of color, proportion, symmetry, perspective, emotion, connection, complexity and personality all tied up in art. What makes up good art? Artists don’t agree and usually cannot come up with anything, yet you know it when you see it. Is it all a matter of personal experience or preference? Classical art oft

Many examples exist that show that the chances of evolution producing life are so remote that it defies all of logic. Yet people believe in evolution, and they do so in many cases with evangelistic fervor. Why is this the case? If you dump a jigsaw puzzle onto the floor, what are the chances of it coming together completely assembled? Why does your finger grow to a certain optimum length and then just stop, perfectly proportioned to do its job? How did the dolphin’s nose move

The mission of the Revolution Against Evolution is to remove the stumbling blocks that hinders faith in Jesus Christ and the church. In this show, we investigate the origins of the theory of evolution beginning with Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin, and how the simple layout of a theory that is contrary to the Biblical record hoodwinked the church into believing that in order to be scientific, theologians needed to abandon the Biblical story of the beginning. But, as Luther T

The question “What Must I Do to be Saved?” is the question of the ages. Each of us needs to ask ourselves if we are prepared for what lies ahead after we die. The atheist claims that death is the end and that is what we need to settle for. But for the Christian, there is a hope that we have that there is a life beyond death. Either Jesus is who He says he is, or he isn’t, and either we accept Him or reject Him. Three out of four of these possibilities are losers. If Jesus is

Gentleness is one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit, and without the Holy Spirit, these characteristics are contrary to human nature. Atheistic and pagan cultures do not exhibit gentleness. Philosophies such as fascism and communism that embrace Darwinism are devoid of gentleness. Gentleness = love + joy + peace + meekness. It is not talked about a lot even in Christian sermons and teachings. In II Samuel 22:36 and Psalm 18:35, David credits gentleness in making him great. In