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The Importance of Willpower and Wisdom

My son and I were discussing spiritual matters and came up with these observations, which may interest some of you: ==> If you give your soul to the Lord, you may suffer greatly in this life (look what happened to Jesus, who obeyed His Father perfectly), but you will receive eternal bliss. ==> If you […]

Adam and Jesus

Going along with last week’s post, let me just extend the discussion. Looking at various portions of Christian doctrine in isolation, they seem nonsensical. However, putting them together yields at least a symmetry. I don’t expect this post to resonate with agnostics or atheists, but it may click with some Christians who have never thought […]

Christian Doctrines Hang Together

One of the best insights I drew from a Bible study series I once attended was that you can’t pick and choose from the doctrines of Christianity. If you do, the whole thing collapses. In the present post, I’ll walk through four elements of Christianity, at least as it is practiced in my church. Each […]

Hello! McFly!

I realize I am hardly unique in this observation, but it astonishes me when I think back to how naive and clueless I was, growing up. The things I feared, the people I tried to impress, the reckless decisions I made, the people I foolishly trusted, the times I shied away from doing what I […]

God Wants You to Choose Life

I was reading an issue of The American Conservative that was complimentary at FreedomFest, and saw this passage from Ezekiel quoted in an ad in the beginning: 21 “But if a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall […]

The Universe Is Beautiful–Unless You Think Someone Designed It

Unfortunately I can’t find it, but on Facebook recently I saw a poster saying something like, “If the universe were created by an intelligent being, why would he leave 99.9999999% of it empty?” Somewhat apropos, when I took my son to the Smithsonian’s planetarium last week, the show opened and the whole place (filled with […]

On “Following Jesus”

There is an intriguing gospel story that, prima facie, suggests that Christianity is incompatible with earthly riches: Jesus Counsels the Rich Young Ruler 16 Now behold, one came and said to Him, “Good[a] Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?” 17 So He said to him, “Why do you […]

Blending Duty to God With Utilitarianism?

I may not express my thoughts in this post very well, but I’ll try… I used to think there was an enormous gulf between the utilitarianism (what might better be termed consequentialism) of Ludwig von Mises versus the moral code flowing from a Judeo-Christian worldview. But the more I read the Bible, the more I […]