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Is it Christ alone or Christ Plus?
Will I be responsible for today, given the great resourcefulness of my talents and ingenuity, or will I rely upon the indwelling resource of Jesus Christ?
Where's Preston Again?
Once we discovered the leak and fixed it, the saturated ground dried out and set our house back down, but not before cracking nearly every flat surface.
Faith's Additional Sources
Other animal beings suffer and struggle to live, but human beings are the only ones that ask, “Why?”
Thinking and Believing
Scientific methodology wasn’t accepted practice until at least the sixteenth century.
Reason and Faith
The most frequent critique of faith is that it can’t be proven. So? Nothing else is either unless you live in a laboratory and are a rat.
Science and Faith and Logic
To assert that science and faith are mutually exclusive is naïve.
How Large is the Leap of Faith?
Just because a whole bunch of people disparage faith, that doesn’t make them right.
Final Letter to My Atheist Neighbor
I awoke this morning with you and this poem converging at the top of my list of priorities for the day.
Letter to My Atheist Neighbor
“Preston, you took a leap of faith; I took a leap of unfaith.”
Flawed Doctrine and a Petulant God
I hung onto a fragile concept of God by the thinnest of margins. Had I been more impulsive, I would have jettisoned Him, the doctrine about Him, all those associated with Him
What's in a Name?
One word commanded Mary’s attention. Four letters placed one after the other and voiced by Jesus brought instant recognition.
Is Starting Over Okay?
When I think of January, or in this case, February, I think of starting over, resolutions, and new beginnings. But as I consider this, I realize I begin again frequently, sometimes multiple times each day, and not just in January.
Invasion on Christmas
Although not visible to Joseph and Mary, an elite corps of angelic, special agents guarded their every move.
They Left Heaven
The angels carried their worship on the road to Bethlehem’s stable. On that first Christmas, angels by the myriads and thousands trekked from heaven to earth to worship God incarnate: Jesus, the Christ-child.
Christmas Is Like Dizzy
I really didn’t mind moving and working hogs, but dragging a dead or injured animal out of a feeding area into the barnyard was a dreary, messy task.