CHRISTIAN PROOFS Christianity refuses to be proven first, and practiced afterward. Its practice and its proof go hand in hand. -- Rita Snowden
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COLSON ON THE RESURRECTION If one is to assail the historicity of the resurrection and therefore the deity of Christ, one must conclude that there was a conspiracy--a cover-up if you will-- by eleven men…
PASCAL ON THE RESURRECTION Blaise Pascal, the extraordinary mathematician, scientist, inventor, and logician of the seventeenth century, was convinced of the truth of Christ by examination of the historical record. In his classic Pensees, Pascal…
C. S. LEWIS ON THE INCARNATION I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher,…
A CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION FOR SOCIETY President Calvin Coolidge said, "The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teaching of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if…
EDUCATED UNBELIEF Unbelief today so often masquerades as scholarship. All the scholarship in the world does not necessarily know anything about Jesus Christ except what you read in a book. Belief is where you know…
IF YOU WANT IT DONE RIGHT The report concerned some Benedictine monks in Virginia who support themselves with a fruitcake business--a business that had done so well that they contacted a computer consultant to set…
BIBLE & HISTORY Despite the oft quoted verse, "we walk by faith and not by sight" (2 Corinthians 5:7), Christianity does not require a "leap in the dark" or a sacrifice of the intellect. Paul…
HISTORICAL TRUTH The historian arrives at truth through probability, but this does not mean "a doubtful kind of truth" but a firm reliance on the likelihood that evidence which has been examined and found solid…
SCIENCE & RELIGION Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein
SECRET OF EVOLUTION M. F. Ashley's Montagu's book entitled Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race, includes the story of a wife of a Worcester Cathedral Canon who listened to the first announcement of…
THERE IS NO GOD? Several years ago Jim Bishop wrote in the Miami Herald an article entitled "There Is No God?" It is a strong witness to the testimony of God in creation. It reads…
ACCIDENTAL EVOLUTION The evolutionist puts it thusly: "Once upon a time . . . perhaps two-and-a-half billion years ago, under a deadly sun, in an ammoniated ocean topped by a poisonous atmosphere in the midst…
THE POWER OF GOD The point is, all creation, all nature is an outstretched finger pointing to God--the omnipotent almighty God. What cannot be done according to the nature of things, the laws, rules and…
CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE We ought indeed to expect to find the works of God in such things as the advance of knowledge. Knowledge of the physical universe is not to be thought of as irrelevant to…
NOTHING MORE TO SAY On December 10, 1997, Sam Donaldson asked Ted Turner what he wanted written on his tombstone. Ted Turner's answer was: "I have nothing more to say." The message of Easter is…
DANCE OF JOY & VICTORY A real Christian who believes should do two things: dance out of the sheer sense of joy and fight out of the sheer sense of victory. -- G. K. Chesterson
WEIGHT OF THE CROSS Taking up our cross is a part of what it means to be identified as a follower of Christ. A tourist who was attending the passion play at Oberammergau, Germany, went…
TADPOLES TO FROGS Some years ago, I stood beside a creek, where a little five-year-old friend was playing. Noticing a bunch of tadpoles, I scooped one up in my hand and showed it to him.…
NO NEED FOR GOD Most people say there are no absolute truths. For many-- even born again Christians--truth is relative. When people believe that there is no right or wrong, then there is no sin.…
