Wednesday, October 22, 2025

A Lesson in the Sky

a comet visible over the horizon
Scripture encourages us to contemplate the world around us. "Consider the ant." "Consider the heavens, ... the moon and the stars." The natural world has much to teach us, so let's reflect on one of the wonders of the night sky and see what wisdom it can impart.

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

What is "The Carpenter's Son"?

a movie theater
In our society, someone will try to corrupt everything. In a recent development of this, filmmakers are taking innocent properties and turning them into horror movies, as they have with Steamboat Willie and Winnie the Pooh. So I guess it really shouldn't be a surprise that someone's made a horror movie based on Jesus.

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Who's Really Pro-Life?

woman holding anti-abortion sign
The first American Pope has decided to wade into the American abortion debate by invoking a tired old line, the go-to of abortion supporters everywhere: “Someone who says ‘I’m against abortion but says I am in favor of the death penalty’ is not really pro-life." So let's consider, what does it really take to be "pro-life"?

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Why are Christians So Hung Up on Sex?

"love wins" sign at protest
It offends our society. It's a common complaint among those who are Millennials or younger. The person who asked me, though, was fifty. "Why do Christians talk about sex so much when there are so many other sins they don't talk about?"

There are other ways we hear this expressed: "Why do Christians care so much what people do in their bedrooms?" "Why don't Christians want gays to love each other?" However they express it, people today are both perplexed and offended that Christianity opposes the sexual freedom considered a fundamental right in the modern western world. So how can we answer that?