This weekend my family and I celebrated Passover with a Seder meal. This is now the sixth time I have done this with my children, and I absolutely love being able to share this with them. And no, we are not Jewish. And I’m fully confident we don’t do it completely right. However, the purpose
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Earlier this year, the Barna Research group released the results of the 2024 American Worldview Inventory, where a national sample of adults across the US were surveyed to determine their specific worldview. This survey provides valuable insight because it asks specific questions to center onto the actual beliefs held by people as opposed to simply
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A few weeks ago, I came across an article by a someone claiming to be a Christian who cast some doubt on the existence of hell. And by that I mean, he writes, “There isn’t a hell.” Although admittedly, it is unclear from the article whether this author really considers himself to be a Christian.
According to Darwin’s theory of evolution, every complex organism, feature, and biological mechanism must be explained as the incremental build up from something simple. Darwin explains the existence of all things as having come from a simple, common ancestor. Through the natural process of random genetic mutations, that simple common ancestor must increase in complexity
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I recently had the opportunity to take my family, along with some close family friends, to visit Washington, D.C. And interestingly, the same question was posed in two different places that we visited: What makes us human? One place was the Museum of Natural History and the other was the Museum of the Bible. Though
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The final verses in Matthew’s gospel are some of the final instructions from Jesus to His followers. Jesus commanded them, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.”
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Tuesday evening started off like any other day of the week. I went to work, spent time with my wife and kids and had to pick up the books for finishing up a long belated bachelor’s degree. Now, in between my required college readings, I like to poke my nose into apologetics books to keep my skills sharp
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As we enter into this Easter season, it is clearly important to understand the true reason why we celebrate Easter. In our culture, much of this holiday is either focused on spring as the birth of new life or on the Easter bunny as bringing special gifts of chocolate and candies to children. But that
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Stephen Hawking once said, “I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God.” Although Hawking may not have been intentionally invoking the popular problem-solving principle known as Ockham’s razor, he does invoke the concept. It has also influenced other atheists to reduce their defense of atheism down to this “simplest explanation” idea. But is
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In1687, Isaac Newton published Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy). It has been referred to as the single most influential book on physics. Within that text, Newton expounds on nearly all the essential concepts of physics, including explanations of the laws of motion and the theory of gravity. Isaac Newton was the first to develop
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