Human Value

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living | 1 Comment »

According to the Bible, Man was created in God's image. It is upon this basis that Jesus makes His statement about the second greatest commandment which is to "love your neighbor as yourself." What about those who are not Christian and do not hold to the authority of the Bible? In those cases, how is human value determined? In fact, how is it even recognized as being valuable? If we are here as a mere result ...

Miracles and Coincidences

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 by Dan Carrington posted in Miracles | Comments Off

In the introduction to his book, "Mere Christianity," C. S. Lewis discusses some concerns that he has with how some words in the English language end up becoming more or less useless. He uses the word "gentleman" as an example. He explains that this word used to convey information about a person (that he was a land-owner or of noble birth) but it became simply a word used to describe how an individual esteems a ...

Weighing the Truth

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living | 8 Comments »

Over time, if one pays attention to this sort of thing, one gets to see or hear a variety of different "reasons" for claiming something as truth. One can also see or hear many different ideas as to how these "truths" were determined to be "true" or not. This is something about which we must be very careful. Many people have probably heard or read about the Mormons' "burning in the bosom" as being a method ...

Let’s Talk About Jesus…Nicely!

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 by Dan Carrington posted in Evangelism | 16 Comments »

I cannot say that my memory is not what it used to be. It's been bad for as long as I can remember. So, just from last week to this week, I had already forgotten that I was going to write about this topic and I had already written a whole post about something completely different. Fortunately, I caught myself and will post the other article next week. For this week, I want to continue where ...