Do You Seriously Think God Can’t Use You? Think Again!

Saturday, February 4th, 2012 by Ty Wallace posted in Christian Living | No Comments »

I came across the following image on Facebook. I'm not sure who originally created it but I just love it.  The image entitled "Do You Seriously Think God Can't Use You?" is a simple reminder that God can use anybody... including you and me. Never let the enemy tell you otherwise!

Easy Wins or Baby and Bathwater

Friday, April 29th, 2011 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living | Comments Off

Recently I had one of those strange moments. I had seen something that made me think that it was not something that I would do. What it was isn't important. What is important is that the reason I felt that I wouldn't do the same was because it wasn't a very "Christian" thing to do. Immediately after that thought, it occurred to me that if were to mention that to someone, they might respond with something ...

Guilt and Shame

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living | Comments Off

I thought this would be a good time to go back into the recesses of history and bring up a topic that was taught in my church quite a number of years ago, now. That is, as the title of this post suggests, guilt and shame. I still recall several of the distinctions that Pastor Ray from Desert Breeze Community Church made regarding these two topics.  It is those distinctions that I'd like to go ...

Misuse of Truth

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living | Comments Off

Many people who fall away from the Church have a number of reasons for doing so. While a number of the more outspoken of them tend to claim that they left the Church due to intellectual reasons. However, it seems that when one hears their "un-testimony" it becomes clear that they are more likely emotional reasons. In most of these cases, someone at the church did something or said something that caused them to leave. Perhaps ...

The Most Dangerous Book in the World

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011 by Dan Carrington posted in Bible & Scripture, Christian Living | Comments Off

As a Christian, you might expect me to say that I believe that the Bible is the greatest book in the history of the world.  The doctrines taught in the Bible have, arguably, led to more philanthropy, selfless action and other beneficial things such as schools, hospitals, etc. than any other book, religion, worldview or ideal. Many critics of Christianity might also point out the number of people who have died as a result of the ...

Relating to Pain

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living, Sin | Comments Off

For some time now, there have been many responses to the concept of what is known as the "Problem of Evil." Sometimes this is also called the "Problem of Pain" or the "Problem of Suffering." It is an argument offered to challenge the idea that there exists a God who is all powerful and simultaneously all loving. This seems to come up occasionally in my writing as I have already written previous posts on different aspects ...

The Other Side of the Coin

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living, Political Issues | Comments Off

Last week, I brought up a story about going to far about keeping church and state separated. As if on queue, I just ran across another article that brings up the problem in precisely the opposite direction. An article on OneNewsNow, another story was reported about a jail house in South Carolina that banned all literature from being allowed to the prisoners...all literature, that is, except for the Bible. This is pretty much the opposite extreme ...

Weighed Down by Faith

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Belief, Christian Living | Comments Off

Last week, I wrote a post on my blog with my feedback of a debate I heard on Apologetics315 between Matt Slick of CARM and Dan Barker. The debate topic was "Is There Reason to be Good Without God?" I won't repeat my comments here, but you can read the entire post if you like. There was something else, however, that caught my attention when listening to this debate. Barker talked about his background, being raised ...

Wearing the Bulls-Eye

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living | Comments Off

One thing that one commonly hears about Christianity is that once a person accepts Christ, they begin to experience a lot more trouble. You might think that I'm going to go into people's impression that accepting Christ meant that life would be easy, but that's not where I'm going with this. (Though, that would be good, too!) Instead, I'd like to address something that I've heard from non-believers. Often, I've heard rebuttals to this that basically ...

Church vs. Christianity – Part IV

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Bible & Scripture, Christian Living | Comments Off

For the past few weeks, we've been looking at a passage of scripture from John 4. The story is about Jesus' interaction with the Samaritan woman at the well. Today, I'd like to continue with that story and take a look at what happened after the woman left Jesus and the disciples and went back to her town. We already saw that Jesus acted with compassion, understanding, love and most of all...grace. He didn't condemn or judge, ...