Believing in Jesus

3210) Questions After 9-11 (3/3)

Matthew 11:28-30 – (Jesus said),  “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.  Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.  For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” ————————- […]

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3209) Questions After 9-11 (2/3)

     (…continued) Billy Graham spoke at the National Prayer Service at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. on Friday, September 16 (pictured above).  This inter-faith service was an awkward forum for a man so used to proclaiming the clear claims of Christ as THE Way, THE Life, and THE Truth (John 14:6).  Billy Graham’s

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3208) Questions After 9-11 (1/3)

I wrote this piece in 2001 as an article for the monthly newsletter of a Christian mission organization that I was working with at the time.  I hesitated to write it, but finally did.  The editor hesitated to publish it, and decided not to.  The time did not yet seem right.  I never did use

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3205) Believing the Easter Story (2/2)

Mary Magdalene at the Tomb  (John 20), by Harold Copping (1863-1932) ————————-      (…continued) “Believe in me,” said Jesus, though there is a problem.  This is a nice story, but can we believe it?  2,000 years is a long time ago, and the whole thing is pretty unscientific.  Eternal life is a nice hope; but

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3204) Believing the Easter Story (1/2)

     Few people get to live a life as blessed, as successful, and as prosperous as Thomas Jefferson.  He was born to wealth and then lived in luxury all of his 83 years.  He enjoyed good health for 82 of those years; only in his last year of life did he begin to fail.  He

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3193) Two Interesting Conversions

       Sir William Mitchell Ramsay (1851-1939) was a British archeologist and New Testament scholar.  He was the foremost authority of his day on the history of Asia Minor, and a leading scholar in the study of the New Testament.  He taught at Oxford and the University of Aberdeen.  He was knighted in 1906

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3187) No Santa, No God

     My wife and I never made a big deal about Santa Claus when our two children were small, so it wasn’t surprising when our son figured it out pretty early in life.  “Dad,” he said, “I think Mom is the one who buys all our Christmas presents and not Santa Claus.”  I congratulated

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3181) The Book

By Al Rogness, from The Word for Every Day, 1981, Augsburg Publishing House, page 234.      The Christian church really has but one book.  Of course thousands of books have been written about the faith, but all draw from one book, the Bible.  The Bible is the basis for our faith.      We

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3171) Is Anyone Else Out There?

“Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God”;  an article by Eric Metaxas , December 25, 2014, Wall Street Journal ——————————————–      In 1966 Time magazine ran a cover story asking: “Is God Dead?”  Many have accepted the cultural narrative that He’s obsolete—that as science progresses, there is less need for a “God” to explain

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3166) Blessed

Seattle Seahawks Linebacker Derick Hall was born at 23 weeks. He had no heartbeat and doctors gave him a one percent chance of survival. But his mom refused to take him off life support. Now he is a Super Bowl champion. After the victory, Derick Hall reflected on the moment using a word that has

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