Broken promises leave us feeling disillusioned and empty. You would think we would learn to tell the truth and keep our promises. But every day we are inundated with politicians that promise everything and say anything just to get elected. They won't take unpopular stands. The media is also complicit in that they will either misrepresent the news or deliberately leave out information that would frame a story truthfully. Advertisers al;soget inj on the act. They tell us to buy

Virginia Stem Owens, an English professor, was teaching a class at Texas A&M University, 25 years ago. When Owens asked her students to read the Sermon on the Mount, she was a bit stunned by the written responses of her students.   “I had expected them to have at least a nodding acquaintance with the reading and to express a modicum of piety in their written responses. After all, Texas has always been considered at least marginally part of the Bible Belt.”   The first paper I

We are now at the beggining of the season of Lent. Lent is observed by millions of Christians around the world. Lent is a 40-day solemn Christian liturgical season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. It serves as a period of preparation to commemorate Jesus Christ's temptation in the desert and passion. It is also a time for reflection, repentance, and spiritual renewal . Repentance naturally implies a genuine godly sorrow for and turning from sin, and to seek a closer realat

I have had many conversations over the years with religious skeptics. They are not in short supply. I’ve heard all types of expressions of doubt and unbelief. They often mirror the sentiments shared in the following letter written by a seventeen-year-old student to a friend: You ask me my religious views: you know, I think, that I believe in no religion. There is absolutely no proof for any of them, and from a philosophical standpoint Christianity is not even the best. All re

Image Compliments of Pixby.com From the latter half of the twentieth century to the present, a significant push for peace has been made from many different places in our world. Presently, south of our border, President Trump has wanted to bring peace to the decades long unrest in the Middle East and to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. His desires to be known as a President of peace. Remarkably, his efforts have not gone unnoticed either. Some countries have even want

Pensées is a collection of French Philosopher Blaise Pascal’s arguments defending the Christian faith. Published in 1669 as Thoughts (Pensées), they have exerted a powerful intellectual influence ever since. Pascal denied that the tenets of faith must be rational, and that human reason can prove the existence of God, as some thinkers of his time argued. Rather, he held that God is beyond human understanding and that man has no assurance of meaningfulness in the universe asi

If you have ever read the Old Testament, it’s amazing how many times God says that Israel, “forgot the Lord their God.”   After the...

As evil and anarchy continue to manifest, every generation since Jesus left the earth has wondered, could Jesus come back in my lifetime?...

I must admit that I am not an admirer of dandelions. They always look pretty in a farmer’s field – far away from my own lawn. The sight...

Nick Carter was born in Kentucky in 1900 and became famous for his ability to find lost people.   Nick Carter was not a detective or...