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The latest event in the world of video games is the appearance of Halo 3– a violent star wars sort of game which has a rating of M, as in for mature audiences only. Now normally that sort of rating would result in Christian parents making sure their under aged children had nothing to do…

What follows on this blog entry is the first of the four Parchman lectures I gave at Truett Seminary at Baylor University this week. ————— Ours is a text based culture, a culture of written documents. You need look no further than your computer screens to verify this assertion. There could only be an internet…

First a prayer for folks over 50 who are cranky, then a story about prayer which will make you think, hopefully. — THE SENILITY PRAYER : Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.…

Since I will be away next week at Baylor doing the Parchman lectureship, I am going to go on and post Dr. Joe Dongell’s second lecture now, since some of you eager beavers can’t wait to hear about Option C– which as they say is a ‘live’ option. When people ask me, ‘do you believe…

Dr. Joseph Dongell my colleague here at Asbury gave two superb lectures last week for our annual holiness lectures, and he has graciously allowed me to publish them here on this blog. What follows here is the first of the two lectures. In a subsequent blog we will make available its sequel, but it will…

It really isn’t all that shocking to discover there is an anti-Evangelical bias amongst college professors in North America. A recent poll shows just how much this is so, and what is shocking is how much more animus is directed at Evangelicals compared to Mormons or Muslims or Jews. The survey of college professors can…

Lincoln Nebraska seems like a sane enough place. But recently it has been the site where a lawsuit has been filed against God by a state senator (Ernie Chambers– see the previous blog post on this matter). Now, there have been not one but two responses to this suit. The story can be found on…

Prophecy in Ezekiel 37 Proved True— Story follows: (http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29976?utm_source=EMTF_Onion) —————- Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People December 8, 1999 | Issue 35•45 Related Story— Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New ‘Intelligent Falling’ Theory August 17, 2005 OAS_AD(AL JIZAH, EGYPT—A team of British and Egyptian archaeologists made a stunning discovery Monday, unearthing several intact…

Kennedy was a chaplain in WWI for the British and saw the worst of human evil in the Maginot line. In this poem, done in Cockney dialect ( I have Americanized it a bit for the sake of intelligibility. It can be found in his wonderful long out of print book ‘The Unutterable Beauty’ pp.…

God, according to the Bible, is omnipresent. This means, according to State Senate from Nebraska Ernie Chambers, God can be sued, since he resides in all the U.S. of A. Specifically Senator Chambers is suing God for what the insurance companies usually call ‘acts of God’– namely natural disasters, such as the tornadoes that recently…
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