When the evening came, the boat was out on the sea, and he was alone on the land. When he saw that they were straining at the oars against an adverse wind, he c...
One of my favorite passages from C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity is his first chapter on Faith, which has gotten me through many of my doubting periods. One of my...
One of the most important questions for a Christian is “how am I saved?” Obviously, Christians want to go to heaven and so it is vital for us to figure out how ...
I've spent the past two weeks addressing the dichotomy between spirituality and religion. However, the divide between the two is truly a false dilemma. We can h...
(For part I of this series please click here.)
Last week, I addressed how personal spirituality cannot replace organized religion for Christians because Chri...
"I'm not religious, but I'm spiritual."
"I don't buy into that religion stuff."
"I pray and stuff, but I don't bother with the whole church thing."
It is ver...
The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Tim Keller. Dutton Adult, 2008.
"Doubt and belief are each on the rise," claims Dr. Timothy Keller, autho...
I have always been depressed by the idea of being merely a "pretty good" person. Before I was a Christian, I identified myself only according to characteristics that I considered wholly good (and even noble) - the parts of me that appreciated things outside of myself that I thought were good, like nature or another person. That was the "real" me, but I had no way of reconciling this desire for goodness with poorer components in my character, such as selfishness.
