The God Delusion -IV

The God Delusion is sure to garner significant attention in the media and in popular culture. Dawkins, along with the other fashionable skeptics and atheists of the day, makes for good television and creates an instant media sensation. In one sense, we should be thankful for the forthrightness with which he presents his arguments. [...]

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St. Augustine

What is this which gleams through me?
And smites my heart without wounding it?
I am both a-shudder and aglow.
A-shudder, in so far as I am unlike it,
Aglow in so far as I am like it.
- St Augustine (354 –430 AD)

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The Delusion of Dawkins – III

Richard Dawkins considers the existence of God to be nothing more than a scientific hypothesis, just like any other. He presents his case that “the factual premise of religion, the God Hypothesis, is untenable.” In other words, “God almost certainly does not exist.”
So why do so many persons trust in Him? Unwavering with his [...]

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Israel and Bible Prophecy

Events in Israel are of particular importance to Bible prophecy. As a consequence, the crisis in Israel dominates our coverage of events relative to the unfolding of Bible prophecy in this generation.
Israel is the linchpin in studying Bible prophecy. Jesus’ description of the signs of His Return [Matt 24:3] are given from the perspective of [...]

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The Delusion of Dawkins – II

Dawkins states, real scientists are naturalists. As such, they eliminate entirely the question of a supernatural being’s existence. “The metaphorical or pantheistic God of the physicists is light years away from the interventionist, miracle-wreaking, thought-reading, sin-punishing, prayer-answering God of the Bible, of priests, mullahs and rabbis, and of ordinary language. Deliberately to confuse the two [...]

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The Delusion of Dawkins

“I do not, by nature, thrive on confrontation,” declares Richard Dawkins, the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at  Oxford University and one of the world’s foremost skeptics regarding Christianity and faith in God.
Dawkins is well known as a cerebral rival to all forms of religious belief–and of Christianity in particular. He [...]

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Christmas in America

Christmas in America is a spirited demonstration of human ingenuity, capitalist productivity, and the enjoyment of life. Many friends I know talk about how the glory of Christmas is windswept by unbridled commercialism and materialism. I couldn’t help but notice that not long after the Halloween candy is eaten, the sounds of Jingle Bell Rock [...]

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When Christian Truth meets Post-Christian America – Part III

We must understand that, in the Christian worldview, culture is important, but never ultimate. Beyond this, we acknowledge that God is sovereign, and His providence rules over all.
The mission of the Church in the midst of this cultural crisis is to proclaim the truth and reach out to the casualties. In the face of rampant [...]

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When Christian Truth meets Post-Christian America – Part II

The Church has constantly been perplexed concerning its proper relation to culture. H. Richard Niebuhr traced five different patterns of cultural response in his famous work, Christ and Culture. The book over-simplified the issues and now looks awkwardly optimistic, but some of the patterns Niebuhr described are still evident. The Church as at times withdrawn [...]

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When Christian Truth meets Post-Christian America – Part I

A significant culture-shift has taken place around America. The essential contours of American culture has been radically altered. The so-called Judeo-Christian consensus of the last millennium has given way to a post-modern, post-Christian, post-Western cultural crisis which threatens the very heart of American culture.
Reflecting on the changes experienced by America over just the last half-century, [...]

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