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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Madam Guyon

Some two hundred years ago the saintly Madam Guyon, (1648 – 1717) after ten years spent in a dungeon lying far below the surface of the ground, lit only by a candle at meal-times, wrote these words:

A little bird I am,
Shut from the fields of air;
Yet in my cage I sit and sing
To Him who [...]

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Beyond the Box: Innovative Church Planting II

Beyond One Person Leadership – Shifting to Teams
While authors, Easum and Travis, affirm that the senior pastor is a key element in the equation that leads to a strong church and kingdom impact, they attempt to undo ‘the myth of the heroic leader’; everything rises and falls on the senior pastor. Rather they suggest; everything [...]

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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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New Years Prayer

Dear Lord,
In the new year, we pray
that You will guide us each new day
in paths that are pleasing to You.
Lord, the new year gives us another chance
to rededicate our lives to You,
to study Your Word
so that we know right from wrong
and to act in accordance with Your commands.
Thank you for the sense of
direction, purpose and [...]

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Oscar Wilde

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, supplies their demands

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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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