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A Short Debate on The Moral Argument for the Existence of God

5/14/2022

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One of the main reasons that I engage in political debates is that doings so creates so many opportunities for directing the conversation to the topics of God and the Bible.  Here's a recent example of a comment that someone left on one of my political posts which then grew into a debate on the moral argument for the existence of God. 

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God's Prohibition of Crossdressing

10/1/2020

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Not too long ago, I taught a Sunday School series on Using the Law Lawfully.  In that series, we analyzed all 613 of the laws in the Old Testament to determine which of them still applied to modern Gentile believers.  One of the laws that we looked at was the prohibition against crossdressing found in Deuteronomy 22:5, and I think that we established a pretty good understanding of that law and how it applies to us today.  Here is the outline from that lesson:


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What is a Conservative?

6/17/2020

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Conservatism is the philosophy that the wisdom of the past is still just as applicable today as it was then.  Conservatism is an ancient wisdom in itself, for every age has its conservatives and liberals, and it is always the conservatives who succeed and pass their wisdom down to the next age where some new brand of liberals will rise up to challenge that wisdom once again. 


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The Trial of Pastor Dan: An Impeachment Analogy

12/31/2019

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Dear Bro. Charles,
 
By now, you have almost certainly heard about the contention between Pastor Dan and the deacons of First Baptist Church.  In fact, it would be nigh impossible for you to have missed it.  Unfortunately, there is a lot of misinformation being spread by both sides of the conflict, and I wanted to write you to ensure that you received an accurate account of the proceedings up to this time.  Of course, I won’t be able to go into a lot of detail, but I hope that this overview will help you to sort out truth from fiction among all the conflicting reports that you have read.


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Laws on Selling Women in the Book of Exodus

4/30/2018

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I have often been asked to explain how Exodus 21:7-11 can be reconciled with the goodness of God.

And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.  If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.  And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.  If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.  And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.


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10 Christian Movies Every Godly Teen Should Watch

11/25/2017

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Over the years, I've browsed through several online lists of movies recommended for Christian teens.  Unfortunately, the vast majority of them include films with decidedly anti-Christian content.  Crosswalk.com's recent list of "10 Classic Movies Every Christian Teen Should Watch" provides a great example.  Crosswalk has been promoting this list very heavily on facebook, but it includes films like Schindler's List with graphic and explicit nudity as well as Saving Private Ryan which is filled with R rated cursing. 

Every time I read one of these lists, I end up complaining to my wife about how superficial mainline Christianity has become, and she, in turn, reminds me that I still haven't published my list of 100+ Clean Movies for Christian Families.  Well, I'm still not quite ready to publish the full list of over 100 movies, but I think that I can match Crosswalk.com's list of 10 by providing my own list of 10 Christian Movies Every Godly Teen Should Watch. 


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Lee Davis: an Alabama conservative willing to lie, cheat, steal, and maybe even kill just to stop Hillary

9/15/2016

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I could hardly believe what I was reading.  Yesterday, I asked conservative activist and former talk show host, Lee Davis, an outrageous question fully expecting him to respond with an emphatic "No!"  I asked him if he would be willing to lie, cheat and steal in order to prevent Hillary from winning the election.  Much to my surprise, he answered with an emphatic "Yes!" instead.

Here's a screen shot of the conversation:


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The Beggar's Landscape: Sam Harris and Objective Morality

2/10/2014

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The subtitle to Sam Harris’ book The Moral Landscape is: “How Science Can Determine Human Values.”  In the introduction to the book, Harris presented two opposing viewpoints on the origin of human morality.  The first claims that morality is woven into reality by God while the second views morality as the product “of evolutionary pressure and cultural invention.”  In regards to these two views, Harris says:


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