Throughout history great and mighty civilizations have fallen, not primarily because of outside pressure, but because of internal rot. Unless Christ returns first, it looks like the once Christian West is the next to go.
Category: Philosophy
THE UGLY UNDERNEATH
How many of us look in the bathroom mirror with honesty? I must confess that I use it less and less as I get older: I don't need the added stress. No amount of makeup or facelift work will hide what's taking place over time on the outside! However, the reflection I do need every day of my life; the one we all need; the one which would actually improve over time were we to apply ourselves to its betterment; the one we almost all fail to seek, is the kind in which we examine our hearts and compare it to the word of our God. What are we really like inside?
Identifying Truth Among the Cacophony of Ideas
Has anyone not been asked the following rhetorical question: "How do you know your God is the right one?" In my experience this question - posed more as an accusation - is directed at Christians and never Muslims or Hindus or people of other faiths. They are considered to be sincerely seeking while we followers of Christ are not.
Embracing Darkness
What makes us struggle against the problems and the darkness of life? It's the fact that we were not initially created to live in a fallen, fractured, hostile world. However, here we are living in that very place, like it or not.
Royal Insanity
I was reading this morning about a knife attack in Ireland in which the alleged perpetrator was yelling that now well-known phrase which claims that a certain god is great - so great it seems, that he wants to take the world by violence if necessary. Thankfully the police officer being attacked had a companion who managed to subdue the man.
Fuel for Faith, Food for Thought 