Brace yourselves for another unbelievable law! Actually, there will be one thing about this story easy to belief. It takes place in California. If it happened anywhere else, you might have to suspend belief. Guadalupe…
So, you have a problem with Christianity? You find Christians to be so heavenly minded, they’re no earthly good? You ask yourself, “What have Christians done for this world besides sit in church and sing?…
I didn’t go to pastor’s meetings. That’s right. I was a pastor, but I didn’t go to pastor’s meetings. I used to make excuses. I used to say that I was too busy to go. …
Question: Baptism seems to be an issue which divides Christians and creates different denominations. Is this because the scripture is unclear about the meaning of baptism? The scripture is clear. At the same time, it…
Her name was Dannette. I will always remember her as a woman who showed a rare courage in the face of a mighty adversity, a woman willing to challenge the tide of the times and…
It was Sunday evening. Our church was laying hands on Lois, and people were encouraged. Lois, you see, had recently given her life to Jesus Christ, a decision which transformed a mature looking medical student…
“The thing that keeps me from considering Christianity is the hypocrisy of the church. From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to Tele-Evangelists always asking for money, I’m just plain turned off!” If hypocrisy is your…
I went the whole summer of 1980 without attending church. That’s right. The whole summer, and I never missed it, a seemingly shameful confession from a seminary student. (I won’t name the seminary I attended…
“Even if I wanted to accept part of the Bible, namely the life of Jesus Christ, must I also accept the Genesis account? This seems like a fairy tale.” I was not raised as a…
His question came with tears and desperation. He was a college student and he addressed about thirty of his fellow college students, crowded into the waiting area of a hospital. “I have a question for…
Carrie was very shy. For her to get up out of her seat at the invitation of a faith healer, in front of hundreds of people, was an act of faith at the very least….
It was Easter Sunday, but I had not been to church. Instead, I attended an invitation from the National Atheist’s Society to do a debate on Sunday morning in San Antonio, Texas. The debate had…
Originally written for Town Hall Blog by Bob Siegel, June 18, 2008 Have you heard the latest buzz about Obama? Now they are saying he may just capture a good deal of the Evangelical vote. …
“Sola Scriptura!” That’s the Latin wording for “Scripture Alone!” a popular slogan of the Reformer, Martin Luther, who broke from the Catholic Church in the 1500’s. OK. Actually, he didn’t break from them. They kicked…
I was in my early twenties, newly married and recently graduated from college. We were on our way to Denver, Colorado where I would be interviewed for a job with the missionary organization, Campus Ambassadors….
Even though atheists like to make a loud noise, most people in our country still believe in God. But there’s a different discussion about God that is not held frequently enough. Can God talk to…
John McCain decided to renounce the endorsement of Rev. John Hagee. Recently, one of Hagee’s older sermons about the holocaust with speculation about why God allowed the event, was dug up and quoted in an…
“Does God have a sense of humor?” He does, actually. Even before going to scripture, that would be a logical inference. Certainly human beings cannot do anything God can’t do. That includes the ability to…
The debate over Intelligent Design is not going to be settled anytime soon. Although I am convinced that nature does point to some kind of intelligent design, others are not so convinced. This is fine….
In the early Catholic Church, it was taught that baptism did away with the penalty of Original Sin and that’s why babies were baptized. If people converted to Christianity as a young adults, they too,…