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Patric asks:
Hopefully we agree murder is an immoral act and must be punished. But what of God asking Abraham to kill his one and only son? Was God not being immoral in asking Abraham to do something immoral?
This question has been raised by philosophers and atheist alike.
I’ve discussed this question with quite a few people, [...]

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My question is simple enough.
Was Hitler crazy?
Crazy is such an interesting word. Because in the world what one man perceives as crazy, another man perceives as genius. Let me be clear that I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, calling Hitler a genius. What he did to the Jewish people was absolutely deplorable. [...]

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Jesus is… existentially essential… “I am the bread of life“
Sitting in a hospital room watching a loved one hooked up to all kinds of medical instruments and tubes, one hopes that the doctor knows what is going on. The door opens and a nurse appears and asks if there is anything wrong in the room [...]

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Loving kindness is an interesting thing in our day. We give it standards we want it to have and form it to meet our new postmodern standards. But love is not some vague feeling but a specific act towards an individual. We can say we love all but how so?

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Jesus is… historically trustworthy.. “truly, truly I say to you”
Words are the vehicle of communication. The more one hears or reads someone’s words, the more they come to know the person behind the words. In the gospel of John, he wrote, “In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the [...]

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Jesus is… philosophically unique– in a class all by himself.. holy
Several questions come to mind when discussing the philosophical uniqueness of Christ.
Aren’t all religions basically leading to the same goal? [...]

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Move over Benny Hinn and go ahead and cancel your pilgrimage to the “Lakeland Revival”

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What is the stage and background where we meet Jonathan Edwards?
On October 5, 1703 in East Windsor, Connecticut, Jonathan is born, two years after Yale College is established . He was born into a house full of girls. He had ten sisters and no brothers. It is surprising to find [...]

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Jonathan Edwards is my homeboy.

Who is Jonathan Edwards?
He was a man of intellectual brilliance and deep experiential longing. You might be confused if you are thinking of the recent presidential candidate Senator John Edwards from South Carolina, who was caught in affair while his wife has breast cancer than you are poorly [...]

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