Is a recession coming in 2020? Perhaps. The seemingly sudden onslaught of recession alarm bells in the United States and around the globe lately might make it a little easy to hit the panic button. Economists, investors, and market observers have started to sound a little extra gloomy when it comes to their economic predictions in… Read More…
Reasons of the heart
“I know a man who has such a passion for proving that he will have no personal existence after death that he falls back on the position that he has no personal existence now.” GK Chesterton Christian apologists regularly face what we call the distraction challenge: the temptation to take seriously insubstantial objections against God’s existence. An insubstantial… Read More…
Fifty Years Ago
On almost every complex issue, intelligent people who have been exposed to the same information still reach different and even contradictory conclusions. It turns out that the human mind cannot deal with high levels of uncertainty. When we try to analyze many, often contradictory, pieces of evidence with differing levels of reliability, human conclusions often… Read More…
Courage
“He that will lose his life, the same shall save it,” is not a piece of mysticism for saints and heroes. It is a piece of everyday advice for sailors or mountaineers. …… He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it. He must not merely cling to life,… Read More…
Later than we think
Someone asked a wise older pastor his view of the “end times.” He smiled and said, “The Lord put me on the preparation committee, not the planning committee.” We cannot control how God chooses to end history. Our theories about the future are just that. The Bible is too practical to focus extensively on an… Read More…