Add comment September 16th, 2008 06:59pm Eric Peterman
Would it make sense to lock your house and its contents carefully before you left, and then turn around and hand your keys to a thief to hold? It would seem that Christians have been doing that for years with… knowledge. Paul Henebury, shows in The Frame of Knowledge article just how that happened and how to get the keys back out of unsafe hands.
Add comment September 12th, 2008 08:42am Eric Peterman
“The big question is not whether spiritual warfare exists, clearly it does. The question is, what are the spiritual disciplines that we employ to take effective part in spiritual warfare?” Greg Koukl
In this superb article, Tilting at Windmills, Koukl makes a point about the true nature of Biblical spiritual warfare, over and against the practice that is common among so many.
Add comment August 20th, 2008 02:23pm Eric Peterman
For an un-nuanced, good definition (and a humorous view) of this emphasis in Emerging circles, check out this motivational poster.
Add comment August 19th, 2008 08:22am Eric Peterman
A great, quick read helping to understand what science can and cannot claim to prove. Koukl focuses on claims that science has proven that God does not exist. What science can’t prove.
Add comment August 17th, 2008 09:14pm Eric Peterman
A couple years back I experienced a weeklong bout of severe and debilitating vertigo, caused by a virus that attacked my peripheral nervous system. I awoke one morning to a world that was spinning so fast that all I could do was screw my eyes shut and half-crawl, half stagger to the bathroom where I clung to the fixtures in wave after wave of nausea. I’m a fairly strong, can-do guy and this experience left me weeping and helpless. It was such a terrifying and intimidating ordeal that it left me with a deep and abiding sense of compassion for anyone suffering from the condition.
Do you sometimes experience “spiritual vertigo”? What I mean is, are you sometimes knocked out of a sense of balance (shockingly so) in your walk with God in faith? Do you find that your response to a situation, or the inner workings of your thinking and feelings toward God and His ways is just out of kilter with what you know it ought to be? This instability, or disconcerting onset of vertigo, sometimes stems from the lack of a sense of assurance of our salvation. We think we need to perform to a certain standard to merit or deserve God’s approval and in so doing we fail that standard and lose our sense of assurance, and the spinning times of doubt, indifference and anguish begin. We fight all the harder to regain our balance, which often seems to make the problem worse.
Here’s some reading you might find encouraging, and a way out of the vertigo trap. It’s a gathering of short articles written by some careful Biblical thinkers around the world, and it’s called the Imperium Testamentum collection on Eternal Security (Vol 1). You can find the whole collection here. Also, scroll down on that page and find the article, #71, An Anchor for the Soul Hebrews 6:13-20, written by Eric L Peterman , or you can link directly to the article here. Do let me know what you think and may the Lord help you to regain your stability, in His grace.
Add comment April 30th, 2008 10:02am Eric Peterman
Bumpersticker: “Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.”
The issue of divorce and remarriage is a “hot button” issue among Christians and has been a source of struggle and contention over the centuries. In our preaching series through the gospel of Mark we’re pausing in chapter ten to broaden and deepen our study as Jesus responds to a pointed and probing question by the Pharisees. Over the next few sessions we’ll be looking at the Biblical and historical data and presenting an informative, helpful and gracious approach to a touchy but very relevant subject. Tune in to the audio page starting May 4th, 2008.
Add comment January 15th, 2008 09:59pm Eric Peterman
You’d think that was great news, considering the hand-wringing that other first-world countries are going through at their declining birth-rates. However, in this CNN report, we see just how cynical and downright weird the world-view of some “experts” is!
For example, how’s this for a gem of condescension:
“Experts believe there is a mix of reasons: a decline in contraceptive use, a drop in access to abortion, poor education and poverty.”
As to whether or not this is a trend or a short-term blip:
“‘We have to wait and see. For now, I would call it a noticeable blip,’ said Brady Hamilton, a statistician with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “
So pregnancy is a disease? Why is this being tracked by the CDC?
Add comment December 27th, 2007 11:45pm Eric Peterman
Have you ever wondered what Christmas was really all about? Tired of the call to “keep Jesus in Christmas”? Here’s a fresh look at the ageless question in a new podcast/sermon recording, The True Meaning of Christmas (click here for MP3).
Add comment December 20th, 2007 10:47am Eric Peterman
The LDS (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) recently responded officially to a list of questions about Mormonism posed by FoxNews. The LDS is attempting to cast itself as a “misunderstood” Christian denomination. We’ve posted some of those Foxnews questions, the response of the LDS, and then our questions and comments in indented red. We think that this is an excellent lesson and opportunity in doctrinal discernment for Biblical Christians.
Foxnews Questions, LDS answers (emphasis ours), and our comments/questions. (more…)
Add comment April 12th, 2007 09:51pm Eric Peterman
I’ve been thinking about the connection between Darwinian naturalism and Hitler’s attemts at perfecting a superior human race of supermen via eugenics and all of a sudden this article on that exact topic pops up.
Oxford professor, Richard Dawkins, author of the book, The God Delusion, thinks that Hitler’s eugenics program was not all bad. Here’s a revealing quote:
…if you can breed cattle for milk yield, horses for running speed, and dogs for herding skill, why on Earth should it be impossible to breed humans for mathematical, musical or athletic ability?
Click here to read the ICR article.
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