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Who's in Charge Here?

“And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.’” (Matthew 28:18) In 1967 Brian Epstein...

11 min

Seven things to do when your child stops believing

When he was about fourteen years old, my son, Jonathan, sat me down and told me that he had lost his faith in God. I was hurt, but I wasn’t

4 min

How Gardens Work

Mark chapter four. What we typically call the parable of the sower might better be called the parables of the soil types. I say parables...

4 min

The importance of the fundamentals

Through the years I’ve frequently been asked to teach a series of lessons on the fundamentals of the Christian faith. I have typically...

4 min

Haunted by God

Not too far from where I live is the old home place of the American hero, Helen Keller. When she was two years old, the extroverted little g

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Why bother to persecute Christians?

On March 5, 2009 two women, Marzieh Esmaeilabad and Maryam Rustampoor, were arrested by Iranian security forces in Tehran and thrown into...

4 min

The Third Way

I really don’t want to blog. It takes me too long to write, and I always regret something when I do.

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