The following is a guest post by Daniel Banks, a member of By Grace Community Church in Newport News, VA. Star Trek has been around for quite awhile now. Everyone has grown up watching an incarnation of the enduring franchise, from the original series, Star Trek, and its subsequent spin offs The Next Generation, Deep...
What’s In a Cliche? “Putting God in a box”: it’s one of those Christian cliches that has the same effect on me as someone loudly chomping on their chewing gum, or someone struggling violently to “play” an instrument for the first time, or having nowhere else to eat but McDonald’s, or seeing a man wearing...
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to...
Is Circular Reasoning Always Fallacious? Short answer: no. Long answer: There are two things we need to discuss about circular reasoning: It is (1) absolutely unavoidable and (2) not necessarily fallacious. Circular reasoning is unavoidable to some degree when proving one’s ultimate standard. An ultimate standard cannot be proved from anything else, otherwise it wouldn’t...
The Book Thief (2013) is a mostly uninspired and only intermittently compelling movie of tiresome length, confusing and frustrating every hope I had entertained of the original volume’s bittersweet tragedy being skillfully adapted to the screen. Markus Zusak’s young adult novel of the same name was both starkly tragic and sweetly human, relieving its dark...
Over the last two years, my wife and I have been navigating some of the richest seasons of parenting when our children began grasping spiritual truths. Our daughter, who is the oldest of three, will be five years old this summer, and it has been such a joy to watch her blossom from a toddler...
Can the Ethiopian Change His Skin? Skin pigmentation, regardless of shade, is a beautiful gift bestowed upon mankind by his Creator. The amount of melanin in a person’s skin, a result of micro-evolution, is evidence of God’s grace upon the human race. Since the moment sin and death entered into the world through the Fall...
Temptation And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son...
There is one major theme that stands out in my mind when it comes to American Christianity and politics. It is the subconscious obsession with Fatalism. The World English Dictionary defines it: fatalism (E?feE?tEi??E?lE?zEi??m) ‘ n 1. the philosophical doctrine that all events are predetermined so that man is powerless to alter his destiny 2....
Mike Tyson: former heavyweight champion of the world. He still holds the record for the fastest Junior Olympics knockout (8 seconds). ESPN ranked Tyson as the most powerful puncher of all time. “Iron Mike” is the former husband to a once-famous starlet. He earned over $300-million dollars during his career and was bankrupt before he...
