MY DAD ONCE TOLD ME YEARS AGO that in the days leading up to Christ’s return, churches would become dismissive, even hostile towards the very notion that He was soon returning. I was a little boy at the time, and to this day I don’t know if he believed that to be true...
THE BIBLE IS THE MOST ACCURATE HISTORICAL and geographical document ever written, so why is its worldwide congregation of subscribers plagued with cognitive dissonance when it comes to what we can read for ourselves contrasted with what our pastors and church leaders...
WHY CHURCHES ARE NO LONGER BUILT UNDER DOMES is a valid question, one in which I first asked myself while standing beside the empty tomb of Christ in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, gazing up at the breathtaking ceiling which arched directly above me....
WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT IS THE WORLD WE LIVE IN according to the Bible. Sure, the drawing is crude, but it brought me joy the first moment I laid eyes on it. I smiled, because I immediately recognized dozens of scripture verses, from the beginning of God's word to the...
I'VE FINALLY COME TO REALIZE THAT BELIEVING IN BALL-EARTH is a lot like speaking a second language. Bilinguals often explain it to me like this. Their second spoken language is self-interpreted. Meaning, whereas their aboriginal thoughts flow first from a hidden...
THE OTHER NIGHT I WAS TOSSING AND TURNING in bed when my wife had the courage to turn over and question what could possibly be so pressing on my mind which would keep me a pillow short of a good night's rest. I say courage because, after fifteen years of marriage,...
WHEN MY WIFE AND I EXITED THE INTERSTATE and parked the fifth-wheel in Charleston, South Carolina a little over a year ago, I likened it then to a desert island. You know, Swiss Family Robinson or Robinson Crusoe. We were castaways only for a short time, I assured...
EVER SINCE I WAS A LITTLE BOY I'VE BEEN FASCINATED with Biblical eschatology, or the study of end times. And so long as I can remember, in the entire apocalyptic canon of scripture, there was no greater mystery than the curiosity found in Paul's second letter to the...
DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I'VE WANTED to hold a Kit Kat bar up over my head and shout at the grocery clerk like a crazy mad man, "IT'S CHANGED AGAIN! IT'S CHANGED AGAIN!" I haven't, because then I'd sound like a crazy mad man. See, the problem with Kit Kat, as the...
I PUT THE KIDS TO BED AND THEN WENT OUT on another nighttime walk so that I might further reflect on my day’s thoughts and pray to the Lord. I like listening to the crickets and the croaking toads and the boat-like growls of alligators as I do so, sometimes catching a...
THEN SOMETHING RATHER UNEXPECTED HAPPENED. Proponents of Flat Earth dunked my globe theory in the wastebasket, and I became a believer. Why I'd even try to disprove the flat earth vermin, that small band of rebel scum scurrying about on the internet and going up...