Our religious culture is all about personal journeys. It loves to spend time cruising the mystical seas, feeling the spiritual sea breeze blowing through its hair. It loves the tolerance of the cruise but gets bent out of shape when it reaches a port of call. It would much rather gorge itself on vanilla flavored soft-serve new age spirituality 24…..
I once heard the great Christian theologian R. C. Sproul quote an atheist friend of his who said, “It is good to be an atheist until it comes time to die.” Atheists feel free during their lifetimes because they’re not beholden to a manipulating deity or a religious institution. The problem is that once they near the ends of their lives,…..
Adam and Eve, like Esau, sold their birth right for some food. They rejected their place as God’s children despite the fact they were the spitting “image” of their Father. They became self-proclaimed orphans and surrendered their inheritance only to be raised by wolves in the wilderness outside Eden. God, grieved by their absence, set in motion one of the…..