Category: Just Thinking

These are blogs about random topics, just things I’m thinking about and pondering.

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Robbing God of His Glory

So the NatGeo channel has been doing this series called "One Strange Rock," hosted by Will Smith. It's all about the marvels of the earth. Wonderful video, interesting facts, lots of fascinating views from space, but of course, being mostly secularists, never a word of praise to the Creator of it all! Everything is just one huge accident. It saddens me.

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God is unjust?!

So I was listening to Dr. Frank Turek’s podcast the other day, and he mentioned how so many atheists and skeptics complain about how God ordered the execution of every man, woman, and child in Canaan when the Israelites moved in to take their Promised Land. Frank gave a good explanation, and mentioned a book I’ve often recommended by Dr. Paul Copan titled, “Is God a Moral Monster?” He also mentioned another professor he’d had on his show before, a Dr. Clay Jones, who has a different view than Copan. So when I got home, I looked up Clay Jones and found a video teaching of his on YouTube, in which he gave his explanation why it wasn’t immoral of God to bring judgment on the Canaanites.

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It happened in a Mexican prison

Ok, some time back I wrote about some of my worst ministry experiences. Today as I was out for a bike ride, it occurred to me that I’d better also write about some of the best ones, just to balance things out. Let me share with you some great experiences I’ve had over the years. I want to share these things, not to glorify myself, but to thank and glorify God for the privilege of being used by Him, and experiencing His power working through me.

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My most negative ministry experiences

I don't really know why, but I've had the impression for some time that I should share with you some very negative experiences from my life of ministry. This might seem long, and you might question why I share it at all! But I want to be obedient to share these things with those of you who read my blog.  I got a feeling it might be related to my recent studies of Pauline Theology, because Paul said he gloried and boasted in his weaknesses. (2 Cor. 11:30)

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God’s Mistakes?

A man in a line at one of apologist Frank Turek’s events asked a leading question. He took some time to list what he considered mistakes God made. He created the world and humans, then decided it was all a mistake that had to be wiped out by the Flood. He was sorry He’d even made man. Then He chose Abraham and in this guy’s estimation, “started over again” to produce a better group of people. But the Israelites failed God, so that was a mistake. Then He sent “another dude,” Jesus, to start yet again, but that hasn’t turned out that well. The Church has had all sorts of infighting, heresies, has gotten too involved with politics, etc. So these were all God’s mistakes. The guy concluded by asking, “So when is God going to finally get things right?”

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Don’t blame God!

In my last blog, I talked about the NYC Muslim terrorist attack with a pickup truck. Since then we've had yet another act of madness and evil, the church shooting in Texas. This is horror with an added twist - it was perpetrated against a church, against God's people. Even the poor pastor has lost his 14 year old daughter. I can just hear people asking, "Why did God allow this?" Skeptics or atheists might even say, "This proves there's no all-powerful and all-good God. If such a God existed, He would never allow this to happen to His people, would He?" Well-meaning Christians may even be trying to come up with explanations as to why God would have allowed this hateful act. Maybe there's some secret divine plan that we'll all understand someday in heaven? To that sort of thinking, I say one word - baloney! Don't blame God for this - He had nothing to do with it!

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The Positives of World Religions

As a Christian and a preacher/teacher, I am frequently teaching people how different cults or world religions differ from Christianity and biblical teaching. In doing so, I have to point out what’s wrong with these other belief systems, how they contradict the Bible, how they go against the evidence, why they are untrue and even demonically inspired. I consider this to be part of my calling. You can’t just proclaim the truth; it’s also necessary to compare and contrast it with anything untrue.

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Are You Sure?

As I’ve previously mentioned, I just completed a course in world religions, studying Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, indigenous religions, etc. Pretty interesting stuff for a guy like me. I visited a Hindu temple nearby and interviewed the young priest. Then I wrote a paper on Islam. But I’ve been studying Islam for years, and my studies continue. I’m presently reading Did Muhammad Exist, by Robert Spencer, a guy you frequently see on TV as an expert on Islam. What he says in this book agrees with what a lot of the scholars I cited in my Islam paper say. Turns out that Islamic history is really shaky, and there’s lots of information on this. There are no collaborating non-Muslim sources for most of it. The only information on Muhammad himself, the Qur’an, or the “history of Islam” most Muslims are taught is very, very vague, unsubstantiated, contradictory, and downright legendary! It’s possible Muhammad never existed! Continue reading “Are You Sure?”

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