I received this question
a little while ago from a friend, and I have to admit, I was taken off guard. I
don’t follow the Christian music industry at all closely, so I didn’t know this
was a thing. But from what I found out, it seems every year or two a Christian
band will come out with a song that includes profanity. There will be a heated
debate for a little while, which is then forgotten until another group does the
same thing and the cycle starts again.
Monday, June 19, 2017
Sunday, March 19, 2017
When Does a Past Life Begin?
Possibly you have
already come across this
story from a few days ago. It describes a piece of “performance art”
conducted by a group of abortion-rights activists in Argentina during
International Women’s Day protests. The protesters performed a faux-abortion on
a woman dressed to represent the Virgin Mary. They called it an attack on
“patriarchy” and “forced heterosexuality,” but it was obviously an assault on Jesus
Christ above all.
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Who Should Do Ministry?
For anyone who might not
know, while working on Quest Forums, I am also a seminary student. Right now, I
am in a class focusing on the book of Ephesians. Obviously, there is a lot of
good stuff in there. But one thing in particular has me thinking, because of
how it ties into the ministry I have been trying to get off the ground. It
boils down to, how should we understand Eph.
4:11–13?
Friday, January 20, 2017
Who Is Our King?
As I sat down to write
this, I knew I was running a risk. Donald Trump is a very polarizing person, and
some people are dedicated to seeing him as either savior or tyrant. And though
I am on record as having a negative view of him, I do not fall into either of
those extremes. Therefore, neither side is likely to be totally happy with what
I am about to say, and that could lead to anger. On top of that, the warning I
am trying to give could also be turned back on me, if a time comes when I am
guilty of hero worship or fear mongering.
Friday, January 13, 2017
What is the Rapture?
A little while ago, I
was asked to discuss the concept of the Rapture in one of these articles. It is
fairly difficult to do that, not because of how little there is to say but
because of how much. My writing is already a bit long for the internet, but
discussing the Rapture fully (if such a thing is possible) would take a book. I
cannot do that at the moment. Nor can I ask you to read it off a webpage.
Instead, I am going to go the opposite direction and attempt to hit the high
notes. Oftentimes, I try to give at least some insight on or description of positions
with which I disagree on a debatable issue. Today, suffice it to say there is a
debate, and what I say here is simply my side of it.
Friday, January 6, 2017
What, Me, Worry?
A few weeks ago while I was preparing my article about the
wise men of Matthew 1, I did some research into the Zoroastrian religion. It
was nothing in-depth, merely enough for identification purposes, but I read
something in passing that got me thinking. So this week, I want to do a little
comparative religion.
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