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How a Red Cup Made Many Turn Blue

From the outset, I must be transparent. I am not a regular customer of Starbucks. In fact, I cannot say that I have ever set…

FEAR

The Greatest Danger for the Christian

For the past couple of years I have written about the top challenges that face the church for the year ahead. God-willing, I plan to…

1John

5 Parameters of Genuine Christianity Found in 1 John

Parameters are limits that constitute the nature or definition of someone or something. If one were to describe the parameters of an unused composition notebook,…

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Did Christianity's View on Hell Stem from Judaism or Zoroastrianism?

Recently in the Winston-Salem Journal, a columnist named Earl Crow wrote a piece entitled “Concept of hell as eternal punishment is retributive.” Crow argued for…

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The Correlation of God's Response and the Theodicy Problem of Job

The book of Job is, for most, the quintessential source for dealing with the problem of righteous suffering.[1] Why do the righteous suffer? This is…

Amos and Amaziah

Can a Person be a God-Pleaser and a People-Pleaser? Lessons from the Prophet Amos

I must make a confession. I am naturally a people pleaser. I do not like controversy. I do not like when people are in conflict.…