Posts by Truth and Life

Sovereign power is absolute power. God is that sovereign power revealed to us in the Word of God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.Exodus 20:3 During the first period of the reign of Amaziah, God judged his victory over the Edomites as favorable in His sight. But he did not win that victory…

The story is told about a father and a son.  The father took the son to the stairway that led to the second floor.  He said, “Go up to the third step and jump down, and I will catch you in my arms. After some coaxing the lad jumped and his father caught him. “Now…

Have you ever asked yourself what it is that you truly believe—something that you would stake your life on?  Many believe in some form of determinism; we are the result of our psychological makeup which determines our behavior, or what we are is determined by our interaction with the environment. One can break this down…

Regardless of who we are or think we are,  we have common needs. If we lost our way in a dense forest any of us would probably last for a few weeks on no food and about three days without water. Is there a way in which we could see each other from that perspective…

One of the first things we do when we look at a newborn baby is to try and figure out who he/she looks like. Do you ever wonder how you resemble God?  The Word of God tells us that we were created in God’s image.  When God said, “Now we will make humans, and they…

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.Genesis 1:1 The lines are clearly drawn between those who believe Genesis 1 is true and those who don’t.  But the science which tries to prove Genesis 1 to be false has failed to discover a law that allows something to come from nothing. There is…

There are books that we read and then set aside; others serve as reliable resources we often return to.  Total Truth, by Nancy Pearcey is one of those sources for me. The world gets Christianity wrong when it regards it as just a set of individual beliefs, that Christ is both God and Man, that…

Does God belong in the public arena of politics, business, law, art, and education? This is the question Nancy Pearcey asks. It is one an apologist would ask. Apologist comes from the Greek word ἀπολογία. It is a branch of Christian thinking that does not defend Christianity against the world but brings the truth of Christianity to…

In The Brothers Karamazov, Ivan Karamazov exclaims that if God does not exist, then everything is permitted. I am grateful to David Berlinski for writing The Devil’s Delusion.  He writes that when the religious conviction seeped out of the institutions of Western culture, it was the poets and philosophers who had the uneasy feeling that…

The psalmist says we have been wonderfully made by God. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful,Psalm 139:14. In the many years I practiced as a psychotherapist, I grew to realize that no matter who we are, we are bound to do the bidding of the ruler of…