Why Have the Japanese Been Slow to Embrace Christianity?Milward, PeterJapan Mission Journal
As he began to research homosexuality and its Christian context, he soon learned that not all Christians agree that gay people are destined for hell – a discovery that allowed him to consider that he might one day embrace his sexuality. “My faith was very, very important to me. I wanted...
objection offered by skeptics who fail to understand the Trinity and the Deity of Jesus. The cross is the place where God Himself paid the price of our sin; He did not require the death of another created being, the sacrifice of one human for another. Instead, He offered himself in our...
Why All the Fuss about Idols? The strange practice that led to a kingdom’s fall. YOU CANNOT READ VERY FAR in the Old Testament without encountering idols, for idolatry ranks as perhaps the most common topic in the Bible. A nagging question haunts these pages: Why did the Israelit...
Joni Eareckson Tada Sitting in the dark helps us truly appreciate the light. Advent Doesn’t Have to Make Sense Christian Gonzalez Ho As a curator, I love how contemporary art makes the world feel strange. So does the story of Jesus’ birth....
We are mostly blissfully ignorant, even of our own ignorance (which is why we have so many opinions), and lumber along the plains in the existential embrace of the Dunning-Kruger effect, grazing as we go without really knowing where we're going. There's no shame to it. In the world ...
they cast new light on the emergence of Christianity and of Rabbinic Judaism. Almost all of the 15,000 scrolls and scroll fragments are held in theShrine of the Bookat theIsrael Museum, located in the city of Jerusalem. The Israeli government’s custody of the Dead Sea Scrolls is disputed...
the time our feelings will fall in line (but not always). Feelings are not the barometer of Godly action.I don’t care whether or not youwantto extend mercy and care to those who embrace the gay lifestyle. If Jesus is your Lord (the boss of you) youwillreach out to the gays in ...
(Romans 4:3). (4) The King James Version prevents the perversion that must come from those who refuse to embrace the Truth, i.e., "3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our LORD Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to...
the Middle Ages one had to throw away 90% of all science and social theory, and when asked “Why do rocks sink?” or “How do planets move?” or “Where did the world come from?” one had to answer, “I have no idea.” Turning one’s back on social answers in that way is ...