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-Mahatma Ghandi Religion February 2011 [EBBWORLD content] Why I Don't Typically Support Biblical "character studies" October 2010 [EBBWORLD content] Deflecting Guilt: Why People Are So Hard on Uncommon Sins May 2010 [EBBWORLD content] "Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart"...oh really? March 2010 [EBBWORLD content] "I'm Sorry" != Apology? December 2009 The Virgin Manifesto Check out my new website! October 2009 [EBBWORLD content] Drastic Changes: Moving in Order to Pursue a Relationship August 2009 [EBBWORLD content] "I'm Sorry If I Offended You" May 2009 [Guest Contribution] Response to the Evolutionary "Missing Link" Primate Reveal Earlier This Week [EBBWORLD content] Lust of the Flesh: The Temporal Lose-Lose Result of Volitional Celibacy March 2009 [EBBWORLD psuedo-content] Two Strains of Creationism My short letter appearing in the Washington Post [EBBWORLD content] Quick Thoughts #1 [VIDEO-Religion/Economy] - Thanks John! What Is the Recession For? - John Piper A great Biblical perspective. Highly recommended. <February 2009 [EBBWORLD content] The Question You Should Be Asking Is How Could God Not Let That Happen? December 2008 [EBBWORLD content] Christmas in July: an encouragement/challenge [EBBWORLD content] Everyone Likes The Babe In A Manger; Not So Much Bloody Sacrifice and Divine Humility [EBBWORLD content] Proposition 8 (The Gay Marriage Ban in CA) And Pop Culture November 2008 [EBBWORLD content] 'Four Christmases' Review Downright Whack [EBBWORLD content] Barriers to Pursing Intellectual Christianity August 2008 [EBBWORLD psuedo-content] The Chapman Family Tragedy and Hope [ARTICLE-Religion/Video Games] Christians Getting Serious About Gaming Maybe one day I'll be a part of this... [VIDEO-Religion/Iconography] Jesus' face seen in cat fur Ummmm... [ARTICLE-Religion/Books] Sin Happens Interesting stuff on the "history" of sin July 2008 [ARTICLE-Social_Science/Sexual Orientation] Is Sexual Orientation Biological? (REASONS.org) Genetic Basis for Sexual Orientation? (cont’d) [EBBWORLD content] Ancient Bible goes online; personal excitement, and doubt, ensue [ARTICLE-Religion/Anglican] England church backs women bishops (MSNBC.com) Vatican 'regrets' female bishops decision (CNN.com) As great as tradition and reverence are, I'm sure glad I'm not subject to some of these leaders in such moral disarray. [ARTICLE/VIDEO-Religion/Politics] Evangelical movement touts 'Jesus for president' (CNN.com) Hippie psycho-babbling slackers or authentic Jesus-followers? You make the call! [EBBWORLD content] Salvation exclusivity does not equal collective superiority Why the exclusive truth claims of Christianity do not make it a "haughty" faith June 2008 [ARTICLE-Religion/USA] Religious Americans: My faith isn't the only way (MSNBC.com) Survey shows growing religious tolerance when it comes to different faiths Tolerance at the expense of integrity? You make the call! Answer to come eventually... [EBBWORLD content] Why I feel bad for guys that have to commute and work in D.C. [EBBWORLD content] Top 10 ways we guys "sneak a peek" of T&A on the Metro [ARTICLE-Society/Gay Marriage] Gay-marriage debate is over (NEWSWEEK.com) Scream, shout, jump up and down. No matter. The gay-marriage issue is over and done with. The upshot: love won. Throw in the towel everyone, May 2008 [EBBWORLD content] Dealing with the Transition: Singleness to Adulthood, Marriage, and Family [EBBWORLD content] The Lord's Prayer in First Person [EBBWORLD content] Commentary on the revocation of the California same-sex marriage ban [ARTICLE-Science/Religion] Einstein letter calls Bible ‘pretty childish’ (MSNBC.com) Famous scientist also dismisses belief in God as product of human weakness Well geniuses are rarely accused of profuse humility... BTW, the letter sold for $400K. [ARTICLE-World/Genocide] Woman opens heart to man who slaughtered her family (CNN.com) I knew she was a Christian before I read the article. Only Christ's forgiveness can spur that. April 2008 [ARTICLE-Life/Death] It's not immoral to want to be immortal (MSNBC.com) Immortality is innate to our nature...but why would you want to live forever in this broken, fallen world? [ARTICLE-Workplace/Religion] Corporate America turns to God (CNN.com) When God goes to the office Now if only K-12 schools would be more open to the idea we may get somewhere as a society March 2008 [EBBWORLD content] Whatever You Do Don't Talk About Morality When Addressing Immorality! Commentary on the Eliot Spitzer prostitution debacle [ARTICLE-Religon/Politics] Huckobama (WASHINGTONPOST.com) Revealing the hypocrisy of Secular America [ARTICLE-Religon/Churches] Evangelical Light or Lite? (WASHINGTONPOST.com) A few weeks ago I posted something on Joel Osteen and his ministry. Here's a first hand account of his church, the largest in America. [ARTICLE-Parenting] Spare the Rod? (NEWSWEEK.com) Spanking may lead to aggression and sexual problems later in life, says a new study. So why do so many parents still believe in it? I'm having a hard time finding the link between sexual deviance and loving discipline. I'd love to see the details on the samples. [ARTICLE-Sexuality] Born-again virgins (MSNBC.com) Through spiritual or surgical routes, women give their first time a do-over Food for thought...and I have many thoughts. It will make for good commentary for my book. February 2008 [ARTICLE-Religon/Philosophy] The “New Atheism” Phenomenon, Part 3 (of 3) (REASONS.org) [ARTICLE-Religon/Politics] How Would Jesus Vote? (WASHINGTONPOST.com) I don't know if Jesus would involve himself in politics, but I'm pretty sure he proved himself to be pro-life & pro-affirming/supporting women. [ARTICLE-Religon/America] U.S. religious landscape in flux (MSNBC.org) Poll finds Protestant churches in decline, unaffiliated ranks growing [ARTICLE-Religon/Philosophy] The “New Atheism” Phenomenon, Part 2 (of 3) (REASONS.org) [ARTICLE-Religon/Philosophy] The “New Atheism” Phenomenon, Part 1 (of 3) (REASONS.org) Good read [EBBWORLD psuedo-content] Biblical humor [EBBWORLD psuedo-content] Joel Osteen: Preacher or profiteer? You make the call! September 2007 [VIDEO-TV/Religion] Kathy Griffin accepts award, tells Jesus to "suck it". The slander of Jesus is nothing new. What's most unfathomable and injust is that Christ still died for us. August 2007 [SOCIAL-Life] What's in a name? How one word changes the world of the abortion debate July 2007 [VIDEO-Life/Brazil Trip] A video slideshow of my Brazil trip My buddy Erik put this together, check it out! My Brazil photo-journal is finally up! June 2007 [VIDEO-Life/Religion] Powerful love Do you accept it...or reject it... And does your life speak of that decision... Today is the day of salvation! [LIFE] My Trip to Brazil [LIFE] The Truest Words Spoken in the History of Time May 2007 [VIDEO-Religion] 5 Reasons God Exists [ARTICLE-Religion] Researchers say they’ve found Herod’s tomb [ARTICLE-Life] Ravi Zacharias responds to the Virginia Tech shootings A little late, but still very appropriate April 2007 "God uses a wife's inner beauty to transform her husband" Easter related: [ARTICLE-Religion] Commentary: What would Jesus really do? I hear this guy, I do - I just think it's unfair to classify each of those issues (though important) equally. That's not to say Christians shouldn't have a hand in them, even if just prayer and recognition. [ARTICLE-Religion/Entertainment] Easter gallery: Our favorite TV and movie Jesuses March 2007 [ARTICLE-Religion/Social] Design and Default Thanks for the find T Wear! [ARTICLE] Homosexual acts immoral? The ongoing saga concering General Pace's comments that it is so... February 2007 [ARTICLE] Atheist group challenges Bush faith initiative The only thing I could think about was Pascal's Wager Fortunately, we are Christians by: Alicia Sharon January 2007 [VIDEO] When Is Abortion Racism? 1/27/07 sermon by pastor John Piper [ARTICLE] Callous abortion backers by Rep. Chris Smith [ARTICLE] Meet the Minister Who Says He Is Jesus Christ I always wondered why these "Jesus's" and guys that claim talk to and see God still need the collection plates passed around... [VIDEO] Coach Gibbs' weekly spiritual gameplan 'Trusting Through Tough Times' Where to turn during times of personal adversity. [AUDIO] "The Priority of Stewardship" by Dr. Tony Evans (3.02MB .rm file) Great sermon from the vociferous and powerful southern preacher Tony Evans My death Pics from my Bible study's flag football game 1-6-07 December 2006 Epenetus: Part 1 How a man you've never heard of will greatly change your view on religion and Christianity [CNNVIDEO] Young, devout, and gay I think the false presumption here is that life is about our happiness instead of God's glory, righteousness, and namesake. Virgin lust versus non-virgin lust [CNN] After Jesus: The First Christians This looks really cool. I can't wait to watch it. Plus it's got Qui-Gon Gin narrating! [VIDEO] Amazing child art prodigy Bible exhibit @ Sackler gallery downtown (D.C.) - GO! "In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000" Christmas letters to you My Heroes November 2006 Linus knows what Christmas is all about Forget gay marriage and the Middle East, I know Judgement Day is coming soon when they take Charlie Brown & Co. off the air. Two very unusual things just happened to me Returning to my vomit [ARTICLE] Religion: Making babies the 'Quiverfull' way 1. As I see it, 90% of the time this is all about "hey look at our big family" instead of "hey look at Christ". 2. Is is just me, or do families like this always have weird-looking, fashionably-challenged kids? [CONFERENCE] 2006 Apologetics Conference "Loving God With All Your Mind" - I'm going to this this weekend and am very much looking forward to it 27 Democrats & Republicans & God random thoughts Depression October 2006 [ARTICLE] Murderer who says he’s prophet to be executed “I cannot say that God was wrong. I cannot say that I am sorry I did what God commanded me to do in the physical act." Hmmm, sounds eerily familiar... [ARTICLE] Christian worldview - an interview with Ravi Zacharias "Does evil exist?" story by: Marit Mautz [MUSIC] My new favorite worship song [ARTICLE] Did a Critic of Islam Go Too Far? September 2006 Drifting from God because of a relationship …angers Muslims [ARTICLE] What Makes the Christian God Unique? by: Kenneth Richard Samples August 2006 [ARTICLE] Who Will be the Next Polygamist Prophet? Further affirms my thoughts from the other day. FBI: Fugitive polygamist arrested near Las Vegas [ARTICLE] Don't Waster Your Cancer By: John Piper, David Powlison June 2006 "Don't count me out Keith" -God [ARTICLE] Survey: How many of us are going to hell? These are always fun to read May 2006 Christmas in May Look up more… April 2006 [VIDEO] Jay Leno Bible Quiz What strikes me the most isn't their ignorance, though surprising, but the fact that most of them were so admant about attending church and Sunday school...as if they're trying to appease some sort of Heavenly "scale" that rewards church and Sunday school goers over non-attenders. Just convicting that most people don't know the true Gospel... March 2006 Bono speech - National Prayer Breakfast [ARTICLE] 'South Park' Cruise-ing for Scientology bruising? Despite their often crude and vulgar offerings, South Park does make very many intelligent and intriguing social and religious commentaries via those cussing little 4th graders. Watch the episode on Scientology here Watch the episode on Mormonism here Watch the episode on euthanasia here [ARTICLE] What Hollywood Can Teach Christians About Their Hymns "I suspect that this happens partly because old hymns distinguish between creature and creator but newer ones do not. Enthralled by the brotherhood of man, composers today pay short shrift to the fatherhood of God. Their goal instead is self-affirmation..." February 2006 [ARTICLE] Being Mocked: The Essence of Christ’s Work, Not Muhammad’s by: John Piper Why I don't want to have a son [ARTICLE] Your Taboo, Not Mine: The furor over cartoons of Muhammad reveals the zealot's double standard (life) January 2006 "…what we suffer from to-day is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert—himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt—the Divine Reason." -G.K. Chesterton Should pregnant women be counted as two on the highway? Christian-ish without knowing it [ARTICLE] Unintelligent designs By Cal Thomas [MUSIC] This is the song I want to wake up to every morning. Nate and James' "Psalm 57.mp3" Pat Robertson in hot water again. Is he speaking truth or cranky old man banter? December 2005 World religions and Christian cults: an informative collective [ARTICLE] Trading Bibles for porn in San Antonio November 2005 [ARTICLE] Charles Darwin: Evolution of a Scientist Well, at least he knows now if he was right or not "Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear. To be a Christian one must take up his cross, with all its difficulties and agonizing and tension-packed content, and carry it until that very cross leaves its mark upon us and redeems us to that more excellent way which comes only through suffering." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [ARTICLE] Scientists find ‘Goliath’ inscribed on pottery Reference from 950 B.C. lends credence to Bible tale, archaeologists say [ARTICLE] Archaeologists unveil ancient Christian church in Israel October 2005 How to Start a Religion - Part 2 How to Start a Religion - Part 1 What about Deborah? Oo oo, intriguing dialogue I've been having over at novus lumen on the issue of female church leadership [ARTICLE] Yom Kippur: Atonement and understanding It's interesting the familiar similarities, yet distinct differences between modern Judaism and Christianity [ARTICLE] The Mormon Odyssey A pretty extensive Newsweek article on Mormonism, its glorfied/vilified founder, and the future of its booming conversion sector. A recommended read. September 2005 [ARTICLE] Ravi Zacharias: Dying Beliefs and Stillborn Hopes August 2005 I have joy in the harshest of realities I kinda like it they don't understand I have joy in the face of the coming days I kinda like that you don't understand My God prepares me a table in the presence of my enemies he anoints my head My cup runneth over -Outer Circle, Separ8 St8 Isaiah 53 Read this whole thing. Written circa 690 B.C., this prophecy (one of hundreds) is so detailed and so precisely fulfilled, it puts all other purportedly "divinely-inspired" holy books in their man-made place. [ARTICLE] U.S. abstinence push may be hurting AIDS fight Talk about a conflict of world-views [FOLLOWUP] The Pearly Gates Are Wide Open A new Newsweek/Beliefnet poll shows a stunning level of acceptance of other people's faiths. [NEWSWEEK ARTICLE] In Search of Spirituality, in America Hmmm, I guess Truth plays second fiddle nowadays... [ARTICLE] More Than Intelligent Design [ARTICLE] Salty dogma: Bono gives an explicit confession of being saved by Grace, not Karma  "My eyes have never seen such a sight" -astronaut Steve Robinson June 2005 Willingness "Sin is first and foremost about how we treat God, not other people." Jesus stats Explanations, a poem [ARTICLE] $1,000,000,000,000 "This is the amount of money the US Church has raised and spent over the last 20 years..." "I know a little of why there is blood in my body..." [ARTICLE] In evangelical world, a liberal view steps up I'm not sure what to think of this... I will say that I disagree with the "all the issues should be equally weighed" motto. For example, if abortion is in fact the murder of a human being (as Christians believe), then that one issue is irrevocably more important than tax reform, immigration laws, etc. For a Christian to "prioritize" the issues (not those affected by the issues mind you) is logically consistent in a Judeo-Christian moral framework. [ARTICLE] Intolerance in the Bible Belt Default Christian An article about what it means to be a default "something" [AUDIO] Logical Relationships as Applied to Historic Christian Truth-Claims May 2005 Debating America's Christian Character In the end, God will not be mocked April 2005 Spiritual truths not open to debate (Joe Scarborough) "...Bible is not open to amendment." March 2005 Death sentence by jury that discussed Bible thrown out (CNN.com) God forbid, pun intended, we appeal to any "higher authority" or the very foundational fabric of civilization's general standard of law and ethics when making a civil judgement. How Jesus became Christ (a recommended Newsweek article) I know Rick Warren is just a man and that his popular book The Purpose Driven Life is just an ordinary book, but gee whiz, this chapter convicts me of the selfish terd that I am in so many ways. Go to bathroom, get a drink, and pull up a chair, because you need to read this article by Ravi Zacharias. I don't want to hear any wussy excuses like "It's too long" or "It's too deep for me" or "I don't have time", this is required reading for all EbbWorld fans. The heavens January 2005 The Greatest Injustice God and suffering -by Cal Thomas (Washington Times) "Rather than attempt to bring mankind up to God's level, many skeptics try to bring God down to man's level, remaking Him in a human image and thus encouraging the false view that God is someone who is supposed to make us happy and prosperous. If we are unhappy and not rich (or not rich enough), we will deny He exists. Prosperity and good health provide their own motives for unbelief, as C.S. Lewis and numerous other thinkers have eloquently written. " Mysteries of the Almighty -by Diana West (Washington Times) "By direct contrast, Mr. Stark writes, Christianity did indeed fully embrace the notion that the universe ran on fundamental principles laid down by God at the Creation. "Christianity depicted God as a rational, dependable and omnipotent being and the universe as his personal creation, thus having a rational, lawful stable structure awaiting human comprehension." Thanking Allah for Christians and Jews -by Wesley Pruden (Washington Times) "The rich and oily Middle Eastern kingdoms, fiefdoms and oligarchies have donated only pittances for tsunami relief, like alms tossed to beggars at the village gate. The greedy rulers are no doubt grateful to the imams who are telling their mosques that most of those who drowned, Muslims as well as vacationing infidels, deserved to die because they were only on the beaches to "fornicate." Islam is not about grace, amazing or otherwise. " December 2004 The defeat of Doh and how Arkanoid saved me from temptation (well really God) The season of Christophobia Thanksgiving thoughts November 2004 Has Pharaoh Ramses II's, of the Bible, first born son been found? I love archeology! Morning Star (5am thoughts) September 2004 IGN.com reviews The Passion of the Christ DVD August 2004 the unjust arithmetic of grace Israeli cave linked to John the Baptist Link 1 Link 2 Link 3 Reconciling with the institution of marriage July 2004 Heaven Protestant Facts and Faith (Beyond The Da Vinci Code) The problem of evil...or the solution? The Passion of the Christ vs. Farehnheit 9/11, the liberal outlook June 2004 Indiana Jones and the Garden of Eden Stoplight revelations Job the first to visit Middle-Earth??? Logic Lessons "Christianity is not a religion of self-help, it is a religion of rescue." -Ken Samples the year of our Lord...2004 ...lament April 2004 The Incredulity of Keith Wojciech, err, I mean Saint Thomas... by Caravaggio (1601) Can we prove that Jesus was God? If not, then nothing else in our faith matters... Great article anti-Semitism written in hindsight of the "Passion's" success in America (from the Wall Street Journal no less) I just like the unequivocal truth of this quote... so beautiful to my soul... All of You is more than enough for all of meFor every thirst and every need Cults suck “Gibson's 'The Passion' a Hit Among Arabs” March 2004 My letter published in today’s Washington Post Express (on homosexuality/Christianity) a tardy “The Passion” reflection and some thoughts... (please read, *updated) Thought provoking quote and questionable Islamic history/theology Theological Logic 101 February 2004 Powered by Amazing Grace Life Begins at the Cross Altar Boys(the band) rock!!! January 2004 Young-Earth creationists making us Christians look like idiots October 2003 Do all religions lead to God? Answer within... November 2003 new rad Biblical archeological discoveries! Dance Dance Revolution of grace |
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