Honey in the Rock is a song that has been resonating in my head lately. It is a lovely tune. The song is about how the Lord feeds us with honey from the rock in the wilderness, which points to the reality that we can still experience sweetness because we trust and know Jesus. The … Continue reading Feeding on the Honey in the Rock
What Does It Mean to Love Your Enemies?
Does anyone have an enemy? An enemy is an adversary, nemesis, opponent or hostile force. In this sinful, fallen and broken world we all inevitably come face to face with an enemy. The impulse to the hater is to return the hate. Treat them with contempt. Words like isolate, retaliate, castigate, annihilate, and desolate apply … Continue reading What Does It Mean to Love Your Enemies?
My Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Lecture at Queens University of Charlotte
According to lore, P.T. Barnum often displayed the Fiji Mermaid as a sideshow attraction, which was really the torso of a Monkey stitched together with the tail of a fish. Yet, this curiosity attracted great crowds and many traveling entertainers have since duplicated the stunt. This is certainly a fitting illustration for describing Dawkins’ recent … Continue reading My Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Lecture at Queens University of Charlotte
“The Angry Evolutionist” Setting Up and Knocking Down Straw Men Arguments
Today a colleague passed on Richard Dawkins’ Newsweek article wherein “Darwin’s rottweiler” went on another tirade against creationists.[1] As recent research on the Cambrian fossil records has hammered in the last nail in the coffin of Darwinian evolution, one of the last bad ideas of the nineteenth century that wreaked havoc in the twentieth century … Continue reading “The Angry Evolutionist” Setting Up and Knocking Down Straw Men Arguments