Last time we finished with the Lord’s prayer. It takes the choices that Jesus asks us to make and puts them in prayer form. It is an acknowledgement of the difficulty of the task. As I said, making the choices isn’t hard. It is the consequences of those choices that can quickly become an uphillRead More › about A reasonable Faith – A Journey through the Sermon on the Mount. Part 3

2_2 The place of Mercy We have been going through the Sermon on the Mount, up to verse 57 of Matthew 5. He already outlined the choices I need to make because my life affects other people. But now in verse 58 Jesus gets to a set of touchy points. What about the choices thatRead More › about A reasonable Faith – A Journey through the Sermon on the Mount. Part 2.2

We continue this week our walk through the Sermon on the Mount because it is Jesus’ first and most comprehensive explanation to the people of his day of the meaning of His Mission. And this is important for us because if God and His Son define believing in Jesus as the one prerequisite to beRead More › about A reasonable Faith – A Journey through the Sermon on the Mount. Part 2

1_3 What makes those choices right is that they are based on the Kingdom One of the other techniques you use a lot in teaching is repetition. You say something at the beginning and later on you reinforce it, and later on you show how it is connected and self-consistent with the next thing youRead More › about A reasonable Faith – A Journey through the Sermon on the Mount. Part 1.3

1_2 What did Jesus ask us to believe? How did He set about to explain to us His mission? Jesus taught. Have you ever taught anyone how to do something? Maybe you are a teacher by profession. But if not, if you have a skill and you try to pass it on to someone else,Read More › about A reasonable Faith – A Journey through the Sermon on the Mount. Part 1.2

As I have told the guys at Jail many times, when I am preaching there, I am also preaching to myself. Getting ready for those sermons is one of the ways the Lord works in my life. These last few months in the service at Durango Jail I have been going through the Sermon onRead More › about A reasonable Faith – A Journey through the Sermon on the Mount. Part 1.

There is a taste of rebellion to it: to wonder about your own name. After all, you don’t choose your name, your parents do.  And the Heavenly Father guides them to that choice. It has always been so. Would our fathers have fought as valiantly to win the Promised Land if they had not hadRead More › about Mara of the House of Echoes

Because the laws of mathematical probability and Information Theory force us to acknowledge that Life and its information content could not have evolved from “simpler” non-living processes, the least we can do is accept that they are axioms of the universe. H. P. Yockey’s conclusion is that all the information required to build the mostRead More › about Life: An axiom of the universe (part 3)

Last time I pointed out that to translate from an alphabet with more symbols to one with less symbols is a trivial endeavor. All you expect are few and incidental errors. But, to translate from an alphabet with less symbols to one with more symbols is an altogether different thing. You expect to get itRead More › about Life: An Axiom of the Universe (part 2)

In a couple of previous blogs, I talked about C. S. Lewis’ concept of the Tao of mankind: The observation that humanity as a whole, that is, across the various cultures of antiquity and continuing on to modern times, holds in common one moral compass. The definitions of right and wrong, the intrinsic value ofRead More › about Life: An Axiom of the Universe (part 1)