The Roman Catholic Church has long argued that one’s life is the property of God and thus that to commit suicide is to deride God’s prerogatives. The counterargument, by philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) is that, if such is the case, then to save someone’s life is also to deride God’s prerogatives. Most religions share the Church’s belief in the sanctity of life, although a few have come to regard at least some suicides as honourable.

The father of an American Christian, killed by a remote tribe on an isolated island he was looking to evangelise to, has criticised the "extreme Christianity" which pushed his child to a "not unexpected end". Dr Patrick Chau has been speaking to the Guardian, months after John Allen Chau died near North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean.

Examining Literature The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis The Horse and His Boy The Horse and His Boy is the last book from The Chronicles of Narnia series that you will study in this course. What additional pictures of reality does Lewis present in this book? During your reading of The Horse and His Boy

I was asked today on Twitter why I would object to schools teaching children the morality of Jesus. Putting aside the question of whether Jesus existed, here are some examples of bad moral guidance given by the Jesus portrayed in the Christian Bible. I will start by acknowledging that some parts of the Bible portray Jesus as giving good moral guidance.

Are we really in tune with what Christ and his Apostles taught about divorce and remarriage?

A woman marries a man who is sterile. After a few years she starts to seek out someone in the hopes of getting pregnant. It didn’t work. A year later, she seeks out a friend and tries again. …

This is the third of Jesus’s six comments on legal matters. The first two (murder and adultery) took a command from the Decalogue and extended it to the thoughts and motivations which lay behind th…

I don’t remember what the fight was about, but I do remember it was obviously my fault. At least that’s what he told me.

The point of this blog post is to help lay out the biblical frame work for remarriage and divorce.

A late post today.  The last few days I had a hurt back.  I don’t think its super serious but it did affected my work. There were some lessons I gained from this.

modern medicine vs traditional medicine Traditional medicine, I am not sure how far back we want to do to compare modern medicine to. I guess I will go back to as far as my first knee surgery. I was 15 years old when I had my knee surgery on my left leg. Every time a doctor looks at my scar they exclaim it must

  Rabbi Shlomo ben Yitzhak (Rashi) 1  in his Perush ‘al ha-Torah on the Sefer Devarim (Deuteronomy) 33:2, wrote: וזרח משעיר למו שפתח לבני עשו שיקבלו את התורה ולא רצו ספרי : הופיע להם מהר…

I have mentioned it earlier in this series, how it was that chapters of the Bible that dealt with genealogies held little to no interest for me until very recently. They used to represent the part …

In case you missed it: PART 15: The servant’s journey and Isaac meets Rebekah PART 14: Abraham proves his faith and Sarah dies PART 13: Abraham pulls the sister card again and Isaac is born P…

Today there are three chapters. January 17: John 16, Genesis 35, Genesis 36 (click on the chapter to begin reading) In John 20 Jesus continues his instructions to his disciples, beginning with expl…

Genealogy of Esau https://youtu.be/XpxYJOh0vlk Genesis Chapter 36 Genealogy of Esau Now, admittedly I get thoroughly lost when it comes to genealogy. I tried to do what my mom and grandpa does and learn about my ancestors. They have last I heard maybe 15 generations recorded? I get lost who is who, and

When have you genuinely LET GO? When did you give all of the hurt and pain to God without keeping a little piece of the story locked away inside of you? “There is a story of a young man who struggl…

“Does Jesus care when my heart is pained Too deeply for happiness and song; As the burdens press, And the cares distress, And the way grows weary and long? O Yes, He cares, I know He cares! H…

In this series, I’m considering some things that I’ve learned while pastoring over the last 15 years. You can check out the previous posts and a series introduction here: Part 1: Not everybody will…

The trees around my house all look pretty much the same right now.  They stand naked and sway back and forth in the icy wind that is blowing through a great deal of the country. Hopefully, when spr…