This Is The Link Between Faith And Logic
September 5, 2023
Long ago a poet remarked that birds can fly and we cannot because birds have perfect faith and we do not. Aeronautical engineers will tell you that it is impossible for birds to fly because of the way they are made; but birds, not knowing that they cannot fly, rise to heights above.
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When I asked Fred Whiteman how old he was, he replied, "I'm 47 on the outside, 31 on the inside. I've had more trouble that most senior citizens, and I still look at life through the eye of a child." What kind of an answer is that? Chronologically, Fred had seen 47 birthdays. Within his chest cavity beat the heart of a man 31 years old--the result of having had a heart transplant. Has Fred really seen more trouble than most senior citizens?
September 4, 2023
In 1947, a shepherd boy by the name of Mohammed Ab Dib, from the Ta-Amir Bedouin tribe, was allegedly searching for lost sheep when he tossed a rock into the mouth of a cave near the Dead Sea. That evening as he sat around the campfire with his older brothers, Mohammed told how he had heard an evil spirit which he thought had been disturbed by a rock he had thrown into the cave as he searched for a lost goat.
September 1, 2023
They called him, "The Gentleman Bandit." Few robbers were ever more kind to their victims. He would rob people, then mail the pictures of children and grandchildren back to their home addresses. After pulling a gun and informing the victim that it was a robbery, on several occasions his heart would be touched by their stories of hardship if they lost their money, and he would put his gun in his pocket and walk away. On one occasion a man was so frightened that he sustained a heart attack, and the kind bandit called for an ambulance. He went so far as to sympathetically call the homes of victims, to see if they had recovered from the fright of being robbed.
August 31, 2023
Out of the mouth of babes come some of the toughest issues that ever confront theologians, to say nothing of Sunday school teachers or parents. For example, the question that my son, then five years of age, once put to me in rush-hour traffic: "Daddy, how did Jesus get to be God?" What struck me about the question was that we hadn't even been talking about the subject. Surprising as it may seem to you, that very issue was one of the first controversies in the early church. Did Jesus become God when He was born? Or rather was He always God and only appeared to be a man?
August 30, 2023
Anyone who has ever undertaken a building project knows that what looks great on paper never takes the same shape in the real world. I don't know if Nehemiah had ever heard of "Murphy's law --whatever can go wrong, will go wrong." There must have been a Persian equivalent, because a man who lived 2600 years ago experienced the full force of that reality.
August 29, 2023
Have you ever wanted to do something, yet you were faced with all kinds of obstacles? If you answer, "Yes!" then you can relate to one of the greatest of all Old Testament characters, a man by the name of Nehemiah.
August 28, 2023
In her book, Having It All, psychologist Deborah Lee quotes an investment consultant as saying, "Having both work and family is a plus." She points out that a balanced portfolio is much safer than having all your stock in one company. Question: "Can you really have it all?" Can you have a rewarding job and a happy family—a high- powered, high-stress job with a lot of demands and a salary to match, at the same time you are a mother or a dad who is there for his or her children? Can you succeed in business and still be there when your child takes his first step, or throws his first ball at Little League? Can you sit on the corporate board and be there for Parent's Day when your daughter's first grade teacher shows moms and dads how well little Teresa can read?
August 25, 2023
No individual can really be educated apart from a knowledge of the Bible, and the book of Psalms in this grand book contains some of the most beautiful and thought-provoking passages and prose of all the world's great literature. I, for one, marvel at the profound emotional insights which you find described here—the same emotions and feelings we grapple with today. In Psalm 42 and 43, which were probably written as one, the writer voices a recurring theme. Three times he asks, "Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me?" Three times, he speaks of the solution: "Put your hope in God," he says, adding, "for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God."
August 24, 2023
"If you want to make God laugh," says a post it sticker, "make plans!" And what is the real message—that you should never try to plan anything? No, but rather, when God is left out of your plan, your game plan may never happen. There is a proverb which says, "We may throw the dice, but the Lord determines how they fall" (Proverbs 16:33 NLT).
August 23, 2023
Dr. Vernon Grounds was a friend and mentor to thousands of young men and young women preparing for Christian work. In one of his letters he told of a woman who was captured during the Spanish Civil War, and when she was ordered to reveal where she stood politically, she knew that saying the wrong thing could result in her being shot as a traitor. To say that she was a conservative meant she was on the right of the political spectrum, and to say that she was a liberal would identify her as a leftist. Uncertain as to what she should say and knowing how important her answer could be, she thought for a moment and then replied, "I stand at extreme center."
August 22, 2023
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