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Biblical Study
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The Day I Rode My Bicycle into the Eye of a Hurricane
There are only a handful of childhood memories that remain crystal clear more than sixty years later. One of mine happened on a September afternoon in 1960, when I was eight years old and living just a block north of the Gulf of Mexico in Biloxi, Mississippi. Our home stood on Father Ryan Avenue, under…
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Signal vs. Noise: Learning to Hear What Scripture Is Actually Saying
One of the most valuable questions I’ve learned to ask isn’t just for technology or current events. It’s equally important when opening my Bible. What’s signal, and what’s noise? In my professional life, signal is the information that actually matters. Everything else is distraction. Noise is everything that distracts from it. The same principle applies…
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The Bible’s Forgotten Turning Point: Why Genesis 11 Explains the Rest of Scripture
If you were to walk into a coffee shop and ask a well-read Christian to summarize the storyline of the Bible, you’d likely hear a familiar cadence. It usually sounds something like this: Creation (Everything is good) The Fall (Everything breaks) The Flood (A cosmic reset) Abraham (The promise begins) Israel (The chosen family) Jesus…
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Seeing the Whole Story: How Greg Koukl and Michael Heiser Illuminate Different Dimensions of Biblical Reality
The more I immerse myself in the study of Scripture, the more I find that good theology is rarely a matter of selecting one isolated concept over another. It is, rather, an exercise in allowing the entire counsel of God to speak in its own voice, even when those voices seem to operate on different…
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The Words That Matter: Why We Still Read the Nicene Creed
At my church, we have a rhythm that some might find archaic, or perhaps even repetitive. Once a month, we stand together, clear our throats, and recite the Nicene Creed. We don't do it because we’ve run out of contemporary songs or because we’re particularly fond of fourth-century prose. We do it because these words…
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Faith in the First Chapter: Why We Don’t Need to “Reconcile” Genesis
When we set out to navigate a landscape as vast and ancient as the Bible, we usually look for a fixed point, a North Star or a reliable sonar ping, to tell us where we are. We often assume that the “real” theology starts with the burning bush, the cross, or the empty tomb. But…
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The Radio Signal of the Resistance – Lament in Occupied Territory
We often treat the world as a playground or a classroom, but we rarely treat it as a battlefield. In our modern, sterilized version of spirituality, we are taught to see every tragedy as a "teachable moment" or a hidden blessing. We have been conditioned to believe that if we just have enough faith, the…
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I’ve been thinking a lot about how we handle pain in the church. Most of the time, we try to fix it, ignore it, or explain it away with a quick Bible verse. But what if our tears aren't a problem to be solved? What if they're actually part of our job description? This is…
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Why Everyone Is Talking About UAPs and Genesis 6 (And How a Supernatural Worldview Helps)
It’s hard to scroll through a news feed lately without tripping over a headline about UAPs: Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. What used to be the fringe obsession of people in tin-foil hats has moved into congressional hearings, Pentagon reports, and serious journalistic inquiries. We’ve gone from “Is anyone out there?” to “They’re here, and we don’t…
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Futurist Premillennialism vs. Amillennialism: Why the Future Matters
We often treat the end of the world like a Rorschach test: we look at the strange, swirling inkblots of Revelation and see whatever our theological tradition has trained us to see. For many, the “end times” is a dusty silo, a place where people argue about charts and helicopters while the rest of us…