Search Results for: the Christian Creed

An Article to Irritate Republicans

Despite the fact that I warned you my next two posts would be intentionally irritating, I’d guess that some of you thought I was just being hyperbolic.  Wrong! In case you missed it, I’m the idiot who decided to ruin … Continue reading

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Top 5 Most Overlooked Apologetic Professor Posts of All Time

I love making lists.  And I love myself.  That much is elementary.  But, one day, something hit me like a lightning bolt out of the blue: Why not combine these two loves and make lists about myself? So that’s how … Continue reading

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What the Cross Means to Other People

In the last two posts, I’ve discussed six things that the Cross of Christ means to me.  The astute observer will no doubt have noticed that in so doing, I made nary a single mention of any other person in … Continue reading

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A Christian Approach to Love and Disagreement

We have a rule around our house: If someone passes gas 20 times in a 15 minute span, then the perpetrator is forced to stay in the room for the next ten minutes, by themselves, while everyone else exits and sings … Continue reading

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Top Five Reasons I am a Christian

There are literally thousands of reasons why I am a Christian – thousands of tiny pointers, intellectual arguments, and life experiences that have shaped my journey towards Christ.  I am like a comet pulled inexorably on a path by stars … Continue reading

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Atheist Baseball Night in Minnesota

[Editor’s note: This week we begin a series of incredibly controversial articles that focus group testing scientifically proves will be highly offensive to Atheists, Christians, Teenagers, Southerners, Tapeworms, some Fertilizers, and all people from the Great State of Minnesota.  As … Continue reading

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Is Heaven a Real Place?

One of my problems with Rattlesnake Creek is that there are all these tempting logs straddling its rushing waters; and they call out to me.  I mean, they actually talk to me.  Our conversation goes something like this:  Logs: “Luke, … Continue reading

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Further Thoughts on the Christian Creed, Part IV: The Leviticus Problem

In the hit movie Twister, a really large tornado rips through a rural farmhouse.  That’s pretty much the plot of the movie.  If you’re like me and you enjoy watching rural farmhouses get ripped up by tornadoes – as long … Continue reading

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Further Thoughts on the Christian Creed, Part III: Can a Christian Disagree with the Creed?

Today we continue some meaningless meanderings on the Christian Creed during which aliens will take over my brain and make me use all sorts of anemic alliterations like “meaningless meanderings.”  It just goes to show what I’ve always said: In … Continue reading

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Further Thoughts on the Christian Creed, Part II: Did God Hang the Fate of the Universe on Nicene Bishops?

Some criminals in Boise were recently caught trying to break into a local business through the roof of the building.  According to the Associated Press, the would-be burglars (I’m quoting this directly from the February 19 Missoulian) “had to be … Continue reading

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