Category: Culture
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Hell Is a Real and Terrible Place
We have a problem in our current culture. It is Hell. To be more precise it is our denial of Hell as a real place. Hell gets ignored, shaded over, or even turned into a joke. We tend to dwell on safer thoughts. Heaven for everyone. Hell for no one. Or if it exists, then…
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Communicating with Precision in a Changing World
Language is the lifeblood of human communication and understanding. The words we choose to express our thoughts, beliefs, and ideas matter immensely. As our society continually evolves, the meanings of words can shift and diverge from their original intentions. Words like respect, justice and freedom have multiple nuanced meanings, often creating a tangled web of…
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The Church at The End of The Age
The book of Revelation is often viewed as a mysterious and challenging book – one that many people avoid reading. In it God reveals what His wrath against the unbelieving world will look like at the end of the age. Fortunately, it is not written to scare or worry those who believe in Christ as…
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The Church in Perilous Times
In the Christian West we stand at a crossroads. We are watching hundreds of churches leave the United Methodists and others grapple with the inroads that modern culture is making in traditional Christendom. Christian standards are under attack amid todays rampant cultural decay. What are we to do as the body in these perilous times…