by ProfDave, ©2021 (Nov. 10, 2021) — Children matter. Last week’s voting reveals a groundswell of parental objection to the cultural revolution. Who do children belong to? The public schools? They are the future of their families, their communities, their nation and their species. Amongst all competing worldviews, the family, the community, the nation will […]
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The Experience of God
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Oct. 20 2021) — My friend Jordan sent me an article on the proofs for God. It is interesting that all the great philosophers of history from Socrates to Kant and beyond tried their hand at proving the existence of God. It is still a hot topic, although metaphysics generally is out […]
Is God Real?
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Oct. 14, 2021) — Most Americans believe in a transcendent deity who is the creator of heaven and earth and at least occasionally pays attention to temporal affairs. These things appear most probable on the basis of reason and experience. For Christians, this is all revealed clearly, explicitly and in detail in […]
God, Caesar and the USA
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Oct. 7, 2021) — One July 4 evening a couple friends and I took in the fireworks at Manchester Community College. Once again, I heard the “wump” of the mortars as from Vietnam days (not in combat, fortunately, but for illumination) and saw the “bombs bursting in air.” It got me thinking. What […]
Is There an Umpire in the Game of Life?
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Oct. 4, 2021) — Is there One we cannot see? For those who choose to accept the possibility of unseen realities, the most important, most powerful of those realities is commonly the Creator God. Where does reality come from? Is it rational and ordered, or random and chaotic? Where do things come […]
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Is Reality Real?
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Sep. 21, 2021) — We live today in a society where everything is relative. There is no established consensus of values, right and wrong, truth or fiction, or even what is real. There is a cacophony of loud voices screaming slogans and claims in our ears. Each of us is expected to […]
Bring Back the Glory
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Sep. 16, 2021) — In the 9/2/21 edition of Breakpoint John Stonestreet and Kasey Leander tell of a young Evangelical who lost his faith because he could have the same experience at a Coldplay concert that he had “worshiping” at his church. He concluded that his religious experience was “just another man-made […]
Let Us Examine Our Ways: Step Four
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Sep. 14, 2021) — Do you really want to change? To be free? To grow? To improve your relationships with yourself, with others and with God? To start the process in earnest, you need to examine yourself systematically, so that, at last, you can leave the hurtful past behind. If you have […]
Decision of Power: Step Three
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Sep. 1, 2021) — The classic Twelve Steps of AA have been the core of just about every successful recovery support program since when. It was mildly secularized to be unbeliever-friendly – neutered, perhaps – but Celebrate Recovery put the engine back in the truck by specifying the Higher Power and making […]