Posts Tagged ‘time’
Apologetics
Question of the week: Who created God?
A common argument from atheists and skeptics is that if all things need a cause, then God must also need a cause. The conclusion is that if God needed a cause, then God is not God (and if God is not God, then of course there is...
Christian Living
Keeping the faith: It’s time
Imagine that tomorrow morning I deposit into your bank account $86,400. This money is all yours to do with as you please, no strings attached. Now, not only am I going to deposit this amount into your account tomorrow, I’m goin...
Featured Columns
Keeping the faith: Thank you…1 more time
Jesus once healed a man suffering from leprosy. Overwhelmed by what had just happened, he fell at Jesus’ feet in gratitude. Outside of other crusty lepers, Jesus is the first person this man would have gotten close to in years.
Arts & Culture
Pope’s final book on Jesus focuses on Christmas birth, hidden childhood
Just in time for Christmas, the Vatican on Tuesday (Nov. 20) unveiled a new book by Pope Benedict XVI focused on Jesus' birth and childhood, the final installment of his trilogy on the life of Jesus.
Causes
Christian convert from Islam beheaded in Somalia
Islamic extremists from Somalia’s rebel Al-Shabaab militants on Friday (Nov. 16, 2012) brutally murdered a Christian in Somalia’s coastal city of Barawa, accusing him of being a spy and leaving Islam, Christian and Muslim witne...
Apologetics
Question of the week: What’s the Tribulation?
Some Christians believe that the tribulation is a future seven-year period of time when God will finish His discipline of Israel and finalize His judgment of the unbelieving world.
Featured Columns
Keeping the faith: 20 years from right now
Last week I made a purchase at the supermarket: A bottle of wine and a bit of coffee. Staples, you know. At check out I was asked to show my identification.
Arts & Culture
‘Scandalous’ evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson gets star turn on Broadway
Broadway openings often feature a first -- the debut of a new star, the premiere of a new playwright’s work. On Thursday (Nov. 15), theatergoers at the opening night performance of “Scandalous” will witness a never-before-seen ...
Features
Church leaders say returning vets need time, attention
(RNS) When Staff Sgt. Brandon Hill came home from his third tour in Iraq last year, he expected his wife and young daughters at the welcoming ceremony
Apologetics
Question of the week: Why didn’t God ‘save’ us from our sins earlier
But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law” (Galatians 4:4). This verse declares that God the Father sent His Son when “the time had fully come.” There were many things occurring at the ...