The Bible is filled with stories about angels, but many of us have had our view of angels confused by popular misconceptions about them, the principal of which is that angels do not actually exist anymore than fairies do, or wood nymphs or water sprites. But they do exist, and the Bible attests to their existence innumerable times.
We may have city lights and the glow of touch screens to obscure our view, but God's world is still near at hand, even right here in New York City where I live.
Work is not optional for those able to do work, and that's most of us. There are to be no shirkers in the Lord's kingdom.
Often, we have only focused on what we've done wrong as a nation. Of course we should face our sins and our mistakes. But if we get stuck there and don't focus on where we've come from and how we've overcome those sins and mistakes, we are truly to be pitied.
As Christians, we sin with anger because we lack faith in God's ability to provide for or protect us.
Women are, I think, moved by the idea that self-sacrifice is noble and can be the source of great joy.
Most people really have no problem with the idea of a creator God. Their question is just what is this God like, how can I know about him, how can I know him.
Quite simply, our isolation from nature has become isolation from God's Word. Cocooned in our manmade world of climate-controlled homes, cars, subways, and high-rises, we're finding it easier to live as practical atheists.
We're commanded by God to worship God with our mind.
Whether one believes in miracles or the miraculous has mostly to do with the presuppositions one brings to the subject.
Six-hundred-page biographies of German theologians aren't known to fly off the shelves.
I have no doubt, if people are really seeking the big questions, it will lead them to the Lord.
Where did God come from? It's certainly more complicated than trying to figure out where, say, Barry Manilow was born.
Miracles are signs, and like all signs, they are never about themselves; they're about whatever they are pointing toward. Miracles point to something beyond themselves. But to what? To God himself. That's the point of miracles - to point us beyond our world to another world.
No politician has ever used his faith to a greater result for all of humanity, and that is why, in his day, Wilberforce was a moral hero far more than a political one.
When you have a biblical idea of men's strength, you know that God only gives us anything good to be used for his purposes and mainly to serve others.
To try to preemptively shut down debate with name-calling is profoundly un-American and will harm this country.
Religious liberty is misunderstood. It simply means that the Founders said that everyone in America should have the freedom to practice and exercise their religion. Not to believe it but to exercise our beliefs - to act on our beliefs. It's not about believing privately in your head, privately in that building, or simply about freedom of worship.
Religious liberty is the salt and light that has made us the great nation we are in a whole number of ways.
To be labeled a 'science-denier' in 2017 often just means you've upset someone who insists on teaching strict, Darwinian orthodoxy in schools or who advocates particular climate legislation or who supports ethically fraught research on embryos.
