Critical Thinking Christians Think For Themselves

“People have a tendency to stop thinking when it becomes difficult, but it is at that point that thinking becomes fruitful.” Leo Tolstoy “The skeptic looks at something and says, ‘I wonder.’ The cynic says, ‘I know,’ and then stops thinking.” Dean Nelson Job’s “friends” bombarded him with lazy-thinking platitudes. At one point, he’d had …

Joy Returns

I hadn’t felt what I would even loosely call “joy” since entering the tunnel, and I wasn’t ready to run up any happy banners quite yet. Life at that point was too dark for joy. Joy was like a distant relative I hadn’t seen since childhood. People who live in the extreme hemispheres don’t see …

Somebody’s Watching

“... even though they do not have the law. They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them. ” — ROMANS 2:14-16 God coyly installs invitations inside every person in the form of …

Critical Thinking Christians Aren’t So Quick to Slap Labels on People

  Be alert and of sober mind. 1 Peter 5:8 In very general terms I’d say that we Christians tend to be lazy in our thinking. We’re not the only lazy thinkers on the planet, but we might be some of the laziest around. Maybe it’s because we’ve found the Truth and feel no need …

The Stars Speak

“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the …