ben on February 28th, 2008

I’ve been blogging for about a month or more now.  And I enjoy it.  I want to help people understand what God is all about.  So I comment around on other people’s blogs.  I write my own posts, thoughts I’ve had, etc.    And maybe it’s made an impact, maybe not.  I’m not yet earning a [...]

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ben on February 25th, 2008

photo credit: shapeshift
Taken from a discussion on illvision.net

Scientology and Christianity don’t really have 2000 years apart if you think about it. Christianity, in a nutshell, has four parts: Creation, the Fall, Redemption (Christ), Glorification. Lets look a little closer in between ‘Creation’ and ‘the Fall.’
“Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the [...]

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ben on February 21st, 2008

Hey guys, found a great article and discussion going on at www.uncommondescent.com about the probability of evolution being true. Enjoy!
“[Darwinism] seems to require many thousands, perhaps millions, of successive mutations to produce even the easiest complexity we see in life now. It appears, naively at least, that no matter how large the probability of [...]

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ben on February 18th, 2008

I promised I would, so without further adieu:
12) Write a psalm-like poem in which you describe a current difficulty and express your trust in God.
O God, you are awesome and worthy of praise!
You have kept me safe and protected me in all things,
Yet I struggle to step out.
Help me to go out, knowing that [...]

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ben on February 17th, 2008

The way I understand it, we are all sinners. It’s physically and spiritually impossible to climb a ladder of good deeds to God.
Romans 3:23: For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
Romans 3:10: No one is righteous, no not one.
Romans 6:23: Wages of sin is death, but the gift [...]

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ben on February 17th, 2008

Feel like your life as a Christian is dragging? Not quite feeling the fire like you used to? What’s helped me in the past is to get back to basics and get my prayer life back in order. I’ve often told my small group, “If I really think about it, the times [...]

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ben on February 8th, 2008

“Is there a God? Who is He? What’s he like? How can we know for sure?” Tough questions, for sure. But what’s the answer to them for a Christian? Today I’m starting a series (hopefully) of posts, I’m going to attempt to answer them by examining some of the ways God [...]

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ben on February 6th, 2008

So let’s say you believe in God, go to church, all that stuff. But in your studies of the bible, you count out all the years and it seems that the bible says that the earth is only 5000-7000 years old. “That’s crazy,” you say. “The earth is billions and billions of years old. Science [...]

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