He is perhaps to most well-known atheist of the past two decades. He became infamous for his attacks on religion and religious figures seeing all religion as dangerous and destructive. It didn’t matter to him if you were an Islamic suicide bomber or Mother Theresa, who he accused of being an ambitious self promoter who [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Lessons from an Atheist: The Death of Christopher Hitchens
Posted: December 17, 2011 in apologeticsTags: Alistair McGrath, atheists, Christ, Christian, Christopher Hitchens, God, God Is Not Great, Jesus, love, NPR, Peter, Peter Hitchens
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My Tebow Take
Posted: December 8, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: faith and sports, God and sports, Mike Tomlin, NFL, Roethlisberger, Steelers, tebow, tebowing
Seems like everyone has a take on Tim Tebow. Both his faith as a follower of Jesus Christ and his unique way of playing and winning football games have made him a double pronged lightening rod for praise and criticism both on how he plays football and how he lives and expresses his faith. I [...]
Spiritual Lessons from A Bonsai Tree
Posted: December 5, 2011 in DiscipleshipTags: abiding in Christ, apart from me you can do nothing, Bonhoeffer, cost of discipleship, grafted to Christ, I am the vine and you are the branches, Jesus bids a man to come and die, John 15, Romans 11
I recently attended a workshop to learn how to graft new branches onto an existing Bonsai tree. In this case it was to graft branches from a Shimpaku onto a Personi Juniper. In the process I was reminded of Paul’s words to the Christians in Rome when he speaks to the Gentiles as being united [...]

