MRS. HOWELL: But sugar beets come in cans! GILLIGAN: No, no. First you have to plant them in the ground. MRS. HOWELL: Oh, please, don’t be silly. I’ve seen them in their natural habitat, a Super Market. —Gilligan’s Island, “Pass ...
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Is The God Of The Old Testament The Same As The God Of The New Testament?
We live in a world of constant change. Knowledge is changing so much that we can’t keep up. Technology changes so quickly that the time a new product hits the store, it’s nearly outdated. And the world’s morals are supposedly ...
Read More »What Does An ‘Eye For An Eye’ Really Mean?
I told them [the Texas legislature] that the only answer to the crime problem is to take nonviolent criminals out of our prisons and make them pay back their victims with restitution. —Chuck Colson, Transforming Our World (1988) But modern ...
Read More »What Does The Bible Really Say About Taxes?
Benjamin Franklin once said, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” While there may be some other things in life that are certain, Franklin certainly was not far off with this statement. But ...
Read More »Why ‘Robin Hood’ Economics Is Simply Unbiblical
President Obama recently revealed his plans for new taxes that have been dubbed by conservative commentators as a form of “Robin Hood” tactics: taking from the rich in order to give to the poor. The plan was met with reactions ...
Read More »Changing Culture By Tithing
Christians are only giving at 2.5 percent per capita, while during the Great Depression they gave at a 3.3 percent rate. —Mike Holmes, “What Would Happen if the Church Tithed?” (2013) The Bible sets forth tithing as the principal means ...
Read More »Has America Passed The Point of No Return?
In a transatlantic airliner, as the navigator plots the plane’s projected course, at a certain point he will make a neat dot and draw a tiny circle around it, labeling it PNR. —Marshall & Manuel, The Light and the Glory ...
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