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June 7, 2014
FDR’s D-Day Prayer
Once D-Day was underway, 70 years ago, President Roosevelt got on the radio and asked the American public to join him in this prayer:. Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free [Read More...]
June 6, 2014
The Upper Room
Something I picked up in church: The “upper room” that was the setting for the Last Supper (Luke 22:7-12) was also very likely the same “upper room” in which the Disciples met to replace Judas (Acts 1:13). That means it was also the place where Jesus washed His Disciple’s feet and since it was the [Read More...]
D-day + 70 years
Today is the 70th anniversary of D-Day, when allied troops landed at Normandy on the French coast, the beginning of the end of World War II. I remember a number of years ago visiting Normandy and looking down at Omaha beach from the remains of a German bunker that overlooked a tall bluff to the [Read More...]
The POW exchange debacle
The POW release was orchestrated to be a feel-good moment . But now the Obama administration is dealing with a major scandal. Not just because 5 dangerous terrorist leaders were released from Gitmo. Not just because the president broke the law in not informing Congress. But mainly because America’s troops are in an uproar about [Read More...]
Imaginative obstacles to the faith
In the interview with Mathew Block, we got into the role of the imagination in apologetics, which I discuss at length in my upcoming book with Matthew Ristuccia. Here I discuss how many people’s difficulties with the Christian faith have to do with the way they imagine it. CL: Because God relates to people in [Read More...]
June 5, 2014
The apostolic loser
Last Sunday, our pastor preached on the text about the apostles’ lottery for who would take Judas’s place among the Twelve (Acts 1:12-26). Joseph-called-Barsabbas-called Justus was the apostolic loser. Later, he couldn’t even get elected to be a Deacon! But tradition said that he would die as a martyr to the faith, which was the [Read More...]
Our monitors want software that detects sarcasm
The Secret Service is in the market for software that can detect sarcasm. That way the government agencies that monitor what you say on the internet will be able to tell whether you are joking if you threaten the president or if you really mean it. Two points of interest here: The government is really [Read More...]
How God uses the imagination
More from my interview with Mathew Block, who asks how God uses our human imaginations to reach us. CL: How does God use imagination to address humanity? We believe in the Incarnation—that God became flesh. The Second Person of the Trinity became flesh, became a human being and dwelt among us [John 1:14]. God makes [Read More...]
25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre
This week marks the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, in which the Chinese Communists crushed the pro-democracy movement that had prevailed in the Soviet Union. From 5 Things You Should Know About the Tiananmen Square Massacre | TIME: In the early hours of June 4, 50 trucks and as many as 10,000 troops [Read More...]
June 4, 2014
Imagination, Christian sub-cultures, & the Two Kingdoms
More from my interview with Mathew Block, in which a question about Christians refusing to attend to music, movies, books, or the like unless they are explicitly Christian, leads to a digression on the Doctrine of the Two Kingdoms. CL: In some branches of Christianity you find people warning about the worldliness of the culture [Read More...]
