Osama Bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaida, died yesterday. The responses to this have been interesting. Some take on a party-like celebration. On the other extreme are those who vow vengeance. Some look at the killing as a case of justice, others as an ideological battle, and still others as a geopolitical contest. It …
Continue reading What is Good Faith, Bad Faith, True Faith, and False Faith?
Suppose you wanted to build a house. You were given all the raw materials, but (for some reason) you were only able to use one tool. Which tool would you choose? You could choose a saw. It is good to have things cut properly to size. Perhaps you could use the handle like a hammer …
Continue reading The “Toolbox” and “Bigger Hammer” Theories in Evangelism
Jesus (in Matthew 13) described "hard soil"-- hearts that are unreceptive to God's message. But one can't assume that those hearts that are "hard soil" are all the same. Commonly, those in this category can be looked at as those who are invested in a different faith to the point that they reject a new …
Continue reading Is All “True Faith” Also “Good Faith”? Types of Hard Soil
Cover of Finding Faith "In our society, the way we think we really come to know something is to doubt it, to question and test it, to dissect it (requiring us first to kill it), to analyze it by breaking it into smaller and smaller pieces-- pieces that are smaller than we are, pieces we …