X-Men and Eschatology

(By the way, Eschatology is the study of the last days.) Spoiler Alert! Read no further if you were planning to watch Days of Future Past and haven't gotten around to it yet! In the most recent X-men movie, Days of Future Past, things are not going well for our mutant heroes.  The movie begins …

Resurrection

17 On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. 18 Now Bethany was less than two miles[a] from Jerusalem, 19 and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother. 20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she …

The Teacher and the Student

Last night I came to our mid-week youth program thinking I was teaching a class and instead I learned a great deal.  We are studying the character and nature of God and we were learning about four of God's character traits. God is Just God is Unchanging God is Gracious God is Unfathomable With the …

What the Bible Says (or doesn't say) About the Rapture

Today there are a lot of people talking about the rapture, the idea that believers in Jesus Christ will one day at the Lord’s call be snatched off the surface of the Earth and carried off to a heavenly abode while Earth and everyone on it are tossed in the trash. I don't want to …

One of Two Things Will End May 21st

After May 21st, either the world really will end or the public ministry of prophet Harold Camping will be over.  He's the guy that made the prediction that the world will end this Saturday. He and his followers believe that at 9 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 21, a massive earthquake will begin near New …

An Open Letter to My Occasional Church Attending, Non Believing, Nominal Christian Former Student

This is not a letter to any one person in particular but to a diverse group of friends and acquaintances who I have taught and gotten to know while teaching at Great Lakes Christian High School. Dear Occasional Church Attending, Non Believing, Nominal Christian Former Student, As you know, my first career was teaching Math …

From Death to Life

I have ranted before about how Fall is not my favourite season.  Crisp air?  Bah!  The smell of rotting leaves and damp earth?  To me Fall smells like wet dog; constantly.  It has always reminded me of death.  When Fall comes, all I can see is that: Sailing (for this year) is over, everything dies, you have …

Delightful Evil, and Boring Virtue

I have learned more from my children than I will ever teach them. They (all four) see the world so freshly and sharply and observe things without the trappings of adulthood. Jacob is our resident philosopher. I quote him regularly. I have been doing some readings for school and some listening to him. Here are …

From Death to Life

This week I heard a sure sign of spring. The spring peepers are back. You don't realize how loud they are until they have been gone for a few months and then, Monday night they're back. To say they're back implies that they left however which is not true. They bury themselves in the mud …