Be a Monster or a Hero? John Cooper of Skillet

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Podcast: Play in new window Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Android | iHeartRadio | Email | TuneIn | RSS Do you have to have a degree in theology, philosophy, or apologetics in order to speak powerfully and accurately about how the church is being influenced by the culture? If you think so—if you think that all of this should be left to the professionals, to some kind of expert class or clergy—then you haven’t been reading your Bible enough. You’ve left that to the expert class or clergy, which is exactly the problem we’re seeing in the church today. John Cooper, founder and lead singer of the wildly popular Christian rock band Skillet, gets it. He knows that all of us should be ambassadors for Christ doing ministry,…
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¿Qué pensaba Jesús sobre el Antiguo Testamento?

Antiguo Testamento, Apologética, Bibliia, Cristianismo, Español, Jesus, Ryan Leausre
Por Ryan Leasure No es raro que los cristianos hagan sombra al Antiguo Testamento. Estos cristianos dicen que aman a Jesús, pero que podrían prescindir de esos textos judíos primitivos. De hecho, muchos cristianos sugieren que gran parte del Antiguo Testamento es ahistórico. Acontecimientos como el diluvio, el hecho de que Jonás fuera tragado por un gran pez o el ardiente juicio de Sodoma y Gomorra nunca sucedieron. Y luego está la infame cita de que los cristianos simplemente necesitan “desengancharse del Antiguo Testamento” porque gran parte de él es vergonzoso o difícil de entender. ¿Por qué no podemos centrarnos en Jesús? Ciertamente, podemos simpatizar con estos sentimientos. Después de todo, el diluvio y el juicio de Sodoma parecen bastante increíbles y, además, bastante duros. ¿No sería más fácil ignorar…
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David Berlinski on Architectural Nihilism, Human Nature and the Holocaust, and Emotivism

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We live in intellectually mediocre times, when commitment to true debate has been replaced by a desire to stifle heterodox thought. Source
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Lukas Ruegger on the “Ediacaran Explosion”— No Solution to the Cambrian Puzzle

Basics of Intelligent Design Biology, biology, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian fauna, Cambrian News, Complexity, Darwinian gradualism, Ediacaran fauna, Ediacaran Period, Evolution, fossil record, Intelligent Design, Lukas Ruegger, missing ancestors, multicellular life, Simon Conway Morris, single-celled organisms
Ruegger is the personable new intelligent design “explainer” whose videos take an approach similar to Khan Academy’s, but better. Source
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New Animation on Topoisomerase Demonstrates Irrationality of Denying Design Evidence in Biology

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Replication or transcription of DNA stresses the macromolecule, resulting in supercoiling. Topoisomerase II relieves the stress. Source
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Should Christians Pursue Personal Success?

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By Mike Taylor Have you ever found yourself looking at someone else’s life on social media and wondering how they’re able to do all that they do? We see people on Instagram taking vacations, buying cars, starting businesses, quitting their jobs, and doing other glamorous things all while simultaneously raising multiple kids and finishing their Master’s degree. Or so it seems, at least. And as we take in their glorious life, we can’t help but wonder: how on earth do they have the time and money and energy to do these things? Then we might start to wonder, “Is living a life focused on material wealth and personal success something God wants for us?” Because it feels like the glorification of wealth is everywhere we look nowadays, and Christians are…
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