January 2018 - davidherin.org

LIE: God does not exist

Lie: God doesn’t exist
Truth: God lives.

“I was at this time, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world.” — C S Lewis
This lie is perhaps the most audacious of all. But no one seriously questioned the existence of God until the modern era, that is, until Charles Darwin conceived the first grand vision of the world’s origins thought worthy to compete with the creation story in Genesis. People always presumed that . . .

LIE: The Christian life is a matter of understanding and following biblical principles

Lie: The Christian life is a matter of understanding and following biblical principles.
Truth: The Christian life is a matter of understanding and following Jesus Christ.

It may not appear to be so, but there is a world of difference between those two statements. But since Jesus is physically unseen and unheard and only spiritually apprehended, the two may blur if we’ve not been properly introduced to the Person, Jesus.
In our eagerness as evangelicals to make converts, we push too many, even manipulate some by simple, rote prayers and formulas to become a Christian. But these souls were never really taught to hear for themselves the call of Jesus on their lives. Becoming a Christian is not simply . . .