All men might be created equal…but the same thing can’t be said about the ingredients in trail mix. A single bag of trail mix may contain 8-10 different elements. Standard…
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Doing Bible Study Like a Detective
by davidrsmithby davidrsmithThere’s a right way – and a wrong way – to study the Bible. The right way is to investigate what the Word of God actually says and then allow…
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“Faith is a leap into the light. If it’s not true, I don’t want to believe it.”
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Timelines and Truth
by davidrsmithby davidrsmithPop Quiz!
When did Abraham Lincoln die?
What time did the terrorist attacks of 9-11 begin?
When did Neil Armstrong walk on the moon?
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The Opponent’s Advice
by davidrsmithby davidrsmithIn early January of 2016, the city of Perth in Western Australia hosted the annual Hopman Cup which lured some of the world’s most elite tennis players Down Under to try and capture their first tournament win of the new year.
Little did the spectators know they would see something about as rare as a Grand Slam.
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Christina’s Pain
by davidrsmithby davidrsmithChristina Tournant, a beautiful, intelligent, and athletically talented young woman, seemed to understand everything. She graduated valedictorian from her high school in Seminole, FL and then enrolled at MIT to study science.
But there was one aspect of life she couldn’t figure out, and it cost her everything.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer on The Bible
by davidrsmithby davidrsmith“Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God’s word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity.”
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C. S. Lewis on Christianity
by davidrsmithby davidrsmith“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see by it, but because by it I see everything else.”
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A (Bad) View of Jesus
by davidrsmithby davidrsmithIn the summer of 2013, religious scholar, Dr. Reza Aslan, released a controversial book about Jesus entitled Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. It caused quite a stir in the media, and not just because Aslan is a practicing Muslim.
The controversy actually revolves around a confession he made in an interview.
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Jesus…the Human
by davidrsmithby davidrsmithToday’s Christian scholars spend large amounts of time trying to convince people that Jesus is divine. The Church uses sermon series, books, events, websites, and a host of other resources to focus on that important debate.
But as strange as it may sound to modern Christians, one of the church’s first major struggles was to convince the world that Jesus was actually human!