Download Life Guide “Alexamenos worships his god.” Around 200 A.D., an unknown Roman citizen carved that phrase in Latin into a wall near the Palatine Hill in Rome. Accompanying the phrase was a crudely etched picture which depicts a young man, presumably “Alexamenos,” worshiping a man with a donkey head…hanging on a cross. You get […]
Download Life Guide There’s an old phrase used by German theologians that I’ve always found interesting. “Das Liebe Kreuz.” For those who don’t “sprechen sie deutsch,” that means “The dear cross.” When you understand that the cross was a torture device used to execute the vilest criminals, “The dear cross” is kind of like saying, […]
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Download Life Guide No doubt you’ve seen the Southwest Airline commercials like the one that features the young executive who climbs into a car, thinking he’s giving instructions to his Uber driver only to discover he’s just jumped into a getaway car of some bank robbers. Or how about the general who rushes into […]
Download Life Guide Tell me, do you think there is such a thing as an evil spirit? Are there actually demons roaming our world, influencing the lives of human beings? If something bad happens to you, if you have an unexplainable sickness, could you be under the spell of an evil spirit? Is it […]
Download Life Guide This past Tuesday, a man entered a restaurant in Fort Mill, SC, pulled out a gun, and shot and killed a teenage cashier. He had no connection or motive; just the senseless killing of a 19-year old girl. Two weeks ago, a pastor from Merrill, WI crossed the center line while driving […]
Download Life Guide On February 20th of 1862 Willie Lincoln, the eleven-year-old son of President Abraham Lincoln, died of Typhoid fever. This wasn’t the first time the Lincoln’s had experienced this kind of grief. Twelve years earlier their second son, Edward, had died at the age of five. But the death of Willie seemed to […]
Download Life Guide We’re 14 days in. How are yours going? Your 2018 resolutions, that is. It took some of you awhile, that’s not a good sign! As I thought about resolutions recently, I realized, people’s resolutions often require them to sacrifice good things. Think about it. Someone resolves to work out more. They get […]
Tell me, if I were to ask you to give me the name of someone you consider to be a “polarizing figure”, someone who kind of divides people into 2 camps, those who support him and those who are opposed to him, who would you think of? Maybe someone like Donald Trump or Scott Walker […]