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Category Archives: apologists
Collaborative Church — Participatory Worship For The 21st Century!
Collaborative Church? Collaborative church — a gathering of Christ-followers where everyday people collaborate with the living, resurrected Jesus Christ by sharing testimonies, prayer requests, gifts of the Spirit, encouraging words, Scriptures, songs, exhortations, etc., as prompted by the Holy Spirit; … Continue reading
Posted in apologists, Berry Street, church collaboration, collaborative learning, God's presence, Great Commission, Music City, organic church, participatory church, simple church, spiritual growth, Vatican, Vatican City
Tagged church, collaboration, cooperative learning, General André Cox, Nashville, Pope Francis, quotes, Salvation Army, worship
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What Can Nothing Do?
What can nothing do? Absolutely nothing! If you capture some nothing in a science lab (creating a vacuum) can your sample of nothing do enough in a scientific lab to justify the belief of many modern “intellectuals” that nothing produced … Continue reading
Posted in apologetics, apologists, creation experiment, depression, intellect, intellectuals, lab, logic, logical thinking, Nashville, nothing produced everything, prime mover, principle, reason, Salvation Army, science, scientific debate, thoughts about nothing, vacuum
Tagged creation, creationism, intellectualism, nothing, origin, self-esteem
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If a puppet cannot animate itself without a puppeteer — if trillions of years of time and chance cannot create a highly-intelligent, free-thinking, self-animating puppet — then how can a person exist without a Creator?
Posted in apologetics, apologists, arguments for God, belief, belief system, evolution, faith, faith-based, God, God calling, puppeteer, puppets
Tagged Creator, God, intelligent design, religion
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(God Math) Life – God = L0neliness / Life X God = L∞ve
Do the God math. With God factored out of life, there’s a big zero (0) in our life — a void of loneliness. When God is the major factor of life (the prime mover), there is infinite (∞) love (l∞ve)! … Continue reading
Posted in apologists, belief, belief system, believer, Christianity, do the math, faith, faith-based, foundation, kingdom of God, life, life built on nothing, live to please God, love, Love one another, love yourself, mathematical calculation, prime mover, spirit, spiritual, spiritual innovation, spiritual life, spirituality, symbol for infinity, zero
Tagged eternity, God, infinity, lonliness, mathematics, religion
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No One Searches For Insignificance
Would you like for your life to be meaningless? Of course not. And you’re not alone. No one searches for insignificance. It is a universal human desire to find some sense of purpose in life. If we were the mere … Continue reading
Posted in apologists, atheism, Atheists, creationism, Creator, evidence for God, evolution, God, hearing God, materialism, materialistic evolution, non-material reality, proof of God, religion, science, supernatural, textbooks
Tagged evolutionary reason, God, materialistic evolution, meaninglessness, science textbooks, search for significance
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Sports reporters are asking lots of Final Four questions. Here’s mine: If a few college guys randomly throwing around a basketball won’t produce a trip to the Final Four; how in the world could a random Big Bang and a whole bunch of time have produced the incredible complexity and details of nature’s living organisms?
Perhaps the denial of God is the real anti-intellectualism — the real delusion. Has science discovered the spiritual world? Read about “spooky action.”
Posted in apologists, basketball, big bang, Christian, college, college basketball, college students, creationism, Creator, evolution, life, mystery, popular culture, Richard Dawkins, spiritual growth, spooky action, The God Delusion
Tagged big bang, Final Four, questions, sports reports
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Hearing God’s Voice Made Me An Agnostic
I believed that I was a believer when I was an unbeliever. What I thought I knew about God and about Christ (doctrines that I had been taught as a passive listener); I didn’t really know. So how do you … Continue reading
Posted in agnostic, apologists, Christ, Christianity, church, conversion, East Nashville, evidence for God, gift of God, God, guidance, hearing God, hearing Jesus, Hindu, Hinduism, house church, I Corinthians 14:26, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus freaks, Jesus Movement, lifestyles, Music City, mystery, mysticism, Nashville, non-traditional church, organic church, prayer, rejecting Christ, religion, revelation, salvation, simple church, spiritual, spiritual formation, spiritual growth, spiritual warfare, supernatural, The Salvation Army, the way we do church, tradition, Uncategorized, University of Tennessee Martin, values, voice of God, What is church?, Why be a Christian?, worship
Tagged authority figurres, Christian, Gita, Hindu, Hinduism, non-traditional church, The Salvation Army, the voice of God
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