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November 6, 2012 Uncategorized

Transforming Misery into Sorrow

If Christ doesn’t offer to take away our negative experiences or our suffering, what does He offer? I love the comments of Carlfred

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November 6, 2012 Uncategorized

Two Types of Suffering

I would like to address the subjects of sorrow, misery, joy, happiness, peace, and love, and present a fresh perspective

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November 6, 2012 Uncategorized

The Yellow Brick Road Syndrome

I believe that, usually without realizing it, we sometimes adopt the philosophy of hedonism, which is the ethical theory that pleasure

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November 6, 2012 Uncategorized

The Danger of Goodness

I found a fascinating quote by C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity, in which he describes God as “the only comfort”

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October 31, 2012 Uncategorized

Thoughts on a TED-Ed presentation

Recently, I watched this TED-Ed presentation by Trevor Maber. It’s a fascinating talk about how we make assumptions about the

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October 26, 2012 Uncategorized

Jesus Christ, Our Redeemer

For thousands of years, it had been prophesied amongst the Israelites that God Himself would one day personally visit the

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September 18, 2011 Uncategorized

"The Covenant Is Not All Fulfilled"

Some time ago, I posted my witness that the Savior Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the Messiah promised

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September 18, 2011 Uncategorized

Deism vs. Theism

I recently read an article by Dr. Brent Slife, Tiffani Stevenson, and Dennis Wendt that discusses the difference between deism,

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September 18, 2011 Uncategorized

The Inadequacy of Mechanistic Causation

Jeffrey Thayne Even if you can invent a purely mechanistic account of why you raise your hand to ask a

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September 18, 2011 Uncategorized

How Stunt Kites Do Cool Tricks

Implications 5: Freedom Nathan Richardson In a previous post, “Astronauts without Planets,” I described two competing paradigms about the nature

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