The author of Ecclesiastes is often labeled a depressed pessimist. But a careful study reveals the author to be an honest – and hopeful – realist about life, not a candidate for Prozac. It’s easy to understand why people think Ecclesiastes is depressing, or think that the conclusion of the book is that life is meaningless. Verses like “And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive” (Eccl. 4:2 NIV) make the book seem less than hopeful. Even its famous phrase “vanity of vanities” – found at the...

He’s called me a liar and questioned my salvation. He’s attacked my character and used stories of when I was unsaved against me. Instead of exegeting Scripture he relies on a myriad of logical fallacies such as argumentum ad hominem (both abusive and circumstantial), ad hominem tu quoque, ad verecundiam, ad ignorantiam, reductio ad ridiculum, etc. Am I talking about Satan? Nope. It’s Glenn over at Faith & Fotografia. As the discussion has progressed, he has increasingly distanced himself from reality and orthodox Christian doctrine. He has attacked all those who do not...

A great video from Covenant Life Church. ...

I couldn’t have been more wrong. I thought that I could smile and nod my way through it. Pretend like it would all be ok. I had a plan. I wanted to change who I was. Create a life as someone new. Someone without the past. Without the pain. Someone alive. But it’s not that easy. The bad things stay with you. They follow you. You can’t escape them. As much as you want to. All you can do is be ready for the good. So when it comes you invite it in because you need it. I need it. And Hansel said to Gretal, “Let us drop these breadcrumbs, so that, together, we find our way home. ...

From R. Albert Mohler, Jr. The cold-blooded murder of Dr. George Tiller on Sunday morning presents the pro-life movement in America with a crucial moral test — will we condemn this murder in unqualified terms? For many years, Dr. George Tiller has represented the horrific reality of the abortion industry in this nation.  Infamously known to the pro-life movement in America, Tiller was known as “Tiller the Killer” because of his well-known willingness to perform late-term abortions almost no other doctor in the nation would perform.  Because of Dr. George Tiller, Wichita bec...