The Practical Irrelevance of Christianity…

“More than any other single thing, in any case, the practical irrelevance of actual obedience to Christ accounts for the weakened effect of Christianity on the world today, with its increasing tendency to emphasize political and social action as the primary way to serve God. It also accounts for the practical irrelevance of Christian faith to individual character development and overall personal sanity and well-being.” ~Dallas Willard in The Diving Conspiracy, p. xv.

Rocky Mountain Wallpaper…

Every now and then you catch a glimpse of something, or Someone, beyond this world, right in this world.

The Scripture is right: Romans 1:20 (ESV) …[God’s] invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made….

Stephen Hawking wrote:

The odds against a universe like ours emerging out of something like the Big Bang are enormous. I think there are clearly religious implications.

And:

It would be very difficult to explain why the universe would have begun in just this way except as an act of God who intended to create beings like us. ~Hawking as quoted by Timothy Keller in The Reason for God, p. 130.

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