This is a story about a man named Robert who lives in San Francisco and owns a thriving technology business. His company also has a large office in New York. Robert has to regularly travel across the country as he tries to spend equal time in both cities. He doesn’t mind, as he is married to his work. “I will have time for a family sometime later in life,” Robert reasons. Early one Sunday morning he is boarding a flight... Read more
Behavioral scientist Susan Mettes has written an interesting book titled, The Loneliness Epidemic. The subtitle is, Why So Many of Us Feel Alone. Much of the data that is highlighted in the book comes from new research by the Barna Group. “In [this] academic research, loneliness is the distress someone feels when their social connections don’t meet their need for emotional intimacy,” Mettes explains. “It’s lack, it’s disappointment, it’s something we are conscious of, even when we don’t call it loneliness. Loneliness is... Read more
It is almost mind-boggling how Christianity and the church survived the first two hundred years after Christ’s departure. The powerful Roman Empire ruled the ancient world and over time they saw Christianity as Rome’s great enemy. They set out to eradicate Christianity from the face of the earth. Not only did they fail to do this, but Christianity eventually thrived and became the official religion of the Roman Empire. The Roman gods were forgotten. How do you explain this? Clearly... Read more
Have you ever wondered why we make New Year’s resolutions? It struck me that we seek to make changes because we are not pleased with certain areas of our lives and see the new year as a good time to bring about change. The problem is that most people have a hard time making their resolutions stick. I have a friend who owns a very popular family restaurant. He says every January the sales of salads rise dramatically and there... Read more
I remember reading a very interesting story by August Turak, describing a spiritual retreat he attended at a monastery a number of years ago. He spent a great deal of time in solitude but had what they called a “spiritual director” that he would spend time talking with. His spiritual director was a man they called “Father Christian,” who was 88 years old, spoke several languages and had 3 PhD’s. An afternoon with Father Christian One afternoon in a one-on-one meeting... Read more
Do you need more proof in order to believe in the claims of Christ? A number of years ago the famous atheist Bertrand Russell was asked, “What if you are wrong? When you stand before God, what are you going to say to him?” Russell confidently replied, “I am going to tell him he did not give me enough proof.” This reminds me of some words from one of Philip Yancey’s older books, The Jesus I never Knew. He spoke of... Read more
Since today is Christmas Day, I’d like to share a blog that I wrote several years ago that is meaningful to me. May you have a most blessed Christmas! One of my favorite books that I’ve read in the last ten years is There is a God by philosopher, Anthony Flew. He writes of his journey from atheism to theism. He died three years after the book was written, and I am not sure if he ever became a Christian, although in... Read more
This will be the final blog post on God and Science; at least for the foreseeable future. The issue that I want to address today is one that also seems to confound modern science. At one point the science academy might have believed that it had an answer, but then its members eventually discovered their error. The question that I am referring to is: What do we know about the origin of life on this planet? How did life as... Read more
One of the great questions that has befuddled scientists over the years is “How did the universe begin?” The Bible has a very simple explanation. In the first verse of the Bible, we are told that God created the heavens and the earth. From the days of Moses, many faithful Jews and Christians have accepted that this is how it all got started. On the other hand, for many years, cosmologists disputed this belief by arguing that the universe was... Read more
I know a man who is very bright and well-educated. Several years ago he declared that, because of all the recent discoveries in science, he had finally concluded that God does not exist. I found this to be an interesting observation, because if this were true, then you would think that almost all of the world’s professional scientists would also be atheists or at least moving in that direction. According to a survey of the members of the American Association... Read more
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