Road to Emmaus

At the end of Luke, we join a two disciples of Jesus walking on the road to Emmaus, going away from Jerusalem towards Galilee. They were talking with each other about all the things that had happened.

What could they have been saying to one another?
What were all the things that had happened?

Just a week earlier, they were walking with Jesus when he had ridden into Jerusalem on a donkey, like a king! This also happened to be lamb selection day for the Passover feast.

Dead at 25, Buried at 80

Recently a mentor at work told a friend of mine,
"Most men die at twenty-five, but are buried at eighty."

I turn twenty-five this year... and I see exactly what he means.
It's being slowly jaded by the futility of most days.
It's about losing your passions, dreams, and ideals.
It's the realization that life isn't more than surviving today.
It's becoming a slave to the daily grind.
It's seeing most of your work being ultimately meaningless.

On Seven Days and Fourteen Billion Years: Part 2

If people are willing to doubt God’s account of his work in creation, what else are they willing to doubt?

Rephrased, this might say,

If there is reason to doubt God’s account of creation, then isn’t their reason to doubt the rest of the Bible?

This is a big question and it has big implications, doesn't it?
 

On Seven Days and Fourteen Billion Years: Part 1

Recently, Bill Nye the Science Guy and Ken Ham, outspoken creationist, debated if Ken Ham's model of creation is a viable model of the origins of life, the universe, everything.

The debate was very interesting and appreciatively civil.

Bill Nye's argument is driven home by the brilliance of his greatest unspoken point as one of my good friends said about the debate:

 "I am very glad that agreeing to and becoming a young earth creationist is NOT a stipulation to being a Bible believing Christian.

Conversely, I am very glad that agreeing to and becoming an atheistic evolutionist is NOT a stipulation to being an effective student and practitioner of science."

 

A Snow Drift and Astonishing Questions

Let me tell you two stories.

The first is of a young man who was born and raised in a foreign nation. This young man moved back to Jerusalem with his family and an intense passion to hear the Text. He was very poor and worked as a day labor to support his family. Every day he would climb up onto the temple courtyard wall to listen to the greatest teachers in Israel talk about the word of God. You see, there was a cover charge to get in to listen that he couldn't afford.