Did God really create over billions of years?

People often challenge biblical (young-earth) creationists with comments along the lines of, “I don’t believe evolution, but couldn’t God have taken billions of years to create?” Some claim that an emphasis on six literal days, 6,000 years ago even keeps people away from the faith, so why do we focus on something that is not a salvation issue? It is not the timescale in and of itself that is the important issue, but whether the Bible actually means what it

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Interactive Tombstones?

Just when we thought we’d heard it all, a cemetery in Slovenia has introduced digital tombstones with 48-inch interactive screens that are weather-proof and vandal-proof. At first glance, they look like any other gravestone; but if you stand in front of them for a few moments, their sensors are activated and they come to life, giving you interactive opportunities to learn all about the deceased—including pictures, videos, and sound through an app connected to cell phones, so as not to

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Eliminating Religion from Government

Canada Canada recently enacted a piece of legislation called Bill 89. Its net effect is that the Canadian government will be empowered to remove children from the homes of parents who do not agree that their small child may be “transgender.” As if a small child even know[s] what “gender” means, much less can identify his or her own internal gender fluidity! Folks, this is theater of the absurd — to the extreme! […] United Kingdom It has gotten so

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Christianity’s World-Wide Positive Impact

With all of the negativity Christianity has been receiving lately, it seems the bigger and overarching picture may have disappeared from view.  Robert Morgan conveys it well in his book, The Strength You Need (Nashville, TN: W Publishing Group, 2016).    From page 43: Christianity has changed the planet more than any other philosophy or faith system ever conceived on our globe.  Christians have been at the vanguard of the abolition of slavery, the promotion of human rights, the advance of prison reform, the

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