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My First Blog Post

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. Life can be like a prison. It is like a prison when one has to learn to jettison their idiosyncrasies to please a society of carbon copies...

A student versus sage mentality.

How can we be arrogant about our knowledge of God when we don’t fully understand ourselves. Spiritual maturity shines light on dark places, places we’ve not known but were always there. It...

The Left, The Right, My Faith and President Trump: A Black Man’s Journey From the Democrat Party.

What evidence will Sidney Powell present in court concerning voter election fraud? Well, on the Larry O’ Connor Show on WMAL 105.9 FM, Powell said that she was given digital images of votes...

Does John Calvin’s Doctrine of Concupiscence Contradict his View of the ‘Sensus Divinitatis’?

John Calvin, in his Institutes, taught that men have a natural inclination that gives us knowledge of the divine. He also accepts original sin as the view that wisdom and other gifts God gave Adam...

Response to the claim that Jesus didn’t claim divinity in John 8:52

Claim: Jesus did not use ‘I am’ as a title for his divinity because (a) the Hebrew word in Exodus 3:14, ‘Ehyer’ means ‘I will be’ and is almost never translated as...

Are tongues the Evidence of Receiving the Holy Spirit

Pentecostal theology teaches that the evidence of the possessing the Holy Spirit is tongues. They reason by induction from a few cases of tongues accompanying the Gift of the Spirit and infer that...

The Key to Thinking Clearly

We often find ourselves at a loss for words and with more questions than answers. When the perpetual thought that you are unlovable assails your mind, or the thought that you’re not good enough...

Two Ways to Think Critically

What does it mean to think critically? Critical thinking is intentional thinking aimed at some goal. These goals represent two ways that most people think critically. They are knowledge and...

Why Critical Thinking is Crucial!

We live during a time of information overload. The social-media giants, like Face-book and Google, are aging. We are witnessing the rise of new fields of experts called “influencers.” In...

3 Steps to Solving Problems

The obvious value of the ability to solve problems makes any explanation of its usefulness gratuitous. But and still many people go throughout their life without developing this skill. The skill is...