April 20, 2018
by Bob Elliott
Strong and Courageous
April 20, 2018
The story of the Prodigal son.
Over the life of this blog, I have had three goals in mind with the content of the posts. The first goal has been to help Christian believers to have information available to help them to relate to the culture with more of an evangelistic perspective. Goal 2 has been to help seekers overcome some intell...
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April 13, 2018
by Bob Elliott
Strong and Courageous
Is it possible for God to exist if there is evil and suffering in the world?
4/13/2018
So the discussion goes like this in the mind of some atheists. Since there is evil and suffering permeating our existence, therefore God does not exist. God is supposed to be both good, and all-powerful, but he cannot be both in the presence of evil. Either he is...
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April 10, 2018
by Warren Stroup
When was the last time you took a step of faith?...
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April 6, 2018
by Bob Elliott
April 6, 2018
Strong and Courageous
How could Jesus rise from the dead?
Since we have just completed the Easter holiday, I would like to zero in on the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and his appearance to many different people living at that time. Many theologians describe the resurrection as the virtual lynchpin of Christian understanding. Without this even...
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March 27, 2018
by Bob Elliott
Strong and Courageous
March 27, 2018
Meaning and purpose in life.
We have been talking recently about aspects of a person's worldview. What is the overarching narrative of how someone lives out his or her philosophical views? Not only in the aspect of theory, but how we actually live out the need for consistency in the laboratory of life itself.
Often times, a person w...
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March 23, 2018
by Bob Elliott
Strong and Courageous
March 23, 2018
Retraction
I need to make a retraction today about last week's blog post.
I usually post this blog on both our church website and on Facebook. So on the Facebook page, I received a comment from a good friend about some of the information that I had posted about how complex single celled organisms are. The comment spoke about other m...
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March 16, 2018
by Bob Elliott
Strong and Courageous
March 16, 2018
Is there any such thing as a simple cell?
One of the main teaching points found in the Darwinian explanation for evolution is that life sprang up from non-living matter as a simple single celled organism. Then as time elapsed, this simple cell morphed in complexity, becoming more and more elaborate until we have complex multicellular...
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March 13, 2018
by Warren Stroup
In Psalm 105 and 106 David was recounting Israel's history and some of it was pretty bleak. In verse 47 of Psalm 106 he says 'Save us, O Lord our God' and that exactly what He did!...
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March 9, 2018
by Bob Elliott
Strong and Courageous
March 9, 2018
How Good is Good Enough?
This is the question of the ages. Am I good enough to make it into heaven when I die?
If you were to survey the average person on the street and ask this question, a large majority of the responses would be yes, I am a pretty good person. Well at least I am as good or better than so and so. In other words...
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March 2, 2018
by Bob Elliott
Strong and Courageous
March 2, 2018
By Design or by Chance?
Was our universe the result of design or chance? A very big question this is. It certainly has grand implications on how a person forms their worldview.
Following are some quotes from some well respected non-Christian scientists.
"As we look out into the universe and identify the many accidents of physics a...
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