You Can Code a Chatbot, But You Can’t Code a Soul Get Your Own Dust For decades, the materialist crowd told us we’re nothing more than leftover stardust, a lucky accident cooked up over billions of years by blind chemistry and natural selection. Now fast-forward to 2021. Today’s materialists, the folks leading the AI charge,…
Category: Christianity
Are You Good Enough to Go to Heaven? The Question Everyone Answers Wrong
If you landed on this page with your phone and you’d like to view it later on your computer, use this URL: TinyURL.com/I-Am-Good-Enough – Why goodness has never been heaven’s entrance requirement, and what God offers in its place ❧ ✦ ❧ The Question Beneath Every Other Question Listen closely at almost any funeral, and…
Pastor Joey Sampaga: Stewards of the Sovereign King, Luke19:11-27
Here is the full transcript [Click HERE to close] – Alright, so last week we looked at one of the pretty magnificent display of the sovereign grace of of God. And this was a salvation of Zacchaeus. So I remember him being short in stature. He had climbed the tree. Now Jesus, he was passing through Jericho,…
Formed to Be Inhabited: Why Earth Is No Cosmic Accident
Where Were You When I Laid the Foundations of the Earth? Cosmic Collisions, Missing Witnesses, and the God Who Was There ❧ ✦ ❧ Introduction: The Planet No One Watched Being Born Picture the scene as many textbooks now paint it. A young, glowing Earth is spinning through a crowded, violent solar system. A wandering…
Be Careful Little Eyes What You Read. A Doctrinal Advisory for Online Christian Material.
I asked Claude AI to examine this article from Beliefnet.com and make sure it conforms to traditional evangelical Christian doctrine. I often use online sources to jumpstart devotional material for my blog. I wanted to convert it into a 750-word devotional-style post. Since Claude already has my traditional Christian core doctrines stored in its memory,…
Get ready for Sunday School Class and the Book of Revelation!
What if Dr. Seuss had been asked to promote our Sunday School class on the Book of Revelation? He wouldn’t have printed a bulletin insert. He’d have rhymed! He’d have invented a Woe-Wumper, prescribed Glimmer-Goggles, and given poor Pastor Dave knocking knees. So, with apologies to the good Doctor, here is our announcement: a Seussian…
Popular Content Creator Brands Paul a False Apostle: Discernment or Heresy?
“As It Is Written”: Who Is Really Twisting the Scriptures? ❧ ✦ ❧ Introduction: An Apostle in the Dock Every generation produces someone who discovers, apparently for the first time, that the Apostle Paul was a fraud. The charge is never new, but it always arrives sounding new, because it is usually made by someone…
From the Sycamore Tree to the Supper Table: How Jesus Sought and Saved Zacchaeus. Luke 19:1-10
The following is a summary of the sermon: The Sovereign Call of the Savior Luke 19:1-10 Speaker: Pastor Joey Sampaga ❦ ✦ ❦ Overview Wealth could not save Zacchaeus, and poverty could not save Bartimaeus. In Luke 19, Jesus calls a hated tax collector by name, and grace overturns his greed. Pastor Joey presses the…
Are You Ready For a Study of The Book of Revelation?
The Lamb, the Scroll, and the Day of Wrath Revelation Without the Fog: A CliffsNotes Walk Through the Apocalypse ❧ ✦ ❧ Introduction: A Book That Refuses to Stay Sealed Few books provoke as much fascination, and as much confusion, as the last book of the Bible. Readers open Revelation expecting answers and close it…
Not Enough? A Devotional for the Restless Heart
When Manna is Enough “Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’” (Hebrews 13:5) Every morning for forty years, Israel woke to find bread on the ground. It came with the dew, white and thin as…