To start at part one of this series click here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGSttcyn2RI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCgmq0xXPWE Personhood is the status of being a person. According to law, only a natural person or legal personality has rights, protections, privileges, responsibilities, and legal liability. This is the issue that is being fought for when determining the status of the unborn. If … Continue reading Abortion (Part three: Politics)
For part one of this series click here. Let's start this part with a simple point. While the Bible may not be clear on when a life begins, if science were to determine that personhood begins at conception, the appropriate response for Christians would absolutely be to fight for that life. Because to terminate the … Continue reading Abortion (Part two: What does science teach?)
God's first commandment to humankind is "Be fruitful and multiply." Right away it is taught that this particular creation-humans-were unlike the rest of God's creation, these humans were made in the image of their Creator. From the very beginning of this faith children were considered a gift and blessing from the Creator. In Genesis 17, … Continue reading Abortion. (Part One-What does the Bible Teach?)
Hey friends, my name is Devon and if you guys knew me really well you would know I'm defined by a few things. One of them perhaps most known is I LOVE movies. I own far too many. Hundreds and hundreds of dvds. It's probably a problem. I love to read. Recently all productivity in … Continue reading The Front Row.
I am irritated. Irritated at myself. Irritated at Christians. Irritated at "the church." And it has been a growing frustration. Where are the Christ followers? How often can I call myself one? I don't usually start a post with such a sort of blatant negative tone but you have to understand this whole dilemma has … Continue reading Forgotten Unity
How many of you have ever been the new kid? Maybe you moved from another town or you transferred to a new school. Maybe it was right here at Swift Creek. How many of you felt like you had a new start? A chance to be somebody new, somebody better? Whatever was known about you didn't follow … Continue reading The Bells. (Wyldlife Talk)
Often people, when asking what do you want to do with your life, spit out the question; "Well, what do you love to do?" I've been asked this before. And I scrambled my head for all the things that just popped out. I love.....watching movies. I love....hanging out with my friends. I love....being on a … Continue reading Where the Wyld Things Are.
A few weeks ago we had the privilege of having College Gameday here in Tallahassee. I had heard word from a friend that some promos for the game were going to be filmed right up the street from me at the Chi Phi house and that it was open to the public. So of course … Continue reading Certainty ( A sermon on Hope.)
My sophomore year of High School I have a vivd memory of a specific night. I had moved to South Florida and I was visiting Tallahassee to see my friends. I remember this night the youth organization I was a part of had a big dinner at Sonny's. I was there eating and this guy … Continue reading Standing up.
Just a disclaimer: I wrote this many years ago. I don't view my faith this way anymore as you can see in some of my newer writings. I'd like to say that people don't need tragedies to not believe what I was trying to sell many years ago and it was arrogant and narrow-minded for … Continue reading Dave Matthews, Doubts, and Christianity
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