Grace. God has offered grace to each one of us. But God offering us grace doesnʼt complete the salvation process. Itʼs completed in us when we actually receive the gift of grace, the promise of eternal life in heaven. Heaven is a gift that must be received. And this gift was offered to the world [...]
In my book “This Changes Everything” I begin Chapter One with a story of the country minister and the hearse. Check it out in the book- it creates quite a funny word picture! The “punch line” is, when people see life where theyʼre expecting death, there is a reaction! Exhibit A: Thomas. Exhibit A-1: me. [...]
When I was 21 years old, a group of Christians challenged me to discredit the claims of Christianity. Having discounted them all my life, growing up in a family of skeptics, I figured this would be easy. I decided the fastest way to do away with the claims of the Christian faith would be to [...]
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