On Truth
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)
Presidents’ Day Truth
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.” Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826), Founding Father and third President of the United States of America America’s founding fathers understood that government, while important, could become a perpetuator of false and untrue doctrine. Here Thomas Jefferson reminds us that truth […]
Facts
Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial. Walter Darby Bannard (1934 – 2016)
Biblical Truth Or Woke Truth?
For the Christian, something is true not because of our background, cultural standing, or lack of privilege. Something is true because it accords with the Word of God; “Truth is truth, whether I experience it or not. The Lord does not need my experience to validate His Word.… The Word of God speaks for itself.” […]
When In Doubt /4
“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6 ESV, NKJV From the #whenindoubt series /4
Humor, Theology And Truth
Like good humor, bad theology always has an element of truth.
The Flight From Beauty
Beauty is a value as important as truth or goodness. The loss of the virtues of truth and goodness has been accompanied by a flight from beauty. Things of beauty can provide consolation in sorrow and affirmation in joy. We can look on the worlds of art, architecture, poetry, and music and know that there […]
All Bets Are Off /4
“Western civilization is in a profound state of decadence and ruin. Like Notre-Dame cathedral, it is crumbling. It has lost its reason for being: to show forth and lead others to God.” (Note 1) Why are societies falling apart? The elemental reason is that we have lost Truth (“Revealed Truth”), and with it the ability […]
All Bets Are Off /1
Here is the thing. This is not the post that was scheduled for today. The post that was scheduled for today was about love. Important enough. Profound even. But that is not the story for today. The story today is about Truth and Evil. The World is in meltdown. Facts in evidence can be seen […]
Small Steps / 2
Proving that even committed Marxists can recognize truth when they see it (pun intended), Helen Keller (1880-1968), blind from childhood, once said, “I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only […]