Ever since Dave Phillips went to be with Christ, I have been feeling more like an alien here in this life. The reason for this has a lot to do with the knowledge that Dave has gone home, his true home, to be with the Lord forever in glory. That's ... Read More

Did God have to save anyone? Is God obligated to show mercy? Could He have sent everyone to hell? And would it have been right and just? These questions bring up the issue of God's justice. Being that God is holy, pure, sinless, just, and good, when sin enters reality ... Read More

Well I finally got my new server going. I'm very excited and have switched over several of my sites (including this one) over to the new server. Here are the specs (yes I'm a nerd): 3.0 GHz P4 1.5 GB RAM 300 GB HD 128 MB GeForce NVidia 1000 Gbps NIC Windows XP Pro Apache 2.0.55 w/Proxy ... Read More

The term Double-Predestination is somewhat misleading in my estimation. Though I do in fact believe this doctrine and all it entails (mainly based on the texts within Exodus of God hardening Pharoah's heart and Paul reiterating the point of that story in Romans 9), and because of the logical outcome ... Read More

Christ is our only hope in life and death. There is no satisfaction, no joy, no true everlasting happiness apart from Christ. God has spoken to us through creation. But more specifically, He has spoken to us in His Son, Jesus Christ, through His word, the Scriptures. What may be ... Read More

When peace, like a river, attendeth my way, When sorrows like sea billows roll; Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say, It is well, it is well, with my soul. It is well, with my soul, It is well, with my soul, It is well, it is well, with my soul. My sin, oh, the ... Read More

"...there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother." - Proverbs 18:24 "The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD." - Job 1:21 "Frequently it is when we are crushed and devastated that the cross speaks most powerfully to us. The wounds of ... Read More

Many Christians hear the phrase limited atonement and just cringe. "What a repulsive idea! How could you even propose such an idea?" The term "limited atonement" within Calvinism is very misleading though. I instead prefer the term definite redemption, or definite atonement. First of all, many against Calvinism imply we ... Read More

I installed GAIM 1.5 (an all-inclusive Instant Messaging program encompassing AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, IRC, SIRC, and maybe one other). I set it up yesterday on my server to see how it would work, and I'm a little disappointed. It worked fine for about 18 hours and then gaim.exe started ... Read More

I had my wife take the DSL filter just off of the modem and since then I've only had one minor problem (for like 10 seconds based on monitoring). Why don't they just tell you to plug your DSL modem straight into the wall and to not put the filter ... Read More