One Christian View of Eschatology

"Because God's future is wide and remarkable, it provides a worthy direction for our lives.  For Christians, eschatology is less a story that explains the end of the world than a key to interpreting the present with confidence and hope because God controls the outcome.  When a Steelers fan knows that her team has already won the Super Bowl, she can watch reruns of bungled plays without anxiety." Kenda Creasy Dean

Book Comment: The 10 Most Common Objections to Christianity

The 10 Most Common Objections to Christianity (2007), by Alex McFarland, is a book of Christian apologetics which addresses what McFarland says are the ten criticisms he most often hears as he speaks in all fifty states of the United States and internationally. He points out that these objections are repeated almost verbatim wherever he goes. In the book, McFarland addresses each criticism individually and gives a reasoned, rational biblically-based response to each, pointing out the weaknesses and intellectual inconsistencies of each attack.

The ten objections are:
1. God is not real.
2. Creation is a myth.
3. The Bible is not completely authentic.
4. The Bible is not completely accurate.
5. Jesus was just a man.
6. Jesus is not the only way to Heaven.
7. A loving God would not send people to Hell.
8. People are basically good.
9. Christians are all hypocrites.
10. A merciful God would not allow suffering.

I heartily recommend this book to you. You have probably heard or will hear most or all of these charges at one time or another. Don't allow yourself to be left standing flat-footed.


"But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:" 1 Peter 3:15

A Cemetery Inscription in Burlington, Vermont

Burlington, Vermont (2000 census population: 38,889) is the smallest city in the United States to also be the largest city in its state.  The following is a gravestone inscription found in one of its older cemeteries.

Her family probably didn't mean this in the way it sounds.

"She lived with her husband for 50 years

And died in the confident hope of a better life."