Bill Pratt | May 29, 2013
Post Author: Bill Pratt It certainly seems that our moral and political discourse these days is always talking about rights and duties. Gay people want the right to marry. We tell people it is their duty to pay their taxes. These words seem to dominate the conversation. George Mavrodes sees a day in the future [...]
Bill Pratt | July 15, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt I find that many non-believers are hopelessly confused about salvation by God’s grace. This confusion was amply illustrated the other day on an Unbelievable? podcast when the atheist debater challenged the Christian debater with the following: “Isn’t it true that the Christian God would have allowed Hitler into heaven if he [...]
Bill Pratt | June 20, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt There are fewer words that are more loaded with a negative connotation than fundamentalism. Generally when we hear that word, we have been trained by the media to react with either fear or disdain, or both. After all, fundamentalists are supposed to be ignorant and violent. To be a fundamentalist used [...]
Bill Pratt | June 1, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt In one sense God loves you just the way you are, but it’s a bit more complicated than that. Let’s unpack this statement. God loves each of his children unconditionally, wherever we are, whoever we are. Even if we are sinning, living a dissolute life, He still loves us. But what [...]
Bill Pratt | December 29, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt The Bible clearly teaches that God is morally perfect and holy, that he hates sin. Habakkuk 1:13 says that God is too pure to look on evil. Christians often say that God cannot allow any sin in his presence. But, this is not the whole story. There are also several instances [...]
