by Mark Farnham | Jan 5, 2018 | Culture, The Church
Just as many Christians are unaware of the Hindu origins of yoga (namaste means “the god within me bows to the god within you”), many are unaware of how popular Buddhist practices are infiltrating our vocabulary....
by Mark Farnham | Jan 4, 2018 | Christian Living, Christian Thinkers
“When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels— welcomed with open arms, but...
by Mark Farnham | Jan 2, 2018 | Apologetics, Atheism/Skepticism, Evangelism, Skepticism
A common response among Christians who encounter atheists or skeptics is to ask, “I wonder who hurt them that they would reject God?” This thought reveals a basic assumption that only trauma could possibly be the cause of unbelief. And certainly, some...
by Mark Farnham | Dec 28, 2017 | Christian Living, Christian Thinkers
If anyone thinks that Christians regard unchastity as the supreme vice, he is quite wrong. The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins. All the worst pleasures are purely spiritual: the pleasure of putting other people in the wrong, of...
by Mark Farnham | Dec 26, 2017 | Christian Living, Christian Thinkers
God does not call us to a life of shame but to a life of freedom as we move from awareness of our sinfulness to confession and repentance, to redemption and healing, to ministry and sanctification. Shame only offers the lie of worthlessness, and a sense of...
