Category Archives: Christian

Answered Prayer?

Posted on July 20, 2012 by dsholland

My church has a been going through the process of recruiting a new Minister. Our old Minister was tremendous, but his age and the size of the church caught up with his high touch style and he had to retire. … Continue reading →

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Why?

Posted on June 23, 2012 by dsholland

I was reading a blog that I frequent on occasion. The author happens to be an Atheist. I read and comment on his blogs and we have had some interesting discussions back and forth about the nature of the universe and reality. … Continue reading →

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An affair of the heart

Posted on May 27, 2012 by dsholland

When I was a much younger person, I spent a lot of time trying to reason with people about the cross of Christ. After all it seemed to me that once we understand what it really means and why, there … Continue reading →

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Creation and Evolution – Footnote

Posted on April 29, 2012 by dsholland

Just after my last post I ran across a link to the kind of book I was looking for when I settled for reading Dawkins’ God Delusion. A blog by a professor of biology at Gordon College has a link to … Continue reading →

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Creation and Evolution

Posted on April 25, 2012 by dsholland

I heard on the radio awhile back that the church was coming to a “Galileo Moment” with respect to the science of Evolution. Referring of course to Galileo’s defense before the Catholic Church of the Copernican heliocentric perspective (the Earth revolves around the … Continue reading →

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So great a cloud of witnesses…

Posted on March 10, 2012 by dsholland

I’m reading Children of God (spoiler warning), the sequel to Mary Doria Russell’s Si-fi work The Sparrow. In the book there is a passage where the author describes the experience of a transformation from believing in God, to experiencing God in a … Continue reading →

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… so be good for goodness sake.

Posted on February 25, 2012 by dsholland

I’ve been doing some recreational reading recommended by a co-worker, a sc-fi book “The Sparrow”, by Mary Doria Russell. While I was reading the other day, a bit of dialogue jumped out at me. I was struck by the following exchange between … Continue reading →

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One of those moments…

Posted on January 16, 2012 by dsholland

I had one of those moments in church yesterday. You know the kind, where something is at once broad, deep and high, profound and sublime. The kind of moment that defies expression. Yet here I go trying to express it… … Continue reading →

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Hope on the radio

Posted on January 1, 2012 by dsholland

My wife and I were riding in the car on New Year’s Day and as we drove we were listening to National Public Radio. We like to mix up the content of what we listen to and NPR has interesting … Continue reading →

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The words of Life

Posted on December 30, 2011 by dsholland

I woke up this morning thinking about the struggle of faith. There is a struggle between the flesh and the spirit, between truth and lies, between darkness and light. As Christians we are told of this struggle, warned that it … Continue reading →

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