Was The Virgin Birth Borrowed from Paganism?

Somebody asked me the question several days ago; Were there  not a bunch of ancient myths about virgin births long before Christianity? Were not Dionysius and Mithras virgin born; and did not Christianity just borrow these myths from them?  If this is so were in deep...

Sharp Thorns Delicate Roses

  He Who Repents In Thorns Sleeps In A Bed Of Roses.  In Bible times life was full of narrow paths, sharp stones and thorns. Several days ago I had to cut down some rose bushes to get to a stucco wall that desperately needed painting.  It was a painful reminder...

Outside Your Comfort Zone

If Your Growing In God You Will Always Be Outside of Your Comfort Zone “Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain.” (Isaiah 40:1,4) The...

Now Is Not Forever

Now-Verses-Then   “For Now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; Then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; Then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.” (I Corinthians 13:12) I want you to especially see the words that I emboldened and underlined...

Nature – The Handiwork of God

Nature Is A Good Name For An Effect Whose Cause Is God Two of my boyhood heroes were Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone. I learned some years after my conversion that both frontiersmen had personal encounters with God at revival campmeetings. Churches then were made of...