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Russell Wilson’s God:Does He Love the Seahawks More than the Packers?
Russel Wilson crying after God helped him beat the Green Bay Packers According to Russel Wilson, quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks, the Christian God is a Seahawks fan, at least for this week....
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Mark Hall Lead Singer of Casting Crowns: Miraculous Healing or Luck?
Casting Crowns 2013 A few years before I left the ministry, the music group Casting Crowns were one of my favorite groups.Songs like Does Anybody Hear Her?, Who am I, American Dream, and If We are the...
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Does Anyone Have God-Given Talent?
A boy dreams of being a major league baseball player some day. His parents were both athletes in their younger years, having some success at the high school and college level, As a youth, he grew...
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A Day of Public Indecency: Exposing the National Day of Prayer
Thursday, May 7, 2015 is the annual National Day of Prayer. On April 17, 1952, “President Harry S. Truman signed a bill proclaiming a National Day of Prayer (NDP) must be declared by each subsequent...
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Come Get Your Miracle at The Church on Fire
Several weeks ago, Polly and I were in Fort Wayne to attend a baseball game. Polly made a wrong turn and we ended up driving by The Church on Fire, a United Pentecostal church. United Pentecostal...
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A Few Thoughts on a Lifetime of Praying to the Christian God
From the earliest age I was taught to pray. As a child I prayed, Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, and if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. Bless Mommy,...
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Dear Evangelical, Why Don’t We See Any Miracles in Your Church?
Cartoon by Ryan Kramer One of the thorniest verses in the Bible for Evangelicals is John 14:12: Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and...
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Bruce, Would You Pray if Asked To?
Andre asked: Suppose you were at a dinner party and the host puts you on the spot to pray for the meal in front of 10-20 guests. Do you be a good sport and make up a prayer or politely decline,...
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The Similarity Between Answered Prayer and the Gifts Santa Brings
A guest post by Richard. He blogs at RichardMarlowe236. I grew up as a fundamentalist Christian. A church three times a week, the Bible is the inspired inerrant word of God, evolution is a lie type...
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A Catholic Calls on Me to Take Down This Blog and Quit Spreading Evil Disease
Comic by Dan Piraro Here is an email I received from a Catholic upset over the content of this blog. Philokalia3 wrote: Take your blogs down, why spread your evil disease of lack of faith to others;...
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Seven Things Evangelicals Say to Atheists and Why They Shouldn’t Say Them
Seven years ago, I walked out the doors of the Ney United Methodist Church, never to return. While I still had a modicum of believe in the existence of a God, I was done with organized, institutional...
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Does the Christian God Really Care About Me?
One of the reasons given by atheists/agnostics for leaving Christianity is the belief that the Christian God doesn’t give a shit about those who devote their lives to following Jesus Christ. No matter...
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Prayer: Explaining the Unexplainable
Over the course of 50 years in the Christian church, I prayed many prayers — tens of thousands of prayers, to be exact. I publicly testified before fellow Christians that God had answered my prayers....
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IFB Pastor B.J. VanAman Has Prayer Cut Off By Ohio House Speaker Cliff...
Pastor B.J. VanAman B.J. VanAman is the pastor of the Pickerington Baptist Temple in Pickerington, Ohio. He is a graduate of Crown College of the Bible, an unaccredited, King James Only, Independent...
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How to Evangelize Atheists Through Prayer
Last Saturday, Polly and I traveled to Newark, Ohio to spend the day with Polly’s parents. Physically, the trip was brutal. Three hours down, three hours back, and more potholes than I could count,...
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Evangelicals and Their Hocus Pocus Magic Book
Evangelicals believe that the Bible is the inspired, inerrant, infallible Word of God. It is, in every way, a supernatural book written by a supernatural God. Its pages purportedly contain words that...
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Arizona Republican House Legislators Offended over Juan Mendez’s Secular Prayer
Arizona House Democrat Juan Mendez. Representative Mendez is an atheist. What follows is a video of Arizona House Democrat Representative Juan Mendez offering a secular prayer at the start of the...
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Facebook Prayer Requests
Every day on Facebook the following takes place: Some Evangelical posts a status update that says: Please pray for me. I need ___________ or I am going through __________ or I have an unspoken...
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Your God is Not Here
Last night I watched the movie Dark Places. Based on Gillian Flynn’s novel with the same name, Dark Places tells the story of girl who survived the murder of her mother and sisters. After the...
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A Few Thoughts on a Lifetime of Praying to the Christian God
From the earliest age I was taught to pray. As a child I prayed, Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, and if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. Bless Mommy,...
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