Happy Thanksgiving! This morning I was paging through my copy of The First Thanksgiving: What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God and Learning From History by Robert Tracy McKenzie (read my brief review here). I found the section where McKenzie concludes that what we remember traditionally as “the…
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Book Excerpt: “The First Thanksgiving We Don’t Remember”
Posted by Bob Hayton on
November
23rd,
2017
Book Briefs: Lighthouse Faith: God as a Living Reality in a World Immersed in Fog by Lauren Green
Posted by Bob Hayton on
March
22nd,
2017
Lauren Green is a religion correspondent for Fox News, and also an accomplished pianist and former Miss Minnesota. She shares lessons from her faith journey in her new book Lighthouse Faith. The book is a compilation of thoughts and reflections on life and spirituality and includes insights from some of the…
Over the last 11 years of blogging, I’ve seen many blogs start and many end. Some of you are thinking that my blog has ended due to about six months of silence! No, I’m not going to bring this all to a close. But I did want to say a…
Day of Atonement: A Novel of the Maccabean Revolt by David DeSilva
Posted by Bob Hayton on
July
29th,
2015
Most Christians do not realize there is a large gap between Malachi and Matthew. We’ve noticed a blank page or two, but eagerly turn from the Old Testament to the New without much thought. Those blank pages hide four hundred years of turbulent history in the life of the people…
This past Sunday I had the opportunity to fill the pulpit at our church. This was the first Sunday after the US Supreme Court made gay marriage legal nationwide. That isn’t the theme of my message but does come across in the introduction. Now, more than ever, Christians are being…
Book Briefs: Spurgeon’s Sorrows: Realistic Hope for those who Suffer from Depression by Zack Eswine
Posted by Bob Hayton on
March
4th,
2015
Christianity is a religion of the heart, and Evangelicalism especially emphasizes personal conversion and spiritual transformation. Our churches are very good at diagnosing spiritual maladies and confronting the problem of personal sin. But we often stumble in our efforts to help those afflicted by mental anguish, physical suffering and especially…
A headline from USA Today grabbed my attention this weekend: “Religious family abandons U.S., gets lost at sea.” Yep, you don’t see that one every day. It feeds right into the media frenzy about Christians being crazy freaks. But that isn’t how I was thinking about this news item. Let…
Book Briefs: The Last Temple by Hank Hanegraaff and Sigmund Brouwer
Posted by Bob Hayton on
May
24th,
2013
The Last Temple (Tyndale House, 2012) is the conclusion of a three-part fiction series based on the NT book of Revelation from Hank Hanegraaff and Sigmund Brouwer. The series presents a competing vision for what the literal fulfillment of Revelation looks like. In Hanegraaff and Brouwer’s interpretation, Revelation speaks to…
Do you now or have you ever believed that homosexuality is a sin?
Posted by Bob Hayton on
January
15th,
2013
Al Mohler sees the writing on the wall. A “new Moral McCarthyism” will soon be asking each Christian this question: “Do you now or have you ever believed that homosexuality is a sin?” Based on our answer, they stand ready to denounce us as backward, hateful bigots. Mohler’s comments come…
With the recent tragedy at Newtown Connecticut, the problem of evil is on everyone’s mind. How could such an evil act be perpetrated? How could God allow such evil? Would a loving God really allow the deaths of 20 innocent children? Tragedies like this, and the questions it raises, lead…
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