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Category Archives: Nihilism
Four servants of God who battled fierce despair
Four servants of God. Each one reached an extremely low point in life. All of them felt that life was no longer worth living. Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Addiction, Anger, Anxiety, Assurance, Bitterness, Broken Relationships, Call to ministry, Character, Childhood trauma, Christian life, Comfort, Complaceny, Conceit, Conflict, Contentment, Crisis, Depression, Despair, discouraged, Discouragement, Divine Lottery, Doubt, Elders, elders in the Church, Emerging Leaders, Emotions, Encouragement, Failure, Faith, Fear, feeling hopeless, Freedom, God's Patience, God's Heart, God's Love, Grace, Gratitude, Grieving, Hope?, Kindness, Leadership, Life of a pastor, Loss, marriage problems, Meaning of life, Mercy, Middle life, Mind Renewal, Nihilism, Pain, Pastors, personal, Praise, Prayer, purpose, Questioning God, Repentance, Sadness, Seeking God, Selfishness, Spiritual Detox, Spiritual inventory, Spiritual transformation, Suffering, Suicide, Temptation, Trials, Truth, Victory, Walking with God, Will of God, Wisdom, Worship
Tagged burn out, Despair, Discouraged, feeling lost, helpless, hopeless, loss of perspective, spiritual exhaustion, Suicide
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Two versions of reality
Why do humans everywhere throughout all of history intuitively feel a pervasive longing for meaning, morality and destiny? Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Afraid to die, Afterlife, Anthropology, Apologetics, Atheism, Atheists, Belief, Christian worldview, Christianity, Eternal life, Evil in the world, Faith, Fear of death, God, Human depravity, Human dignity, Humanism, Imago Dei, Main problem, Manifesto, Meaning of life, Morality, Nihilism, Philosophy, purpose, Relativism, Religion-not the answer, Seeking God, THeo-phobia, Theodicy, True Christianity?, Truth, Witness, Worldview
Tagged Atheism, God, Meaning of life, Naturalism, Philosophy, Worldview
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Does atheism require nihilism?
During my years of training, a string of contemporary thinkers (both secular and religious) began promoting views of humanity that downplayed human depravity and offered more utopian ideas about human progress — ideas previously crushed by two world wars. The … Continue reading
Posted in Afraid to die, Anthropology, Apologetics, Atheism, Atheists, Nihilism, Philosophy, Relativism, Science, Seeking God, Self esteem, Self love, Truth, Worldview
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The dignity and worth of human beings
Viktor Frankl endured three years of anguish in the Auschwitz concentration camp. After his rescue, he became a professor of Psychiatry and Neurology in the University of Vienna. Frankl recounted his horrific experiences and some lessons to be learned in his book, … Continue reading
Posted in Annihilation, Anthropology, Apologetics, Atheism, Call to ministry, Christian worldview, Christianity, Common grace, Culture, Depravity, Despair, Evil in the world, Gospel, Gospel-centered, Hamartiology, Holistic ministry, Human depravity, Human dignity, Humanism, Identity, Imago Dei, Main problem, Meaning of life, Nihilism, Origin of Sin, Philosophy, Postmodern, Problem of evil, Progressive?, Self esteem, Self love, Self-deception, Selfishness, Sin, Social work, Theology, Wisdom, Worldview
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Social idealism or a Savior?
After his horrific experience in the Gulag, the Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn acknowledged that, “The victims hated their victimizers with the hatred by which they were victimized. And as hatred beget more hatred, the whole world became a concentration camp imprisoned and … Continue reading
Posted in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Anthropology, Assurance, Atheism, Atheists, Christian worldview, Christianity, Culture of Honor, Death, Depravity, Discernment, Evil in the world, God's Will, Gospel, Gospel-centered, Grace, History, Hope?, Human depravity, Human dignity, Humanism, Jesus Christ, Main problem, Manifesto, Narrative, Nihilism, Origin of Sin, Pain, Problem of evil, Progressive?, Reconciliation, Religion-not the answer, Restoration, Salvation, Social work, Suffering, Victory, War, Wisdom, Worldview
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What difference does God make?
Our existence as humans is most certainly a cosmic accident if there is no personal Creator. We exist by chance, not by design or purpose. And, if this is an accurate accounting for our existence, several facts follow: All notions … Continue reading
What is your life?
What is your life? Wait! Is it really “your” life? If so, in what sense? It doesn’t last long Continue reading
Posted in Afraid to die, Afterlife, Call to ministry, Calling, Cynicism, D. A. Carson, Death, Engagement, Eternal life, Fear of death, Fort Hood, Handicapped, Homosexual lifestyle, Legalism, Life, Meaning in life, News, Nihilism, Salvation, Security of salvation, Uncategorized
Tagged afterlife, life after death, life and death
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What is your worldview?
There are many different ways of understanding the world. A worldview is simply a way of looking at the world. Whether we know it or not, we all have a worldview and we use it to navigate through life. A … Continue reading
Posted in Afraid to die, Anthropology, Apologetics, Atheism, Atheists, Bible from God, Christianity, Culture, Death, Despair, Discernment, Eternal life, Fear of death, God's control, God's Will, Guidelines for living, Holistic ministry, Hope?, Human depravity, Human dignity, Humanism, Manifesto, Meaning of life, Nihilism, Postmodern, Problem of evil, purpose, Reconciliation, Salvation, Searching, Sovereignty, Theology, Walking with God, Witness, Worldview
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The exasperating enigma of existence
The story of humanity has always been a mixture of goodness and evil; love and hate; beauty and cruelty; life and death. Themes of human dignity and depravity are relentlessly recurrent in all cultures– at all times. We all experience … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Apologetics, Behavior, Bible from God, Christianity, Death, Encouragement, Evil in the world, Human depravity, Human dignity, Jesus Christ, Life, Mad at God, Meaning of life, Nihilism, Origin of Bible, Philosophy, Postmodern, Problem of evil, purpose, Questioning God
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