Apologetics and Evidence

            “The beehive is a good example of how different individuals can work together for one common goal. There is very little time to bicker when each bee’s contribution is necessary for survival. When each different group makes its contribution, the hive is strong” (Arnold and Black n. pag.).  It seems that this analogy draws the best picture as to why small groups should form in the first place—for one common goal. This common goal, since we are speaking of Christian small groups, should normally be focused on everyday life situations (such as apologetics, evangelism, philosophy, discipleship, divorce, serving, love, compassion, community, frustration, anxiety, theology, transparency, sex, addictions, etc.), and how the Bible and theology should be applied to these life situations. Small groups, it could be argued in any generation, should have an apologetic bent to them in order to build up new believers, and to encourage mature beli...

              I wrote this article a while ago in another platform, but I wanted to share it here as well, because I think it makes a great point about where evil resides. Often, people think of evil as something so far from themselves, that people are not evil, that evil only exists outside of us, and sadly, many people think that they are incapable of evil. Read below to see where evil actually lives... So, I just returned home from watching the movie “X-MEN Apocalypse.” I would not recommend watching it, because it had the usual explosive eye candy and such, but the “F-bomb” was once used, and generally speaking, it sends the world a very mixed message. That mixed message has people so divided. I mean, think about it. There are the good guys and the bad guys, and they both have serious power. Mutants have the power to take and the power to give. They have the power to take what they want, or on the contrary, they have the power ...

I am often confronted with many arguments for the idea that women should be in pastoral leadership. I hear that many women were leaders in the Bible from Deborah, to Anna, to Lydia, and I think we should look at each of these. It seems that the first thing we have to look at is what do we mean by leadership ? I think the question points to eldership (overseer). In other words, can a woman be an elder in the church? A pastor is an elder by office, and therefore, the question is ultimately, should a woman be a pastor (overseer) in the church? This is the question that this article ultimately seeks to answer. It seems that this is a good place for us to see what the scriptures say about women in leadership and then discuss them in turn. Following this examination of scriptures, I will list several arguments concerning the biblical stance, some in regard to the biblical female characters already mentioned. But first, let's look at how the family unit is supposed to operate. Let us ...