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Posts by Dan Jenkins (Page 74)

Confronting God Face to Face

Americans do not like confrontations and will do all they can to avoid them. We have a spirit of compromise and seek to find common ground by using “politically” correct speech in dealing with matters. This is so different from the way God deals with us. Our God is a confrontational God. In the very beginning, He confronted those in error. His…

30th Annual Ladies’ Day

It is hard to imagine that when the first ladies day was conducted at Palm Beach Lakes thirty years ago that anyone could have ever envisioned the impact it would eventually have. It was small in the beginning with the speakers just being members at PBL. When its value was realized, it became a Thursday night dinner with special speakers from other…

Wrinkles in the Brow

Have you checked the mirror lately and seen those wrinkles forming on your forehead? We might like to think of them as evidence of the wisdom we have gained over the years, but the truth is that they are far more likely to be just the evidence of the years themselves! It is amazing how ancient cultures used that part of the…

Not a Time for Timidity

The crowd would have been larger last Saturday when 20,000 people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D. C. in support of atheism had it not rained. Some of the speakers were absent but still sent videos to support the effort to mock Christianity. Speakers included Bill Maher, Adam Savage (co-host of Mythbusters) and David Silverman (president of American Atheists). Silverman…

Which Modern Translation Should I Use?

The importance of verbal inspiration of the Bible can hardly be over emphasized. When God revealed His message to mankind, He did it by ensuring that every word in that message precisely expressed His thoughts. Think about how He “verbally inspired” every word on the tablets of stone at Mt. Sinai. His finger chose every word and wrote every letter. A question…

Is One as Good as Another?

There is an attitude in our society toward religion that they are all pretty much the same. Once this concept is embraced, the door is open for each of us to make choices which best suit our own lifestyles. This really makes it easy, but it may be too easy! The concept that “one is about as good as another” just does…