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Anti-Christian Garbage In Garbage Out

April 27, 2024 | Freddy Davis

Chat GPT, is a chatbot that was developed by a company called OpenAI. Essentially, it is a computer program that was designed to simulate conversation with human users. People can talk to it, and it can talk back. It is based on what is called a large language model, which…

Target Persons of Prayer: Part 1 – Pray for Yourself! – Tal Davis

July 12, 2023 | Freddy Davis

Have you ever had a flat tire? If you have been driving for very long you probably have. So what do you do? You could call AAA or some other roadside assistance team. But what if you are not a member? The first thing to do, of course, is to…

Spiritual Revolution Does Not Equal Jesus Revolution

May 25, 2023 | Freddy Davis

One of the latest big hits at the movie box office is, somewhat surprisingly, a religions film called Jesus Revolution. It is the story of the beginning of the Jesus Movement that made a profound impact on American society back in the 1970s. It was a grass roots revival…

Legitimately Making God Real in Our Lives

May 17, 2023 | Freddy Davis

Today I want to get a little bit personal in a way that I virtually never do. I want to open myself up and express something that shows a weakness in my own personal worldview beliefs, but one that virtually EVERY believer also struggles with. It is my hope that…

Is the Bible the Literal Word of God?

August 23, 2022 | Freddy Davis

Recently, the Gallup organization did some polling related to how Americans view the Bible. They asked if people believed it is the literal word of God. The last time they asked this question was in 2017. At that time, the percentage who believed the Bible was the literal word of…

What Can Johnny Appleseed Teach Us?: The Parable of the Soils from a Worldview Perspective: Part 2 – Tal Davis

July 25, 2021 | Freddy Davis

In the first installment of this two part series we talked about a legendary 19th century farmer named John Chapman, better known as “Johnny Appleseed.” Chapman traveled throughout the Midwest establishing numerous apple orchards. Eventually, he became something of legendary character in American folklore. The stories had him doing all…

What Can Johnny Appleseed Teach Us?: The Parable of the Soils from a Worldview Perspective – Part 1 – Tal Davis

July 21, 2021 | Freddy Davis

For several years after my retirement from the North American Mission Board, along with my work with MarketFaith Ministries, I pastored a small church in Ellijay, Georgia. That area of northwest Georgia is well known for growing delicious apples. Before that time I did not know there are so many…

Postmodernism Versus Truth in the 21st Century

May 6, 2021 | Tal Davis

When I was in college, fifty years ago, I read several books by Christian philosopher Francis A. Schaeffer. In the late 1960s and early 70s he was one of the most influential evangelical writers in the world. His classic trilogy, The God Who is There (1968), Escape from …

Abortion and Progressive Evangelicals- What Do They Expect?

March 10, 2021 | Tal Davis

I don’t usually engage political issues in this blog. I prefer to address moral and theological principles. However, this week it was reported that a group of what we might term “progressive evangelical pro-life Christians” expressed their great disappointment with the current administration. An open letter was published Tuesday from…

Christian Adoption Agencies are Being Bullied into Compromising Their Standards

March 2, 2021 | Tal Davis

An article this week in Christianity Today (CT Online 3/1/21) reports that one of the largest Christian adoption agencies in America has changed an important policy regarding placing children for adoption and foster care. Bethany Christian Services (BCS) has indicated that it will now place children in homes with homosexual…

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