Examining Faith » Christianity
Why People Leave the Christian Faith
Recently, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life conducted a survey about the religious affiliation of the American public. This survey indicated that there is a huge shift taking place in the religious affiliation of Americans. They found that more than one-quarter of American adults have left the faith of their childhood for another religion or no religion at all. And that is only …
June 28th, 2008
Life Goals for the Christian
About 10 years ago, I wrote my first sermon to myself. It was titled ‘Why I cannot afford to be poor’. This sermon included about 30 or so reasons why I needed to be financially successful. Over the next few years, I would periodically bring out the sermon from the inner recesses of my mind. I would reflect on how my …
March 22nd, 2008
Zeitgeist, The Movie
What do Christianity, 911 and The Federal Reserve all have in common? Zeitgeist, produced by Peter Joseph, was created as a nonprofit filmiac expression to inspire people to start looking at the world from a more critical perspective and to understand that very often things are not what the population at large think they are.
March 22nd, 2008
All about Child Baptism
In the modern sense of the word, baptism is a Christian ritual or sacrament stating the cleansing of sins or other religious impurities. Following baptism, Christian believers are greeted into the Church body as sacred members. Most baptism events involve the use of water, even though different Christian denominations have various methods of baptizing congregants. Some clergymen would intersperse the …
February 16th, 2008
