Built for Glory

Written by Chris Bloom, posted by Lora Bloom Good morning, y'all. If you would, please turn to the very end of the Old Testament and the...

Written by Chris Bloom, posted by Lora Bloom Not the last post ever on this site (I hope), but the last one I plan on writing here. And it...

Written by Chris Bloom, posted by Lora Bloom You know what you never hear? A Christmas sermon based on Matthew 1. And that's too bad. It...

Written by Chris Bloom, posted by Lora Bloom When asked about God’s blessings, we in America like to point to our vast wealth as proof of Go...

Written by Chris Bloom, posted by Lora Bloom Toys are fun. I grew up in the 1980s, so I remember playing with GI Joes, Transformers, and Sta...

Written by Chris Bloom, posted by Lora Bloom A while back I was a big fan of Ayn Rand. Not of her personally -- by all accounts she was a re...

Written by Chris Bloom, posted by Lora Bloom Let me tell you what, in my experience, the average churchgoing man is like. He's at least ...

Written by Chris Bloom, posted by Lora Bloom There seems to be a great deal of confusion about the modern State of Israel, especially among ...

Written by Chris Bloom, posted by Lora Bloom There's something poisonous in the very air we breathe. We all imbibe it, and none of us is...

Written by Chris Bloom, posted by Lora Bloom Throughout the Bible, God tells people to trust him. He's forever showing people he can be ...

Written by Chris Bloom, posted by Lora Bloom TOWARD A THEOLOGY OF COMIC BOOKS  There are three things that have been dear to my heart my who...

  If you tell the IRS you don't owe taxes on something, they're not going to just believe you. They're going to to want ...

Why should we praise the Lord for being good? Think what it would be like if he wasn't.  An evil, all-powerful being would be horrible...

A long time ago someone gave me a Bible. In the introduction to Galatians it had the statement  "Liberty is not license." While Ch...

God is supposed to be praised, and man is supposed to praise him. It's not like some old lady fishing for compliments. At best that kind...

While the works of Menno Simons provide a very good look at the thought of one of the most important Anabaptist leaders and are extremely in...

David may have written about how good unity was, but that didn't keep the people of God from dividing just a  couple of generations late...

Hear then ... (MAT 13.18) .... let him hear. (MAT 13.43) ... you give them something to eat. (MAT 14.16) ... bring them to me ... (MAT 14.18...

In this psalm there's a repetition of the well-known promise to David that he would always have a descendant on the throne of Israel. I...

While this book has an intriguing premise -- that Christians ultimately like the idea of changing the world more than actually doing it -- i...

You don't have to know everything. Sometimes it's just enough to know that God is God,  Unfortunately, some people believe they ha...