Posted on August 27, 2008 by aaronesharp
Nearly 2,000 years ago some Jewish separatists who lived near the Dead Sea labroriously copied down the Hebrew scriptures. Between 1947 and 1949 around 1,000 of those documents were discovered in some eleven caves. Some sixty years later, thanks to Al Gore inventing the internet, the average person is now able to view many of [...]
Filed under: In the News, Old Testament Articles | Tagged: Dead Sea Scrolls, Hebrew, Old Testament | Leave a Comment »
Posted on August 15, 2008 by aaronesharp
I found this recent news story about the son of a Hamas leader becoming a Chrisitan fascinating. It is the story of how the son of a high-ranking member of Hamas (a militant Muslim organization) came to embrace Christianity and the fundamentals of the Christian faith. It is a great interview and there are lots [...]
Filed under: In the News | Tagged: Islam | Leave a Comment »
Posted on August 4, 2008 by aaronesharp
A recent article on cnn.com discussed how churches in America are still mostly segregated. The article, Why many Americans prefer their Sundays segregated was interesting to me for several reasons.
First, the article points out an obvious way in which the American church has refused to unify. In this way the church has tragically failed to [...]
Filed under: In the News | Tagged: Church, Racism | Leave a Comment »