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First post in 2 years, catching up on life, reflections on fatherhood

          To those of you who are still following me and came back to see this post, thank you for stopping in. It has been 2 years since I last posted anything to this page (little over actually since my animal suffering post was July 10, 2021). I fell off writing because my wife and I were going through one of our biggest challenges we have faced, the supposed impending death and miscarriage of our second child, Austin. I say supposed because God is good and Austin survived long odds to not only make it to term, but he is a happy almost 2 year old now. Our daughter Abby is also doing great, almost 4 now, and she loves her brother fiercely. This particular post won’t necessarily be focusing on an apologetics topic (I hope to tackle the origin and uses of different Bible translations soon), I want to do use this post to tell that story of Austin’s miraculous turn around in the womb, and reflect on what all God has shown me and grown me in during almost 4 years of being a father. I to
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Friendly Atheist "8 Kinds of Biblical Marriage” Response

In my journey through my  Youtube feed a week or so ago, I saw a video come up from Hemant Mehta, the “Friendly Atheist” entitled “The 8 Different Kinds of Biblical Marriage”. Usually when I see videos like this from atheist channels, I expect their take on anything “Biblical” to be anything but, or they cherry pick to suit their message. I see some of that here, but I also see what I see from certain Street Epidemiologists like Pine Creek, where Hemant is working from an angle of incredulity about what scripture is saying. He is reading a modern morality into an ancient frame of law, which can be dangerous, because we miss the point that much of the Levitical law is case law, meaning God didn’t really want certain actions to happen, but He felt we needed laws to fall back on in the case that the action did happen. I want to take the time to work through the 8 kinds of marriage that Hemant mentions, and look at them from a proper historical and biblical lens and see if they are really
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Thoughts on the Problem of Animal Suffering

              YouTube atheist Cosmic Skeptic uploaded a video entitled “Christianity’s Biggest Problem”. He definitely caught my attention for the title and because I recently gained some respect for Alex as he had a recent discussion with William Lane Craig and that discussion turned out very well. To spoil Alex’s cryptic surprise, he believes that Christianity’s biggest problem is the problem of animal suffering. In Alex’s view, he believes that because animals experience gratuitous suffering (resource depletion, death in wildfires, long drawn out deaths to predators) that it is evidence that God does not exist, and that Christianity is false. I admit that I hadn’t really considered this problem, so I have gone looking for resources, and I would like to present what I have found here as possible avenues in which we can answer this particular problem. The first line of response I am borrowing Sean Luke, a comember of CAA: Christian Apologetics Alliance on Facebook, who left this com
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Obituary for Henry Harding Wofford

 Henry Harding Wofford of Ponder Texas went home to be with the Lord on February 22, 2021. Henry was born on June 3, 1942 to Henry Guy and Lela Mae Wofford. Henry is survived by his wife Janice his son Bill Wofford of Ponder his son and daughter-in-law John and Jennifer Wofford of Krugerville. His 4 grandchildren Joshua and wife Elizabeth of Summerville South Carolina. Jacob Wofford of Irvine California. Kaitlyn Wofford of College Station Texas and Joseph Wofford of Krugerville Texas and 1 great granddaughter Abigail Wofford of Summerville South Carolina. Also a brother Leon Brady of Snyder Texas. Plus many nieces and nephews.  Henry was a member of Prairie Grove Road Baptist Church in Valley View Texas.  Henry had many hobbies and interests from hunting to fishing and rode in many rodeos in his younger days. His favorite hobby was spoiling his grandchildren and making rocking horses and rocking chairs and many other toys.  
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My thoughts on Ravi Zacharias, a continuation of my previous post on failed leaders

               When I first heard that Ravi Zacharias was accused of sexual assault after his passing, I thought about that report that he was supposedly being extorted by a couple. I didn’t think it was true, and found it interesting that these accusations came after his death, where Ravi could not defend himself. However, after seeing the report from RZIM, and the extensive details provided from a supposed expedited study by a third party, I am following the evidence and agreeing with their conclusion, that Ravi Zacharias is a man who engaged in sexual harassment and assault of women.               This being said, I had written a little on what we should do when high profile Christians mess up, like when John Crist admitted to having inappropriate relationships with female fans back in 2019. My same ideas apply here, that we should have a very tight watch on our leaders, and keep in mind that they are still human, and as fallible as the rest of us. As RZIM reported, Ravi kept mult
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Do not be afraid

In the age of COVID, a new presidency, a shift of power in the United States Congress, there is much uncertainty, and from that comes much fear. Fear of loss of health, fear of the mobs, fear of loss of finances, fear of loss of freedoms. We (Elizabeth and I) have had to deal with fear as new parents in all of this, and we have been scared for Abigail as she has been getting over her first cold this past week. She had a fever of 103 the first night, and we were afraid of it going higher and taking her to the ER. She still isn’t completely over it, but God is good and she is much better than she was. As we look at our own lives and fears, keep in mind Scripture has much to say about fear and what we are to do with it. I haven’t had time to count it all out myself, but there is a popular devotional making its way around the internet that says that the phrase “fear not” appears 365 times in the Bible, so they made a devotional calendar out of it. We have all heard the saying about if Go
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Can God redeem technologies that have sinful beginnings?

            With the advent (no Christmas pun intended) of the COVID vaccine, I have seen a huge uptick of Christians who are claiming some conspiracy theory of aborted fetus tissues being used in the production of the vaccine. I did some digging, and their claims are a little twisted. HEK293 and HeLa cells were used in the studies leading to the production of the vaccine. HEK293 cells were derived from the kidney tissue of an aborted fetus, and HeLa cells were derived from an African American cancer patient without her knowledge or consent. So yes, these cells were derived from aborted tissue and a human source in an unethical manner, but these cells have been immortalized, meaning that the cells can divide continuously. They cannot grow into a functioning human being, as the cells are already specialized into a certain type of cell. These cells being used does not mean that babies are constantly being killed when these cells are used. Does this history of these cell lines means that
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