When I was a kid, my parents purchased a set of World Book Encyclopedias from a door to door salesman so that I would have that particular advantage in my educational pursuits. I suspect that same set of encyclopedias is somewhere in my parents attic today. On more than one occasion they have offered those…
The Omnipotence of God, Part II
God is able to do all his holy will. The Scripture gives us several example of how God expressed his power and how he continues to express his power today.1. God expressed his power through his creative acts.“The Lord merely spoke and the heavens were created.” (Psalm 33:6)“I am the Lord, who made all things….
The Omnipotence of God
“Our God is in the heavens, and he does as he wishes.” Psalm 115:3 (NLT) The word omnipotence is derived from Latin: omni, meaning “all,” and potens, meaning “power(ful).” As a child, I learned to describe omnipotence by saying things like “God can do anything,” or that “God is all powerful.” But to say that…
Revelation and Faith
Imagine a canyon, such as the Grand Canyon. On one side stands God. On the opposite side stand those who represent various worldviews, whether they be atheistic, agnostic, humanist, or any one of a number of secular non Christian belief systems. How does one bridge the gap between the two? A civil engineer would suggest…
God’s Self-Revelation
by Brent Clark If you ask 10 different people, “Who is God?” you would probably get 10 different answers. Everyone develops an understanding of God based on their life experiences. Some see God as the great, cosmic Santa Claus, there to grant their every wish and desire. Others see God as a harsh judge waiting…
Relevant Sermons
Sometime ago, an Illinois pastor was gunned down while preaching his Sunday morning sermon. While I wasn’t a friend of the victim, I did attend seminary classes with him in the late 1980’s. As I tried to gain more information about the tragic situation, I came across an online news report that reported the pastor’s…
Recommended Reading
The following books are recommended to those who want to do some further study concerning the philosophical arguments for the existence of God. Matthew Pierce suggests The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James. This classic, first published in 1929, is available in reprint. James spent his entire career as a Professor of Psychology at…
Does God Exist?
The following information was compiled and presented by Matthew Pierce in our weekend worship services on April 18-19, 2009. Matthew did his undergraduate studies and received a degree in Philosophy at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is presently a litigation consultant located in Des Moines, Iowa. His wife Rachel is a news anchor for…
Basis for Theology
To my way of understanding, theology is like a river that is formed by three tributaries. One tributary is the process of personal learning which comes as we sit before Scripture. As a Baptist, I wholeheartedly believe the doctrine of soul competency, which affirms our individual privilege and responsibility to hear from God and respond…
Welcome to TimDeatrick.com
By way of introduction, I’d like to offer that I have no mandate from the people to begin a blog. There have been three or so kind persons who have suggested that I make an attempt to make available such an instrument, none of whom are related by blood or legal ceremony. In the formative…
