Author: Pastor Tubbs
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How Can We Trust a God Who Causes or Allows Pain and Suffering?
How can we place our faith, hope, and love in a God who either directly causes or at least intentionally allows pain and suffering?
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Tom Hanks Brings the Battle of the Atlantic in WW2 to Life: My Review of ‘Greyhound’
For “Fiction Friday” today, we turn our attention to a 2020 summer blockbuster released on Apple TV. Greyhound is an understated, but great war film. Greyhound, starring Tom Hanks, is […]
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Is it Wrong for Christians to Serve in or Support the Military? The Bible on War
Today is Veterans Day. That’s the case at least for my American readers. And thus it’s a good time to ask the question “What does the Bible say about war […]
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Sight & Sound Brings Biblical Heroine to Life: My Review of ‘Queen Esther’
“Set in the opulent yet perilous Persian Empire, QUEEN ESTHER is a captivating tale of beauty and bravery.” Thus declares the official website for Sight & Sound Theatres in Lancaster, […]
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How to Destroy Humankind: My Review of CS Lewis’ ‘The Abolition of Man.’
The postmodernist deconstruction of objective truth and value claims will spell the end of freedom and usher in dictatorship and slavery. Indeed, postmodernism has within its capacity to bring about the very end of the human race. This is essentially the claim of the book we review today: C.S. Lewis' The Abolition of Man.
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Is it Wrong for Christians to Read (or Watch) Fantasy?
As we leave Halloween 2020 behind, let me pose a question to you that has (on several occasions) been asked of me - and is frequently asked online: Is it wrong for Christians to read fantasy novels or watch fantasy movies and TV shows?
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Bringing Spiritual Warfare into the Light: My Review of Frank Peretti’s Classic ‘This Present Darkness’
A small college community becomes a spiritual war zone as armies of angels and demons war over the souls of the town's inhabitants. And should evil prevail, more is at stake than just the inhabitants of this small town. That's the premise of a bestselling novel that changed the landscape of Christian publishing forever.
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Overcome Hate With Love: My Review of Arthur Brooks’ Love Your Enemies
Contempt is the focus in Arthur Brooks' much-needed book Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt. Brooks explains that social scientists have defined contempt as "anger mixed with disgust," something he calls a "toxic combination."
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What Does I Timothy 3:15 Mean?
“These things I write to you, though I hope to come to you shortly,” the Apostle Paul wrote his young protege, Timothy, sometime in the early part of the sixth […]
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The Waldensians and their Valiant Fight for Survival and Freedom: My Review of Rora
Rora is an action-packed historical novel written by James Byron Huggins and based upon the true story of the Waldenses (aka Waldensians) and their fight against the Catholic Inquisition in 1655.
