Month: August 2019

There are a lot of things Christians disagree about; hence the hundreds of different denominations. But there is one topic that may not even be on a lot of Christians’ radar. I’m talking about the “Big Bang Theory” (no, not the TV show, the scientific theory).

If they have thought about the Big Bang at all, a lot of Christians may simply reject it out of hand, because they think it contradicts the biblical record of Creation in Genesis 1 and 2, but there are some very good reasons why Christians should embrace the Big Bang. The primary reason some Christians would reject the Big Bang is that they have been taught that Creation occurred 6,000-to-10,000 years ago during six days of one earth week, whereas the Big Bang proposes that the matter that makes up the universe, as well as the natural laws which govern it, all came into being in one blinding flash of light about 14 billion years ago.

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I returned from Oregon Christian Writers Conference a week ago and have had a little time to digest it, so I thought I would jot a few takeaways down here.

I have said it was like “drinking from a fire hose” in that it was wall-to-wall activity and learning. There was quite a bit to learn before the conference began, since this was my first time, and I almost missed a couple of deadlines for participation as a result, but while at the conference the schedule was VERY full, with a worship/devotional at nine and a full schedule through the evening keynotes and banquet with night-owl sessions after that.

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