This week as we continued in the third part of our series through 1 John, A Word on Reality, we looked at how we can stand firm in the reality of God against this world’s unrelenting tide of fantasies and their ever more aggressive attempts to move in their direction. If we are going to resist the lies of this world, there is one key thing we must do. Read on to find out what it is.
A Vise-Grip on Truth
For the past couple of summers, Lisa and I have enjoyed the show “Fool Us with Penn and Teller” on the CW Network. It’s a gameshow wherein four different magicians bring their best tricks to try and fool the world-famous magician duo. The challenge is that they’ve been at it for over 40 years and know just about everything there is to know about magic and how to do it. While there are a few tricks we have been able to figure out, there are some that leave us absolutely flummoxed as to how they did it. Any really good magic trick can leave you feeling like maybe there’s more to this world than we know about. Now, of course, no magic show is any more than a cleverly disguised trick, but the intimation of something more is part of its appeal. Still, while the nod and wink of a magician is entertaining, following that rabbit all the way down its hole can lead, as Alice discovered, to more trouble than most of us would care to find. Read the rest…
The Nexus 