He was going to make a name for himself. He was going to be famous. And he would do it by building the world’s largest moving object. It would be something amazing. Incredible. Magnificent. Opulent.

He was going to build the world’s biggest ship.

His company got to work, and in a few years they had built the world’s largest ocean liner. It was 883 feet long, 9 decks high, and could hold over 2600 passengers. The rudder alone was 78 feet high and weighed 101 tons. It even had a swimming pool, Turkish baths, and even a bowling alley.

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But, as Christians, are dreams are bigger than these things. Our hope is not only that our children are good citizens of earth, but genuine citizens of heaven. Ultimately, we want them to know, love, and follow Jesus.

Even so, we also know that our children will face obstacles along the way. They may not succeed in school. They may get cut from their sports team. And maybe they’ll have trouble fitting in.

In short, they will face hard things. They … Continue reading...

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For years, we’ve been laboring in our respective ministry areas and have produced content on our blogs Canon Fodder and Wit’s End. And that will not stop—we will still produce content on these sites.

But as our online content has continued to grow beyond these blogs, and as we have had increasing opportunities to collaborate together on books and ministry projects, we decided it was time to create a central online hub for our ministries. 

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That’s not a name that probably means anything to modern ears. In the late the second century, a radical self-proclaimed prophet named Montanus declared that Pepuza—a remote village in Phrygia (modern date Turkey)—would be the location of the second coming.  

His prophecies were accompanied by ecstatic experiences and strange utterances, thought by his followers to be evidence he was filled with the Holy Spirit. So convincing were his prophecies about the second coming that people began to move to Pepuza, leaving their livelihoods behind. They expected, at any moment, a new Jerusalem to descend on that location, followed by a 1000-year reign of Jesus on earth.

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But the issue isn’t just whether they would have wanted to include such testimony, but whether reliable eyewitness testimony was readily available. Put in the form of a question, were there named individuals in the early Christian movement who were understood to have witnessed the events related to Jesus of Nazareth and were actively … Continue reading...

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