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Archive posts from Flagrant Regard (flagrantregard.wordpress.com), mirrored here for reading. Each card links to the full article on this site; you can also open the original WordPress URL from the post page.
Jan 10, 2017 · Flagrant Regard · 6 min read
If God doesn’t possess fear as a characteristic, then why does He regard it as a good thing for us (as per the writers of Scripture) and why would it make us more Godly?
belief · Christian · fear · fear of the Lord · fear the lord · fearing God · god · God's attributes · …
Oct 5, 2015 · Flagrant Regard · 4 min read
Excerpted from THE TIMES ROMAN, circa A.D. 60. * “In a shocking series of events this week, a Jew and former member of the religious sect known as the Pharisees, laid into Caesarea’s most esteemed overseer, Felix of Arcadia, with a diatribe about ‘justice, se…
biblical · Christian · compromise · conservative · exegesis · exposit · exposition · integrity · …
Sep 22, 2015 · Flagrant Regard · 10 min read
DIRTY LOOKS “We are all messed up like a person compromised with impurity; even all our right efforts are like soiled rags. We’re drying up like a leaf in autumn …” Book of the prophet Isaiah, Chapter 64, verse 6 Sometime after I turned 40, I found myse…
Christ · Christian · effort · enthusiasm · faith · guilt · human · reboot · …
May 20, 2015 · Flagrant Regard · 18 min read
Have you ever, on the recommendation of a teacher, book-review website, or a friend, began to read an old book – a classic – only to discover a few pages in, “I just can’t get into this … the language is so archaic!” Nancy and I thought it would be a challenging exercise to mo…
apologetics · C.S.Lewis · contentment · excuse · freedom · happiness · homosexuality · justification · …
Oct 17, 2014 · Flagrant Regard · 3 min read
This post goes out to the somewhat supercilious fellow on Reddit who expressed how proud he was of his young son who, completely uncoached, came to the conclusion that if the historical Jesus had risen from the dead (as Christians assert) then He was in fact a zombie. There se…
ascension · brains · Christ · christisrisen · dawnofthedead · decay · flesh · god · …
Aug 1, 2014 · Flagrant Regard · 9 min read
“We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain This article is a long time in…
agony · ailment · alienation · chronic illness · chronic pain · coping with pain · cure · disability · …
Apr 19, 2014 · Flagrant Regard · 17 min read
A Facebook friend posted a link to a recent article by well-known Christian blogger Tim Challies. The essay is one in a series dealing with false teachers in the Christian church. I have read Challies’ work before and have always found his writing smartly-provocat…
afterlife · anti-Catholic · christianity · Christians · eternal · eternal judgment · evangelical · extremist · …
Jan 2, 2014 · Flagrant Regard · 7 min read
Intro: Over the last 10 years or so, my wife and I have had many interesting discussions surrounding the whole creation vs. evolution debate. She and I don’t agree on every point with respect to some creationist concepts, but one thing we both are not able to wrap our he…
adaptation · beneficial · change · creation · creationism · creationist · debate · evolution · …
Oct 28, 2013 · Flagrant Regard · 2 min read
In Tennessee this week, a judge was cited for his ruling that a couple who’d petitioned to have their new-born son registered with the first-name, ‘Messiah’ could not do so on the grounds that, “The word ‘messiah’ is a title, and it’s …
Christian · christianity · funny · hilarious · humor · Messiah · name · outrageous · …