What strikes me as different about professional mainstream atheists when compared to the average atheist, is that their adherence to atheism and their resistance to Theism (or at least Deism) is purely a matter of the will.
Oh, they claim it's a matter of reason and intellect, but that can’t be so.
Since they are smack dab in the middle of the debate between theism and atheism they are thoroughly exposed to both sides of the argument.
If they were intellectually honest and willing Read more [...]The power and glory of Atheism
What strikes me as different about professional mainstream atheists when compared to the average atheist, is that their adherence to atheism and their resistance to Theism (or at least Deism) is purely a matter of the will.
Oh, they claim it's a matter of reason and intellect, but that can’t be so.
Since they are smack dab in the middle of the debate between theism and atheism they are thoroughly exposed to both sides of the argument.
If they were intellectually honest and willing Read more [...]
I considered anger a useful emotion before I became a Christian. I could summon it at will and with ease, and depend upon it to provide many “benefits”. Following is a partial list:
1) It gave me “energy”
2) It gave me “confidence”
3) It gave me “power”
4) It gave me “dominance”
5) It superseded weakness
6) It superseded uncertainty
7) It superseded embarrassment
8) It superseded fear
9) 
I took a photo of a Winston Churchill WWII quote on the wall of the airport when I returned home from CIA Sunday night that I believe applies to Christians today.
"It is no use saying 'we are doing our best'. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
How many times have you heard someone say “I'm doing my best” as an excuse for failure? How many times have you said it?
The goal of “doing our best” would not have defeated the Germans and Japanese in World War II. The 
My plane landed at the Charlotte airport 6:30 am Thursday morning. My plan to sleep the 5 hour flight from California to North Carolina was an utter failure. I grabbed my bag off the carousel, dashed to the shuttle, fired up the rental car and set my GPS for 3000 Tilley Morris Rd. I arrived with minutes to spare!
I settled myself in the back of the room so that I could get up, stand and pace to keep myself awake and engaged. Lack of sleep necessitated this strategy.
NOW 
Anyone who knows me well understands the importance I place on Apologetics and my desire to make a difference in the lives of others through Apologetics.
I don’t know how large a role I can play, but I do know I have a part, and I'm determined to continually identify, better understand and execute that part faithfully, energetically and enthusiastically.
My passion is to share Apologetics with everyone and anyone who will hold still and listen! Especially non-believers, because I know most 
Christians aren't saying it aloud. They aren't even saying it in the privacy and secrecy of their own minds. They ARE shouting it with their behavior!
How?
By avoiding the subject. Postponing. Putting it off. Excusing themselves with reasonable explanations (translation: rationalizations).
"Sometime next year. Life is too busy! I'll have time later! In the future!"
Or they blame the messengers and ignore the message, rationalizing their own disregard of the content by demonstrating "offense" 
Recently I was invited to be a guest at a new church by two friends. After the service I cornered the pastor and asked him what part Apologetics played in his vision for the Church. He thought for a moment, then thoughtfully replied.
"Apologetics... that's where you reach out to non-believers with reasons for believing Christianity. There is a need for that, sure, but our emphasis here is to concentrate on supporting and strengthening the faith of those already in our congregation 
When I was 20 my Physics professor made it clear at the outset that it was irrational to be an Atheist. He pointed out that it was irrefutable on many scientific and philosophical fronts that the universe had a beginning. Creation had to have a Creator. Space, time and matter leapt into existence at some finite point in the past from nothing! The Big Bang! Einstein’s Theory of Relativity proved it in 1916.
I immediately saw the logic in his argument and became a Deist.
Miracles 
We are all looking for answers. All of us. Without exception. We see the world that we live in, the world in which we were all born and can’t help but think “What’s the point?” If we only knew more we could answer that question. If we only knew The Truth, we would know “The Point”.
Outside of our blue planet the physical universe is hostile to life. Even within our blue planet most areas are inhabitable to mankind. We begin to teach our children from the moment 
Lightning snapped, thunder boomed, reverberating in the great corridor between earth and sky.
“Thunderclouds seethed the day my father was forced by soldiers from his home. The ground appeared to boil with the torrential impact of rain.”
A brilliant white, jagged crack appeared on the earth’s ceiling, then disappeared.
“He spat literally into the face of the enemy. His defiance inspired my search for justice! He will now fight back victoriously!
“That’s impossible!”
“No!