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A brief Introduction:

While studying to be a pastor in college I abandoned my faith. In fact, I abandoned everything I thought I believed and rebuilt.

To my own surprise at the time, I found that Christianity was much stronger than I had thought. As I rebuilt my belief system, I realized that there needed to be people out there responding to the questions people have. I had them myself. So, while not continuing on to be a pastor, I have focused on educating people about what Christianity is all about and responding to the various charges and accusations made against it.

There are some obvious challenges to being successful in that capacity, but a big part of it consists not in arguing with atheists and skeptics, but rather in providing Christians with accurate information in the first place to prevent them from leaving the faith in the first place.

Questioning is a very normal and natural part of growing up, and I am convinced that it is not wrong to ask questions of God at any age. God doesn't strike people down. On the other hand, if people are going to reject Christianity, it is my aim to at least make sure they reject the real Christianity and not a false view of it. Also, much heartache can be avoided by educating Christians properly to begin with. My experience has helped me... but it was unnecessary.

Paul said that some plant, some water, and others reap the increase. My job is to go out into the land and move rocks- or break them if necessary- till the land, and struggle through knee deep fertilizer... all in the effort to allow those who come later to plant, water, and reap the harvest. I look forward to the prospects of either serving you as someone who needs to haul rocks out of the field, or as someone who can look at the field, detect problems, and help farmers more effectively plant, water, and reap.

A Review of “The Rain: A Story of Noah and the Ark”

Posted by Anthony on April 23, 2008

Buy The Rain on Amazon.com

by Chris Skates and Dan Tankersley

Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Xulon Press (September 25, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 160477049X
ISBN-13: 978-1604770490
Website: www.bereadyministries.com

Book Description
Noah was in shock. It had been nearly one hundred twenty years since God told him this flood would come. Now that it was here, he couldn’t bear it. Noah understood quite well what was taking place outside and why God had determined it had to be that way. Still, the reality was agonizing. Why, oh why, did they not listen? Noah thought. He shed no tears. He had cried so much and so often in these recent days that his body could produce no more. He continued to stare into his lap. Noah wished the screams outside were not real. He wished to awaken from this nightmare. But he could only endure it. As the rain pounded the roof and the people outside suffered, minutes were like hours. Familiar voices were begging him to open the door. Noah knotted his fists into his cloak and tried to hold on.

The Rain is an engaging story of Noah and the building of the ark as recorded in Genesis. It is a fictionalized account which wishes to remain true to the assertions of fact which are contained in the Genesis account. It tells the story from alternating perspectives, though not usually Noah’s. His sons and daughter-in-laws carry the story with occasional vignettes from other perspectives.

There are some definite strengths to the story. For example, if the Biblical account is to be trusted, it is almost certain that when the waters began to rise, people would recognize that Noah hadn’t been insane after all. Their desperate pleas would have haunted the occupants of the ark. It is hard enough for people to believe that so many people deserved to be wiped out that the acknowledgment of the real effect this would have had on Noah and his family would have had helps reveal the magnitude of the event.

Another strength of the book is in its description of the kind of evil things that may have been going on in the world. It is easy to imagine that everyone was innocent in the world and so shake our fists at God, but what if it really was the case that they weren’t innocent and that they really had it coming? If they were involved in human sacrifice, or in more recent terms, frying Jews by the hundreds of thousands in prison ovens, wouldn’t you want God to take action? Read the rest of the entry… »