HillFaith Blog: Good News for Hill Staffers
Welcome to HillFaith:Good News for Hill Staffers! This is where you’ll find two types of content:
First, fact-driven, thoroughly researched and often highly personalized Christian apologetics. Second, news and analyses about working on the Hill, including things like who's being promoted, what are the best (and worst!) offices to work for, salary information, and much else.
Here at HillFaith, we appreciate the importance, the challenges and the complexities of the work you do we are passionate about being a positive, informative resource for those in the trenches.
Most importantly, we want to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He is alive and He is "the way, the truth and the life." He is also the key to living the abundant life. Not materially, but in the Truth that sets you forever free.
There Is A BIG Difference Between A Fact And An Inference
If Joe tells you that two plus two equals four, he’s told you a fact. But if he then tells that you two is the square root of four and you conclude Joe has something more than basic math skills, you’re making an inference. But how do you know if your inference is accurate? Are…
Working On The Hill: Is Having Ambition A Good Or Bad Thing?
By Bret Bernhardt The simple answer is yes, but it depends on the kind of ambition it is. Regardless of our ideology or political affiliation, most everyone who works on Capitol Hill shares a similar energy, passion, and ambition. Interestingly, these character traits look similar among staff and Members of Congress across the political divide….
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Did Thomas The Disciple Die A Martyr For The Gospel In India?
Tradition has it that all of the original surviving 11 disciples of Jesus died as martyrs while defending their claims that Christ had been resurrected on the third day after being crucified. Thomas, the skeptical disciple (i.e. the “Doubting Thomas”) who refused to believe the resurrection until Jesus appeared to him and invited him to…
PUEBLA 2020: A Well-Spent Week Comes To A Close With A Blessing
This year marked the fifth in the past six that I have joined a devoted and talented team of nearly two dozen men and women who are present and former members of Friendship Baptist Church (FBC) in Sykesville, Md., on a week-long mission to Puebla, Mexico. At the outset, let me be clear that my…
MYTH-BUSTERS: No, The God Of The Old Testament Is Not A Moral Monster
A common objection heard from atheists, agnostics and other skeptics these days is that the God of the Old Testament was immoral because He allegedly endorsed such horrors as forced servitude, genocide and rape. As RZIM’s Brandon Cleaver explained recently in a lengthy analysis of the issue, “slavery in the Bible was vastly different. First,…
PUEBLA 2020: ‘PoPo’ The Volcano Is Quiet Today But God The Creator Is Not
People living in Puebla respectfully call the nearby 17,000 foot-high volcano Popocatepetl “PoPo” and when it erupts, everybody, including folks in Mexico City some 83 miles northeast of here, can hear, feel and smell the explosions. PoPo is not erupting today, though, as you can see from the photo above, its typical grey smoky plume…
PUEBLA 2020: It’s All About Christ, Cranes And Cows On Day Two
Turn on a cable TV reality show about home remodeling, customizing cars or rescuing animals and odds are good there will be an episode that revolves around having to get something done by a deadline. Miss the deadline and bad things will come to pass. It’s all faux drama, of course, using a corny plot…
PUEBLA 2020: Monday Is Mexico’s Constitution Day And WorkDay One At Hananeel
Fireworks are heard pretty much all day and late into the night on Constitution Day in Puebla, Mexico, to commemorate the 1917 Constitution that was adopted on February 5, 1917. The holiday is celebrated the first Monday in February. For the Friendship mission crew, Monday is also the first workday and it is inevitably a…
Sunday Breakfast In Puebla
It’s Puebla Week for 2020, so I and a bunch of fellow believers from Friendship Baptist Church in Sykesville, Maryland, and a bunch of other places from around the country are here for the week to do construction work for Hananeel Baptist and to share the Gospel with the people of this beautiful city. I’ll…
GREAT QUOTES: If Thinking Is Mere Behavior, How Do We ‘Believe’ Anything?
“If mental states are nothing more than behaviors, none of us could actually know what we believe until we have observed our behavior. Yet we are clearly aware of our beliefs, sensations and thoughts even before we behave in a certain way.” — J. Warner Wallace, “God’s Crime Scene.”