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.
TODAY’S VERSE: Romans 8:38-39 on Security in Christ
“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
GOOD QUESTION: Was Jesus a Vegetarian?
There are quite a few folks around these days who argue that Jesus never consumed the flesh of animals, that He was in fact a vegetarian. Kyle Butt of the Apologetics Press responds to such claims in the following brief video. I should hasten to add at this point that it is not my view…
TODAY’S VERSE: Ephesians 2:8-10 on God’s Love and Workmanship
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
TODAY’S VERSE: Psalm 139:15-16 On Your Purpose in Life
15. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Is the Multiverse Theory Just A Comic Book Fantasy?
If you think about it, as Sean McDowell and Dr. Stephen Meyer do in the following interview, the Marvel Comics fantasy pantheon of heroes like Spider-Man and Iron Man represents a sort of multiverses. If you aren’t familiar with the term “multiverse,” it is a theory of origins for the universe in which we live…
EXPLAIN THIS: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
Here’s a question for you: Why is there something — you, me, the Universe — rather than nothing — zero, zilch, ain’t anything anywhere? Martin Heidegger is credited with formulating that specific question, but other philosophers have been pondering the issue since ancient times. Aristotle, for instance, defined “nothing” as “what rocks think about.” If…
LONG STORY SHORT: Darwin’s Biggest Question About His Own Theory of Evolution
“Science is settled” on Darwinian evolution, just as it is on how to deal with the COVID-19 Pandemic, right? Well, if your name is Charles Darwin, it’s 1859 and you’re staring at the Cambrian Explosion, everything is settled except the one big thing that isn’t settled and really has you scratching your head. A lot…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: MICHAEL DUNN is the new Legislative Director for Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.), moving up from his previous slot as the Deputy Legislative Director. Michael is a 2013 BA graduate in Communications Studies from the University of Nebraska. SAMANTHA CANTRELL is now Communications Director for Rep. David Kustoff (R-Tenn.). Previously, Samantha was Deputy…
Is Jesus Just a Copy-Cat Savior?
One of the claims that is sometimes heard about Jesus Christ is that He really was just another itinerant preacher in Judea, a backwater Middle Eastern nation, whose disciples copied certain attributes from a bunch of pagan deities and then claimed He was God. Well, if you aren’t already familiar with ancient pagan deities or…
TODAY’S VERSE: Romans 15:13 on Joy and Peace
“Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”