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Is Certitude a Christian Virtue?
I’ve had a complicated relationship with certitude over my many years as a Christian. I’m reminded of what an unpleasant character trait it can be. Being certain about things is good and fine, but I’ve interacted with absolutists on Twitter/X over the last couple...
Is Jesus God? The Testimony of Scripture
This has to be one of the easiest theological questions in Christianity to answer given it’s so obvious in our Bibles, at least for those God has given eyes to see. I was inspired to write this post because since we’ve lived where we do now, I’ve encountered Jehovah’s...
How We Can Know Christianity is True?
That’s the question, isn’t it. Nobody wants to live or believe a lie, yet most people refuse to consider the radically exclusive claims of Jesus Christ who claimed to be the way the truth and the life, and that nobody could come to the Father except through him. Then...
Articles on Theology
Is Jesus God? The Testimony of Scripture
This has to be one of the easiest theological questions in Christianity to answer given it’s so obvious in our Bibles, at least for those God has given eyes to see. I was inspired to write this post because since we’ve lived where we do now, I’ve encountered Jehovah’s...
Does God Want All People to be Saved?
This post is not going to make me popular with, oh I don’t know, maybe 90% of Christians. We Calvinists are in the minority among the faithful, but we are a confident and determined lot. I’m grateful, however, that God will not require a theology test to get into...
Ephesians 2 & 3: God’s Sovereign Almighty Power for Our and the World’s Salvation from Sin
After being a born-again Christian for five years, one night by God’s providence I was introduced to Reformed theology, what some call Calvinism. In its broad contours it goes back to the great Bishop of Hippo (North Africa), Augustine (354-430), who emphasized man’s...
Articles on Explanatory Power
The Transformational Nature of Faith
When most people hear the word faith they instantly think of religion. This is especially true in our secular age when it came to be assumed that faith is something religious people need, while those who are not religious do not. If we think about it for even a moment...
Mind Over Matter is Not a Cliché: Living as the Image of God
One of the most powerful things in the world is the human mind. God created a marvel of inconceivable engineering that produces a phenomenon going well beyond the mere matter of the machine running it, the brain. These two things, the immaterial mind and the material...
The Existential Crisis that is The Passage of Time
I think about time all the time. You might think this happens more as you enter your elderly years, but I’ve been thinking about it for a very long time. Well, not in biblical time, but in regular old human time. One of my favorite sayings is that God is never in a...
Articles on Culture
AI and the Longing for The Real
I’ve heard the phrase Artificial Intelligence all of my boomer life. Grok says the phrase goes back to 1955 and a proposal some scientists put together to study the concept. This lead to the “Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence” in 1956 which...
The Culture Project and Societal Transformation
I mentioned The Culture Project in a recent post, and I decided I needed to share my thoughts about the importance of Christian cultural transformation in more detail. Not only is Christian influence on society critical for the long term health and flourishing of...
My Health Journey and The Development of Modern Medicine
A couple years back I decided I’d like to write a book about my health journey. Covid was such a radical red pill experience for me, like it was for many others, that it changed completely the way I looked at my health and modern medicine with it. In fact, I started...
Articles on Apologetics
How We Can Know Christianity is True?
That’s the question, isn’t it. Nobody wants to live or believe a lie, yet most people refuse to consider the radically exclusive claims of Jesus Christ who claimed to be the way the truth and the life, and that nobody could come to the Father except through him. Then...
Uninvented and the Unlikely Apostle Paul
I wrote my book Uninvented because as I studied apologetics, the defense of the Christian faith, I consistently came across the argument that the Bible and the stories contained therein could not have been made up, were not mere human fiction as critics have insisted...
Tim Allen, the Hollowness of Philosophy, and the Consideration of the Alternative
The great comedian Tim Allen, Buzz Lightyear himself, sat down with fellow comedian Bill Maher for a long conversation about their careers, and at one point discussed the credibility of Christianity. Maher’s at best an agnostic, but Allen clearly believes in God, and...
Articles on Parenting and Family
How We Can Know Christianity is True?
That’s the question, isn’t it. Nobody wants to live or believe a lie, yet most people refuse to consider the radically exclusive claims of Jesus Christ who claimed to be the way the truth and the life, and that nobody could come to the Father except through him. Then...
Does God Want All People to be Saved?
This post is not going to make me popular with, oh I don’t know, maybe 90% of Christians. We Calvinists are in the minority among the faithful, but we are a confident and determined lot. I’m grateful, however, that God will not require a theology test to get into...
Protector, Provider, and Priest: The Foundations of Patriarchy
I believe in Patriarchy, and around our house I’m the boss. I mean, no one else in the house can even touch the clicker for I am The Master of the Clicker, and nothing says patriarchy more than that! Of course it’s pretty much just me and my wife now, so that’s easy....