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A Protestant Take on the Catholic Faith
I’ve been a Christian north of 47(!) years now. That’s insane. There was a time I couldn’t conceive of ever being 47 years old; now 47 is receding in the rear view mirror. I was born-again in the heyday of the Jesus Revolution late 1970s, and as the Grateful Dead also...
God’s Provision in Jonah’s Life, and Ours
I recently read through Jonah in one sitting, and yet again it reminds me why it’s one of my favorite books in the Bible. It’s got a kind of honesty about it that makes it endearing. You think, this guy is not unlike all of us! And the Bible makes no apologies for...
What Distinguishes Amillennialism from Postmillennialism?
While I very much appreciate my optimistic amillennialist brethren, or what I call practical postmillennialists, it’s important to understand that being optimistic, or not, is not what separates these two eschatological perspectives. It’s more than merely seeing the...
Articles on Theology
Calvin and the Three Uses of the Law
In the last year I’ve come into a new understanding and appreciation of God’s law, and it’s been a thrilling journey. Up until August of last year when I had what I call an eschatological awakening, I looked at God’s law much the way almost all Evangelical Christians...
Believe It or Not, God Wants to Bless Us
Most of my life I didn’t really believe this. I would never have said that explicitly, but somewhere inside I think I was always waiting for the other shoe to drop, something bad to happen. We all know life can be really hard, but “life” is not sovereign, God is. We...
John Calvin Believed in Free Will: Who Knew!
For the Calvin haters, and they are legion, I might have just uttered a heresy. I can imagine the reply in their fevered brains: No he does not! It’s been interesting since I became a certified Calvinist in 1985 to witness how some people respond to the name Calvin or...
Articles on Explanatory Power
The Gospel: The Only Thing That Makes Sense of Anything
Ideas for blog posts often seem to come when I start praying in the morning. As has been my habit for almost seven years, every morning I wrestle my way through a text of Scripture and write my thoughts in my uncreatively named Walk Through the Bible blog....
Happy New Year! Another One Closer to Death!
I'm such a Debbie Downer! I can't help it. After I became a Christian when I was 18, I haven't been able to attend or see a New Year's celebration with out being struck by how ridiculous it all is. Do not these people, I always think, realize that they are celebrating...
God in Christ: Inconceivably Conceivable, Incomprehensibly Comprehensible, Unbelievably Believable!
I don't know about you, but I find this whole spiritual, Christian, life after death, life is more than matter thing very hard to believe at times. Scripture tells us we live by faith, and not by sight, but I find it so much easier to live by sight and not by faith!...
Articles on Culture
Uganda Homosexuality Law Part 2
In my previous post, using Uganda’s new anti-homosexuality law, I argued that Scripture is a legitimate source of authority for nations, that God’s law and rule (theonomy and theocracy) are something Christians should argue for in the public square, specifically...
Is Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Law Christian? Is Theonomy?
According to Christianity Today and Russel Moore it most certainly is not! Moore used to be the President of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the SBC and left there to become Christianity Today's Editor in Chief last year. He also writes for left-wing...
Christianity is Now Hate and Bigotry, and the Hope that Brings
In case you weren’t aware of it, if you’re a conservative Christian, believe the Bible is God’s actual word of revelation to mankind and the truth about human sexuality, you’re a bigot filled with hatred for “sexual minorities.” Yes, no better than any garden variety...
Articles on Apologetics
What a Book Review! I Think She Liked It
Given I'm not a "somebody" with a big "platform," getting book reviews is not easy. I finally did get one, and it was at a site that was instrumental in my journey back into apologetics, Apologetics315. It was worth the wait. The author's final words are most...
God’s Amazing Goodness and My Apologetics315 Interview
I had an interview recently about my book with a website that has special meaning in my Christian journey, Apologetics315. God, as he often does with his children, made this uniquely special for me as I'll explain. When I became a Christian at Arizona State...
Third Time’s A Charm—The Persuasive Christian Parent is Finally Available!
I made one of the big mistakes of my life back when I was a young Christian some four decades ago. I asked God to give me patience . . . . and I've been waiting ever since! Writing a book, and finally getting a version up I'm not embarrassed by, has been a long, long...
Articles on Parenting and Family
Three Cheers for Patriarchy! And “Why Sally Can’t Preach”
Since my last post was on the hot topic of Christian nationalism, I figured I’d follow it up with something about another "controversial" topic, patriarchy. I love thinking about the heads exploding at that title! It’s like throwing holy water on a vampire to some...
My Post-Mill Conference Experience and the Children
If you had told me a year ago that I would be attending a conference on Theonomy & Postmillennialism I would have told you to say no to drugs. But there I was in Georgetown, Texas last weekend with about 500 other people who seem to also have drunk the post-mill...
Our Granddaughter Eleanor Geline Lewis Was Baptized Today!
When I was born-again a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, by default I became a baptist. I was born and raised a Catholic and so baptized as an infant, but born-agains don’t do infant baptism, so I got re-baptized. It made sense to me at the time because...