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Why I Left Full Preterism by Sam Frost: A Review
Preterism was back in the news recently. Doug Wilson and Gary DeMar had another powwow in Moscow on Monday, November 3, this time an official debate. So, the timing is good to bring attention to this little book with big intentions. The word preterism comes from the...
Christian Children Are Not Strangers to the Covenant
In this life the debate between Baptists and paedobaptists, or baptizing babies, will never end, and this post doesn’t seek to do the impossible. My powers of persuasion are not that great, nor is my knowledge. It is written, rather, for those who are open to trying...
Charlie Kirk, Christian Nationalism, and the Sword of the Spirit
As Christians have said for probably 2000 years, and Jews for 2000 before that, God works in mysterious ways. Why he allowed that young man’s life to be snuffed out at such a young age, and with decades left to continue his work, we can’t know, but we can observe the...
Articles on Theology
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...
Ezekiel: “Then They Will Know That I Am the Lord”
As I was reading through Ezekiel I was struck by how many times the Lord used this phrase, approximately 65 times. It’s fascinating because there is nothing like it in any other book of the Old Testament, and it’s not even close. It seems the Lord was trying to get...
Articles on Explanatory Power
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!...
Testimonies: God in Christ is Real, and Transforming Lives All Over the World!
Given I spend my days in front of two computers, one for work, and one for me, I've started listening to Christian conversion testimonies on Youtube when I have busy work to do. For reasons related to my Christian fundamentalist past, I've tended to downplay the...
Articles on Culture
Nobody Wants to Die, But Nobody Wants to Get Old
We recently visited relatives and spent some time with my wife’s mother and father who both live in elderly facilities, and also visited my mother who does as well. I don’t know how other people respond to being around a lot of older people, but it depresses me....
School Shootings: The Triumph of Secularism
It has happened again, this time at a Christian grade school in Nashville. When I first heard about it, and it was reported a female was the shooter, that didn’t compute. Women are never mass shooters. Then I learned this: Three adults and three children were killed...
What is a Revival? Asbury And What Revival We Need
There has been a lot of news recently about a revival at Asbury University, a Methodist school in Kentucky. In The American Conservative, Rod Dreher asks, “An extraordinary movement of the Holy Spirit at a Kentucky college chapel -- is it for real?” By real he means...
Articles on Apologetics
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...
The Human Brain: Praise Chance!
Reading through Denton's book is a mind blower. As I'm reading I keep thinking, I have to quote and write about this, then that, then this, then that, but when I got to his discussion of the human brain it was just too much. The complexity is staggering. To think that...
Articles on Parenting and Family
Marx is Smiling: On The Importance of Fathers
Somebody told me there is this thing called Father's Day, and I couldn't believe I actually get my own day! If greeting card companies were going to make up a day in which to sell a lot of greeting cards, having a day for fathers is a mighty fine way to do it. They...
Act Like Men! It’s Right from the Bible
We know in this excessively "woke" age we live in that the Bible is terribly regressive, and of course we Neanderthal's wouldn't have it any other way. One thing we know that our overly-educated elite refuse to admit, is that there is a biological, psychological, and...
A Response to The Misunderstanding of My Critics, Part 3
This will be my final word in writing about the issues introduced on my book page, and discussed on Take 1, and Take 2. I'm kind of proud that I've been able to get Calvinists and Arminians to agree about something regarding salvation. In my experience discussing...