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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
Christ Or Caesar? Theonomy or Autonomy? Liberty or Tyranny?
These stark choices confront us like a brick in the face as they haven’t for a long time in Western history. They offer us a moral clarity that comes from the blessing of leftist, woke cultural Marxist overreach that began when Barack Obama assumed the presidency in...
Heart of Stone and Flesh, and a Valley of Dry Bones
I can’t be reading through the Bible and just pass Ezekiel 36 and 37 without comment. It has to be among my favorite passages in Scripture because it so wonderfully captures the monergistic nature of God’s working in us as I understand our salvation from sin. The word...
Uninvented: Jeremiah Doesn’t Make Up the New Covenant
There are so many angles to the uninvented argument, and one of the most important is theological, something I don’t get into much in the book. The Bible looked at in 20/20 Jesus Hindsight is theological genius (see Luke 24), and I would argue impossible to be made up...
Articles on Explanatory Power
The Human Heart: There Absolutely *HAS* to be a God!
Living in a culture that is so suffocatingly secular, we are programmed to think that life explains itself. Whether we think of evolution or Darwinism, or not, the tendency for most people is not to see God in everything, as we should, but to see things in and of...
Jordan Peterson Gets Much, But Not The Most Important Thing
So far, anyway. That most important thing would be Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior, but he hasn't been able to make what to him is probably a leap. That's a shame, for obviously possible eternal reasons, but also because his worldview is so infused with...
Hunter, Our Cat, Is Dead. RIP
I don’t even like cats! And yet there I was balling as my wife was holding our dead cat in the backseat on the way to the vet’s this morning.
Articles on Culture
Matt Walsh, Voddie Baucham, The Trans Guy, and the Reality of Stigma
I stumbled on the video below about the drama surrounding Matt Walsh speaking brutal truth to some guy pretending to be a woman. You have to see this guy pretending to believe he is actually a sexy woman to believe it. Appropriate words fail when you encounter...
Thoughts on the Global Disinformation Index PSYOP
It’s a woke world, so nobody who pays attention is surprised there is such a thing as an official “Global Disinformation Index.” Truth be told, I thought it was comical. If we’ve learned anything in the last several years it’s how inept and incompetent the globalist...
Psalm 75: God’s Providence and the Aquinas Nature/Grace Divide
As I’ve written here numerous times recently, our tendency is to see history and current events happening “by chance,” as if there is no guiding hand directing people and events, and things just happen. Maybe if there is any guiding hand it’s of a very bad pin ball...
Articles on Apologetics
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...
Tactics: Learning How Weak Christian Alternatives Are By Asking Questions
I just finished reading Tactics by Greg Koukl, and it's a book that should be read by every Christian young person in our anti-Christian culture. I recently bought it for my kids, and myself, and it was better than I thought it would be, much better. I'm not sure what...
Watch Woody Allen’s “Hannah and Her Sisters” With Your Kids!
Well, probably teenager kids. It's Woody Allen, after all. My wife and I recently re-watched Hannah and Her Sisters with our two sons (our daughter wasn't available; she's married), and it was an incredibly wonderful apologetics moment. I've argued that a secular...
Articles on Parenting and Family
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...
A Response to The Misunderstanding of My Critics, Part 2
In my first post I addressed part of this misunderstanding, that "there is absolutely no correlation between faithful (or reasonably faithful) work in this with the outcome of personal faith." The "work" is a reference to raising our children in the faith. The concern...