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The Danger of Intentions and Love’s Answer
Early in my Christian life, my fundamentalist phase as I call it, introspection was encouraged. Part of this examination was questioning my motives and intentions to make certain they were not sinful but pure. The problem was that I’m pretty sure I’ve never had a...
Charlie Kirk and The Current Great Awakening
When I started thinking about writing my last book, Going Back to Find the Way Forward, the words awakening and Great Awakening were out there in the zeitgeist, which in German means the spirit of the age. It’s the cultural climate of the period in which we live, and...
Marx, Nihilism, Charlie Kirk, and the Modern Left
Roger Daltrey at the end of The Who’s 1971 song, We Won’t Get Fooled Again, sings, “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.” This came to mind as I’ve been contemplating the brutal, cold blooded murder of Charlie Kirk, and the current iteration of “the left.” The...
Articles on Theology
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...
Isaiah 61: A Planting of the Lord
In a recent post I made the case that the Lord is our salvation because He is our righteousness, that we can’t save ourselves. Isaiah 61 makes that same point beautifully, that our salvation is wholly the work of God. This Christian theological fact is what separates...
The Lord Himself is Our Salvation
I’ve concluded over these four plus decades as a Christian talking and listening to many Christians, that no matter what tradition they come from or their theological convictions, they are all Calvinists. What I mean by that is they all realize, every single one of...
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
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...
You May Say to Yourself . . .
What is the first thing that came into your mind when you read the title of this post? Before I answer about mine, one of my sons is reading through the Bible and recently came to me with a quote from Deuteronomy 8: 17 You may say to yourself, “My power and the...
Articles on Apologetics
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...
Is Ravi Really With Jesus?
What? Don't I believe that Ravi Zacharias was saved? That when he died recently he went directly to heaven, to meet the Savior he so boldly proclaimed all over the world for 57 years? Of course I believe that, absolutely! What I mean by that question, or want to...
Articles on Parenting and Family
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...
Persuasive Christian Parenting: A Q&A with Mike D’Virgilio
When we lived in Illinois we had gone to a church for a number of years that was large and typically Evangelical, but not Reformed. That was frustrating for me, a couple years before we left for Florida I started looking for a church that preached the doctrines of...
If We Want to Win the Culture War, Have More Kids!
It's kind of apparent that we are in a culture war. Make no mistake, conservative Christians didn't start it, but we can't escape it. Christianity had a great run in Western civilization as the default view of reality, over 1,500 years! That, of course, is no longer...