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What is Sphere Sovereignty and Why is it a Necessity?
Secularists, including Christian secularists, which is most Christians, unfortunately, have a problem with Christianity exerting power in the political sphere of life. Because of a kind of Pietistic dualistic thinking, they believe that messy political stuff has to do...
The Miracles of Jesus and their Meaning
I was inspired to write this post because of an unpleasant Twitter interlocutor who claimed to know things about me from one sentence I wrote in a comment: “Jesus’ healing ministry was a metaphor for spiritual reality.” He came back in so many words with, why do you...
Developing an Attitude of Gratitude and the Atheist Dilemma
I recently saw an article that attracted me because of the title, “The Ingratitude of the Well-Fed.” The author, Maarten Boudry, explains what the piece is about in the subtitle: “We need to cultivate an appreciation for the abundance that modernity has bestowed...
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
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...
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...
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
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
The Number One Responsibility of Christian Parents Raising Kids in a Secular Age
I had a wonderful experience, and privilege, last week, of being on a podcast with a couple British lads discussing my international best seller, The Persuasive Christian Parent (I'll do another post about the discussion, great fun). In the podcasts I do, I always...
And They Said It Wouldn’t Last: Happy 34th To My Bride!
Instead of giving my wife flowers or taking her out to a nice dinner for this the 34th anniversary of our marriage, I thought I'd give her a blog post. It's easier, and less expensive. Not to mention that it will last longer. It's this kind of thoughtfulness that has...
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...