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Christianity is Sociologically True: Personal and Societal Transformation
On Twitter recently I saw this short video of a young British Journalist, Louise Perry, explain why she became a Christian. In 2022 she published a book called, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, which indicates like many secularist liberals she had been mugged...
Conflict vs. Conquest in Our Fallen World: A Tale of Two Perspectives
For my entire Christians life, from the fall of 1978 to August of 2022, I believed the nature of the Christian life in this fallen world was a conflict between good and evil, the kingdom of God and the kingdom of Satan. I assumed, but didn’t think much about it, that...
Mass Shooters: It’s All About Parents
I wrote this post before Charlie Kirk was assassinated, but the principles apply there as well. It seems my title has sadly turned into a pun. Death has once again, as we all know by now, come in another shooting at a school by a mentally ill person targeting kids....
Articles on Theology
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...
Song of Songs and the Bride of Christ
Some Christians in church history, and maybe even today, are a bit embarrassed by the Song of Songs because it is so overtly sexual. Some try to allegorize it; the early church fathers were especially fond of this approach, or they might completely spiritualize it...
Articles on Explanatory Power
Masks, Masks, Everywhere Masks . . . .To Keep from Getting a Cold, Maybe?
I feel like I've entered an episode of The Twilight Zone, although I'm convinced Rod Serling couldn't have imagined the absurdities of COVID-19 2020 America. Since this is a blog dedicated to the defense of the Christian faith, I try to stay away from politics, but...
Watch This Movie, and be Freed from Practical Atheism!
On Friday I came across an article at Breakpoint about a movie called The Master Designer—the Song, and I, my wife, and son watched it in dumbfounded awe. It's so refreshing to watch a documentary about the wonders of the natural world and not be told over and over...
What’s the Benefit of a Virus? Death
I can imagine that the title of this post would make people think there is something seriously wrong with me. There is! I've been afflicted most of my life with contemplating my own death, and, as I hit my early teen years, obsessing over what in the world it might...
Articles on Culture
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...
DJ Stephen ‘tWitch’ Suicide and the Bankruptcy of Secularism
The entertainment world was hit with a suicide last week that appeared inconceivable to the secular minds that inhabit “Hollywood” and most of America. I wasn’t planning on writing anything about it because I have written about suicide here before and asked the...
Ubiquitous Homosexuality and The Sinner
What percentage of Americans self-identify as gay or lesbian? I asked some friends and family several years ago, and the answers ranged from 25 to 40%. They were surprised when I said the actual number (according to a massive CDC study) is under 2%. Just the other day...
Articles on Apologetics
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...
The Consideration of the Alternative and the Burden of Proof
I had a dream recently, like I do every night, but this one was inspiration for a blog post. Most of my dreams are way too bizarre for the word bizarre, but this one was very specific. I made a friend when I got out of college and was involved in the Navigator...
Jesus and the Resurrection of the Dead: What’s the Alternative?
Given we are celebrating this week the most important event in human history, and given mortality is on everybody's mind, it is a good time to reflect on the very long term, which would be forever. Providentially, I've been making my way through I Corinthians 15 the...
Articles on Parenting and Family
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...
As Our Son (Doesn’t) Goes Off to College, I Am Confident his Faith will Endure and Thrive
I’d been waiting to write a post about our youngest son going off to college, but because of a ridiculous overreaction to a certain virus he’s not going.