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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
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
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
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
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...
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...