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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
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...
Psalm 112 and the Man Who Will Never Be Shaken
Reading through the Psalms is a wonderful experience. You could park on one for days mining the depths for nuggets of truth into the greatness of our God. And God is the point of all 150 of them. One of the reasons the Psalms have been so beloved over the millennia is...
Psalm 73: When I Tried to Understand All This . . . Circumstances People
Christians love the Psalms because we can relate to how they portray the messiness of life in a fallen world, and Psalm 73 is one of the most relatable. It starts with the fundamental Christian perspective on all things: 1 Surely God is good to Israel,to those who...
Articles on Explanatory Power
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...
The Stupefying Complexity, Functionality, and Beauty of Creation: God is the Only Explanation!
When I pray in the morning it seems that I always start praising God for revealing himself to us in creation, Scripture, and Christ. Each means of God revealing himself to us astounds and flabbergasts me in its own way.
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
I Corinthians 15:1-8 – Our Creed: The Resurrection and the Eyewitnesses
As we come upon the Easter celebration, albeit in very odd times, I thought I'd share some thoughts from my meditations upon one of the most important chapters in all of the Bible. In it Paul deals extensively with the resurrection of Christ, and the resurrection of...
The Cosmological Argument: Can Something Really Come from Nothing?
If that question doesn't make you laugh, you haven't thought about it enough. I listened to a podcast the other day on the cosmological argument. Simply, it is a philosophical argument for God's existence that everything that comes to exist has a cause, that there...
Can Meaning Be Found Between The Polls of Meaning-Less-Ness?
In a universe without God, we come from a meaningless past, and are destined for a meaningless future; we came from chance for no reason at all with no purpose at all, and are hurdling through this eye blinking thing called life toward extinction.
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...