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Will the Rapture Be September 23, 2025?
This was the title of a YouTube video. I was surprised because I thought the failure of dispensationalists predicting the rapture for almost 200 years had put an end to this prediction business. Apparently not. This specific video was of a guy shooting down the...
Why Critics Misunderstand and Distort Postmillennialism
I’ve written here and there about how woefully misunderstood postmillennialism is, but I’ve never given it the full blog post treatment. There are deep historical and theological reasons for the typical knee-jerk reaction that will be fascinating to explore given...
The Redemptive-Historical Significance of AD70
Until August of 2022, the year 70 AD was just another year in ancient history to me. It held no special significance other than I knew that a Roman army destroyed Jerusalem, and Jews and Christians were scattered throughout the empire. I could infer God’s purpose of...
Articles on Theology
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...
Stars in the Sky, Sand on the Seashore and Psalm 2
What if we are in the early church? Such a question would have appeared absurd to me not too long ago, but no longer. I’m now inclined to answer in the affirmative. As I no longer believe we’re necessarily in the “end times” (i.e., Jesus coming back any day), I now...
Articles on Explanatory Power
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.
What do YOU See in a Romaine Leaf?
This appears to be a strange question. You might answer, I see a leaf of Romaine lettuce, and of course you would be right, but you would also be wrong. Am I contradicting myself? No. The leaf, as with all created things, points beyond itself. So yes, the leaf is a...
Darwinists are Modern Alchemists, Only with Less Credibility
Since the great enemy of Darwinism Phillip Johnson went to be with the Lord recently, I've been listening to talks and interviews he gave over the years, and seeing again why he was such a formidable opponent to those espousing the bankrupt theory of evolution. He...
Articles on Culture
The Sinner
Despite what you think, this post isn’t about me, although the title might imply that. It’s about a Netflix series called The Sinner which my wife and I have recently been watching. We just finished season 3, and I learned season 4 is coming to Netflix this week. The...
CRU Goes Full-On Woke
I Knew when Campus Crusade for Christ changed their name to CRU in 2011 it wasn’t a good sign. I can understand that the word crusade had some negative connotations in the Middle East, but only because Muslims and too many Christians accepted a faulty interpretation...
Libertarians are Not Conservatives: Dave Ruben and Same-Sex Surrogacy
We live in very strange times. For all recorded history the peoples of the world, no matter what their view of the universe and religious outlook, from the most rank deranged heathens to the most pristine moralistic religious people, believed in the fundamental...
Articles on Apologetics
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.
The Stupefying, Amazing, Incomparable Jesus Christ: God is the Only Explanation!
God has revealed himself in creation, Scripture, and ultimately in the person of Jesus Christ. In previous posts about creation and the Bible, I argued the only plausible explanation for each is God. Jesus is the ultimate manifestation of God's revelation of himself...
Articles on Parenting and Family
A New Guitar, and Why My Son Knows God is Real
One of the easiest ways to persuade our children that God is real is the evidence of his incredible, amazing, mind-blowing design in nature. Paul tells us in Romans 1 that "God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being...
No Christian Young People, Sex Before Marriage it NOT Okay
I had an experience recently with a Christian young man who shall remain nameless, and it inspired a blog post. He looked me in the eye (which I respected) and told me that it's okay for Christians to have sex before marriage. I was taken aback, and asked him why he...
“The Gift of Children”: Children are Not a Choice!
It probably won't be a surprise to anyone that an author of a book on parenting is a big fan of kids, and of families having lots of them, especially Christian families. As we drove up to our church on Sunday, a young family got out of a car in front of us, and they...