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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
Calvinism and the Inevitable Non Sequitur
I would wager that almost everyone coming across this lonely old blog post out on my very tiny corner of the windswept desolation of the Internet has some idea of what Calvinism is. Whether they are right or not is the topic I seek to address. Of course, being right...
How Donald Trump Turned Me into a Postmillennialist!
The very last thing I expected when Donald Trump came down the escalator to announce his run for the presidency on June 16, 2015, was the red pill I unknowingly swallowed that would eventually lead me to embracing postmillennialism. In case you don’t know what...
Wealth and Honor Come from You!
If you’re a sinner, you probably think this post is about you. I won’t say you’re so vain, but you probably get the point. If you read my last post, though, you already know the answer is . . . . God! I wrote about David’s words of praise for God in I Chronicles...
Articles on Explanatory Power
“Science Uprising”: New video series unmasks materialism for what it is: Wrong!
Too many Christians allow low-simmering doubt into their minds because the dominant Western secular cultural narrative assumes materialism at every point, that is that the material, matter, is all that exists. And, if materialism is true, Christianity is not. In the...
The Pac Man Called Time, and The Great Question Mark
If you're young, say south of 40, stop now; you'll think these the irrelevant musings of an old man (middle aged nowadays, but whose counting). If you're in your 40s you're starting to relate to what I'll have to say (whatever I end up saying), and if you're in your...
Where Did The Idea of a Personal, Creator God Come From?
Being a person of extreme apologetic bent, I'm always looking to validate Christian truth claims. Apologetics is critical in a Western culture drenched in secularism, where most people fit into one of the Triple A categories: Atheist, Agnostic, or Apathetic. For them...
Articles on Culture
Tim Keller’s Unfortunate Moral Equivalence Between Left and Right
I love and respect Tim Keller, immensely. Not only was he our pre-marital counselor when my wife and I were in seminary back in 1987, but his teaching has been a significant blessing to me both theologically and apologetically. I also pray for him daily as he deals...
Jordan Peterson’s Daughter Converts to Christianity
I was pleasantly surprised yesterday when I learned Jordan Peterson’s daughter, Mikhaila, had recently become a Christian.
Netflix’s Midnight Mass a Secular Hit Job on Christianity
If you’re not familiar with it, Midnight Mass is a new Netflix series about a very strange little island with only one lone old Catholic church that eventually dominants everything on the Island, and in very unexpected ways.
Articles on Apologetics
Evidence for the Veracity of Christianity: Gospel Inspired Love
In my previous post I argued that the transformed life of converted sinners is a profound defense of the truth of the Christian faith. We can't see God, like the wind, but the evidence of his reality, like the wind, can be seen in the effects of his Spirit in the...
The Wind, Its Effects, and the Invisible Apologetic
I was praying recently, and said something to God like, it's difficult to believe what we can't see, but . . . . I can't help but believe it! And for many of the reasons I argue here. Then something different came to mind, an apologetic I don't believe I have ever...
We Must Test Any Religion or Worldview’s Claims to Truth
In a previous post I argued that it is much easier to believe in Christianity than the alternatives, and discussed three ways we can judge a religion or worldview's claim to truth. I argued that absolute certainty is impossible, so our goal should be...
Articles on Parenting and Family
“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...
Creation and the Justified Confidence we can Build In our Children an Enduring Faith
My youngest, our 17 year-old son, came to me the other day and said I had to watch the beginning of this short video: The mechanism that allows human beings to hear is insanely complex. Either we are incredibly lucky, or that mechanism was created by an all powerful,...
40 Days for Life: Don’t Eat the Babies, Save the Babies!!!
In case you are not aware where "Eat the babies" came from, watch this priceless satire of the leftists' absurd obsession with "climate change": The woman was a plant at an AOC townhall, and she appears distraught at the "three months" we have before "climate change"...