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Does America Have a Judeo-Christian Heritage?
Since I started getting active on Twitter in early 2024, I’ve come across many on the New Christian Right, or whatever we might be called, who are not fans of the phrase Judeo-Christian, to say the least. It upsets them because it seems to make Christianity a part of...
The Christian Nation and the Westphalian Nation-State
If you want to create some consternation among some “right thinking” people just use the phrase Christian nationalism, or God forbid, say you are a Christian nationalist. You’ll be branded as either a white supremacist by leftists, or a Theonomist by conservatives....
Christian Western Civilization Should Have Never Happened
From a merely human perspective Christian Western civilization shouldn’t have happened. The odds of a ragtag crew of manual laborers in a small corner of the Roman Empire eventually turning the world upside down, or should we say right side up, were as close to zero...
Articles on Theology
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...
I Chronicles 29:10-13: David’s Life Transforming Praise for God
In my current jaunt through Scripture, much quicker than last time, I recently read this passage in I Chronicles and reflected on how significant it has been in the last five years or so of my life. When we moved from the Chicago area to Florida in early June of 2017,...
Rock of Ages and The Double Cure for Sin
One reason we’ve always gone to churches where hymns are sung is because the best hymnody is theology in song, meaning the study (ology) of God (theos) set to music. Much modern praise music unfortunately is more anthropology, more about man (anthropos), than God. And...
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
The Cultural Caricature of Christians: Don’t Buy What the Secular Culture is Selling!
One of my pet peeves is how easily Christians buy into the hostile secular cultural caricature of conservative Christians. What do I mean by that? The culture via its many powerful and ubiquitous means of communications communicates that Christians are generally...
What Happens When You See a Beautiful Butterfly?
That will depend on what our eyes and brain have been programmed to see, whether it is by the secular culture in which we daily swim, or God's word. If it is the former, we'll see a pretty butterfly, beautiful colors that amaze us, and that's it. If it is the latter,...
FYI, Loki, Almighty God is Sovereign Over the Sacred Timeline
If you don't know what a Loki is, neither did I until six weeks ago. He's a character in the Marvel cinematic universe, and an unsavory character; he's not referred to as the god of mischief for nothing. My son, our youngest at 19 and a keen observer of culture,...
Articles on Apologetics
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...
The Most Unexpected, and Consequential, Event in History: Christmas
Christmas is upon us again, and for those of us who've experienced more than a few, it kind of loses its wonder after a while. It shouldn't. If what Christmas celebrates actually happened, if it is actually true, then it is the most profound event in all of history,...
Articles on Parenting and Family
What Parents and their Children Can Learn from the Train Wreck of Amy Winehouse’s Life
If you're at all familiar with popular music in the last decade or two you surely know of Amy Winehouse. This young talent died of alcohol poisoning in July of 2011 at the ripe old age of 27, joining the pantheon of young musicians who've died before they got old. My...
Joshua Harris: You Can’t Escape The Fall
A lot of Internet ink has been spilled about author/pastor, Joshua Harris, so I figured I might as well add to the torrent. And given my bent, I'll orient it toward apologetics. Harris recently decided to jettison the ideas in a book he wrote about sexual purity and...
Acts 2:37-41 – Repent and Be Baptized: “The promise is for you and your children . . .”
At my other blog I'm writing my way through the Bible, one of the best things I've ever done, and something I highly recomend for anyone who loves Scripture and likes to write. The last couple mornings I've been focused on this passage in Acts, and I make the case...