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Christianity is Sociologically True: Personal and Societal Transformation
On Twitter recently I saw this short video of a young British Journalist, Louise Perry, explain why she became a Christian. In 2022 she published a book called, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, which indicates like many secularist liberals she had been mugged...
Conflict vs. Conquest in Our Fallen World: A Tale of Two Perspectives
For my entire Christians life, from the fall of 1978 to August of 2022, I believed the nature of the Christian life in this fallen world was a conflict between good and evil, the kingdom of God and the kingdom of Satan. I assumed, but didn’t think much about it, that...
Mass Shooters: It’s All About Parents
I wrote this post before Charlie Kirk was assassinated, but the principles apply there as well. It seems my title has sadly turned into a pun. Death has once again, as we all know by now, come in another shooting at a school by a mentally ill person targeting kids....
Articles on Theology
Uninvented: Job and the Nature of God
Reading through the book of Job, I’ve been trying to think through it from an uninvented perspective. I’ve realized it would be difficult to see it as merely a figment of human imagination, as if some ancient screenwriter was preparing a script on suffering for a...
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...
Articles on Explanatory Power
Shakespeare and Richard Dawkins: Is It All Pitiless Indifference Signifying Nothing?
The great English playwright William Shakespeare expressed his inner Richard Dawkins, born almost 400 years later, when he wrote these almost immortal words coming from the mouth of murderous King MacBeth: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty...
“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...
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
Religious Parenting Best Practices: What About Truth?
I recently came across an article at The Public Discourse called "The Best Practices—and Benefits—of Religious Parenting." Given I have some interest in the topic, I was curious to see what these best practices might be. We learn that religion in general has positive...
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...