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What Exactly is Replacement Theology? And Is It Biblical?
Back when we lived in the Chicago area my wife listened to Moody Radio, and she told me how they often spoke disparagingly of something called Replacement Theology. I’ll never forget one time hearing Janet Parshall sneeringly say those words as if she was spitting out...
Back to America’s Providential View of History, the Present, and the Future
Since the Covid debacle what I call the Gutenberg Press of the 21st century, known as the Internet, has proved as transformational as the first Gutenberg Press of the 15th century. The latter was instrumental in allowing the Reformation to sweep like wildfire...
Christ and Culture Revisited
Way back in the mid-1980s when I was introduced to Reformed theology, my theological and intellectual mentor introduced me to an influential book I’d never heard of by H. Richard Niebuhr called, Christ and Culture. The Niebuhr brothers, Reinhold (1892–1971) and H....
Articles on Theology
Hurricane Ian: Why?
During church yesterday, I got a lot of food for thought about the recent hurricane that hit southwest Florida, and as hurricanes are wont to do, caused so much damage and loss of life. I often think when suffering comes upon the world in some catastrophic way, how...
Deuteronomy 4: Theological Implications of God Rescuing His People from Slavery
In my last post I focused on some of the uninvented takeaways from this chapter, or why I think it couldn’t be made up. Briefly, if it was, the author was a liar, and the Bible is a worthless piece of trash. Not that I feel strongly about it or anything. You’ll...
Embrace The Suck! The Gravitational Pull of Sin
I apologize for the semi-vulgarity, but this has become something of a favorite phrase of mine of late. I guess it’s because life can so often seem so sucky to us. Things rarely go like we think we want them to, and even when they go like we think we want them to,...
Articles on Explanatory Power
The Complexity and Fine Tuning of the Universe: Atheism is Literally Impossible!
I often visit the Evolution News website because as a Christian the most obvious thing in the world to me is that the universe and everything in it had a Creator and cannot be a product of random chance. (The site is a great repository of information from the...
Watch Out for that Time Grapevine: “If this is all there is, why bother?”
On April 8, 2010 prior to heading to bed I went to check e-mail. It was around 11:00 p.m., and I saw a message from my uncle that I had trouble processing: my cousin, Anthony, whom I affectionately called Ants, had died in a motorcycle accident that day, all of 45...
This Is Why The Multiverse Must Exist: An Exercise in Pretzel Logic
If you've ever heard the term "pretzel logic" (not the Steely Dan album), you'll get the oxymoronic logic: logic shouldn't look like a pretzel! Those who believe in a God-less universe increasingly have to turn themselves into pretzels to try to explain a universe...
Articles on Culture
Diversity is Not a Virtue: Critical Race Theory and Marxism
Many well meaning Christians are under the impression that diversity is a good thing. It is not. It is not a bad thing either; it just is. In other words, just because a certain population is diverse in terms of skin color or nationality doesn't make it morally better...
DC’s Silly Talk: Dissecting a Deconstruction
I saw yet another story last week about a Christian "celebrity" who announced his "deconstruction," meaning leaving Christianity, or in his case, re-defining it. This "Grammy-winning vocalist," Kevin Max, is a member of "the popular Christian band DC Talk." He calls...
Billie Eilish: A Clueless Teenager the Secular World is Going All Lady Gaga Over
Until I read a thoughtful article about her a couple days ago at The Federalist, I had never heard of pop superstar Billie Eilish.
Articles on Apologetics
It is Much Easier to Believe Christianity Than the Alternatives
This assertion is completely counter intuitive to secularists, and unfortunately hard for many Christians to believe. But the more you know about the claims for the truth of Christianity, and those of the alternatives, the more you can't help but believe that...
No, Jordan Peterson, Nature or Evolution Can’t Create Anything
My middle son and I are reading Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life together. Peterson has become a cultural phenomenon, and one the secular left hates. That alone is enough to take him seriously, but from the little I'd read and heard, it seems he wants to help men...
Miracle Stories in The Gospels Reveal their Historicity
Critics and skeptics of the Bible think that the miracle stories in the gospels are what make them so hard to believe as history. Just the opposite is the truth. In fact, the way the stories are portrayed, and that they happened at all, are evidence for their...
Articles on Parenting and Family
The Cure for Loneliness: “Be Fruitful And Multiply”
When God created the universe and put this little ball in space in the metaphorical middle of it, he created these things, us, we call human beings. After he created man, "male and female he created them," we read: God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and...
The Wedding Supper of the Lamb, and My Daughter’s Wedding
We had the incredible privilege last weekend of enduring the traumatic experience of hosting our daughter's wedding. Until one actually does such a thing, you have no idea the insanity of such an undertaking, but the blessings and memories among the all the craziness...
Now I lay me down to sleep . . . Teaching Death to our Children
I grew up as I think of it as a typical Catholic of the 60s and 70s. We attended Mass every Sunday, I went to Catechism, and did my first Communion and Confirmation. Otherwise, our faith was not particularly relevant to the rest of our lives. But my mother did pray...