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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
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
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...
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...
Articles on Culture
The Last Kingdom and How I Was Programmed by Modern Medicine
You might be familiar with the Netflix series, The Last Kingdom, and if so you might think it a very strange thing that it would have anything to do with my mind being programmed by modern medicine. I realized, looking back, how easily I, and by extension all of us,...
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,...
Articles on Apologetics
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,...
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...
Articles on Parenting and Family
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...
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,...