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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
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,...
Why I Love Hymns, And You Should, Too!
I’m one of a rare breed, those who love hymns, and will only go to a church where hymns are sung. When we were younger and moved to a new state (which has happened four times), we would go church hunting. A couple times with my wife and kids in tow we walked into a...
Articles on Explanatory Power
Early Sun’s ‘Goldilocks’ Rotation Rate May Be Why We’re Here: Nope, it’s God!
I love secularists! They make the Christian apologist's job so easy. For the last few hundred years of Western civilization, intellectuals and cultural elites have painted the inevitable ark of history as secularism. Full stop. As scientific knowledge increased...
Mommy, Mommy! Watch Me!
Human nature is one of the most powerful apologetics for the veracity of the Christian faith. What else can explain so well the glory and mess that is humanity, but that man was made perfect in God's image, a glorious creature capable of the most exquisite heights,...
Are You Saying There’s an Oak Tree in that Acorn?
Our family moved from Illinois (thank God!) to Florida in June of 2017. Talk about a contrast, one that doesn't have to be explained. We moved to the Tampa area, and the first thing I noticed is that oak trees and their moss are practically ubiquitous. They evoked in...
Articles on Culture
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.
Voddie Baucham on the The Abomination of Sodomy
In case you're not familiar with that word, it means homosexuality, and to call it an abomination is, well, just not polite! Not to mention, it can get you "cancelled." I'm shocked this video by Voddie hasn't gotten taken down from YouTube, or what I've come to call...
Milo Yiannopoulos Is No Longer a Homosexual!
When I told my son, I guess the more cynical of my three children, he didn't believe it. He, like a lot of people, figured he wasn't even homosexual in the first place, that it was all an act to gain attention. If you don't know who Milo is, he is a provocateur who...
Articles on Apologetics
“The Robe”: How the Gospel Message Spread, You Can Believe It!
In my previous post I wrote that the historical novel, The Robe, was the greatest historical novel ever written. I haven't read every one, so this may be a bit of hyperbole, but author Lloyd C. Douglas makes a compelling case about how the spread of the gospel message...
“The Robe”: The Greatest Apologetic Historical Novel Ever!
If you've never heard of the The Robe (later made into a movie), I'm delighted you are now. The book played an important role in bringing me to Christ. My grandmother gave me a copy when I was 16, and it captivated me. I just finished reading it again for the fifth or...
“None of the above” fastest-growing religion in the U.S. Ain’t No Such Thing as a None!
When I first came up with a title for my book four plus years ago I was going call it, Apologetics for Parents: How to keep your kids from becoming "Nones." Since most Christians don't know what apologetics is, or what "Nones" are, that wasn't ideal. Keeping our kids...
Articles on Parenting and Family
Toxic Masculinity: Teaching Your Boys To Become Men
All the secular left-wing isms of our day (feminism, progressivism, liberalism, cultural Marxism, secularism, etc.) have culminated in a phrase so oxymoronic it must have been invented by Satan himself: "toxic masculinity." To be masculine in the fevered, relativistic...
A Christian Case for the Necessity of Classical Education – Take 4: Why We Need It and Now
Classical education as I've described it in previous posts is the antidote to secular progressive education. Too many Christians think that if they add religious words and concepts onto the progressive education model, that will make all the difference. It's better...
A Christian Case for the Necessity of Classical Education – Take 3: What It Is
In my first post on classical education I explored modern progressive education, and why it's a disaster. In my second, I shared how I came to not only appreciate classical education, but have become an evangelist for it. Here I want to give a brief introduction to...