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Why I Left Full Preterism by Sam Frost: A Review
Preterism was back in the news recently. Doug Wilson and Gary DeMar had another powwow in Moscow on Monday, November 3, this time an official debate. So, the timing is good to bring attention to this little book with big intentions. The word preterism comes from the...
Christian Children Are Not Strangers to the Covenant
In this life the debate between Baptists and paedobaptists, or baptizing babies, will never end, and this post doesn’t seek to do the impossible. My powers of persuasion are not that great, nor is my knowledge. It is written, rather, for those who are open to trying...
Charlie Kirk, Christian Nationalism, and the Sword of the Spirit
As Christians have said for probably 2000 years, and Jews for 2000 before that, God works in mysterious ways. Why he allowed that young man’s life to be snuffed out at such a young age, and with decades left to continue his work, we can’t know, but we can observe the...
Articles on Theology
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...
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...
Articles on Explanatory Power
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...
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...
Articles on Culture
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,...
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...
Articles on Apologetics
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...
“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...
Articles on Parenting and Family
“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,...
40 Days for Life: Don’t Eat the Babies, Save the Babies!!!
In case you are not aware where "Eat the babies" came from, watch this priceless satire of the leftists' absurd obsession with "climate change": The woman was a plant at an AOC townhall, and she appears distraught at the "three months" we have before "climate change"...