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Will the Rapture Be September 23, 2025?
This was the title of a YouTube video. I was surprised because I thought the failure of dispensationalists predicting the rapture for almost 200 years had put an end to this prediction business. Apparently not. This specific video was of a guy shooting down the...
Why Critics Misunderstand and Distort Postmillennialism
I’ve written here and there about how woefully misunderstood postmillennialism is, but I’ve never given it the full blog post treatment. There are deep historical and theological reasons for the typical knee-jerk reaction that will be fascinating to explore given...
The Redemptive-Historical Significance of AD70
Until August of 2022, the year 70 AD was just another year in ancient history to me. It held no special significance other than I knew that a Roman army destroyed Jerusalem, and Jews and Christians were scattered throughout the empire. I could infer God’s purpose of...
Articles on Theology
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...
The Real First Christmas
No, it wasn't Bethlehem and Mary and Joseph, baby Jesus and a manger, shepherds keeping watch by night, a choir of angels, a bright star or wise men from the east. Actually, that first Christmas was the fulfillment of something that came way before that, and if you...
More Thoughts on Mars Hill: There is Something New Under the Sun, the Church!
In my previous post on the dysfunction that was much of Mars Hill church, I focused on The Church being full of sinners, saved sinners, but sinners nonetheless. So to be surprised when "stuff" happens, and sinners act like sinners, is silly. Even a cursory look...
Articles on Explanatory Power
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...
Apollo 8 and Our Privileged Planet
When I was eight years old the Apollo 8 astronauts took the first ever trip around the moon. The trip was launched on December 21, 1968, and became the first manned spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit, reach the Moon, orbit it, and return. Even as an eight-year-old I...
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
“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...
Korn’s Brian Welch Responds to his Critics-It Takes Revelation and Evidence
I wrote recently about a documentary of Korn guitarist Brian Welch's conversion to Christianity. He had a serious issue with drug addiction, even after his conversion, and some people are accusing him of replacing his addiction to drugs with an addiction to religion....
The Bible is an Historical Book, Not a Religious One!
I can't tell you how many moronic, absolutist, immature, know-it-all atheists I've come across in online comments sections who declare with absolute certitude that the Bible is all myths and fairy tales, full of metaphorical unicorns and other such unbelievable...
Articles on Parenting and Family
Joshua Harris: You Can’t Escape The Fall
A lot of Internet ink has been spilled about author/pastor, Joshua Harris, so I figured I might as well add to the torrent. And given my bent, I'll orient it toward apologetics. Harris recently decided to jettison the ideas in a book he wrote about sexual purity and...
Acts 2:37-41 – Repent and Be Baptized: “The promise is for you and your children . . .”
At my other blog I'm writing my way through the Bible, one of the best things I've ever done, and something I highly recomend for anyone who loves Scripture and likes to write. The last couple mornings I've been focused on this passage in Acts, and I make the case...
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...