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Judgement as God’s Mercy Unto Repentance
A sentiment I came across on Twitter is common among some Christians: God destroyed Sodom for the same sins the world now celebrates. Judgment is coming. My reply: Actually, brother, judgment is already here. We see it in the fallout of the sexual "revolution." This...
Mere Christianity: Moses and the Bronze Snake in the Desert
This story we find in Numbers 21 is one the strangest in the Bible, and one the skeptics love. It’s absurd and clearly made up because looking at a bronze snake on a pole can’t heal anybody, obviously. You know, science and all that. But God isn’t limited to what...
Yes, Christian Western Civilization is Superior to Every Other Civilization
This assertion was unquestioned in the West for 1,500 years, not until one Karl Marx declared Christianity the enemy of his inevitable coming communist revolution. In their little Communist Manifesto, published in 1848, Marx and his benefactor, Friedrich Engels,...
Articles on Theology
Mercy Me and a Gospel Concert
Last week my son and I went to see the Christian band Mercy Me. Even though I'm not really a fan of the band, nor do I listen to Christian contemporary music (I don't listen to much of any kind of music anymore), it was an enjoyable concert. It was held at the arena...
Final Thought Experiment: The Revelation of God in Christ
God has revealed himself to us in creation, Scripture, and Christ. My first thought experiment post was on creation, and my second on Scripture. Now we come to the ultimate thought experiment, Jesus Christ, the Jesus who was from Nazareth who claimed to be Israel's...
Another Thought Experiment: Seeing Revelation in Scripture
In a previous post I mentioned that most mornings as I pray I thank God for his revelation in creation, Scripture, and Christ. I suggested a thought experiment that encourages us to see God's invisible qualities as we encounter creation every day, his eternal power...
Articles on Explanatory Power
It’s So Hard to Believe, But It Is So Hard Not to Believe
This phrase came to mind the other day as our family got word that my wife's beloved stepmother, Dora Walston Haggard, had died unexpectedly. She had been going through some health challenges, but none that appeared remotely life-threatening. All of a sudden when...
No, Death is Not Natural
Death is an underrated tool in the apologists's toolbox. Put another way, we can use death more often and more effectively to defend the veracity of the Christian faith. Christians are usually put on the defensive when the subject of death (and suffering) comes up...
Telos: The Secularists’ Worst Nightmare
Back in 1968 as the sexual revolution was raging, Pope Paul VI wrote a profoundly counter-cultural encyclical called Humanae Vitae. One of the things that made it so profound (and something completely missed by the Evangelical leaders of the day) was its appeal to...
Articles on Culture
The Good Place: How Culture Helps Strengthen Your Children’s Faith
It's become a cliche that we live in a "post-Christian" culture. This is shown in obvious hostility to Christians and their faith, but more perniciously when Christianity and God are ignored as if they are completely irrelevant to existence. The latter provides the...
Why Supporting President Trump is a Moral Imperative
I rarely get political here because my passion is to defend the veracity of the Christian faith, as I have to my children all their lives, and to rest of my brothers and sisters in Christ. But I feel I must in this case get political because I'm weary of left-wing,...
An Introduction to Classical Education from my Favorite Daughter
You already know I only have one daughter, but she's still my favorite! She's a champion for classical education, and a lower school academic dean at a charter classical school. She wrote an e-mail to parents recently, and I thought is was an excellent introduction to...
Articles on Apologetics
“Science Uprising”: New video series unmasks materialism for what it is: Wrong!
Too many Christians allow low-simmering doubt into their minds because the dominant Western secular cultural narrative assumes materialism at every point, that is that the material, matter, is all that exists. And, if materialism is true, Christianity is not. In the...
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...
Christianity, The Greatest Force for Good Ever, is Exploding All Over the World
It's a common theme in secular Western media that Christianity is all but on its last legs, that "nones" are the future, and that religious faith is an exhausted remnant of a benighted, pre-scientific past. Nothing could be further from the truth. Even in the secular...
Articles on Parenting and Family
Americans Read an Average of 16.8 Minutes Per Day; Spend 166.2 Minutes Watching TV
One of my apologetic strategies for my children has been to annoy them, and if you ask them they will tell you I'm really good at it. Of course since the annoying has a purpose, they are willing to endure the annoyance of it all, most of the time. One thing I'm really...
There’s Nothing “Wrong”: It’s Called Life! Or The Curse and the Christian Life
Do you have a bad attitude? Do your kids have bad attitudes? If you and/or they do, I know why: wrong or faulty expectations. It's probably hard to overestimate how many people suffer from a bad attitude (sometimes it's called depression or anxiety or frustration or...
The Growth of the “Nones” Is No Threat to Our Kids Faith
The title of a recent piece at Scientific American tells us the "Nones" juggernaut continues: College Freshmen Are Less Religious Than Ever: Data from a nationwide survey shows students who list their affiliation as "none" has skyrocketed "Nones" are people who when...