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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
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...
Do You Want To See the Invisible God? Try This Thought Experiment
Most mornings when I pray I find myself thanking God for revealing himself in creation, Scripture, and Christ. I think how futile existence is without God's revealing himself to us. Without that revelation, the human race is like a blind man in a dark box groping...
Articles on Explanatory Power
The Picture of Dorian Gray – The Human Dilemma Without Christ
I recently finished The Picture of Dorian Gray by the famous 19th century provocateur Oscar Wilde. The book was itself a profound picture of a lost soul trying to come to terms with life devoid of a true north with which to make sense of it all. I read it with special...
“Conspiracy” and the Longing for Justice
In the soon to be blockbuster best-seller, The Persuasive Christian Parent, I tell the story of "the clicker." Yes, that clicker, more commonly known as the remote control. As you'll read in the book, the clicker is a great tool for engaging popular culture with our...
Science: We’ll Never Know For Sure How Everything Began
According to the current secularist worldview the only sure epistemological foundation (basis for knowing) is science. At some point in the last hundred or so years through popular culture, education, and media, science replaced religion in the modern imagination as...
Articles on Culture
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...
Jim Elliot: “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”
Most Americans have never heard of Jim Elliot, the young man who died as a missionary in the jungles of Ecuador on January 8, 1956. Many Evangelical Christians have, and as something of a hero for his sacrifice to take the faith to the Indians in the jungles of...
Chick-fil-A Again: It’s Even Worse Than I Thought How Worse it Could Be
I came across an article today FrontPageMAG that revealed Chick-fil-A's cave to leftist bullies is much worse than I wrote about in my last post. The title and subtitle of the FrontPage piece says it all: "Chick-fil-A Put an Obama and Hillary Supporter in Charge, but...
Articles on Apologetics
Rock n Roll: “They Don’t Get That It Points Beyond Itself!”
Raising children, even for my wife and I in the late stages in which we find ourselves with the youngest of our three at 17, offers a plethora (love that word) of opportunities to bring the reality of God into their lives. Christian parents in a secular culture...
Would David Hume Come to the Same Conclusions Today?
I've been slowly reading through Frederick Copleston's A History of Philosophy, and having recently finished the section on the great Scottish skeptic David Hume, I got to wondering if Hume might come to the same conclusions today. An impossible question to answer, no...
The Jewish Context of Jesus’ World: A Psychological Apologetic
Did you know Jesus was a Jew? That he grew up and lived his entire life among religious Jews? Did you know that this fact is critically important in establishing the credibility and plausibility of the gospel stories? If you don't, then you may not be familiar with...
Articles on Parenting and Family
Hey, Bill Nye, Fake Science Guy, There Are No “Extra Kids”
Who is this Bill Nye guy anyway? I only became aware of him recently, but it seems he's a popular "science educator." He got his moniker, "Bill Nye the Science Guy" from a PBS children's science show in the 90s, and we know that anything that has the word "science"...
God To His Exiles, Strangers in a Strange Land – Do Not Decrease!
In my previous post I made the argument that, for Christians, having children is not an option. Just this morning I was reading Jeremiah and discovered God actually agrees with me! I'll admit, though, that I did get the idea from him first. The book of Jeremiah is a...
Christians: Having Children Is Not an Option
No, I haven't turned into a Catholic, but Catholic teaching regarding having children is something Evangelicals should embrace. I thought of this when I read a piece recently by John Stonestreet at Breakpoint: "Fur Babies:Pets, Children, and the Triumph of...