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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
What Has Brandon to do with Christianity?
I try not to get into politics here, but it’s hard to avoided in the current political and cultural climate, so sometimes in must be addressed, thus Brandon and Christianity.
Revelation, Our Awesome God, and the Desperate Faith of Secularism
At my other blog I've been writing through the Bible the last seven plus years, from Genesis to Revelation (that might sound familiar to you hard core Genesis fans), and have made it to Revelation 4. I thought I'd share here a version of a post I did there about my...
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...
Articles on Explanatory Power
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...
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...
Articles on Culture
RIP Eddie Van Halen – Memento Mori
Eddie Van Halen was my sworn enemy when I was a teenager aspiring to be a guitar god. I'm a bit competitive by nature. I'll never forget a trip I took to the local Guitar Center on Hacienda Boulevard (SoCal) when I was 16 or 17. For some reason driving there I was...
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,...
Articles on Apologetics
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...
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...
Articles on Parenting and Family
Now I lay me down to sleep . . . Teaching Death to our Children
I grew up as I think of it as a typical Catholic of the 60s and 70s. We attended Mass every Sunday, I went to Catechism, and did my first Communion and Confirmation. Otherwise, our faith was not particularly relevant to the rest of our lives. But my mother did pray...
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...