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Buchanan, Conservative Pessimism, and the Resurrection of the West
I recently finished Pat Buchanan’s, The Death of the West, and it’s been a fascinating experience reading Buchanan’s thoughts about the dying West with twenty-plus years in the rearview mirror. The book was published in 2002, and the Bush administration was in its...
Peter Walking on Water – You Can Too!
Well, maybe not actual water, but in Christ we can do the seemingly impossible in not giving way to fear and doubt because circumstances are greater than our Savior God. The gospel story of Peter walking on water has been significant for my life in many ways. There...
Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Leaven: Did Jesus Really Mean It?
Ever since, shockingly to me, I embraced postmillennialism in August 2022 and learned about these parables of Jesus in Matthew 13 (also Mark 3, Luke 13), I’ve wondered how people can deny the message he was conveying. Or how they can interpret it to be saying...
Articles on Theology
A Dangerous Question: “I Asked the Lord That I Might Grow” by John Newton
One of the most important things to teach your children, and to remind them and yourself daily, is that life is hard. The root of anger, and bitterness, and frustration, and just an overall bad attitude, is to expect it not be hard, as if the difficulties in life are...
A COVID-19 Object Lesson: “You Will Be Like God …”
As distressing as this over-hyped COVID-19 pandemic has been (a real threat to only a very definable fraction of 1% of the population), there have been some silver linings.
Psalm 1 – Living Lives of Counterfeit Blessing
Our pastor last Sunday preached on one of the most profound Psalms in the Psalter, the first one, that which serves as the gateway to all the rest. Psalm 1 starts with the words, "Blessed is the man who . . . " The writer starts with the negative, that this blessed...
Articles on Explanatory Power
Of Course the Solar Eclipse is an Act of God, But So Is Everything Else!
In case you've been in a cave somewhere without this Internet thing, or access to any TV, Radio, the regular or short wave kind, you likely know there is going to be a total solar eclipse tomorrow across much of America. This doesn't happen very often so it's kind of...
Dunkirk and the Wages of Sin
When we came out of the movie theater having just watched the very intense and entertaining hit movie Dunkirk, all I could think of was the Apostle Paul's phrase in Romans 6:23 that "the wages of sin is death." This phrase about sin's ultimate consequences points back...
Religion and Faith: All Human Beings Partake of Both Regardless of What They Believe
When I read a (long) piece recently titled, "Can We Be Good Without God? On the political meaning of Christianity," I was reminded yet again that ideas have consequences, and that there is no neutral space where ideas inspired by "religion" do not have implications...
Articles on Culture
KORN Guitarist’s ‘Loud Krazy Love’ Documentary: Powerful
God saves sinners. That thought keep ringing in my brain as we recently watched a new documentary about the Brian Welch, the lead guitarist of a heavy metal band called Korn. Loud Krazy Love, is not for the faint of heart (or children), or those sensitive to F-bombs....
The Dumbest, and Most Dangerous, Song Ever Written: “John and Yoko: Above Us Only Sky”
Having grown up in the 1960s I became a Beatles fan at a very early age. I'll never forget when my dad took me to the iconic Capitol Records building in LA when I was all of five-years-old, and I purchased my very first Beatles record, Meet the Beatles. Although there...
R.C. Sproul: Can We Find Meaning Between the Poles of Meaninglessness?
I was recently listening to the late great R.C. Sproul talk about a very large problem for atheists (agnostics as well because they are practical atheists). Since atheists are materialists (the material is all that exists, there is no God or spiritual reality), they...
Articles on Apologetics
Did a Dead Guy Really Come Back to Life 2000 Years Ago?
The whole of Christianity and it's validity rests on one simple historical event that we celebrate this Easter weekend, that Jesus of Nazareth was killed and came back to life. As I immersed myself back into apologetics over that last eight or so years, I've learned...
Secularism Revisited – The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR)
When I finished up my last post on secularism and the Berlin wall, I came across an article at Evolution News & Science Today that takes on an atheist scientist Sean Carroll, who asserts that the universe is a "brute fact," a concept I discussed in that post. If...
Study Shows Atheists Thought Immoral, Even by Fellow Atheists
Atheists are fond of accusing Christians of believing they can't be moral or good just because they are atheists. Christians don't believe this, and atheists can be moral or good, but that doesn't keep them from saying it. Atheists can be as good and moral, or bad and...
Articles on Parenting and Family
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