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To Trust in Man or the Lord, that is the Question
As a young pup Christian in college in the Jesus Revolution days, I was born-again into a Scripture memory focused campus Christian organization. I memorized a very lot of verses, chapters of epistles and even entire letters, like Philippians, and chunks of other...
Pietistic Gnostic Dualism’s Influence on Modern Christianity
In a couple previous posts I wrote about what it means that the Christian’s citizenship in is heaven, and what it does not mean, and how the understanding of our spiritual home developed in the history of Pietism. This happened, along with the predictable consequences...
The History of Pietism and Christian Cultural Irrelevance
Pietism is the most important development in the history of Christianity most Christians have never heard of. It wasn’t high on my radar either until a few years back when I began to learn about its contribution to the rise of secularism in Western culture. Because of...
Articles on Theology
In Case You Hadn’t Noticed: We Live in a Fallen World
I write this, and my title, while we as a nation are in the middle of a bitterly contested election. It seems to many of us that a whole lot of chicanery is going on, or more accurately fraud and outright theft of a presidential election. We have lived through four...
Christianity Is a Religion of Knowledge: Seek It!
As I've been writing my way through the Bible, I've recently been engaging with Paul's letters, and his focus on knowledge in the life of the Christian has stood out to me. Since the Second Great Awakening in the early 1800s, for much of Christianity knowledge has...
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...
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
Another Mass Shooting: “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.”
My first response to hearing of the horrific shooting in El Paso was, where was the good guy with the gun who could have stopped this? This is the world bequeathed to us by a secular culture that has rejected God, that you can't go shopping on a Saturday morning in...
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...
Articles on Apologetics
Secularism: To Believe Otherwise
That we live in a secular age there can be no doubt. I've attacked secularism as a paper tiger (actually, Berlin Wall) in a number of posts, which is why I looked forward to reading James K.A. Smith's How (Not) To be Secular. (It's a book about a book, Charles...
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...
Articles on Parenting and Family
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