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What Our Citizenship is in Heaven Really Means
When I became a Christian in the fall of 1978, born-again as we used to say, it was into the kind of Christianity described by three words: Pietistic Gnostic dualism. It was a campus ministry where I imbibed what I now see as an over spiritualized version of...
Burying Our Dead: Is Cremation Christian?
The inspiration for this post is the cremation question I saw on Twitter by a guy who goes by the handle, Smash Baals. It became quite the lively discussion and a lot of people expressed strong opinions one way or the other. The back and forth had an interesting...
Make Patriarchy Great Again
I recently read Masculine Christianity by Zachary M. Garris, and in many ways it’s an eye opener, but in many other ways it’s stuff I’ve accepted all my life. Growing up in a traditional Italian family, masculinity was not a problem, but men abusing their masculinity...
Articles on Theology
Psalm 115 – To His Name be the Glory: God and Idols
On Sunday Our pastor preached on Psalm 115 in a service we actually attended in person, praise the Lord! It was a powerful sermon on a profound Psalm that addresses our everyday experience in the 21st century. The first verse sets the tone: Not to us, Lord, not to us...
Christian to Atheist to Christian Again: God’s Story of Redemption
I came across this video at the The Ten Minute Bible Hour of the proprietor, Matt Whitman, giving his de-conversion, and back, story, and at the end of the short video he critiques the now common deconstruction stories, as I discussed in my last post. Growing up a...
Watch This Movie, and be Freed from Practical Atheism!
On Friday I came across an article at Breakpoint about a movie called The Master Designer—the Song, and I, my wife, and son watched it in dumbfounded awe. It's so refreshing to watch a documentary about the wonders of the natural world and not be told over and over...
Articles on Explanatory Power
Praise Chance! Can It Really Do What Evolutionists Claim?
In my last post I discussed how evolution as an unguided, impersonal, and material process cannot do what evolutionists claim it can do; it cannot create anything. A much better explanation, infinitely so in my estimation, is an omniscient, omnipotent, wildly creative...
What does evolution DO? Nothin’!
In a recent conversation with an agnostic, I was consistently amazed by this person's insistence that intimate objects have "purpose." He didn't use the word, but that was what he described. The cell, he averred, does such and such, and creates this and so, all with...
Jesus’ View of Death Might Not Be What You Think
I wrote in previous posts about how human beings have a visceral revulsion toward death. We hate it. You might be surprised to learn that Jesus hated death too. How do we know? First, Jesus wasn't exactly thrilled to have to be tortured and endure a Roman cross to...
Articles on Culture
Tim Keller is Wrong About Social Justice
I don't often get into political discussions here because this is a website about apologetics for my Christian faith and worldview, but I've also practiced apologetics for my political and economic convictions with my kids all their lives. These convictions of course...
Reflections on the Suicide of a Megachurch Pastor
Life can be so ineffably sad sometimes, and when I recently read about the suicide of a high-profile pastor I couldn't get it out of my mind. It made me angry even as it broke my heart. Commenting on a situation like it is fraught with danger in an age such as ours,...
Anne of Gay Gables
The subject of this post may sound vaguely familiar, but with a very postmodern, 21st century twist. Many are familiar with the beloved 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables. Netflix has adapted the novel into a series called Anne...
Articles on Apologetics
The Logic of Atheism Drove This Scholar to Jesus
Logic is an amazing feature of the universe God created, but one that is unfortunately often ignored. It is no longer taught in public schools, which is obvious from the tenor of public debates over politics and religion. And those of us who attend weekly worship...
Why Is the Question, “Who Designed the Designer?” Logical AND Absurd?
A common question when talking to children about God being the creator of all things is, "Who created God?" The question is logical enough, but absurd. Many atheists and agnostics, who often think like children, often ask the same question: Amazingly, it’s the chief...
10 Basic Facts About the NT Canon that Every Christian Should Memorize
Most Americans do not believe that the Bible gives us reliable history, let alone a divinely inspired authoritative history we can trust for the salvation of our souls. Most Christians do believe they can trust Scripture, but few know why. This is unfortunate because...
Articles on Parenting and Family
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