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Societal Transformation by the Sword of the Spirit
When I embraced postmillennialism after four plus decades as a Christian, I encountered ideas I’d never seriously considered before, like theonomy, or what God’s law over a nation would look like. Or what a Christian nation is, or even that a nation should be...
Why Eschatology Matters
If you had asked me for most of my Christian life if eschatology mattered I would have said no, not at all. I was a committed eschatological Agnostic. It was a waste of time, speculation heaped upon speculation about verses in the Bible that seemed to have a variety...
Rebuilding Christendom and the Consideration of the Alternative
As we slowly, but I trust surely, rebuild Christendom, i.e., push back and defeat secularism, Christians and the church in general need to rebuild the Christian plausibility structures of Western society. I recently wrote about the role Jordan Peterson is playing in...
Articles on Theology
Jesus of Nazareth: “Who do you say I am?”
These trying times are a reminder that the most important question of human existence came from a Jewish Rabbi 2,000 years ago: "But who do you say I am?" Jesus of Nazareth, objectively the most influential human being who ever lived, is himself life's ultimate...
I Corinthians 13 – This is Love
I'm working on a post about how Christianity completely transformed the world. In my other writing obsession, I've been writing my way through the Bible since April 2014, one of the best things I've ever done. God's word is a bottomless well of profundity that gets...
Why Reading the Bible and Prayer EVERY Day is the Best Apologetic-A Personal Story
Eight years ago or so I got on my knees, feeling like the miserable Christian I thought I was, and committed to God that I would read the Bible and pray every day. Whatever I could or couldn't do, I knew I could at least do that. I had been a Christian for 30 plus...
Articles on Explanatory Power
Why Death????
In my last post on the nature of plausibility structures, I used a movie with death as a central character to show how subtle messaging in movies leads to making God seem more or less real to people, thus more or less plausible. As I said, death never caused one of...
Notable Quotation
In her fiction, O’Connor deliberately tried to alter her readers’ perception, to get them to notice what she called the “distortions” of modern life and to look at the created world closely enough that they might perceive in its depths proof of a creator. For secular...
Famous Christian’s Son Rejects His Father’s Liberal Faith
Liberal Christianity (J. Gresham Machen's Christianity & Liberalism is an excellent study on the differences between liberal and conservative Christianity) got it's start in America in the late 1800/early 1900s. It started with the 17th Century Enlightenment that...
Articles on Culture
“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...
Public (Government) Schools Must Be Abolished!
You can tell from the title of this post, that I won't be running for political office anytime soon. What's wrong with public schools? Why would I think they should be abolished? Many would call me crazy, but my argument is based on the first amendment to the...
Secularism and Mass Shootings
I've been on a bit of a secularism kick of late, and as you may know I'm not a fan. I thought of secularism, and its discontents, as I heard of the latest American mass shooting in our new home state of Florida. Seventeen people killed in the prime of life, not by a...
Articles on Apologetics
What and Why is This Thing Called Death
In my previous two posts I wrote about how death in a movie contributes to a secular plausibility structure, and how death lends more credibility to Christianity than atheism/materialism. In this post I want to explain what death is from a Christian perspective, and...
Are The Gospels Historically Reliable?
Came across this piece today, "A Christmas question: Are the Gospels more reliable than scholars once thought?" And the answer is a resounding yes! The Gospels, and the Bible in general, have been under attack since forever, but especially since German Higher...
Science is Becoming God’s Best Friend
We live in a secular age, at least in the West, in which the dominion of science for all the good it has done has essentially replaced God for many people who find religion untenable. If "Science" says it, people believe it, few questions asked. In a little discussion...
Articles on Parenting and Family
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