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To a Thousand Generations: The Triumph of the Covenant
I was born and raised a Catholic which was my religious life until I went away to college at 18 and was born-again into an Evangelical and Protestant faith bearing little resemblance to Catholicism. The primary reason I embraced this new version of Christianity was...
Evil and the Death of Secularism
In a comment on Facebook recently I said, “Secularism is dead,” and I got this not unreasonable response: Not sure why secularism is dead, but post-modern thinking and critical theory are alive and well. Looked at as a snapshot of the current historical moment, of...
The Rise and Fall of Dispensational Premillennialism in American Christianity
When I embraced postmillennialism in August 2022, I knew next to nothing about where the most popular Evangelical eschatology, dispensational premillennialism, came from or how it developed. The reason this is important is because eschatology matters. What we think...
Articles on Theology
What is the Gospel? Find Out at “Saints and Sinners Unplugged”
All Evangelical Christians know what the gospel is, right? It's the good news (in Greek) that Jesus died for our sins. Unfortunately, most Christians see the gospel as the means of becoming a Christian, and then it's on to other things, like learning how to become a...
“Don’t Let Me Down” . . . . They Always Will!
One of the most important things we can teach our children is that people will always let us down. I've tried all their lives to teach mine to have realistic expectations about human nature, others and their own. This way when people inevitably do let us down, we are...
“I am the way, the truth, and the life . . . . ” Exclusive Claims are Not Unique to Jesus
These famous, infamous for some, words of Jesus are followed by a further claim that offends many: "No one comes to the Father except through me." This was just as offensive to people in the Jewish and Pagan environment of Jesus' day, as it is in the secular...
Articles on Explanatory Power
Ashley Madison: Men Acting Like (Sinful) Men
As shocking as it may seem, a website dedicated to helping people find extra-marital dalliances is used almost only by men! Who could have seen that coming. The tag line for the Ashley Madison website, much in the news this past week or so, is, "Life is Short. Have an...
What the Heck is Natural Law Anyway?
At the website of the Theopolis Institute a piece was recently posted by Mark Horne with the curious title, "If There is 'Natural Law' How Can People Believe in Same-Sex Marriage?" I say curious because I'm not sure why five lawyers in black robes declaring gender...
Yes, Atheists Can Be Fine Upstanding Citizens, and Here’s Why
I was looking for a quotation allegedly by G.K. Chesterton (I haven't been able to find where it came from) to the effect that when people don't believe in God it isn't that they believe nothing, but that they will believe anything. We can see throughout history where...
Articles on Culture
When In Doubt: How Culture Determines Plausibility
Although only 3% of Americans claim to be atheists according to a recent survey, belief in God can be problematic in a culture awash in secularism. In our media, education, and entertainment God is persona non grata. Here are three examples: It's amazing how many...
Notable Quotation
I signed the Nashville Statement because I stand with Biblical orthodoxy, which is inseparable from God’s creation mandate and definition of gendered personhood found in Genesis 1:27: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and...
Queens of the Stone Age – The Vampyre Of Time And Memory -Searching But Never Finding . . .
My teenage music obsessed son shared this song from Queens of the Stone Age with me, and I was haunted by the lyrics. Human beings are really good at rejecting any ultimate meaning in the universe, but spending their life searching for it. Never finding. The lyrics of...
Articles on Apologetics
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