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God’s Promise in Habakkuk to Fill the Earth with the Knowledge of his Glory
I recently read The Puritan Hope by Ian H. Murray, and we can sure use a lot more Puritan hope in the church today. In it he describes how the Puritans of the 16th through the 18th centuries had a passion for seeing the Great Commission fulfilled in due course because...
Evangelicals and Their Ambivalence to God’s Law
I’m currently reading Greg Bahsen’s Theonomy in Christian Ethics, an extensive study about God’s law (theos-nomos) as it applies to ethics, the study of the principles of right and wrong conduct. We Evangelicals tend to have a love/hate relationship to God’s law. On...
Is the Phrase Christian Nation an Oxymoron?
Unfortunately, most of the modern conservative movement thinks so, including one of the most respected men in my conservative world, Hillsdale college President Larry Arnn. He said exactly this in a discussion on his podcast. Ironically, the title of the episode is,...
Articles on Theology
What Does It Mean We Are Forgiven From Our Sins? Part 3
In my last post I began to look at an Old Testament take on sin, and it's not a pretty picture. Until we understand the gravity of sin, and its horrific consequences in human existence, we'll have a hard time understanding and accepting that God could be angry about...
What Does It Mean We Are Forgiven From Our Sins? Part 2
In my previous post I explained how many of us miss what it means that we are forgiven of our sins because we only see it as being forgiven, and that's it. As I said, since immersing myself in the Old Testament for several years, I realized that in the gospel God was...
What Does It Mean We Are Forgiven From Our Sins? Part 1
Every Christian knows that being forgiven from our sins is Christianity 101. But if you ask most Christians what it means to be forgiven from our sins, I would wager that very few could answer with any confidence. I think a common answer would be something like a...
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FX’s The Americans: Everyone Lives by Faith
The FX show The Americans is set in the Reagan era Cold War 80s. Two Soviet intelligence agents, Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, pose as a married couple to spy on the American government. They didn't know each other prior to meeting in America, and are tasked with...
Are Millennials The Most Narcissistic Generation Ever?
In my previous post I wrote about the word of the year, "post-truth," and how the triumph of the subjective makes assertions of Christianity as true, or anything as true for that matter (outside of scientific claims), problematic for many of our neighbors. The...
The 4 Horsemen of the Philosophical Apocalypse
I saw this title at the Intellectual Takeout website, and was instantly curious. Two of the first three chapters of my book are on truth and epistemology, so I'm a big believer that philosophy is not exactly tangential to keeping our kids Christian. Most Americans,...
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