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Marriage and the Great American Baby Shortage
The decline of Christianity with the rise of secularism in America has had disastrous consequences. At the center of this sad state of affairs is the decline of the family from which all civilizational and human flourishing emerges, as I wrote about recently. Sadly,...
The Wide and Narrow Road Reconsidered
If you’re not active on Twitter, you likely won’t know about the big blow up about Kirk Cameron that happened some weeks back. On his podcast he was having a conversation with his son about the topic of Hell. They questioned the concept of Eternal Conscious Torment...
The Dominion Mandate for Today
For most of my Christian life the Dominion Mandate was not something I gave any serious thought to. For me what counted was what some call the Cultural Mandate. From early in my Christian life, I always thought we should bring our Christian worldview and thinking to...
Articles on Theology
Peter Walking on Water – You Can Too!
Well, maybe not actual water, but in Christ we can do the seemingly impossible in not giving way to fear and doubt because circumstances are greater than our Savior God. The gospel story of Peter walking on water has been significant for my life in many ways. There...
The Importance of Both the Inner and Outer Body for the Christian
Since I got active on Twitter in early 2024, I often come across comments like this as people debate spirituality and physical fitness: From by what I can gathered and have observed by those who predominantly post about masculinity, not all but some, focus more on...
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...
Articles on Explanatory Power
My International Breakthrough for The Persuasive Christian Parent!
If you haven't had a chance to read my book yet, shame on you, it's officially become an international best-seller. I recently sat down, virtually, with a new Canadian friend of mine, Ian McKerracher for a chat about the book on the Faith Beyond Belief Podcast....
A Porn Star and the Awesome Power of the Gospel
I've been a Christian for more than 42 years, and I am more blown away by the grace, mercy, and love of God in Christ than I have ever been. It continually astounds me how God in Christ can take lives wrecked by sin and guilt and shame, and turn them into something...
Minerals, The Human Body, and the Amazing Creativity and Power of God
There are been some silver linings in this COVID Scam-demic for me (these interviews on Steve Bannon's War Room is why I believe that). One is that my mind has been open to some things I wasn't open to before. (I guess you can teach an old dog new tricks!) For...
Articles on Culture
The Guardians of “The Narrative” vs. Truth
I take this title from a piece by the great and erudite Roger Kimball where he asks if these Guardians will win. Before I discuss the Guardians, let me preface my comments by a brief history of where this idea of narrative comes from. The concept goes back to the 16th...
In Our Secular Culture Use the Word Creation, Not Nature
I’m planning on writing a book down the road called, There is No Such Thing as an Unbeliever: Faith in a Secular Age. One of the most pernicious things secularism has allowed “unbelievers” to get away with is pushing the notion that there is such a thing as an...
Strunk and White: God Revealed in Words
It’s amazing how easy it is for us to not see God in everything. The reason is because secularization has squeezed the divine out of life. Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor describes our secular age as disenchanted, or the loss of the transcendent, what is over and...
Articles on Apologetics
Uninvented: Jonah Had to be Real, Big Fish and All
If there is one book in the Bible that really gives the doubting Thomas’s among us fits it’s Jonah, the reluctant prophet. It wouldn’t be so hard to swallow, pun intended, if it wasn’t for putting that silly big fish in the story, but more of that below. As for the...
The Resurrection is the Only Explanation for Christianity
This weekend we celebrate what we’ve come to call Easter, but what is in fact the celebration of the death and resurrection of the Savior of the world, who has been saving His people from their sin (Matt. 1:21) since he rose from the dead. When we come to that claim...
Take 3 on My Encounter with The Rationalist: Why I Believe the Evidence
In my previous post on my encounter with The Rationalist, I explained the nature of evidence and how it is used in a court of law as “proof” for conclusions to either convict a defendant or not. Everyone uses evidence in life in all kinds of ways that acts for them as...
Articles on Parenting and Family
Christianity and Our Generational Faith
Even as a young man without children at the time, one of the things that attracted me to Reformed theology was that it was specifically a generational faith. For the first five years of my Christian life I was by default a Baptist, as are most Evangelical or...
Anti-Natalism, Secularism, and The New Definition of Dystopia
Imagine a world without children. Now that would be a dystopia! It’s increasingly happening in countries throughout the world. I wrote a piece recently about the demographic apocalypse currently enveloping the world and one British woman’s choice to wait too long...
Persuasive Christian Parent: Teach Your Children Christianity is True!
If you want to be a persuasive Christian parent, and you want your children’s faith to endure for their entire lives, teach them Christianity is true. It’s pretty simple, actually, but it takes work. I’ll justify that briefly below, but having written a book about...