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What Does It Mean to Baptize Nations?
That’s a good question! At first I didn’t think so. I recently put up a post about Sphere Sovereignty, and someone responded on Twitter asking how nations are baptized. I gave a bit of a snarky answer. Then thinking about it I realized it’s actually a great question,...
That Old Rugged Cross and Our Home Far Away
Recently at a church service the closing hymn was That Old Rugged Cross, for over a hundred years a beloved hymn to conservative Protestants. It had been a long while since I’d sung it, and I noticed the final stanza got the ultimate hope of our faith backwards,...
The Power of the Gospel Revealed in Zechariah
My last post was my perspective on the Catholic faith from my Protestant perspective, and how much over the years I’ve come to appreciate it and see the nature of my faith in some ways more in line with theirs. This post, however, will highlight the significant...
Articles on Theology
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...
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...
Articles on Explanatory Power
What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
Those words from James chapter 4 are a sobering reminder of a fact of existence we all too easily ignore. Yet most people live as if this life was eternal life, as if death will not eventually find them. Everything they focus on is this life as if the next life isn't...
How Do You See God In Everything? See God In Everything!
Well, that wasn't so hard now, was it. This thought came to me as I was reading an article yesterday about "How the body builds a healthy relationship with 'good' gut bacteria." There is only one explanation, only one, for the preposterous complexity of the human...
Was Feuerbach Right: Is Religion Merely a Human Projection? Yes and No
If you're not familiar with Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872), he was a significantly influential atheist philosopher, primarily because he influenced two of the great malevolent thinkers of the modern age, Marx and Freud. The misery left in the wake of their influence on...
Articles on Culture
Third Wayism is Dead
We live in clarifying times where we are forced to choose sides. If we choose not to do decide, as Geddy Lee of Rush sings in the song Free Will, we still have made a choice. Those who know me know I was deeply influenced by the late Tim Killer, both for his gospel...
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...
Articles on Apologetics
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...
Take Two on My Encounter with The Rationalist: Evidence
In a previous post I discussed my two-and-a-half-hour grilling at the hand of a quintessential rationalist. One thing especially stood out to me was how The Rationalist used evidence as a weapon against me by discounting anything that I claimed was evidence. Only what...
My Interesting Encounter with The Rationalist
I say The Rationalist not because there is one such person in the world, but because the person I encountered is the quintessential rationalist. There is a lot I want to unpack here and get off my chest so this may take several posts; we’ll see. Before I get to what a...
Articles on Parenting and Family
The Therapeutic Nation: It’s All About Parents
I promote my books as much as I can because I’m a nobody with no platform to speak of, so if I don’t do it, no one else will. Yes, I know, ontologically before God I am not a “nobody,” but you know what I mean. Getting attention without “a name” isn’t easy. I feel...
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...