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The Existential Crisis that is The Passage of Time
I think about time all the time. You might think this happens more as you enter your elderly years, but I’ve been thinking about it for a very long time. Well, not in biblical time, but in regular old human time. One of my favorite sayings is that God is never in a...
The Material Implications of the Gospel
Most Christians reading the title of this post might think I’ve mixed things up. Shouldn’t it read, “The Spiritual Implications of the Gospel”? Well, yes, it does if read the right way. The gospel’s spiritual implications have material implications as well because we...
Most Christians Don’t Believe in Postmillennialism, But the Left Does
In January I was listening to Steve Deace opine on the woman in Minnesota who was trying to block ICE agents on a suburban street. At one point it looked like she was trying to run over one of the agents, and he shot her. She died giving her life for the leftist...
Articles on Theology
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...
Christians Granted on Behalf of Christ to Suffer for Him: To What End?
Nobody likes to suffer. Nobody likes pain. Discomfort discomforts us. Why do we complain? Because we don’t like something. Why don’t we like something? Because we only seem harm in it, not benefit. We are under the impression if everything in our lives is going our...
Moralism and the Horrible Freeing Ubiquitousness of Sin
Sin is all pervasive, ubiquitous. Like oxygen, in a fallen world it is everywhere. In my first 5 plus years as a Christian I tried very hard to be more moral, to do what is right and be obedient to God, but I wasn’t very good at it. Thus, guilt was a constant...
Articles on Explanatory Power
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...
If You Want to Strengthen Your Faith, Read an Honest Atheist
I just finished a book by British Philosopher, and atheist, Thomas Nagel called Mind & Cosmos. The reason I read it was because of the subtitle: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False. It's a short but very dense read by a...
God Exists! Who Knew! The Return of the God Hypothesis
For the last couple hundred years in Western culture Christianity has been on the defensive. The 20th century saw the full flowering of militant and confident secularist materialism to the point where our cultural elites see Christianity not just as wrong and backward...
Articles on Culture
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...
Matthew Perry: What Does it Profit a Man . . . .
The recent death and sad life of megastar Matthew Perry at 54 is a tale many of us can learn from. Unfortunately, most will learn the wrong lessons. Some will conclude that fame and wealth are bad things in and of themselves. They are not. They can be a huge blessing...
Let Me Guess. The Lewiston Shooter was Not a Churchgoing Follower of Jesus?
On Thursday morning, October 26, when I went to my first stop to get a brief overview of the news, Gateway Pundit, I saw that some wicked man had shot and killed 18 people, and injured at least another 50 or 60 more. My first thought was, why in the world didn’t...
Articles on Apologetics
Why I Am Not a Presuppositionalist, Evidentialist, or Classical Apologist
I am not a presuppositionalist. I don’t believe there is only one correct apologetics methodology as the presuppositionalists claim: I’m in the whatever works camp. For those not familiar with such methodologies, these are ways of going about defending the truth...
Uninvented on The Unbelievable Podcast with Justin Brierly
As promised . . . . I had the incredible privilige of appearing on two popular British apologetics podcasts in one week! And Unbeliebale is the longest running apologetics podcast in existence. I would love to see what everybody thinks about which perspective is more...
Psalm 127: Unless the Lord Builds The house . . . .
When I wrote my first book, The Persuasive Christian Parent, this short Psalm by Solomon was an inspiration, especially the first verse: Unless the Lord builds the house,the builders labor in vain.Unless the Lord watches over the city,the guards stand watch in vain....
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...