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What is the Gospel? More Than You Might Think
That seems like a simple question. Every Christian knows what the gospel is, right? Jesus died for our sins, we believe it and are saved. As Paul says in Romans 10: 9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from...
He Came to His Own, and His Own Received Him Not: Jesus, the Religious Professionals, and AD 70
One thing many Christians seem to miss is that Jesus was the Jewish Messiah, that he came first exclusively to his own people. There is a tendency to see all of Jesus’ words as written to us and universally applicable, and ignoring the historical context in which the...
Tim Allen, the Hollowness of Philosophy, and the Consideration of the Alternative
The great comedian Tim Allen, Buzz Lightyear himself, sat down with fellow comedian Bill Maher for a long conversation about their careers, and at one point discussed the credibility of Christianity. Maher’s at best an agnostic, but Allen clearly believes in God, and...
Articles on Theology
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...
Recognizing the Spirit of God-Christology
For the first more than five years of my Christian life, theology was non-existent. There seemed to be this sense that theology was a distraction at best, and a waste of time at worst. If not overtly taught, I still picked up that theology would get in the way of the...
Articles on Explanatory Power
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...
Existentialism Bummer and Death: We Must Ask, What Does it Mean!
A gifted communicator who said some seemingly wise and thoughtful things, until you really think about what he’s saying. It sounds so profound on the surface, but it’s as solid as the surface of an egg shell.
Say it Ain’t So, Ravi!
As everyone in the Evangelical world, and many beyond, know by now, evangelist and apologist Ravi Zacharias was a phony and serial sexual abuser. Those are words I never thought I'd write, to say the least, but they also don't surprise me. Christianity assumes and...
Articles on Culture
Russell Moore’s American Evangelical Church Crisis and the Myth of Neutrality
If you don’t know who Russell Moore is, you’re not missing much. He used to be a big shot in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), and last year became the Editor-in-Chief of Christianity Today. He left the SBC amid some controversy in 2020 and eventually took over...
Gospel Losers: Teaching Christians How to Lose, Part 2
In my last post I vented about the badness of this piece by a young pastor, Justin N. Poythress: “How Evangelicals Lose Will Make All the Difference.” There was too much badness for just one post, so I continue here. His last section is titled, “Better Way,” so let’s...
Gospel Losers: Teaching Christians How to Lose
When I read the title of this peace I knew reading it would not be good for my blood pressure: “How Evangelicals Lose Will Make All the Difference.” And it was worse than I thought. That it was on the Gospel Coalition website surprised me not at all. There are so many...
Articles on Apologetics
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....
Does God Exist? A Conversation with Tom Holland, Stephen Meyer, and Douglas Murray
If you’ve been around a while you’re no doubt familiar with the “New Atheists” who fleetingly crossed the cultural firmament for a decade early in this century. There was nothing “new” about these “New” atheists because their arguments, such as they were, were as old...
“Unbelievable” Podcast, Apologetics, and Christian Conversions
I had my biggest show biz break earlier this week appearing on the Unbelievable Podcast with Justin Brierly. Promoting a book as a “nobody” author without a “platform” is a formidable challenge. Zillions of people write books and are trying to get noticed, so not...
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...