Many argue that Paul started from where the Athenians were in the their unbelief and reasoned them to God. But I think that a careful study of the passage says something quite different.
Read MoreJust because God seems to be using our hamfisted and misguided attempts at serving Him for His glory, we should not think of this as tacit approval of our methodology.
Read MoreLast week's assignment was to read 1 Peter and to figure out why Peter wrote it...what were the recipients of his letter going through, and what was it that he was instructing them to do?
Read MoreCory Asbury's song "Reckless Love" is wonderfully right-hearted, but painfully wrong-headed.
Read MoreI understand “I believe Jesus”—that means I agree that what He says is truth.
I understand “I believe in Jesus”—which is to say that I put my faith or trust in Him for the salvation of my soul.
But what does it mean to “believe in Jesus’ name”?
Read MoreThere’s a lot of unbiblical advice on the topic of divorce and remarriage being offered by well-meaning Christian counselors and even some well-known ministries. I present to you the straight truth from Scripture in outline form so that you can see for yourself what God says in His own Words about these issues.
Read MoreGod was here first. He isn’t modeled after the things of this world, He modeled the things of this world after Himself. He is the standard by which all things are measured. And I’ve discovered recently that this simple idea—God is the standard—affects my faith way more specifically than I first thought.
Read MoreFor anyone who has spent any time at all addressing allegations of contradictions in God’s Word, this book will likely not reveal anything new—there is, after all, nothing new under the sun. What we see repeated ad nauseum is that critics’ faulty reasoning is manifest fairly consistency in the following ways…
Read MoreThis is, hands down, the best book on apologetics I have ever read. My only regret is that I was not introduced to it sooner.
Read MoreIn 1981, Hershey’s produced a TV commercial featuring two people with no situational awareness walking down the street—one eating a chocolate bar, the other spooning peanut butter out of an obscenely-overfilled, open container with all the manners of Winnie the Pooh diving into a pot of honey. When the inevitable collision occurs, they exclaim nearly simultaneously…
Read MoreI first read Tactics back in late 2010 or early 2011, read it again a few years later, and read the second edition from cover to cover when it was released in 2019. For over a decade, it was the single most important book in my apologetics library, and still ranks in my top five, at least.
Read MoreThe desire of some to find a place to squeeze billions of years of earth history is strong. But, is there room for such time before Day Four?
Read MoreSkeptics love to throw this question out to stop Christians in their tracks. Do you have an answer ready?
Read MoreIn Genesis 1:31, God states that His creation was “very good.” However, in Genesis 2:18, He says “it is not good.” Was God’s creation good or not? Is God contradicting Himself?
Read MoreApparently, a guy named Hans Küng has authored a “global ethic” in attempt to help everyone in the world “play nice” with each other. Is this a stroke of genius, or a dumpster fire in the making?
Read MoreMark 13:32 says “But of that day or hour no one knows, not the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone”. Why/how is it that neither Jesus nor the angels knew when He would return?
Read MoreAnswering questions about the waters of Noah’s flood, and addressing the naturalistic presuppositions of my interlocutor.
Read MoreThose who believe in an “old” earth and those who believe in a “young” earth both live in the same physical world. and behold the same rocks and the same stars, but both obviously reach drastically different conclusions about the world they live in. Why? More often than not, it boils down to our presuppositions.
Read MoreIn this installment, we discuss eyewitness testimony, the documentary hypothesis (JEDP), dating archaeological finds, and Fallible Man vs. The Infallible God.
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