ATP has a nice article entitled For the Love of God, in which he bemoans the modern simplistic view of “God is love” – it…
In this third part in the Finding God’s Call series, I am endeavoring to remove one of the most significant misunderstandings in the Christian church…
In Part I of this series, we learned some general things about the call of God based on the call of Jeremiah in Jeremiah 1. …
This is the first in a series of sermons I am delivering on Finding God’s Call. In this part, I use the call of Jeremiah…
Tim Challies has a nice review of the venerable Alister McGrath‘s new book, The Dawkins Delusion? McGrath, Professor of Historical Theology at the University of…
Today, I was reading Truth Matters, an out-of-print collection of some of John MacArthur’s best writings from 1969 to 2004. One interesting chapter dealt with…
This series is made up of audio sermons on the subject of Finding God’s Call, including: Finding God’s Call I – If you are SAVED,…
Near death experiences (NDEs) are highly subjective, but longtime death and dying expert Elizabeth Kubler-Ross co-authored a nice survey of many NDEs, and summarizes the…
Howard Storm, UC Berkeley graduate and professor of arts at Northern Kentucky University, was a long-time atheist. That is, until he nearly died and found…
Books such as Daniel A. Helminiak‘s What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality have promoted a pro-gay interpretation of both the OT and NT passages…
I get newsletters from Persian Ministries International, whose mission is to “continue proclaiming to the Muslim World that Jesus is both Savior and Lord.” This…
I am not much into debating Mormonism, but Dr. Al Mohler (Southern Baptist) and Orson Scott Card (Mormon, and author of my favorite sci-fi book…
Inspired by the largely free-for-all Theological Confessions meme, I thought to write one up that actually has questions. Enjoy. 1. On a scale of 1…
A project called The Books of the Bible Project is about to release a new layout for the bible that encourages reading of the books…
Recently, I came across the essays of John Cobb in The Dialogue Comes of Age: Christian Encounters With Other Traditions Although Cobb is a Christian Progressive…
In a shamefully short interview (two questions?), Brian McLaren released a nice overview of how the church has historically interacted with the state, and blithely…
…and it hasn’t even come out yet. In October, B&H Publishing will be releasing The Apologetics Study Bible.
The June 2007 issue of New Scientist had a really interesting article on how genetics is totally upsetting the ancestral trees (since removed) that we’ve…
A recent commenter documented an impressive list of biblical "absurdities" which, in his or her mind, make the Biblical account of God seem foolish, primitive,…
My mother-in-law could not come to our wedding because she could not get a VISA to come here. In fact, after four years of marriage,…
This post is part of a series In previous essays, I discussed Brian McLaren’s claims that the religious right has left a bad taste in…
This post is part of a series In Part I, I discussed Brian McLaren’s point that the Christian right has left a bad taste in…
This post is part of a series Brian McLaren, noted leader of the Emergent Church movement, has started an interesting two parter on Faith &…
In Part I of this redux of Tom Wells excellent essay On The Ethics of Controversy (PDF), I covered what attitudes we *should* take in…