I’m not talking about eros, I’m talking about being passionate for accomplishing something worthwhile in your life. Most of us are not – we’ve lost the idealism and energy of youth, and have accumulated emotional injuries, debts, and relationships that keep us busy, if not...
When we think about communicating the truths of scripture to one another, and especially to the outside world, we often focus on only one of the three modes below, and probably the easiest and least effective – that of Orthodoxy. 1. Orthodoxy Teaching orthodoxy means...
This article is part of a series on Molinism. Calvinism has been summarized in the acronym TULIP, while Arminianism has been summarized in The Five Articles of Remonstrance (one guess on which camp is more oriented to accessible, memorable teaching :). However, many people are not completely satisfied...
The Christian faith claims to answer a lot of tough questions about life, the universe, and everything. For most of life’s dilemmas, the bible seems to present what it considers to be definitive, complete, and clear answers. Such world view questions, often unanswerable by science...
One of the most interesting of epistemological arts is the art of debate. While we all like a good fight, we also like a fair fight, and those of us who are more interested in truth than victory like a civil debate rather than a...
One challenge to the Christian faith is the claim that the uneven distribution of faith around the globe may challenge some of Christian claims about God. This topic is nicely described in this abstract: According to the much-discussed argument from divine hiddenness, God’s existence is...
There are many forces which pressure us away from the ministry of grace and gospel – personal finances, demonic and human opposition, our own doubts and faults, not to mention fear. But there is one more force that might be slowing us down in our...
I am irritated with the whole Global Warming (GW) discussion, for many reasons, and I am not alone. A recent episode of the excellent podcast This American Life explored why the discussion has stalled, and perhaps why so many remain polarized on the issue –...
