I always knew this day was coming. I just never figured this soon. Effective today, I’m pulling out of the blogging business. Trust me: This decision was an agonizing one. But there’s really no way around it. Let me give you a little history. Ever since I took that month-long sabbatical back in November, my heart’s never…
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Implied in my headline is this: we SHOULD teach our children about hell. As I mentioned yesterday in my post on the justice of eternal punishment, the doctrine of hell is there in the Bible… And we, as Christians, are liars if we neglect it and cold-hearted if we refuse to warn the unregenerate. John 3:36 states…
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The argument goes like this: ‘Eternal punishment for seventy years of sin is excessive.’ But is that the way justice works? Do we actually determine the sentence based upon the duration of the crime? No, we don’t. If it takes 13 minutes to rob a bank, we don’t sentence the criminal to 13 minutes in…
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In which we try not to argue over our differences about the truth on truth. What is truth? And does anybody have a lock on it? The preacher? The scientist? The scholar? The engineer? The psychologist? The shaman? Furthermore, can you trust them? Not easy questions to answer. There are so many competing claims…
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Christian faith is often brittle. It’s often punctuated with moments of doubt. Persecution. Isolation. Fear. We can sometimes spend entire nights staring at the ceiling or pacing the floor praying, “God, I cannot do this unless I know you are with me. Where are you? Don’t hide. Please. I need you.” It’s as if God’s…
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About two years ago a friend asked me what I thought about the tribulation. My response: “The what?” I obviously hadn’t thought about it. The question is, should I have thought about it? More importantly, is this a doctrine that promotes a healthy, meaningful Christian life? Or is this simply a speculative future event that…
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Want quick answers to objections the New Atheists, Bart Ehrman and Open Theists bring against Christianity? Then is your book. Now, William Lane Craig [editor and contributor] says the book is both accessible and apologetically cutting-edge. While I’ll concede cutting-edge, I have to resist “accessible.” I’ll show you what I mean in a minute. Here’s…
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Simply fulfilling my promise to write about Radical all week. Suspend your belief for a moment. I want to change your view of history. In January 1703, shortly after graduating and failing an audition for an organist’s post at Sangerhausen in January 1703, didn’t take up his post as a court musician in the chapel of Duke Johann…
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Simply fulfilling my promise to write about Radical all week. A manly, near-reckless radical faith. Where does one get that? Does one want it? Great questions. The answer WILL surprise you. Back in the early 19th century British Protestant missionary to China said: Too long have we been waiting for one another to begin! The time for waiting is…
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Introducing the 20/60 best books on the gospel. A 62-week long series. David Platt is taking a swing at our long-established national ethos. The one that says citizens of every rank can achieve a “better, richer and happier life.” The one that says with hard work and a can-do attitude you can buy the perfect…
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