Category Archives: apologetics

New Study Begins Tonight, Truth You Can Count On

Before Christmas we finished a six-part series on our call to be as children. For more on that theme, see my book The Call to Wonder. Today, January 19, we begin a new Bible study called Truth You Can Count … Continue reading

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New Study Begins Next Week, Monday Jan. 19

Before Christmas we finished a six-part series on our call to be as children. For more on that theme, see my book The Call to Wonder. One week from today, January 19 we will begin a new Bible study called … Continue reading

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What’s Coming Up For Your Next Bible Study?

So glad you asked. Before Christmas we finished a six-part series on our call to be as children. For more on that theme, see my book The Call to Wonder. Two weeks from today, January 19 we will begin a … Continue reading

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What does Semper Reformanda, always reforming mean?

The Reformation was rife with slogans, pithy shorthand flags planted in the ground expressing Reformation distinctives. It argued, of course, that those distinctives were in fact not new, but a recovery of what had been lost over the course of … Continue reading

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The Word of His Power; The Power of His Word

I think we’ve got omniscience wrong. Yes, it certainly means all knowing. And yes, certainly God knows all things. It’s important to affirm as well that His knowledge overlaps with our knowledge. When we say 2+2=4 we are agreeing with … Continue reading

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Growing Pains: Annihilating God’s Character

Our little corner of the interwebs is up in arms over actor Kirk Camerson’s recent admission that he is finding the doctrine of annihilation to be preferable to the doctrine of eternal conscious torment for those who die outside of … Continue reading

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Does God Want Me to Be Happy? A Defense of Happiness

The Bible is replete with warnings. Those yet outside of His grace are warned of the certainty of judgment. Those weighing life and death are warned to consider the cost before taking up the cross. And those born from above … Continue reading

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Jesus Changes Almost Everything: A Qualification

I love Twitter. (And refuse to call it X). When I first heard about it I confess I was conflicted. The social commentator in me was appalled. My inner Neil Postman took the curmudgeon approach, bemoaning the dumbing down of … Continue reading

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Talkin’ ‘Bout My G-g-g-generation: Who Are We?

I pursued a graduate degree at Ole Miss and taught two classes of Freshman English each semester. The two intersected when I took a graduate class on teaching the freshman class. The popular pop guru gave fresh nuggets of his … Continue reading

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A Matter of Life and Death Now and Forever

We live in strange times. It used to be said that the only two things we could be certain of were death and taxes. Taxes you can still be pretty sure of, but death has recently become rather more cloudy. … Continue reading

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