Category Archives: apologetics

What is wisdom?

I have written before on the difference between knowledge and wisdom. The two are deeply related, but they are nonetheless distinct. You can have knowledge without wisdom, but not wisdom without knowledge. James tells us “You believe that there is … Continue reading

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Futilitarianism; Parables; Selling our Souls

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What are the biggest changes you’ve seen in your lifetime?

My maternal grandparents were both born within a year of each other, 1903 and 1904. As a schoolboy, when I learned this was just around the time the Wright brothers took flight and that Henry Ford began producing Model A’s … Continue reading

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Catechism 87; Appeal; Atin-Lay, Ex Nihil Nihil Fit

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The Gospel at College- Pastor Mike Chastain

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Should we seek to undermine unbelievers’ stereotypes about Christians?

I confess that I am one of the millions of sophomoric Christians who, along the way, thought it a brilliant idea to grow the kingdom of God by blending together the coolness of the world and the holiness of the … Continue reading

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Two Cheers for Doubt

Do we not tend to see doubt as something negative? Something to avoid or overcome? Doubt is what we writers and editors, when we hang out together and tell stories about the rest of you, call a “transitive” verb. These … Continue reading

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Dogmatism; The Persistent Widow; Feelings

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Child Abuse in the Godhead?

One of the great dangers that comes of stripping words of their meaning is the constant need to up their intensity to try to get the work done. That is, if we embrace the idea that words have no meaning, … Continue reading

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Is It a Sport? Forever Friend, Tom; Is to Ought

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