The One Thing Everyone Needs To Know About Faith
Faith...It's one of those words that means anything and everything to everyone. Now don't get me wrong, just because people have different opinions about the word faith doesn't mean that there is no...
View Article8 Things Christians Must Understand About Our Cultural Moment [Podcast]
What are the 8 things Christians must understand about our cultural moment? What does it look like to think Christianly in today's post-Christian culture? Are Christians angry, defensive, emotionally...
View ArticleStudents Need A Real World Faith
Let me be honest with you. A small, graduation gift book with short pithy inspirational quotes is not going to cut it. That will evaporate in about 10 seconds. I know this from experience. I know what...
View ArticleShould Christians Be For Or Against Culture?
When speaking on the topic of faith and culture, I usually begin with a pop quiz. I ask people to turn to the person sitting next to them and see if they can come up with a definition of culture, and...
View ArticleWhat Does Walking By Faith Look Like?
As important as an act of faith is at a point in time, the Christian life is a walk of faith—continuing acts of obedience. Sometimes the notion of “blind faith” creeps into our understanding of walking...
View ArticleWhy Christians Need Apologetics
Isn’t apologetics only for academics and intellectuals? The short answer is no. Here’s why. Everyone has questions—you do, your kids do, your friends and neighbors do, your family does, and our culture...
View Article3 Quick Observations About The Same-Sex Marriage Supreme Court Decision
As a Christian how are we to think about this? To be honest, this decision did not surprise me, but I was disappointed. I had held out some hope that the constitution and not the winds of public...
View ArticleThe Number One Human Rights Issue Of Our Day
Sometimes it takes something shocking to wake people up. That happened and is hopefully happening more and more each day as people see the despicable and callous video involving planned parenthood...
View ArticleOs Guinness On Growing Faith
“Faith grows and flourishes when it is well-nourished and exercised, so the best way to resist doubt is to build up faith rather than simply to fight against doubt.” – Os Guinness Go Deeper: Why...
View ArticleThe Art of Persuasion (Video)
How do we share the gospel with people who are not willing to hear it? What does it look like to be creative and imaginative in how we engage our secular and skeptical culture? This video [...] The...
View ArticleDoes Atheism Naturally Lead To Human Dignity?
Sometimes slavery is raised as an objection to the Bible and Christianity. And a superficial reading of the Bible could lead one to conclude that God has a positive view of slavery. However, when...
View ArticleIs Something “More” True Because its in the Bible?
As Christians we sometimes do things that don't help our cause. Sure, they are done from good intentions and with a sincere heart. But they actually take our legs out from under us in the long run....
View ArticleDallas Willard on Tolerance and Love
“Tolerance has suffered a great deal recently in our religious and political and educational areas. And tolerance, because truth has been pulled away from it, has slipped over into the idea that...
View ArticleArchaeologists Have Discovered Seal of Biblical King Hezekiah
It is remarkable how often you hear the (false) claim that the Bible is historically unreliable. While it's true we haven't found everything the Bible mentions, we have found quite a lot! In fact, did...
View ArticleWhy You Should Have Faith In The Bible (VIDEO)
Can the Bible be trusted anymore? Recently I was interviewed for CBN (along with Josh McDowell and Darrell Bock) on the reliability of the Bible in an age of skepticism. Here is a short segment [...]...
View ArticleCotton Candy Christianity
I'll never forget the first time I encountered cotton candy. There it was in all of its colorful and sugary glory at an amusement park. The attendant was circling the bowl to make this humongous ball...
View ArticleHow to Overcome Cotton Candy Christianity
C.S. Lewis is no fan of cotton candy Christianity. As Christians our thinking matters to God. Yes our emotions and relationships matter to God as do our acts of kindness and serving others. But none of...
View ArticleWhy the Ivy League Can’t Give Students a Life that Truly Matters
People want to live a life that matters. Nobody wants to waste their life right? And many today think that a college education is necessary for living a good life. And if you can somehow get into the...
View ArticleA New Kind of Apologist
The world we live in is changing fast. There are new challenges and opportunities at every turn. We must be ready. I deeply believe apologetics training is [...] The post A New Kind of Apologist...
View ArticleJustice Antonin Scalia, Textualism, and the Bible
Every time an opinion was delivered from the Supreme Court, I always wanted to see what Scalia had written because I knew his opinions would be rooted in the text of the constitution (i.e., textualism...
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