Apologetics

Book Review: Turning to God

The nature and question of true conversion is a hot topic in the church today. At the Southern Baptist Convention this year, David Platt found himself in a bit of hot water by questioning the validity of the “sinner’s prayer.”  The debate there hinges on the exact usefulness of a canned prayer to bring about …

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Fantastic Four

An Open Letter to Young, “Post-Partisan” Evangelicals.  David French argues that “post-partisan” is a pipe dream for evangelicals. One political party is completely dedicated to legal protection of abortion on demand.  The other political party is completely dedicated to repealing Roe v. Wade.  If you talk too much about abortion, others will define you, and …

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Believing: The Path To All Knowledge

In a recent article for First Things, Christian Smith writes about the natural, but not necessary tendency toward religion for mankind.  The article is well worth your time and in it, Smith argues that religion is natural to humanity, not because religious practices are universal, but because religious practice exists in every arena where the …

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Monday Musings

The Christ who will not worship Satan to gain the world’s kingdoms is followed by Christians who will worship only Christ in unity with the Lord whom he serves.  And this is intolerable to all defenders of society whoa re content that many gods should be worshipped if only Democracy or America, or German, or …

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Loving Within The Church

Would Jesus visit with our churches and discover that our definition of healthy fits his definition of healthy?  We love, but do we love as God loves?  Jonathan Leeman says, “We assume not that God is love but that love is God.”  The church of Christ is a community where her members love each other …

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Fantastic 4

Ed Stetzer has written a great article on The Baptist Boogeyman I’ve always been fascinated by the Baptist bogeyman.  Bogeymen are not real dangers, but ones we use to scare one another, often distracting us from real danger. There are real challenges in our churches and the convention—theological and otherwise—but bogeymen distract us from the …

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Christianity: The Arch Enemy of Science?

I often hear that conservative Christianity is opposed to “real” science and that if Christians had anything to do with it, science would never have arisen.  The great problem with statements like the one above is that they are false.  The belief that Christianity is somehow opposed to science has been repeatedly defeated, and yet …

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Monday Musings

If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said?  The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead. Tim …

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Book Review: The Reason for God

Yes, I know, I am way behind the evangelical reading curve because I just now got around to reading Tim Keller’s The Reason for God.  As one reading this book late in the game, it had much to live up to.  After all, The Reason for God has been called Mere Christianity for a new …

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Tim Tebow and the Implications of a Secular Worldview

Tim Tebow has become a polarizing figure.  Of course, as far as I can tell, it is difficult to see how.  He is young, athletic, humble, hardworking, clean cut, and articulate.  He is the kind of player that most coaches dream of having on their teams, and yet it is becoming obvious to many that …

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