How Living Counter-Culturally Can Lead to Your Kids’ Resentment of Christianity
By Natasha Crain
Our family just returned from a wonderful vacation to the mountains of British Columbia. It was stunningly beautiful! We spent our first day there relaxing at this ...
Objections to Objective Morality
By Cole James
I took a philosophy class while I was in college. The topic of this class was on contemporary moral issues, so you know we got into some heated topics. I heard every objection ...
Did Paul Write All Thirteen Letters Attributed to Him?
By Brian Chilton
In the New Testament, thirteen letters are attributed to the apostle Paul. Paul is, of course, the individual who had persecuted the church, but became a Christian missionary ...
Miracles Are Useless, If…
By Rajkumar Richard
The Bible is replete with miracles[1]. Sincere Christians who worship the Triune God will objectively believe every recorded miracle in the Bible. Miracles are intended to ...
God, Patience, and Creation
By Luke Nix
Introduction
One of the challenges skeptics raise against God as the Creator is the idea that He took entirely too long to create: God is inefficient and wasteful with time, if ...
Do Your Kids Know Why They Should WANT God to Exist?
By Natasha Crain
I’ve written over 250 blog posts here since 2011. People still come across my old posts by searching for something on Google, so nearly every day I receive new comments on a ...
So you say you want a Revolution, what about Romans 13?
By Steve Williams
Many Christians believe that the first section of Romans 13 – verses 1-7 — forbids any form of resistance to government… even when it clearly goes tyrannical. If one analyzes ...
Objective Morality: Much Ado About Nothing?
Earlier this year, an early-morning storm passed through our area, causing schools to open late. Some counties announced they would open schools one hour late. Others announced that school would ...
The Contingency Argument For God’s Existence
By Evan Minton
Why does anything at all exist? Why isn't there just nothing? This is the first philosophical question I ever remember asking myself. I remember lying in bed at night when I ...
Who Wrote the Gospel of Luke and Acts?
By Brian Chilton
We have been engaged in a series of articles discussing the authorship of the books of the New Testament. In this article, we consider the Third Gospel, the Gospel of Luke. Who ...
Should We Be Moral Relativists?
By Rajkumar Richard
INTRODUCTION
This is a short introductory essay to defend objective moral values. In philosophy, the term ‘objective,’ is defined as the existence of an object ...
Why Does God Love Satan?
By Rajkumar Richard
The question, “Does God love Satan?” seemingly yields diametrically conflicting answers from conservative Christian theologians. Some assert that God cannot love Satan. In ...
Progressive Christianity is as Much of a Threat to Your Kids’ Faith as Atheism
By Natasha Crain
In our backyard we used to have a beautiful lime tree.
One day I noticed that a thorny vine of some kind had started growing around it. It looked enough like the rest of the ...
Who Wrote the Gospel of Mark?
By Brian Chilton
Last week, we began a series on the authorship of the New Testament documents as we discussed the Gospel of Matthew. This week, we continue our series as we consider the ...
The Price of Denying Free Will
By Timothy Fox
Every time I turn around I find someone else denying that humans have free will. From scientists to philosophers to theologians, it’s the cool new trend. We aren’t actually ...
God, Evil and the London Attack
If you’d had the knowledge and power to stop the terrorist attack in London, would you have done so? Of course. In fact, if you could have stopped it but didn’t, we would call you morally ...
Is Religion the Practice of Avoiding Truth?
By Luke Nix
Introduction
A month or so ago, I came across an interesting challenge to Christianity. A skeptic told me that religion was an exercise in avoiding truth- a willful delusion. He ...
Who Wrote the Gospel of Matthew?
By Brian Chilton
Over the course of the new few weeks, we will discuss the reasons for accepting the traditional viewpoints for New Testament authorship. We will begin with the Gospel of ...
Was Paul the Founder of Christianity?
By Brian Chilton
Skeptics, such as Gerd Ludemann, charged Paul for being the actual founder of Christianity. Such ideas come from either a belief that Jesus never addressed difficult topics, or ...
The Art of Raising Kids Who Will Not Bow to the Idol of Science
By Natasha Crain
There’s a new hero in town. He’s thought to be all-powerful, always right, and everyone’s best friend. If anyone says something that could possibly be construed as being ...
