Apologetics
The Best Books I Read in 2018
Second to last day in 2018. That means lists. I am going to do a two-parter here. Part 1: the best book I read in 2018. Part 2: a few books you should read in 2019. I love finding out what books people are reading. Novels, non-fiction, theology, cookbooks, books students read to get an…
Read More10 Ways Jesus Claimed to be God
It happens often. The doorbell rings and there are a couple of young men with ties on usually, or an older couple, wanting to tell you about heaven, and how to get there. Usually they are Mormon missionaries or Jehovah’s Witnesses. They, like many religions of the world, believe that Jesus was a good teacher,…
Read MoreWhat Dawkins Gets Wrong – An excerpt from The Problem of God
This is an excerpt from Chapter 2 (The Problem of God’s Existence), from my book The Problem of God: Answering a Skeptic’s Challenges to Christianity (Zondervan, 2017). What does the existence of objective moral values tell us about the universe in which we live? Most fundamentally, Christianity contends they point to the existence of a mind…
Read MoreThat Guy I Forgot on the Plane Last Year
I am waiting in LAX right now for a flight to Phoenix. A golf trip for three days with some friends. It’s an annual time away. Fun to hang, golf, laugh, and pray together for our families. As I sit here, I was reminded of something significant that happened this time last year. I was…
Read MoreAre All Religions True?
One of the things modern people often say about different religions is that ‘they are all basically the same’: they teach about being a good person, about a higher being of some sort, but all lead to the same place – just different paths to the same thing. While this position sounds good, we must…
Read MoreQ & A Monday: Why do we lose our faith because of suffering?
“I’m having a very hard time. There is this pain I’m struggling with regarding how logical my brain is and the pain I see around me… It literally keeps me up at night struggling to hold onto my own faith.” -Ian Preamble Thanks for the honest question Ian. These are some of the deepest waters…
Read MoreDebunking myths: the church is against science!
If you go back through history, the church and science were at times at odds with one another; those disagreements, however, have been gravely exaggerated. When atheists speak of the church’s persecution of scientists, we hear stories of people being burned at the stake for scientific theories; we hear about Galileo, Copernicus and Giordano Bruno…
Read MoreThe Uniqueness of the Christian Answer – Pain & Suffering (Part 3)
2015 was a year of a number of tragedies both globally and personally (I lost people I love dearly, and people I know suffered tragedy). How do we understand the meaning of these events, if there is meaning to them? This is part 3 of a few reflections on the question of pain and suffering…
Read MoreWhat about Evolution? – Pain & Suffering (Part 2)
2015 was a year of a number of tragedies both personally (I lost people I love dearly, and people I know suffered tragedy) and globally. How do we understand the meaning of these events, if there is meaning to them? This is part 1 of a few reflections on the question of pain and suffering…
Read MoreDoes Pain & Suffering Point to God?
2015 was a year of a number of tragedies both personally (I lost people I love dearly, and people I know suffered tragedy) and globally. How do we understand the meaning of these events, if there is meaning to them? This is part 1 of a few reflections on the question of pain and suffering…
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