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What Does it Mean to Call on the Name of the Lord?
“The name of the Lord” is a phrase used throughout Scripture by multiple different authors. I wonder if we truly…
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Apologetics
Reading the Bible may be a bad thing. Here’s why.
That Christians should spend time reading the Bible is, itself, uncontroversial. But just how should we read the Bible? Is…
Apologetics
What Makes Having Kids Worth It? A Biblical Answer to the Wrong Question.
In our world, kids are treated as though they are an inconvenience. They are an "add-on" that some parents find…
Apologetics
Don’t Be Afraid to Go Against the Grain—That’s What Jesus Did
The path to destruction is lined with those going with the grain. It's easy to go along with the world…
Article
What is the Nature of Conversion?
When does conversion take place in a person's life? What evidence will be demonstrated when this happens? For how long…
Creation
Beauty in God’s Creation w/ Pat Mingarelli
I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” But what if that were not…
Apologetics
How Could Humans Have Lived to Over 900 Years Old?
The Bible is a book that, oftentimes, lays strange truths before us---at least, truths that are strange to 21st-century eyes.…
Article
The Gods Are Real: A Concise Explanation of the Supernatural Meta-narrative of Scripture
The gods of Israel's ancient Near Eastern neighbors were not literally made of stone, gold, or any other material. Rather,…
Apologetics
The Foundation of Faith: Jesus, or the Bible?
A common feature of the debate surrounding apologetic methodology involves speculation as to the ground of our Christian belief. We…
Apologetics
How to Handle Dramatic Changes to Your Theology
Passages such as Hebrews 5:13-14 and 1 Corinthians 3:2 strongly suggest that we must go deeper with God's Word, which…
Creation
Genesis 1-11 and the “Textbook Myth”
The Bible is not a "scientific textbook"---of that, I'm sure. But it seems to common among critics of young age…
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Don’t Fear “the Reaper”: Why Young Earth Creationists Can—and Should—Embrace the Ancient Near-Eastern Background of the Bible
Due to what I consider to be a misuse of ancient Near-Eastern (ANE) backgrounds among evangelical scholars in recent years,…