Theology
How serving makes us like Jesus
People generally want resurrection without cross. People want to see a great movement of God without personal sacrifice. But that’s not the way it works. When you study revivals and renewal movements throughout history, they have great healings, miracles and social reform, but they are also coupled with great suffering. And one thing that often…
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…
Read MoreThe Female Brain – a sneak peak at Radical Sex
This is a sneak peak from my e-book Radical Sex which releases later this month. It is a small selection from chapter 2, entitled Married Sex & Orgasms. The Female Brain …for many men, the context of life is irrelevant when it comes to sexual desire. We can be driving in a car with kids…
Read MoreThe Plantinga Effect
The Plantinga Effect The story that is not being told to us by the institutions (educational, media-driven, etc.) is that reason, not ‘blind faith,’ is giving birth to Christian faith all over the world, including in the most industrialized and sophisticated cultures on the planet. The question is: why? The rise of Christianity is not…
Read MoreTrivial Objections
Trivial Objections There are many reasons people choose to reject Christianity. They don’t have enough evidence. They don’t trust the Bible, etc., But there is one reason people cite that I hear often which according to the laws of logic don’t hold as much water as one might think at first blush. Objections that revolve…
Read MoreThe Irony of Atheism
The problem with blind spots is that we can’t see them. Atheists and agnostics often critique religious people for being ‘narrow-minded,’ and ‘dogmatic’ about things, while failing to realize that in criticizing people for these things, they are themselves being dogmatic (about not being dogmatic!). The problem is that these critics often don’t see the…
Read MoreChristians who don’t read.
“But we have the mind of Christ” (1 Cor. 2:16) The Scandal One of the great scandals of modern Christianity, as others have pointed out, is Christians without Christian minds. Followers of Jesus who don’t think Christianly about the world, life, God, issues. They may worship and pray as Christians, but they do not think…
Read MoreHow holy do I need to be to go to heaven?
This past weekend at Village Church in our series on Matthew we came to this amazing statement by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount: “Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven” (Mt. 5:20). It is jarring and challenging to us and it should…
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