Theology, Philosophy & Worldviews

Don’t Believe The Hype

Volume shouldn’t win an argument. But the new atheists are about to blow an amp in their effort to monopolize public opinion. Forget the style over substance debate; this is no-holds-barred condescension from the precipice of cultural elitism.  It’s academic snobbery to the nth degree. It seems that regular hard-working blue-collar men and women are

Plato’s Good

“It’s all good,” is not an urban invention. It’s God’s evaluation of his own creation at the end of the first chapter of Genesis. “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good” (Genesis 1:31). The other night I was able to enjoy a meal with a group of new

The End of the World

It’s the end of the world as we know it. And I feel fine. So go the lyrics of the well known R.E.M. song by the same title. When the world does end, I’m guessing that glib attitudes will be hard to find. And the world will end. It’s not even exclusively a matter of

Soul Dominion

Who is talking to your soul? While this might sound like a sound byte from an online dating service, it’s a serious question. In reading a transcript of a sermon by C.J. Mahaney, I found this insightful quote from Dr. Martin Lloyd Jones: I say that we must talk to ourselves instead of allowing ‘ourselves’

Sixteen Truths

The gospel is the power of God unto salvation, of this we need not be ashamed. I have spent the last ten months teaching through Paul’s letter to the Romans. In our final study of the series we looked at sixteen truths, each based on one of the sixteen chapters in the book of Romans.