Several years ago I heard a speaker compare a Christian's personal witness with concentric circles. Their testimony is the first circle in their personal apologetics. Like a pebble dropped in a pond, there will be additional circles expanding outwards. While a person's account of the hope within them is where their apologetic begins, it should not be where it ends.…...
Read MoreHere's Your Worldview Reader with links to articles, essays, reviews, & videos I consider to be interesting or important from a biblical worldview. Join me on the first & third Friday every month as I discuss topics from the post with Carmen LaBerge on My Faith Radio around 7:40AM (EST). ⊕ The Evil That Haunts Us ⊕ The Trouble With X…...
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal recently commemorated the 50 year anniversary of the Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, calling it "arguably the 20th century's greatest piece of nonfiction prose." Solzhenitsyn wrote it from over hundreds of interviews of fellow prisoners. He dedicated the work to those who didn't live to tell their stories. In it, Solzhenitsyn writes…...
Read MoreIt is true that we are far too stingy when it comes to doling out grace to others and far too generous in serving ourselves. That's because our faults are understandable. Indeed, we understand them well. It's the faults of others that are truly incomprehensible. And we would straighten them out were they not so crooked that they would never…...
Read MoreWhat would you say if you could preach just one sermon? This is the topic of a collection of works published in 1929 as If I Could Preach Just Once. The contributors are diverse, ranging from atheists to apologists. And the sermons are as variegated as their authors. The prolific atheistic philosopher Bertrand Russell provides a sermon against fear, what…...
Read MoreHere's Your Worldview Reader with links to articles, essays, reviews, & videos I consider to be interesting or important from a biblical worldview. Join me on the first & third Friday every month as I discuss topics from the post with Carmen LaBerge on My Faith Radio around 7:40AM (EST). ⊕ Idol Thoughts on Investing in Others ⊕ Towards a New…...
Read MoreThe Apostle Paul tells us we're all going to worship one of two things. We will either worship the Creator, or we will worship the creation (See Romans 1). It's pretty simple. We will either allow the world to point us beyond itself to its source, as King David does in Psalm 19, or we will suppress the truth of…...
Read MoreThere have only been a few new shows April and I have really enjoyed throughout our marriage. For the most part we stick with the classics from the Dick Van Dyke Show, to I Love Lucy, Wonder Years, or West Wing. But having seen those programs a million times, as great as they are, I sometimes miss the simple joy…...
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