Here's Your Weekend 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 Meaning of Gratitude ⊕  The Lost…...
Read MoreGratitude is a second-order activity. It isn't merely the immediate pleasure of a thing, the sensations of being full, or the exhale after nearly missing some harmful event. Gratitude involves our reflection on those things for which we are thankful. Perhaps that's why G.K. Chesterton described gratitude as "our highest form of thought" and as "happiness doubled by wonder." There…...
Read MoreIn our day many weaponize and monetize polemics. It's time for a renaissance in Christian irenics. There's a certain barb in the blogosphere today. It seems difficult if not impossible to find meaningful, careful, and charitable disagreements online. So much of what is done in the name of Christian ministry in the virtual space is aimed at polemics, the method…...
Read MoreAs this is the last week of classes, my attention is taken again to final words I want to leave with my students. For them it's just the end of another semester. For me, as their professor, I see it as something more decisive. Since I mostly teach one course in our Bible minor, an introduction to theology, I likely…...
Read More“When it comes to life," G.K. Chesterton once said, "the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.†Surprisingly, it is often those things that are taken either for granted or with gratitude that point us to God. The Apostle Paul once made this the basis for a talk he gave about evidence for…...
Read MoreHere's Your Weekend 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). ⊕  What Do We Owe Our…...
Read MoreMere Caffeination is a weekly open forum "coffee talk" at Cedarville University hosted by the Center for Apologetics & Public Christianity. I meet with students in our campus coffee shop to talk about what's going on in the world of worldview. Out of an abundance of caution due to COVID, Mere Caffeination will be online for now - streaming on…...
Read MoreThe following video is from a seminar hosted by Cedarville University's "Center for Biblical Apologetics & Public Christianity." I'm thankful to Dr. Neil Shenvi for joining me for a discussion about theories shaping the culture and how Christians can cultivate a careful, charitable, and winsome gospel witness. You can download a free copy of the book Dr. Shenvi co-authored called…...
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