Richard Swinburne, “Is There a God?” and “Was Jesus God?”

Is There a God? I have some good news for you, gentle reader:  I can recommend to you a wonderful apologetics book by a distinguished Oxford philosophy professor, it’s only 123 pages long, and you can read it right now for free since the whole book is online here [link: https://ia801904.us.archive.org/13/items/RichardSwinburne/RichardSwinburne-IsThereAGod.pdf ]. I was led … [Read more…]

Rejecting Pascal’s Wager — Not

Maybe it’s the lawyer in me, but I find that sometimes it’s useful to pretend you have to make arguments supporting the opposing side.  So, how would you imagine an intelligent rejection of Pascal’s Wager? This imaginary person would, it seems to me, have to say this sentence to himself: Okay, I understand that it … [Read more…]

A Few Notes on Our “Acts” Sermon Series

Our church’s summer sermon series was on the first eight chapters of Acts, so I thought I’d share a few notes on it. Of course we know that, in Acts 5, Ananias and Sapphira became famous — or, rather, infamous — for their dishonesty in contributing the proceeds from a land sale to the early … [Read more…]

Cultivating Faith and the Holy Spirit

There’s an interview of Stephen C. Meyer by Terrell Clemmons (“Faithful Knowledge,” 42, 45) in the September/October 2024 issue of Touchstone:  A Journal of Mere Christianity, in which the former says (emphasis in original): …. Someone once said that the work of the Holy Spirit is to make subjectively real to the individual believer things that … [Read more…]