Happy Easter! He is risen! I had written during Advent last year about the sensicality of the way Jesus taught and died. And today is a good time to add that His great post-death event — the Resurrection — makes perfect sense, too. It made sense for Jesus to offer some proof for His divinity … [Read more…]
I should begin this post by acknowledging that the Bible is God’s Word on, especially, how He wants us to live, and it ought to be followed whether or not doing so makes us happy. Indeed, there’s no question but that sometimes following the Word will lead to short-term suffering, up to and including death. … [Read more…]
The just-completed sermon series in our church here was on Exodus, chapters 16-20, and I thought it worthwhile to collect a few thoughts prompted by it. So below I have one thought on each chapter — plus an opening and closing thought, not tied to any particular chapter. *** Opening thought: Our pastor noted in … [Read more…]
Here are four basic points that I think apologists should make: (1) There is a variety of strong evidence that a Supreme Being — that is, God — exists. (2) There is also strong evidence for the historicity of the Gospels, and in particular their core message that Jesus is God. (3) Pascal’s Wager makes … [Read more…]
If you have an hour-and-a-half and want to get a good introduction into an area presenting serious problems for a purely Darwinist secularism, I can recommend this installment of Peter Robinson’s video series Uncommon Knowledge, titled “By Design: Behe, Lennox, and Meyer on the Evidence for a Creator.” As the first two words of title indicate, … [Read more…]
Genesis 41 tells us about the greatest job interview of all time: 14 So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he was quickly brought from the dungeon. When he had shaved and changed his clothes, he came before Pharaoh. 15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard … [Read more…]
Rather late in life I’ve undertaken to teach myself koine Greek, with the principal purpose of enabling myself to read the New Testament in its original language. I don’t plan to quit, and a good thing, too, as I suspect the project will continue until I shuffle off this mortal coil. The idea was that … [Read more…]
It occurred to me the other day how similar to one another are Martha (of the Martha and Mary narrative, Luke 10:38-42) and the non-prodigal son (of the prodigal son parable, Luke 15:11-32). Neither is a bad person, but both get a bit of a mild rebuke and for, it seems to me, rather similar … [Read more…]
This movie tells the story of C.S. Lewis’s early life and, in particular, his conversion from atheism to Christianity. It ends with the completion of the conversion in the early 1930s (so there is no discussion of Lewis’s own apologetic works, his BBC broadcasts, his marriage to Joy Davidman, and so forth). The movie stars … [Read more…]
This book’s author, Michael Novak, was erudite and rightly acclaimed. He was around for a long time; he cites in this 2008 book a few times his own book Belief and Unbelief — which he wrote in 1965, more than forty years earlier. And I enjoyed the book I’ll be discussing here. *** The book’s overarching … [Read more…]