Postmodern Apologetics
I want to steal one other idea from the book Confident Faith which I wrote about last time and use it as a springboard into talking about something I've wanted to broach for a long while, but haven't known how. In the book, Mark talks about "6 paths to faith" which is a pop level wa

posted 5:49:00am Jun. 14, 2013 | read full post »

Confident Faith
I love apologetics, so when I happened into a Christian bookstore today I was happy to see a new apologetics book on the bestseller list. I was even more happy to see it came from Mark Mittelberg, an author I’m very familiar with. he went to my church and I was his son’s small group lead

posted 9:20:13pm Jun. 10, 2013 | read full post »

The Centrality of Grace
I have a big list of blog ideas. When I get an idea for a blog, I put it on the list. When I get time to write a blog, I open a list and write a page about the idea. Usually I add in some analogy to illustrate it or some argument for it’s truth if it’s controversial. Then I steak a pictu

posted 5:31:17pm Apr. 09, 2013 | read full post »

Apologetics and its Miscategorization
Generally speaking, the church tolerates apologetics nerds like myself. They acknowledge us, and withhold comment except perhaps to say something like “maybe you could teach a class or something sometime” Sometime never comes. Believe it or not that’s a pretty good lot for us, comparatively.

posted 4:07:52am Feb. 28, 2013 | read full post »

Expel The Immoral Brother
I wrote earlier about profanity. I argued that the bible often finds profanity necessary to make it’s point. At the time I said that I wanted to make that point not just to defend profanity, but because there were other points that I felt were important to make, that rested on that point as a prem

posted 5:29:00am Jan. 16, 2013 | read full post »