New study: decline in mainline church attendance linked to progressive theology
I’m shocked and delighted to see this new study reported in the Weekly Standard, of all places. I guess everyone has an intuition that conservative churches that focus on the Bible have been growing in...
View ArticleAre all sins equally bad? Or are there degrees of severity for different sins?
This week, a conservative Christian lady named Mandy asked me about this view that “all sins are equal”. We both agreed that it was wrong, because the Bible says so. But I went ahead and looked up some...
View ArticleIs the Big Bang cosmology a theistic or atheistic theory of cosmic origins?
Dr. Michael Strauss is a practicing particle physics employed as a professor at University of Oklahoma. He does research in particle physics at CERN, a large hadron collider. It’s safe to assume that...
View ArticleWilliam Lane Craig discusses faith and reason with university students
This is an interview of Dr. William Lane Craig before college students at the University of Central Florida. (95 minutes) You can get an MP3 of the lecture here. (33 MB) Questions from the interviewer:...
View ArticleBest Easter sermon ever: Andy Stanley on 1 Corinthians 15:3-7
On Sunday night, I decided to blog all 5 posts for this week. Then a friend of mine who attends Andy Stanley’s church sent me a link to Andy Stanley’s Easter sermon. I listened to the sermon, and the...
View ArticleThe Thoroughly Rational Conversion of Michael Minot
One of the things I’ve noticed hanging around in church on and off the last 20 years or so is that it often seems to be the case the church leaders seem to value some people as leaders more than...
View ArticleWhat’s a good sign that a person wants to go Heaven, and will like it there?
The Dina tweeted this column by Matt Walsh yesterday, and I am not sure how much I agree with it, but I found it very interesting. Matt writes about how most American Christians think that they will go...
View ArticleStudy: homeschooled children less likely to leave their faith
Lindsay, a super-mom who homeschools her kids with her super-husband Doug, sent me this article from Christian News. Quick blurb: The recently-released findings from an in-depth study of nearly 10,000...
View ArticleDo Christian pastors think that premarital sex is morally wrong?
My friend Wes posted an article from Dalrock’s blog about how Spain is trying to get people to make babies after repeated laws punishing men for marrying and having children, such as forcing men to do...
View ArticleJerry Walls lectures on objections to Reformed theology
WARNING: This lecture is a very sharp and pointed critique of Calvinist theology. Viewer discretion is advised. In Protestant Christianity, there is a division between people who accept Calvinist...
View ArticleWhy is it so hard for a working man to provide for a family these days?
Here’s my argument which answers the question: Feminism was behind no-fault divorce. Making it easier to divorce means that more divorces will occur. Marital instability causes women to vote for bigger...
View ArticleCan prayer, Bible reading, church-singing and charismatic preaching stop Katy...
I received an e-mail from a woman who was telling me to drop my list of 10 worldview questions and just look for a wife who reads the Bible and has feelings about Jesus. She wrote: My suggestion to you...
View ArticleAre all sins equally bad? Or are there degrees of severity for different sins?
This question came up recently so I did some digging on theology web sites to find what Bible verses applied to the question. Here’s what Ligonier said: It’s clear that we have different degrees of sin...
View ArticleIs the Big Bang cosmology a theistic or atheistic theory of cosmic origins?
Dr. Michael Strauss is a practicing particle physics employed as a professor at University of Oklahoma. He does research in particle physics at CERN, a large hadron collider. It’s safe to assume that...
View ArticleWas Hitler a Christian? Is Nazism similar to Christianity?
One of the strangest things I have heard from atheists is the assertion that Christianity is somehow connected to the fascism, such as the fascism that existed under Adolf Hitler. Two posts by Jewish...
View ArticleDo atheists have a lower divorce rate than Christians?
I’ve been having discussions with atheists lately, and finding out that in the atheist community, a lot of false beliefs persist because they (as a group) insulate themselves from rational inquiry....
View ArticleIf you accept Jesus and become a Christian, will God make you happy?
This is a wonderful, wonderful post from Amy Hall, who writes for the Stand to Reason blog. She writes: I had a brief interaction with an atheist on Twitter a couple of weeks ago that unexpectedly...
View ArticleHow can we get single men and husbands to be interested in church and ministry?
Consider this passage from William Lane Craig’s April 2013 newsletter, which made me very excited and happy. (H/T Triablogue) Here it is: One overwhelming impression of these engagements is the way in...
View ArticleShould people in sinful lifestyles bully churches into celebrating them?
This story was the topic of the most recent episode of the Reasonable Faith podcast. Basically, a conservative, apologetics-friendly church had a homosexual person who wanted to be openly gay and still...
View ArticleHow long are the days of Genesis? Hugh Ross and Jason Lisle debate
I found this radio debate about the age of the Earth on the Apologetics 315 Twitter feed. Speakers: Jason Lisle Dr. Lisle graduated summa cum laude from Ohio Wesleyan University where he double-majored...
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