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I’ve been pointing this out for awhile. This Christian Post article shows how few Christians have any intellectual basis for their faith and most cannot explain it in an intelligible way: The faith of most Christians, even that of many pastors, will not stand up to intellectual scrutiny, according to renowned apologist Josh McDowell. This [...]
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Growing up, there were times my parents and I didn’t get along. I’m sure you can relate. In fact, for a large portion of my adolescence, I was pretty convinced that my parents were idiots. I certainly didn’t respect them very much, and at times I thought I didn’t need them. Later in life, I [...]
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Last night I received a comment from Ty on a past post dealing with salvation. His comment read: I personally believe what you saying makes sense theologically, and the Reformed position makes sense to me, however what I do not understand, is how someone can hold the Lutheran position while still holding to infant baptism? [...]
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I’m having my own sort of cognitive dissonance right now with this blog. I’m re-evaluating some of my beliefs and viewpoints and am reading a lot from conflicting perspectives to help sort out my thinking. I apologize for the scarcity of posts during this time, I assure you I’ll make a strong comeback once I [...]
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A man asked a minister whether or not we are saved by works or by faith, to which the minister replied, “neither, we are saved by Christ.” Here’s a few words from Oswald Chambers speaking to this: I am not saved by believing— I simply realize I am saved by believing. And it is not [...]
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Three men were walking on a wall— Faith, Feeling and Fact. When Feeling got an awful fall Faith was taken back. So close was Faith to Feeling, He stumbled and fell too. But Fact remained and pulled up Faith, And Faith brought Feeling too. (Unknown Author) Not to add too much of my own thinking [...]
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“Faith is a divine work which God demands of us; but at the same time He Himself must implant it. We cannot believe by ourselves.” - Martin Luther
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That’s the message from Seth Godin in his book Tribes. But not in the sense of choosing to err, but rather the colloquial usage, acting like a leader and ‘standing out’ from the rest. I just read a great blog post over at backyardmissionary.com about this. Some notable quotes from his post (which are from [...]
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A good friend and spiritual father to me (1 Corinthians 4:15), Dick Rockenbach, recently asked me to begin thinking about the differences between the American Jesus and the Real Jesus — which is a really interesting topic. I had intended to first write a post about connections and evangelism, but that has been sitting in [...]
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I’ve spoken before about the tensions in our faith: Law and Gospel, Sinner and Saint, etc. I also talk about it some in the About page on this site. I have been participating in a really good conversation lately in the comments section of one of Daniel and Heather’s blog posts entitled, Reflecting on the [...]
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