They Did It in His Name: The Body-Count Argument, Honestly Answered
Religion poisons everything is the one New Atheist charge that lands. Concede the crimes, then ask what the accusation is standing on.
Apologetics
Eschatology
Run To and Fro: The Verse That Was Never About Airplanes
Daniel 12:4 gets quoted at jets and the internet. Follow the idiom through the rest of Scripture and the verse turns out to be about a sealed book and who gets to read it.
Gospel Foundations
One Word Is Wages. The Other Is a Gift. Everything Turns on That.
Paul could have written that the wages of sin is death and the wages of righteousness is life. He deliberately broke his own sentence, and the break is the gospel.
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation, Transformation Path
He Was Not Ashamed of My Chain: What It Costs to Stand Beside a Man the Room Wrote Off
Everyone in Asia had a good reason to stop showing up. One man went looking for Paul in Rome until he found him, and Paul wrote his name down.
Apologetics
Then What Is a Kidney For? The Word Biology Cannot Stop Using
Materialism says nothing is for anything. Then it hands you a textbook that cannot be written without the word. Open
Eschatology
They Died in Faith: What If He Does Not Come in Your Lifetime?
The question people are too embarrassed to ask at a prophecy conference A woman in her seventies asked it in
Apologetics
If Christianity Is True, Why Cannot Christians Agree?
An honest answer to the objection that Christianity cannot be true because Christians cannot agree It usually arrives as a
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation, Transformation Path
He Shook Himself as at Other Times: Why Drift Never Feels Like Drift
Stage Five · Legacy — the drift you can feel is never the one that ruins you There is a
Apologetics
He Named Them All, and None of Them Was Like Him: The Scene Theistic Evolution Has to Explain
Apologetics · Creation and Science — a short scene in Genesis 2 that every reading of origins has to account
Eschatology
The Elements Shall Melt: What Peter Does With a Universe That Does Not Last
Eschatology — Peter does not end the chapter with a chart. He ends it with a question about you. Most
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation
The Servant Who Saved the General: Why God Keeps Sending Correction From Below
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation — the counsel God sends is rarely the counsel you would have hired There is a
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation, Transformation Path
Ninety Seconds Is Not Nothing: The Anchor You Skip Because You Cannot Do It Right
Stage Five · Legacy — the anchor you skipped was not too small. It was the only one you had.
Apologetics
Seventy-Five Thousand Generations: What the Longest Evolution Experiment Actually Produced
Darwinism finally got a laboratory test — twelve populations, thirty-five years, seventy-five thousand generations. Here is the result sheet, read without overstatement in either direction.
Eschatology
Towns Without Walls: What the Surveyor of Jerusalem Was Told to Stop Measuring
A man went out with a measuring line to draw a wall around Jerusalem, and an angel was sent running to stop him. Zechariah 2 is still correcting the way we read the nations.
Christian Mind & Culture
Nobody Dies Anymore: What a Culture Loses When It Cannot Say the Word
They pass, they depart, they are lost. Scripture never flinches like that — and a culture that cannot say died has no use for a word like risen.
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation, Transformation Path
They Took an Oath Before the Priests: Why the Amends You Make Alone Will Not Hold
Nehemiah would not accept a feeling. He demanded a date, a list, and a witness — and that is still the difference between amends that hold and amends that quietly evaporate.
Apologetics
The Gap That Was Not There: The Old-Earth Reading Almost Everyone Abandoned
A whole age was once tucked between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. Young-earth and old-earth believers both walked away from it, and the reason they did will teach you how to read Genesis.
Eschatology
The End Is Not Yet: The Four Words Every Prophecy Headline Walks Past
Jesus named wars, famines and earthquakes and then said the end is not yet. A sign that has been true for twenty centuries cannot tell you what time it is.
Doctrine
He Did Not Vanish. He Sat Down.
The tabernacle had no chair, because a priest under the old covenant was never finished. Christ offered once and sat down. The ascension is not a transition scene.
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation, Transformation Path
I Wrote Unto You With Many Tears: The Apology That Has to Cost You First
Paul told the Corinthians what writing a hard letter did to him — affliction, anguish, many tears. If your apology cost you nothing to write, you have not written it yet.