One thing a believer quickly discovers when reading or listening to the emerging church leaders is their love of dichotomies, or dualities. They are keenly…
A recent report about religion in America found that while most Americans believed in heaven, a lesser amount believed in hell. The Pew Forum on…
There is no shortage of nutty ideas. A recent news item proclaimed that by mid-century, humans and robots will engage in loving and sexual relationships.…
Preaching the biblical gospel is offensive. All true believers should know this. Jesus offended many with his message. The New Testament speaks about the offence…
It is to GK Chesterton that we attribute the line, “When a man ceases to believe in God, he does not believe in nothing. He…
Modern man is in a bad way. Everywhere we see people in the modern Western world in crisis and chaos. The signs of disintegration and…
Penn Jillette is one half of the magic and comedy act, Penn and Teller. The pair is famous – or infamous – for, among other…
One does not wish to speak ill of the dead, and it is not my intention here to do so. But it is my intent…
Passion Conferences, 2007. (Available in Australia from Koorong Books.) This DVD is one of a number of messages recently recorded by Louie Giglio. The American…
It is very risky business indeed to seek to cross the atheist/materialist/Darwinist camp. If anyone dares to question the conventional wisdom here, the inquisition immediately…
Windblown Media, 2007. (Available in Australia from Koorong Books) I have offered my general (and positive) assessments of The Shack in part one of this…
Windblown Media, 2007. (Available in Australia from Koorong Books) The two mega-themes of this novel are the love of God and human suffering. Those are…
Good intentions are seldom sufficient in and of themselves. Often a person can mean well, but still end up doing a lot of mischief. Consider…
Thomas Nelson, 2007. (Available in Australia from Koorong Books) It is common today to question not only what we know about Jesus, but how we…
Dutton, 2008. (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) Subtitled “Belief in an Age of Skepticism,” this very important book is a welcome antidote to the…
This title is not original to me. It is the title of the US radio program of Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias. It is also one…
Here’s the scenario (which happens to be a true story): I’m stuck in some slow moving traffic, and the guy in front of me has…
The broad issue of the relationship between science and faith, and the more particular issue of the debate over creation and evolution are of course…
With all the zeal and energy of a religious crusade, the new atheists have come out in force, rattling their secular sabres. They are on…
What is known as the myth of moral equivalence refers to a tactic usually used by the Left which basically involves mixing apples with oranges.…