I recently wanted to link to some of my listings of good books on apologetics, atheism and the like, but I noticed that the last…
No, I don’t want you to go around saying “sorry” all the time. That is not what I mean. My title is referring to this:…
I’m glad you asked. OK, so you didn’t ask, but a few of you might have been thinking that! I know that a small percentage…
Sometimes the sayings of Jesus can seem to be a bit hard to understand, especially if it seems – superficially at least – that they…
This is a passage which is problematic because of various strong views associated with it. So it might be better referred to as a contentious…
I just penned a piece on women and head coverings, and mentioned that this was part of a much larger debate over the role of…
I could have entitled this article, “Do Christian women today need to wear head coverings?” For that in good measure is what this particular passage…
The church of Jesus Christ is supposed to have a very real influence on the surrounding culture, but sadly the opposite seems to occur more…
One of the hallmarks of biblical Christianity is a very high view of the Word of God. Christians believe that the Bible is divinely inspired…
OK, Christmas is fast approaching, so the need to find good gifts is upon us. And what better gifts are there than books? So to…
Is there such a thing as a carnal Christian? Many believe there is, and they effectively say that there are two sorts of Christians –…
I happen to be a Protestant evangelical. While most Christians at least should know what that means, surprisingly, many do not. Indeed, I have even…
Since I have been writing a bit on economics in general and foreign aid in particular of late, and since I am often asked for…
A common claim made by the prosperity gospellers is that Jesus and his followers were actually quite well off. I have heard myself how one…
Eschatology, or the study of the end times, is a real hot potato topic with plenty of differing views. All sorts of major battles have…
In a 20-year period InterVarsity Press has produced a top notch series of dictionaries on the Old and New Testaments. The series of large volumes…
There are so many false and distorted pictures of Jesus around, and so much muddled thinking about who he is and what he did, that…
Divine healing proponents look to Isaiah 53:4,5 as proof that healing is to be included in the atonement. Indeed, almost all of the faith teachers…
One major mistake of some believers in general, and the prosperity gospel in particular, is to equate a person’s economic and material standing with his…
With the current round of leftist protests in the US, especially targeting Wall Street and the wealthy, I find it a continued source of fascination…