Once in a while, or more than once in a while, we hear about alarming allegations against church leaders. Some of these we respect, or used to respect, and others we do not much care for in the first place. Whether the allegations involve spiritual abuse, financial misconduct, sexual molestation or other things, there are […]

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. (Psalm 43:5) God created man in his own image. The most basic feature of this image of divinity is intelligence. By it man possesses an awareness of […]

Timothy, my son, I give you this instruction in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by following them you may fight the good fight, holding on to faith and a good conscience. Some have rejected these and so have shipwrecked their faith. Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have […]

Statistics can be misleading – not the numbers as such, but the way they are gathered, presented, and interpreted. Even if the methods are honest and the numbers are accurate, there are some important questions that we must ask before accepting the interpretations offered about the statistics. When it comes to quantifying our obedience and […]

You know how we lived among you for your sake. You became imitators of us and of the Lord; in spite of severe suffering, you welcomed the message with the joy given by the Holy Spirit. And so you became a model to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia. The Lord’s message rang out […]

There is a fatal maneuver in debate where if you can show that your opponent’s position contradicts itself or makes itself impossible, then you have effectively destroyed his position and all that follows from it. It is a powerful move. It checkmates your opponent. However, if it is illegitimately used, it can backfire and inflict […]

MORONS AND PROFESSIONAL MORONS According to the Bible, all non-Christians are morons – they are extremely stupid people.[1] Even some of those who claim to be Christians resent such a blunt and negative characterization of God’s enemies, and so they disown and criticize me for speaking this way. However, as hard as they portray this […]

PART ONE In James 1:27, the apostle writes, “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” In these several sessions, we are not going to say anything about orphans, but we are […]

An important aspect of many religious traditions and of occult teaching has to do with attaining spiritual enlightenment. The Bible is not silent on the subject, and upon examination, we discover that when it comes to the nature and source of spiritual enlightenment, there are marked contradictions between the biblical worldview and all non-biblical worldviews, […]

Oxford professor Alister McGrath has made a most misleading statement in his awkwardly titled book, Intellectuals Don’t Need God and Other Modern Myths. He says, “Apologetics is not about winning arguments – it is about winning people.”[1] In connection with this, the book has as one of its central theses that many, or even most, […]