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The Fearlessness of Faith

In my nightly Bible readings, I’ve worked my way up to the Book of Philippians, which is Paul’s letter from prison to the church at Philippi. Here’s an excerpt from the first chapter: 12 And I want you to know, my dear brothers and sisters, that everything that has happened to me here has helped […]

That’s My King!

I have some complex theological posts in development, but I’m not ready to post them yet. So let me post this, which I’ve done before:

Taking the Bible Seriously

In my last Sunday post (which occurred two weeks ago, because of the issues with my blog host), I said that Christians start running into trouble, if they try to pick and choose which Bible passages they will interpret literally and which metaphorically. In particular, if we try to “soften the edges” by substituting in […]

A Savior Is Born!

I will do a higher-brow post later today, but for now Merry Christmas! I am not a fan of Celine Dion in general, but she really crushes this song.

2 Legit, 2 Legit 2 Quit

OK I don’t want to jinx it by saying so, but I think the blog migration has been successful and we should no longer get a free–oh wait, I paid for it–ad for Fatcow anymore. I’m dealing with some “day job” stuff right now, but I’ll post on the sordid affair later today. In the […]

A Wise Consistency

My friend and co-author Carlos Lara kept telling me about this really intense Bible study at his church, in which they work through the Westminster Confession of Faith. To give you a flavor of how hardcore this stuff is, consider what we studied today, from Chapter XI: 4. God did, from all eternity, decree to […]

More Trouble for the Alleged Faith/Reason Dichotomy: Acts of the Apostles

I am working my way through Acts of the Apostles (the first book after the four gospels), which chronicles the adventures of the early Church after Jesus ascends to heaven. Saul was a Pharisee who persecuted Christians (and approved of them being put to death), but then had his famous road to Damascus conversion, afterwards […]

Contradictions in the Bible?

Last week in the comments, Major Freedom shared a long list of alleged contradictions in the Bible. I thought some of them weren’t very convincing–like wondering why an omniscient God would ask Cain where his brother was–so I asked MF to pare down the list to the ones he thought were really smoking guns. Now […]