A Few Example Posts:

  • "The End of Faith: A Short Response to Sam Harris"
  • See also:
  • "A Long Response to Sam Harris' The End of Faith, by Neil Shenvi"

  • "Is John Piper the Best Answer to Emergence and Postmodernism?"

  • "Captured"

  • "The Storm is Over"

  • "If Golfing Were the Pursuit of Moral Perfection"

  • 11.30.2006

    What Does Nativity Mean?



    Of course nativity speaks of birth. But “The
    Nativity” speaks of Christ’s birth. What does
    Christ’s birth mean for us?

    Christ was born of a virgin. He was the
    “seed of the woman” promised in the beginning of
    the Old Testament (Genesis 3:15)

    Christ was (and is) God-become-Man.
    “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among
    us.” (John 1:14). God took on a human body, a
    human soul, a human mind. As a child, He
    learned and grew. As a man, He felt temptation
    and weakness (hunger, thirst, exhaustion). He also
    suffered and died--all without sin or hint of failure.

    This Christ can bring a person back to
    God.
    One man said, “God treated Christ as
    though Christ lived my life, so that He could treat
    me as though I lived Christ’s life.” This exchange
    is declared by God when the sinner puts faith--and
    faith alone--in the God-Man: Jesus Christ.

    This is part of what “Nativity” means.

    11.20.2006

    DO CHRISTIANS EVER DOUBT?

    Yes, Christians can struggle with doubts about Christianity. Near the end of his life, John the Baptist, one who believed in Christ had to ask Jesus, “Are you the Coming One, or do we look for another?” Jesus simply encouraged John.

    Doubt is a part of being human.

    C.S. Lewis said:

    “Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable. This rebellion of your moods against your real self is going to come anyway. This is why Faith is such a necessary virtue: unless you teach your moods “where they get off,” you can never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist, but just a creature dithering to and fro, with its beliefs really dependent on the weather and the state of its digestion.”*

    Be encouraged. Search for truth. Christ is well able to help us see Him for who He is.

    *C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York; Macmillan, 1960), pp. 123-124.

    11.09.2006

    Why Does God Seem to Hide?

    Some folks don’t believe in God because He
    seems to be “hidden.” “Where is He?” they ask.
    “If God exists, why doesn’t He come down and
    say something?”

    But this is exactly what the New Testament
    says has happened! God came into human
    history and spoke. God, the Son, walked among
    human beings revealing to us what God is like.
    Yet--even then--Christ spoke in parables. These
    stories accomplished two purposes:

    1. To reveal His message to willing listeners.
    2. To conceal it from the unwilling. (Matthew 13:10-15).

    The evidence for God’s existence does not
    grab us by the back of the neck and shake us. But
    God has given plenty of evidence in nature and a
    storehouse of truth in Scripture to make our belief
    rational. God is not hiding. He’s looking for willing
    eyes and ears.

    If we humble our hearts and seek
    Him, we can find Him.