From The Christian Post. When I’m driving to the gym in the morning, I occasionally tune in to the Bob and Tom radio show. To be sure, things can get a bit off-color at times, but by and large, they have some pretty...
From The Christian Post.com. Hands down, my favorite narrative that’s always included in the story of Jesus’ birth deals with the magi. You find it in the first 12 verses of Matthew 2. The first thing to understand...
From The Christian Post.com. The biggest surprise I got at the end of my seminary days was discovering that, out of everything I was taught, the courses on the Old Testament turned out to be my favorite. Like most...
From The Christian Post.com. Brian Johnson has been the lead singer of the rock band AC/DC since 1980. Although I’m (shockingly) not a fan of songs like Highway to Hell or Hell’s Bells, I often hear the band’s music...
From The Christian Post.com. No doubt about it — how you and I come to believe what we do is a fascinating and sometimes vexing subject. The branch of philosophy that investigates the nature of belief and knowledge is...
From The Christian Post.com. A while back, I was listening to a pastor who started talking about how he’d been criticized for not supplying “deep teaching” in his messages. He then went on to poo-poo those comments...
From The Christian Post.com. I have a married colleague who is one of the most miserable people I know. Big house. Additional getaway homes (yes, plural). Lots of toys. Takes more vacations than you can count...
From The Christian Post.com. Geez Louise, writing this sentence makes me feel old, but I’ll let it fly anyway: ten years ago, I wrote an article entitled, “Profile of a Hatetheist” where I asserted there is a difference...
From The Christian Post. When his atheist friends asked W. H. Auden why he jettisoned his atheism for Christianity, he said: “I blieve in Jesus because he fulfills none of my dreams.” Let that sink in for a moment...
From The Christian Post I was listening to a Q&A podcast the other day at the gym and one of the questions was the familiar, “Why would a loving God send people to Hell?” Sometimes this question is asked by a person...