The Coca-Cola company has a new product out in Japan called ILOHAS. It’s being marketed all over the country by the biggest names on TV as the bottle of water for those of us mindful of the environment. Eco-Water. Is the water different? No. But the bottle is. Everyone is very worried about the affects [...]

I was listening to a podcast of last week’s Stand to Reason, which I highly recommend, and Greg was relaying some advice he gave to someone who asked him how to get into the apologetics business as a career. He offered three basic ways in: start your own organisation, join an existing organisation, or become [...]

Image by Sacred Destinations via Flickr A man noted the other day to a friend, that if we (Christians) experience hardship, it must be by the will of God. Our friend was very disturbed and retorted that it is never God’s will that evil be upon us; evil results from the Fall, not God.I know [...]

Image via Wikipedia Frank Viola receives a lot of flak; a good deal of it may be deserved, but I think he is onto something. Yes, returning to more “Biblical” church practices and fellowship is necessary, but Viola sometimes says things that sound … just a little too aggressive. In his recent blog tour of [...]

An article over on Christianity Today has brought me back to task. Thanks Mr. Downing. The article is rather weighty, but one I recommend for those interested. It’s entitled, “C.S. Lewis Among the Postmodernists” and speaks to me of balance and wisdom.On and off for two years I have been working on a book about [...]

Ok, we’ve finally arrived at what will likely be the most contentious issue (outside of the explanation) – the post-mortem appearances of Jesus after He was crucified. We will also examine the radical transformation in the lives of the disciples and others because that lends support to the resurrection hypothesis. Let’s begin with the creed [...]

Praxis: [prak-sis] – noun, plural praxises, praxes 1. practice, as distinguished from theory; application or use, as of knowledge or skills 2. a set of examples for practice That part about “as distinguished from theory” really gets you in the gut, don’t it? I think it has something to do with finding out what loving [...]

“I suggest, in fact, that if postmodernism functions as the death of modernist culture, many of us will find ourselves like the disciples on the road to Emmaus. We as Western Christians mostly bought a bit too heavily into modernism, and we are shocked to discover that it has been dying for a while and [...]

Note: If you pick up the post from here, you may be left wondering what we are talking about. I suggest reading previous commentary prior to this (link provided below), otherwise, this post may not be for you. I want to thank both Vinny and DaveE for excellent commentary and keeping this discussion alive. I [...]

Missions Blog has a D.A. Carson quote I thought worth sharing. People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace driven effort people do not gravitate towards godliness, prayer, obedience to scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance. We drift toward disobedience and call it freedom. We [...]

Ding!The microwave sounds my dinner. I unfold my little tin Autobots TV dinner tray (second hand store for 3$, a steal!) sit down on the couch and pick up the remote.* My wife is visiting her mother. There isn’t much on here that I care to watch, I’m more of a movie man. Give me [...]

Now that we’ve established that there is no reasonable way that Jesus could have survived the crucifixion, let’s move on to the next two points: His burial by Joseph of Arimathea and the discovery of the empty tomb on Sunday morning. This is relatively uncontroversial and seems accepted by most scholars. However, given that Joseph [...]