Articles - 09/2006

My apologetics should have started with an apology. Sometimes you get revelations like this sitting in a coffeeshop arguing with your friends.

I love apologetics, mostly because I love arguing, so when I heard that an apologist of another faith was coming to town, I couldn’t pass it up. Two of my apologetics loving friends, Bobby and Tim, came along too.

For the past two hours…

Sometimes I argue with my Bible. When I read something I don’t like, my sinful heart immediately reacts. I want to argue. I want to fight. I want to change what’s on the page to something else—to something more comfortable or something that requires less change in my life or suits my preferences.
All of us have truths we want to ignore, even when they are what we…

How do we continue in faith for people we love who don’t know Jesus yet?

I was reading in Pipers book The Pleasures of God. (Man I am so glad he is speaking at Na 2007.) He quotes George Mueller:

“I have also prayed daily, without intermission, for the conversion of other individuals about ten years, for others six or seven years...and still the answer is…

Everybody has a routine. Routine brings order to a very chaotic morning. Imagine: you wake up at 5:30 am and immediately put on your bathing suit to go play golf with three nuns you met on the street corner. What’s wrong with this picture? It’s way too random. (And nuns don’t hang out on street corners.) Random is great in movies, but routine is where we live. However when it…