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The Cultural Caricature of Christians: Don’t Buy What the Secular Culture is Selling!
One of my pet peeves is how easily Christians buy into the hostile secular cultural caricature of conservative Christians. What do I mean by that? The culture via its many powerful and ubiquitous means of communications communicates that Christians are generally...
What Happens When You See a Beautiful Butterfly?
That will depend on what our eyes and brain have been programmed to see, whether it is by the secular culture in which we daily swim, or God's word. If it is the former, we'll see a pretty butterfly, beautiful colors that amaze us, and that's it. If it is the latter,...
FYI, Loki, Almighty God is Sovereign Over the Sacred Timeline
If you don't know what a Loki is, neither did I until six weeks ago. He's a character in the Marvel cinematic universe, and an unsavory character; he's not referred to as the god of mischief for nothing. My son, our youngest at 19 and a keen observer of culture,...
Articles on Theology
“Don’t Let Me Down” . . . . They Always Will!
One of the most important things we can teach our children is that people will always let us down. I've tried all their lives to teach mine to have realistic expectations about human nature, others and their own. This way when people inevitably do let us down, we are...
“I am the way, the truth, and the life . . . . ” Exclusive Claims are Not Unique to Jesus
These famous, infamous for some, words of Jesus are followed by a further claim that offends many: "No one comes to the Father except through me." This was just as offensive to people in the Jewish and Pagan environment of Jesus' day, as it is in the secular...
And ah for a man to rise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!
I recently came upon this quote from 19th century British poet Alfred Lord Tennyson (from his poem Maud). I wonder how many people feel Tennyson's lament. I also wonder how many people understand that to be a follower of Jesus you must feel this way. What? You mean I...
Articles on Explanatory Power
“Science Uprising”: New video series unmasks materialism for what it is: Wrong!
Too many Christians allow low-simmering doubt into their minds because the dominant Western secular cultural narrative assumes materialism at every point, that is that the material, matter, is all that exists. And, if materialism is true, Christianity is not. In the...
The Pac Man Called Time, and The Great Question Mark
If you're young, say south of 40, stop now; you'll think these the irrelevant musings of an old man (middle aged nowadays, but whose counting). If you're in your 40s you're starting to relate to what I'll have to say (whatever I end up saying), and if you're in your...
Where Did The Idea of a Personal, Creator God Come From?
Being a person of extreme apologetic bent, I'm always looking to validate Christian truth claims. Apologetics is critical in a Western culture drenched in secularism, where most people fit into one of the Triple A categories: Atheist, Agnostic, or Apathetic. For them...
Articles on Culture
In What Kind of Culture Do 45,000 People a Year Commit Suicide?
The statistics tell us that 45,000 people kill themselves in America every year; that is 123 per day! According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (which obviously isn't doing a very good job), for every successful suicide, 25 people try to kill...
“Conspiracy” and the Longing for Justice
In the soon to be blockbuster best-seller, The Persuasive Christian Parent, I tell the story of "the clicker." Yes, that clicker, more commonly known as the remote control. As you'll read in the book, the clicker is a great tool for engaging popular culture with our...
Public (Government) Schools Must Be Abolished!
You can tell from the title of this post, that I won't be running for political office anytime soon. What's wrong with public schools? Why would I think they should be abolished? Many would call me crazy, but my argument is based on the first amendment to the...
Articles on Apologetics
Apologetics315 – An Invaluable Website for Defenders of the Faith
If you've ever heard, read, or interacted with an atheist you'll be familiar with one of their most absurd tropes: there is no evidence for the veracity of Christianity. Thus they define "faith" as a religious term that means believing without evidence, or in spite of...
Telos: The Secularists’ Worst Nightmare
Back in 1968 as the sexual revolution was raging, Pope Paul VI wrote a profoundly counter-cultural encyclical called Humanae Vitae. One of the things that made it so profound (and something completely missed by the Evangelical leaders of the day) was its appeal to...
Not Made Up Stories: That we may know the certainty of the things we have been taught
In addition to writing here at The Persuasive Christian Parent, several years ago I started writing my way through the Bible. I gave that blog the uninspiring title of, My Walk Through the Bible. Recently I finished the gospel of Mark and moved on to Luke. As I was...
Articles on Parenting and Family
God and the Evidence Agree: Good Old Nuclear Family Still Best
Unless you are wedded, no pun intended, to a left-wing ideological agenda you know intuitively that the traditional family of a married mother and father with children works best for the children. This is simply indisputable, and we can add more recently released...
Musician Sir the Baptist: I’m Anti-Religion, Not Anti-God
There is much talk in American culture about young Christians going off to college or into life and abandoning their faith. I'm sure there are many reasons why this is so, but I think one consistent reason is that teenagers see their parents and people in church live...
Polyamory for All!
The gay "marriage" ruling, the gift that keeps on giving. As one headline read: "‘Sister Wives’ family points to same-sex marriage cases in arguing against Utah polygamy ban." Of course they would, and they would be perfectly logical to do so. In fact, the Obergefell...