A few years ago, biblical scholar Michael Heiser came out with his book, The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible. From time to time, someone would ask me if I had read it, to which I replied, “Not yet.” Well, to make a long story short, that “not yet” has now come…
Even though I’ve never formally met Frank Schaeffer, he has played a fairly interesting part in my life as a whole, and in my faith journey in particular. In high school in the mid-1980s, it was his book Bad News for Modern Man that convinced me that Christians had to fight the culture war against…
For a variety of reasons, I have not been writing too many new posts for the past few months. Most of my time has been split up three ways: (1) Working on what I hope to be a REAL New Testament Introduction book, geared for people who AREN’T scholars and just want to get a…
Over the past few days, I have seen a number of posts on social media about Hugo Mendez’s recent article, “Did the Johannine Community Exist?” The title and the abstract to the article immediately threw up a number of red flags for me. It seems that every now and then someone write an article or…
Last week, I came across a John Stossel video entitled, “Trump: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.” It got me thinking about the entire Trump phenomenon that has gripped the United States over the past four years. It is constantly before our eyes. It is plastered on social media and is 24/7 coverage on…
A couple of months ago, Sy Garte, a biochemist and the current editor-in-chief of God and Nature Magazine, came out with a semi-autobiography entitled, The Works of His Hands: A Scientist’s Journey from Atheism to Faith. I’ve known Sy via a few Facebook groups that discuss issues of faith and science and a few months…
Over the past week, Ken Ham has taken to Twitter on two different occasions to attack Christianity Today and The Christian Post for the sin of associating with people who do not accept Ken Ham’s “gospel” of YECism. Sadly, it no longer comes as a surprise to see this divisive tactic coming from YECist circles….
Over the past few years, I have learned that when it comes to the modern creation/evolution debate, arguments both for and against young earth creationism and evolution tend to be shaped, or at the very least, influenced by, other cultural and political factors. I have been involved in plenty of creation/evolution discussions and debates over…
If there is one thing everyone should realize about the Trump presidency, it is this: There never is any down time. Everything is at fever pitch, all the time, constantly…every second of every day. In fact, part of me wonders if anyone has even breathed in the past three years. Just in the past three…
We now come to Part 8 in my series on how the New Testament writers use the Old Testament. In my last post, I looked at the opening verses of the Gospel of Mark. In this post, though, I’m going to look at Mark’s account regarding John the Baptist’s baptism of Jesus in the Jordan…