Campus Preacher

Tacitus said that Christians were identified as “haters of the human race.” There is nothing new under the pluralist sun and Christians are still identified as “haters of humanity,” which is still the pretext of their marginalization/persecution in a pluralist State.

I first heard Rush Limbaugh in the early ’90’s, then in the summer of ’92, I read his book “The Way Things Ought to Be,” which had a profound influence on my thinking, and was a means the Lord used to bring me to the Gospel. This is a small tribute or thank you to Rush, acknowledging the places he influenced me.

I just wanted to use alliteration. Building from Ep. 76 on Isaiah 7 and Matthew’s use of “fulfillment” and the virgin birth, I wanted to further show how this hermeneutic applies to Matthew 2 and Hosea 11.

Matthew’s Gospel introduces Jesus via virgin birth, appealing to Isaiah 7, but, it is argued, that Isaiah 7 is not a predictive prophecy of an event 700 years into the future, but deals with the birth of a child during the life of King Ahaz. How doe we understand this?

Whether you are on the Right or the Left, I think it’s fairly plain that chaos abounds in the United States. The root issue is worship. In this episode, I seek to address our political idolatry and the way the forward.

What is reason? Reason is often thrown out in discussions, but it is often used differently by different people. In order to properly grasp the “argument from reason” for God’s existence, we need to properly understand reason.

A response to Tim Keller’s article in the New York Times about Christians the two party system and where Christians fit in.

At the beginning of this year, I first heard about the Cosmic Skeptic and watched a debate he had about “The Argument from Reason” as a proof for God. I don’t believe his naturalist/atheist position is tenable and I seek to explain why over a couple episodes. In this episodes, I discuss the metaphysical distinctions b/t naturalism and theism.

Debrief the FLF Conference and being asked on campus if I think men own women? My answer is “yes!” Well, husbands own their wives…

Part 3 of our series on “Racist. Sexist. Anti-Gay.”

The charge of “Racist! Sexist! Anti-Gay!” is often lobbed at Christians. How should we understand and interact with this?

If you’re a Christian, you’ve probably been accused of being “racist,” “sexist,” and “anti-gay.” The early Church was accused of being cannibals, incestuous, and atheists. Rhetorical bullying is nothing new. How did we get here and where do we go? In this episode, and in the next two, Aaron Ventura of Christian Reformed Fellowship and I discuss just...

Much evangelism begins with “sin” and “hell” and preach the Gospel as a means for the forgiveness of sin and salvation from Hell. This is often separated from the doctrine of creation and why God created the heavens and earth. Yet, man was made to have dominion over the whole earth and the through Adam’s rebellion that dominion was compromised. The Gospel, through the...

What’s the place of fear in Evangelism?

J.D. Greear, the President of the SBC, gave a state of the union type address last week, discussing several key issues in the SBC along with Black Lives Matter. I think he misses the mark. Ironically, atheist Sam Harris hits a bullseye on what we need to do to move forward in the discussion.

I was asked, if you were leading the Reformed Churches during this time, what would you do? I think spending a few weeks preaching the holiness of God is in order. We have almost completely lost the idea of God’s holiness, even mentioning it makes people think of hellfire preaching. While a fruit of God’s holiness is that the wicked cannot stand in the congregation of the righteous, it...

The riots and protests the past week has been classic American “revivalism,” people demonstrating great emotion, repenting, and taking up a new religious cause. In this ep, responding to a friends question about what I would do if I was in charge of the Reformed Church in given us a direction in our current crisis. In this episode, I discuss the call to commitment, take up your cross....

Revolution and Conspiracy Theories are in the air. In this ep, I take a brief look at the religious nature of the protest, appealing to Eugene Peterson’s thoughts on crowds, and give a quick intro to the idea of conspiracy theories and the Christian.

In “How Jesus Became God” Bart Ehrman argues that the historian cannot determine if Jesus rose from the dead, but the historian can affirm that the disciples did in fact have “visions” of Jesus post crucifixion. Seek to show the internal incoherence of Ehrman’s view.

Bart Ehrman in “How Jesus Became God” argues that there is little historical probability to the Gospel’s account of Jesus’ burial and, obviously, his resurrection. In this episode, we look at Bart’s claim that the Roman’s would’ve left Jesus on the cross, that burial was in a mass grave, and that Pilate, being a bad hombre, wouldn’t have allowed Jesu...