Knowing God

Here is a link to another Understanding the Gospel podcast I contributed to. Hope it's helpful.

Suffering

Here is another episode of the UtG podcast that I have contributed to. It is on the subject of suffering. Please have a listen and spread the word.

What is faith?

I had a very frustrating discussion with someone recently about faith. This word is being mangled beyond recognition such that, when people hear it, something comes to mind which never would have occurred to anyone using the word at any other time in history.

The Greatest Person ever born

A baby – the epitome of weakness, in a manger – the epitome of poverty, and yet Christmas carols declare, and Christians believe, that this baby in the manger is none less than “Christ, by highest heaven adored, Christ, the everlasting Lord.” But are there any good reasons to believe that the baby in the manger is the Creator? Let’s look at three.

The Greatest Story ever told

The Creator entering into His creation to sacrifice Himself for His creatures – there is no story like it, but is it just a story, or is it true?

I don't (want to) know

I was talking to an atheist friend of mine a while ago, and I asked him how he could account for reason if the only reality is physical reality.

Ehrman's error

Bart Ehrman is a New Testament textual critic who used to be a professing Christian but is now an agnostic and writes books that seek to cast doubt on the reliability of Scripture, but his arguments are self-contradictory.

Respect

I told you in a previous post about an atheist friend (Robert) I had a chat with. I want to focus on another aspect of our conversation. 

Thinking about thinking

I had a very enjoyable conversation recently with a man who told me he didn’t believe in God. The reason he gave for his view was that he didn’t think there was any reason to believe in God.

A matter of taste or a matter of fact?

I had an interesting conversation recently with a very friendly lady who introduced herself to me as a Pagan / Wiccan, with a bit of Mormon thrown in.

But what about...?

It is one of the most common responses to the evidence for the miracles of Jesus in general and His resurrection in particular – “What about all the miracles reported in other religions?” As if believing in the miracles reported in the Gospels binds the Christian by the cords of consistency to believe in all reported miracles.

The reliability of the Bible

Here is another video from the Understanding the Gospel website.

Can We Trust the Gospels? Book review

I just finished a book by Peter J. Williams, Can We Trust the Gospels?

Here's what I think of it...

Two simple facts, one startling truth

The cornerstone of Christianity is the resurrection of Christ – if it happened, Christianity is true; if it didn’t, it isn’t.

Who is God?

Here is a video I was asked to do for the new Understanding the Gospel website. I hope you find it helpful.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence? OK then.

We often hear from atheists that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. They think the Christian is obliged to provide this extraordinary evidence to support his "extraordinary" claims, but the gun they are holding is pointing at themselves.

Has science buried God?

Some ideas become so imbedded in the sub-conscious of a culture that they are assumed without challenge. One of those notions is that science has buried God.

Imagine...

Imagine

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today... Aha-ah...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

John Lennon (1971)

John Lennon invites us to imagine what it would be like if there were no heaven or hell. Let’s do just that.

Mental Health issues?

I just heard a very angry man on the radio denounce all believers in God as being mentally ill. I have a couple of things to say...

"That's just...my interpretation!"

I had a great chat yesterday with a man who was very friendly and willing to talk about the gospel and the evidence for it.