Below is an overview of the key points I’ve taught my classes so far in Core Theology. What comments or reaction do you have as you read through these? I’d value any thoughts. You can contact me here. From eternity, before creation, God has, by means of Christ, reconciled the world to Himself. From this … Continue reading Key Points in Core Theology
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Podcast: Visualizing A Biblical Worldview
This semester I discovered that my diagram for contrasting a biblical worldview with the worldview that surrounds us was not working for people too deeply entrenched and bitter about things. One student in particular was bitterly antagonistic toward the Green V worldview because she saw it as nothing more than the Red Pyramid world turned … Continue reading Podcast: Visualizing A Biblical Worldview
Podcast: Can you justify yourself?
Who are you? Where are you going? How did you get here? What happens when you die? Tune in to hear these questions considered. The chart that I reference in the episode can be viewed below. https://oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=20978060
Podcast: Is God just?
Why doesn't God do anything about the wicked? What does it mean to be made in the image of God, but not be God? What is the temptation that results from that? These are a few of the questions that are tackled in this episode. Below, you'll see the outline that is referenced in the episode. https://oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=20951108
Q&A: Homelessness
Kelly from Hawaii offered the following response to my post from a few weeks back concerning what to do about homelessness. It was a thoughtful one that I wanted to share: Question: I know your article could not have gone deeper for lack of space and time, but I think it was a little over … Continue reading Q&A: Homelessness
What is true Christian identity?
I try to keep myself fairly free from seeing what’s going on in the media. One problem (and maybe the only problem) with that is that we can walk innocently into mine fields without knowing it. This semester in teaching college theology courses, I met a new, higher level of antagonism against the Bible, the … Continue reading What is true Christian identity?
Homelessness–What can we do?
If we knew what to do about homelessness, wouldn’t we have done it by now? I know that capable people know the history and cause of the problem; some may even have good ideas for solving, but those ideas can’t get anywhere in a Red Pyramid world. Why should anyone desperate to have happiness in … Continue reading Homelessness–What can we do?
Making medical choices
How do we make sense of medical decisions from a godly perspective—which procedures should we pursue, and which shouldn’t we? The Red Pyramid world around us seems full of contrasts and contradictions until we remember the desperation to live in a body in a material world in this time only. Some people spend hundreds of … Continue reading Making medical choices
Peace in an angry world
Why do so many people seem to be so angry or easily angered so much of the time? Is that a question too big to tackle here? Maybe, but how ready people are to be angry and with such ferocity suggest that we should at least get a start on the subject. We know from … Continue reading Peace in an angry world
What to do about noise
Many years ago, the military noticed that helicopter pilots were suffering great fatigue just because of the noise the helicopter makes. Noise is fatiguing and certain kinds of noise can actually, literally, drive us to insanity. But what if noise drove us to one of three places (or all three!)? Turning off the noise. Jesus … Continue reading What to do about noise