What are your expectations for the new year?
Do you have plans that you are looking forward to? Or are you nervous about all the things that you see in the news, and things that experts have said might be coming this year? Maybe some of both?
One of the …
(Or alternatively titled, "How To Defeat Satan With A Bowl of Oatmeal.")
It's fairly well known that December can be a tough month for many people.
One survey suggests that 64% of people feel the 'holiday blues', and twenty four percent of people feel these blues quite strongly. The blues …
In several of my past blog posts, I have been building a case for why I believe that some sort of theory of Christian inclusivism is necessary if Christians want to believe everything the Bible says about which individuals will be eternally saved.
As a reminder, Christian inclusivism is the …
In my past several posts, I have been building a case for why I believe that some sort of theory of Christian inclusivism is necessary if Christians want to believe everything the Bible says about which individuals will be eternally saved.
As a reminder, Christian inclusivism is the idea that …
In my previous two posts, I've focused on answering the question of who will ultimately experience eternal life in the New Heaven and New Earth (Revelation 21:1).
Already, two options have been eliminated:
In my previous blog post, I explained why I think that God truly wants to save everyone.
Yet the fact that the Bible says that God clearly wants to save everyone doesn't necessarily mean that God actually will save everyone.
But why not? If God truly loves everyone, and if …
If you have ever attended a Christian church, I hope that you would have heard things like:
If there's one trait that I think we need in order to be strong Christians in our world today, it's the courage to be disliked. At worst, we might even need the courage to be outright hated.
Of course, no one wants to be disliked or hated. That's why peer …
As part of my preparation for my dissertation defence in August 2021, I was asked to think about why my doctoral research matters to the church.
At first glance, I admit that my investigation into why the eighteenth-century Puritan theologian Jonathan Edwards believed that God predestines most people to hell …
If you've heard a little about what Christianity teaches about the future, and have been paying attention to what's going on in the world over the last little while, you might be asking questions like: