Apologetics goes to the movies! Grab some popcorn and learn how Hollywood’s most memorable heroes shine the spotlight on the ultimate hero of the universe, Jesus Christ. In their new fast-paced work, Hollywood Heroes: How Your Favorite Movies Reveal God seasoned apologists Frank Turek (Crossexamined.org) and his son, Captain Zach […]
“If God takes human dignity and freedom seriously, then when man decides to plant corn, he won’t bring up strawberries.”[1] I heard this quote in a lecture recently and I began to think of ways to help our children think more deeply as we plant seeds down into the soil […]
Q: Why do we love to imitate nature? A: Because we are created in the image of the Creator of Nature and experience joy as we create after the pattern of our Creator. Psalm 104:24 O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all (Paper […]
In the early pages of the Bible, we read an ineffable profundity: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27) It’s difficult to say how much effort and ink has gone into traversing this […]
The Dutch apologist, Cornelius Van Til, made a fascinating apologetic argument from our use of simple sentences. He said every time we predicate we presuppose the God of the Bible. What does that mean? In grammar class, we learned that a predicate is anything that can be said about a […]
Dr. R. Scott Smith, professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at BIOLA University, once told me that he took his daughter to the grocery store when she was young to introduce her to the concept of universals and particulars, or the unity and diversity we see all around us. […]
Before I enrolled in the apologetics master’s program at BIOLA, I had never heard Christians speak of God’s existence as a probability. I was flummoxed from Day 1. In our class lectures and discussion forums, I was introduced to a new way of talking about God. Instead of speaking about […]
The following is an extract taken from the address “Uses of Astronomy”, presented by Edward Everett at the inauguration of the Dudley Observatory, at Albany, N.Y. (1856) It is a beautiful example of how words can paint pictures in our mind. It’s also an extended example of an Argument from […]
We hear a lot about love in the springtime and yet, most people cannot define it. Contemporary culture issues proclamations such as “Love is Love”, which is unhelpful and places the concept at the mercy of limitless subjective interpretations. How can we recapture the meaning of the word? Thankfully, God […]