Good stuff from Jase Robertson:
Do you think much about the big questions of life? Do you spend much time considering why we are here or what has gone wrong with the world? Have you examined various answers to possible solutions to that problem or wondered how we should live as a result? Do you have...
I argued below that pagan myths and non-Christian religions can contain truth and therefore believers should be careful not to go to extremes in trying to deny parallels between Christianity and other faiths. However, that does not mean that all religions are on par...
In my last post, I argued that there is no need to deny similarities between Christianity and other religions. I also promised a post or two on the fact that Christianity is also very distinct from other religions. Here is the first. One unique aspect of Christianity...
In his wonderful Philosophy of Religion, Fulton J. Sheen expounds on several false assumptions underlying many studies of comparative religion. Here is a major one: is is commonly believed that the Divine and True Religion must be different from all other human...
HORATIO [After interacting with a ghost] O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! HAMLET And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Is there more to life than meets the...
The Sacred and the Profane is a classic work of scholarship that provides strong evidence in support of a Christian worldview. Mircea Eliade’s study of the history of religions builds on and strengthens Rudolph Otto’s The Idea of the Holy, in which Otto argues...
Jesus’ death and resurrection is a huge obstacle to belief for many seekers and skeptics. They don’t understand why Jesus would have to die in order for God to forgive us or what it is about blood sacrifice that makes salvation possible. Indeed, their gut reaction is...
“A New Creation” – 2 Corinthians 5:17 Don preaches about the parallels between some of the major events in biblical history (including the flood and the crossing of the Red Sea) to show that God’s overarching purpose in redemption is not just to forgive...
I recently read a skit in a children’s curriculum book about the work of Christ on the cross. The instructions went something like this: First, choose a kid from the audience that you are sure does not know that much about Christian theology. Have him come to the...
I often talk with atheists who believe that matter is all that exists and that we live in a closed system of naturalistic cause and effect. In other words, they hold to some form of philosophical naturalism. I won’t detail the full argument here, but one of the...
I recently read about a new Christian ministry that is making great inroads into a previously unreached subculture of American life. It’s called the Association of Christian Car Thieves (ACCT) and has opened chapters in 14 major American cities over the past 2 years....
As J.P. Moreland recounts in the wonderful book In Search of a Confident Faith, he was speaking at a large church about how to nurture “God-confidence” when the following episode took place: As we were taking a coffee break, a young man on the church staff approached...
Skeptics often ask me why God wasn’t more concerned about slavery in the Old Testament. They suggest that God should have been a stronger advocate for freedom. The fact that he wasn’t supposedly shows a) God is immoral or unfair and/or b) There is a disunity...
The Don Johnson Show, 2-1-13 Rick Schenker is President and CEO of Ratio Christi, a campus-based Christian apologetics organization that is taking off around the world. Don talks to Rick about the ministry and how you can be involved.
You can tell you a lot about a culture by the buildings. What is the focal point of city or town? What are the highest, biggest, and most dazzling structures used for? Answering these questions will usually help explain what the people consider most valuable. We build...
I wrote in a previous post that abortion is essentially the same as pagan child sacrifice in that it involves the killing of babies in an effort to attain physical pleasure and material wealth. Abortion and child sacrifice to idols are similar in that the motivation...
The Don Johnson Show, 1-21-13 This week contained many culturally controversial events: President Obama was inaugurated on Monday, which was also Martin Luther King Day, and Tuesday was the 40th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision. Don and Brandon discuss how...
Should we even bother trying to reason with people about Jesus? Absolutely. We are rational creatures and, as we saw in the previous post, God certainly tries to use apologetics with us. He presents evidence that is intended to lead us to certain conclusions. “Come,...
Religious skeptics like to present themselves as harbingers of reason, courageous and deep thinkers who base their beliefs entirely on the evidence, standing boldly against the tide of irrational Christians who take blind leaps of faith and accept propositions in...
The Don Johnson Show, 1-7-13 Corinna Nicalou is going to visit every church in her area in order to understand religion better and perhaps find God. Don and Brandon discuss her quest and take issue with some advice Corinna has received from Christians on her...
The Don Johnson Show, 1-4-13 Don interviews J. Warner Wallace about his new book Cold Case Christianity. Wallace is an L.A. County homicide detective and former atheist who examined the evidence for the claims of Christianity and was convinced they were true. In his...
The Presence Model of Evangelism – 1 Peter 2:4-12 Don preaches about how God’s presence is the essential means by which he reaches out to the world. As such, believers need to do a lot more than just provide the lost with information; we need to exercise...
The Don Johnson Show, 12-24-12 Atheist Stephen Marche explains why seemingly miraculous events left his stomach in knots and why he was so relieved to see that bad things still happen. In discussing this article, Don and Brandon reference other apparent acts of God,...
The Don Johnson Show, 12-17-12 How the Christmas story shows God’s response to the evil in Newtown. For further reference see articles by Ross Douthat, Albert Mohler, Russell Moore, and Ravi Zacharias. Is it better to hold to vague and false doctrine or be...
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