Another chapter I found helpful in Voddie Baucham’s “Expository Apologetics” book was chapter 8 “The Expository Apologetic Waltz.” Here we get some practical wisdom on how to use expository apologetics in conversations with unbelievers. Baucham reminds us that “one of the first things we must learn to do is ask people to engage with us. […]
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Voddie Baucham’s “Expository Apologetics” Chapter 3: “Why Unbelief” In a previous post I gave an overview for Baucham’s book “Expository Apologetics.” Here I consider some quotes and ideas from chapter 3 “Why Unbelief,” which I found to be a good reminder of some basic principles we as believers can carry with us into apologetics conversations. […]
Book Review: “Expository Apologetics” by Voddie Baucham The book is an explanation of how a believer—preacher or layman—might address skeptics and apologetical questions with “the power of the Word.” I found it a helpful book in line with the presuppositional apologetic tradition which emphasizes the authority and power of God’s Word. Voddie Baucham was once […]
Here’s a summary of Lewis’ argument for existence of God from the existence of objective morality taken from his book “Mere Christianity.” I’ve sought to summarize his argument and provide some helpful quotes from it. Ch 1: Objective Moral Laws Really Exist and We Fail to Keep Them.-“appealing to some kind of standard of behavior […]
A Portrait of the Pharisees, Sadducees, Chief Priests, Scribes and Religious Leaders from Matthew Our church in Naperville, Cross of Christ Fellowship, is working its way through the Gospel of Matthew. We have reached a point in the Gospel where Jesus confronts the Pharisees and Jewish leaders of his day (Matt 21-23). As this is […]
Christians hold that Jesus is king (Matt 21:1-11). All who become Christians receive Jesus as their lord and king (Col 2:6). This is a king like no other: he, though he is God and king, died for the sins of his people (Phil 2:6-11; Matt 20:28). He is the king of kings and lord of […]
Does Matthew hold to penal substitutionary atonement, a theological position clearly taught in the Apostle Paul and other places of Scripture? After studying and preparing to preach on Matthew 20:17-28, I have a great confidence to what I already knew: YES, Matthew does hold to the theological view known as penal substitutionary atonement. In preparing […]
This past year I listened to “A Life-Long Love” by Gary Thomas. (This was a free audio book I received through Christian Audio (https://christianaudio.com/); this org puts out a free Christian audio book every month!). The book has some convicting and encouraging and reorienting lessons for married believers to apply and live out in their […]
“12 Be appalled, O heavens, at this; be shocked, be utterly desolate, declares the LORD,13 for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.” Jeremiah 2:12-13 God raised up Jeremiah to decry the evil of […]
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Prosperity Gospel-Lite
It is easy to point out the mistakes of the Joel Olsteen “Your Best Life Now” theology. The prosperity gospel is far removed from the NT teaching on the cost of discipleship (Matt 16:24-26) and the reality that suffering is something that Christians will endure in this life (Phil 1:29). Most in my circles (evangelical, […]
