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Americanism Book Study (October 23rd through December 18th 2021)

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Podcast Episodes

FTNCI 001: Why We Need New Christian Intellectuals

FTNCI 002: Against Fideism

FTNCI 003: Rediscovering Reason

FTNCI 004: Against Altruism

FTNCI 005: Holy Self-Interest

FTNCI 006: Christian Egoism

FTNCI 007: Against Collectivism

FTNCI 008: In Defense of Individualism

FTNCI 009: Christianity and Western Civilization

FTNCI 010: Revelation and Responsibility

FTNCI 011: The Importance of Apologetics with Guest Nick Peters

FTNCI 012: Did Jesus Exist? with Guest Nick Peters

FTNCI 013: Undesigned Coincidences in the Gospels and Acts with Guest Dr. Lydia McGrew

FTNCI 014: Exposing Russell Moore, Timothy Keller, and The Enemies Within the Church

FTNCI 015: Philosophy for the Christian Intellectual

FTNCI 016: Epistemology in the Christian Life, Ministry, and Worldview

FTNCI 017: Classical Epistemology for Christians – First Person Discernibility

FTNCI 018: War, Immigration and Walls + Division in the Church

FTNCI 019: Masculinity, Evasion, and the Incompetent Opposition to Social Justice

FTNCI 020: Apologetics, Philosophy, and Rational Christianity

FTNCI 021: What Socialism Does to Your Mind

FTNCI 022: What Is General Revelation? Why Does it Matter?

FTNCI 023: You Won’t Stop Marxism by Saying, “Just Focus on the Gospel.”

FTNCI 024: Toward a Theology of Polemics

FTNCI 025: Manhood Is a Mindset

FTNCI 026: The SIN of Voting Democrat

FTNCI 027: Is Moral Relativism Controlling Your Church?

FTNCI 028: Gun Rights & 1776 vs. the Christian Pansies

FTNCI 029: We Criticized John MacArthur and Tom Ascol. Here’s What We Learned.

FTNCI 030: Presuppositional Apologetics vs. Common Sense and Logic

FTNCI 031: Does God Hate Sinners? What Is a Biblical, Christian Answer?

FTNCI 032: Against the Tradcons and Ethno-Nationalists

FTNCI 033: Pastors Emasculated: How David Platt’s “Death to Self” Makes Men Too Weak to Fight Socialism

FTNCI 034: Epistemology Is the Heart of the Culture War: From G. Hegel to Ed Litton

FTNCI 035: Anti-Reagan Conservatism? American Reformer Sells Out Inalienable Rights, Repackages Timothy Keller

FTNCI 036: A Right to Say No? Is It Moral to Refuse the Vaccine?

FTNCI 037: My Body, My Choice? The Cost of Pretend Arguments

FTNCI 038: Natural Theology and Philosophy Matter

FTNCI 039: Reformed Christians: Do What John MacArthur and James White Won’t

FTNCI 040: Natural Theology | Christian Philosophy Q&A

FTNCI 041: Theistic Arguments & Natural Theology

FTNCI 042: Why Christians Need Wartime Polemics (Pt. 1)

FTNCI 043: Why Christians Need Wartime Polemics (Pt. 2)

FTNCI 044: Why Christians Need Wartime Polemics (Pt. 3)

FTNCI 045: The Rise and Triumph of Anti-Individualism

FTNCI 046: Do Mohler and Burk Really Believe Abortion Is Murder?

FTNCI 047: Christians CAN Win the Culture War

FTNCI 048: Social Media Strategy that Goes Beyond Owning the Libs

FTNCI 049: Why Christians Can Benefit from Ayn Rand

FTNCI 050: Americanism Book Study (1 of 9)

FTNCI 051: Americanism Book Study (2 of 9)

FTNCI 052: Americanism Book Study (3 of 9)

FTNCI 053: Americanism Book Study (4 of 9)

FTNCI 054: Americanism Book Study (5 of 9)

FTNCI 055: Americanism Book Study (6 of 9)

FTNCI 056: Americanism Book Study (7 of 9)

FTNCI 057: Americanism Book Study (8 of 9)

FTNCI 058: Americanism Book Study (9 of 9)

FTNCI 059: Objectivism Book Study (Week 01) – Axioms

FTNCI 060: Objectivism Book Study (Week 02) – Causality and Identity

FTNCI 061: Objectivism Book Study (Week 03) – Objective Metaphysics

FTNCI 062: Objectivism Book Study (Week 04) – Perception and Volition

FTNCI 063: Objectivism Book Study (Week 05) – Sensation and Consciousness

FTNCI 064: Objectivism Book Study (Week 06) – Perception and Focus

FTNCI 065: Objectivism Book Study (Week 07) – Volition

FTNCI 066: Objectivism Book Study (Week 08) – Concept Formation

FTNCI 067: Objectivism Book Study (Week 09) – Measurement Omission

FTNCI 068: Objectivism Book Study (Week 10) – Definitions

FTNCI 069: Objectivism Book Study (Week 11) — Objectivity

FTNCI 070: Objectivism Book Study (Week 12) — Context

FTNCI 070B: Objectivism Book Study (Week 12B) — Similarity

FTNCI 071: Objectivism Book Study (Week 13) — Hierarchy

FTNCI 071B: Objectivism Book Study (Week 13B) — Essences and Universals

FTNCI 072: Objectivism Book Study (Week 14) — Objective Epistemology

FTNCI 073: Objectivism Book Study (Week 15) — Reason and Emotion

FTNCI 074: Objectivism Book Study (Week 16) — Reason vs the Alternatives

FTNCI 075: Objectivism Book Study (Week 17) — Certainty and Context

FTNCI 076: Objectivism Book Study (Week 18) — Nature of Man

FTNCI 077: Objectivism Book Study (Week 19) — The Reasoning Individual

FTNCI 078: Objectivism Book Study (Week 20) — Life and Value

FTNCI 079: Objectivism Book Study (Week 21) — Value and Virtue

FTNCI 080: Objectivism Book Study (Week 22) — Objective Morality

FTNCI 081: Objectivism Book Study (Week 23) — Independence

FTNCI 082: Objectivism Book Study (Week 24) — Integrity and Honesty

FTNCI 083: Objectivism Book Study (Week 25) — Justice and Productiveness

FTNCI 084: Objectivism Book Study (Week 26) — Pride

FTNCI 085: Objectivism Book Study (Week 27) — Trader Principle and Force

FTNCI 086: Objectivism Book Study (Week 28) — Happiness

FTNCI 087: Objectivism Book Study (Week 29) — Individual Rights

FTNCI 088: Objectivism Book Study (Week 30) — Good and Bad Government

FTNCI 089: Objectivism Book Study (Week 31) — Capitalism as Moral

Coming Soon…

FTNCI 090: Objectivism Book Study (Week 32) — Capitalism as Objective

FTNCI 091: Objectivism Book Study (Week 33) — The Role of Art

FTNCI 092: Objectivism Book Study (Week 34) — Objective Esthetics

FTNCI 093: Objectivism Book Study (Week 35) — How Ideas Move History

Featured Articles

The New Christian Intellectual

Why We Need New Christian Intellectuals

The “Wisdom of the World”

Why Christians Should Repudiate Chambers’ “Review” of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged

On Intellectual Adultery

Revelation and Responsibility

Venezuela: Why We Must “Assign Blame”

Faith Is More Than Trust

Russell Moore Says Rights Are Never Absolute

Yes, Rights Are Always Absolute

The Unicorn Logic Against Free MarketsA Response to Andrew Strain at First Things

How Marxist Thinking Is Seeping Into the Church

Atlas Shrugged Essay (Third Place Winner!)

General RevelationDo You Understand It?

Ayn Rand and Christianity?

What is “Knowledge” in Romans 1?

Before Rethinking Hell, Rethink The Worthiness of God

What Does Justice Require? — On Racial Reconciliation

The Theological Problem With Tim Keller’s So-Called Social Justice

Why Christians Should Reconsider Ayn Rand

The Aquinas Option

In Defense of Leisure

Teaching Is Fundamentally an Invitation to Love

The Content of Social Justice: A Reply to Joe Carter

True Justice: Who Owns What—And To Whom Is What Owed?

How I Got From Alpha to Omega – A Rundown on this Month’s Presuppositionalism Discussions

Misplaced Idealism: Looking for Inspiration in the Wrong Place

It’s People They Want to Fetter: On The Immorality of the Anti-Capitalist Conservatives

How to Know If You Are a Presuppositionalist or a Classicalist

A Failing Movement—John MacArthur on Social Justice

7 Theses on Social Justice: Clear Definitions of Justice & Racism

Cultural Marxism in The Church: Menace or Myth?

Racial Equivocation & Serpentine Shepherds

A Woke Package-Deal

The Dangers of Loose Language on Racism – A Response to Piper on Structural Racism

O Foolish Americans—On Fighting the Bewitching Power of Sentiment

#TrustedForTruth? — An Open Plea To Dr. Al Mohler

Objectivism & Theism — Part 1: Introduction

Objectivism & Theism — Part 2: The Anti-Theistic Argument from Supernature

Thankful, To Whom?

Brothers, Value Your Self

Minimum-Wage Love

Dear Conservatives: Biblicism Won’t Stop Social Justice

The Immovable Mover — An Argument for the Egoist God

The Fight Against Presuppositionalism: Why Does It Matter?

Unrealistic Predictions, COVID-19 Lockdown, Cost Lives

Renouncing Disgraceful & Underhanded Ways—A Plea to Southern Seminary & Its Defenders

I Embraced Functional Gnosticism

A Culture is Only as Good as its Ideas

It’s Time to Start Naming & Dividing From Woke Pastors

How Great the Weight of Public Speech—A Call to Morally Charged Polemics

Yesterday, I Was Excommunicated.

Cutting Through The Obscurities on Justice — A Response to Tim Keller

Principles Over Personalities—A Response to Conservative Resurgence Voices

What Evangelical Christians Don’t Understand About Inequality and Privilege

Russell Moore and Joe Biden: Two Lifelong, Grandstanding Democrats

The Postmodernism of Traditionalism

“Tradition! Tradition!”

Blood-Red Church: How Redemption Colors Our Politics (Foreword)

The Prideful Consequences of a Bad Idea

The False Idol of Unity

Classical Liberalism vs Christian Nationalism in the “Negative World”

Understanding the Times

Roger Williams, the Civil Magistrate, and the First Table of the Law

The New Athens Statement

Beneath Sheep’s Clothing—Film Review

Blog Posts

Recommended Reading: Articles to Get Your Ideological Bearings

Make It Shine: 12 Checkpoints for your persuasive argument

The Plunder of the Egyptians: Recognizing the Wealth of Thinkers Past

John Locke on Faith

Why Did the Disciples Have Faith in Jesus?

How Changing Your Thoughts On Money Can Change Your Life

Understanding and Then Faith

Why Money Does Not Exist (Despite What’s In Your Wallet)

How Ugly Casinos Are Good For Cultural Transformation

Why Have Faith in Jesus? Is It Reason vs. Revelation?

Why Believe the Bible? Evidence.

Why Be Moral?

3 Reasons Everyone Should Love Big Oil

The Artist is a Trader, Miss Taggart

Why It’s Not “Better” To Give

The “Christian” Fairytale

Al Mohler Condemns Self-Interest in Voters

My Wife Loves Me Conditionally

Who Are You After The War?

Christian Rand Fan?

Being a Christian Individualist

The Reason We Fight

Love of Self?

“Self” on Trial: A Look at Christian Motivation

7 Lessons on Values from The Fountainhead

Brothers, Value Your Self

What Is Christian Individualism?

The Importance of Reversing John Piper’s Maxim

“Religious Liberty” — A Different Take

Citizens United: I Know I’m Late to This Party, But Man Can I Dance

How To Stop Special Interest Once And For All

Egoism or Communism: Christians Must Choose

Does Rational Self-Interest Mean “Faith for Hire”?

Why Business SHOULD Be Allowed To Discriminate

Christianity and Government: An Interview with Joseph Knowles

Terrorists Don’t Kill People… Ideas Do

The Most Powerful Question

Something Evil from the Mouth of God?

How to Change Anybody — 9 Tips for Writers

A Flowchart of Self-Interest

There Is No Such Thing As “Gay Rights” (or “Black Rights” or “Women’s Rights”)

Save Yourself

How to Love God More

How to Surrender No Premise

What Does Faith in Jesus Rest On?

Far As The Curse Is Found

O Bless Me Now, My Savior

Was Thomas’s Doubt Reasonable?

On Earth as It Is in Heaven

How Access To More Information Is Making Us Less Tolerant

What Getting Shellacked About Racism Taught Me About Politics

Make America Think Again: On Cultural and Christian Mindlessness

Selfish Love: With C.S. Lewis and Ayn Rand

Christianity, Humanism, and Civilization

The Holy Self-Interest of Jesus in the Garden

How Selfishness Is A Good Thing (And Biblical)

Jesus Christ AND Ayn Rand?

Christian Motivation: An Interview with Lydia Borengasser

To Enjoy God — By Glorifying Him Forever

The Siren’s Song: How Altruism Leads to Death

Ayn Rand on Christian Egoism: Part 1

Ayn Rand on Christian Egoism: Part 2

Jonathan Edwards on Egoism

The Egoism of Christian Hedonism

What If Your Definitions of “Right” and “Wrong” Are Wrong?

3 Questions That Will Change Your Life

5 Lies That Are Crippling You (Without You Realizing It)

The Insanity of “Balance”

The Single Most Important Subject You Could Ever Study

Athens & Jerusalem: General and Specific Revelation

Let’s Win This

Why Rational Self-Interest?

What You’re Forgetting When Your Faith Is Weak

He Who Promised Is Faithful

Using the Bible to Prove the Bible?

Why Conservatives Lose The Moral Argument: A Response to Matt Walsh

You’re a Legalist If You Draw a Clear Moral Line?

The Atheising Tendency of Altruism

Rational Self-Interest and the Worship of God

What Did Jesus Mean By “Judge Not”?

The Key Philosophical Mistake Christians Make: The Arbitrary vs. the Objective

“Social Justice”

The West’s Cultural Civil War

You Weren’t Very Persuasive Today

Justice: The Only Proper Foundation for Capitalism — (A Response to an Article by Wayne Grudem on The Gospel Coalition)

It’s Good To Be a Fighter, But This Is Even Better

The Root of America’s Inequality Problem

Do You Make This Mistake When Arguing?

Ethnic Diversity vs. Color-Blindness

The Winsome Gestapo: We Find Power in Bridling our OWN Tongues

Race vs. Culture & The New Non-Racial “Racism”

As You Consider Socialism

If Jesus Was a Socialist, He Would’ve Stayed in the Tomb

Are Conservative Christians Taking a Turn Toward Socialism?

10 Myths The Left Should Abandon: How to Bring Facts into the Conversation

Anti-Individualism in the Air: How do Christians and non-Christians evaluate individualism?

Christianity + Western Civilization

The Tone Police Have a New Favorite Weapon: Gospel Issue

How The Gospel Coalition is Killing The Gospel With “Social Justice”

Matthew 5:40–42 and the Charity Question

Speaking Out Like John Galt

Religious Liberty

How to Give a Perfect Answer (And Four Dangerous Mistakes to Avoid)

Jonathan Leeman Errs on Political “Preferences” and Christian Unity

Rethinking Poverty and Charity — Better ways to help the poor and the least of these

Who Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt?

Mere Eisegesis

Concerns with the American Charter and Russell Moore’s Involvement

Confessions of A Christian Social Justice Warrior

Toxic Masculinity?

Do You Think Our Criticism of Russell Moore and Timothy Keller Is Too General? Read This.

What premise makes this ghoulish behavior possible? Collectivism.

Why Couldn’t Sproul and Bahnsen Be Friends?

Beth Moore Pits Jesus Against Paul. Is This The Road To The First SBC Woman President?

Are Albert Mohler, Ligon Duncan, and Mark Dever Compromised?

Unclarity May Be Strategic for Al Mohler, But What the Church Needs Is Clear Truth.

Discernment is a Noble Thing, Phil Johnson

Why I Can Be Unfriendly

How To Deal with Christian Social Justice Warriors

Dever and Leeman Are Wrong — Christians Can Have No Fellowship with Democrats

You Look At Who I Platform—Sure Dr. Mohler

What If You Succeeded at Your Biggest Goal and Still Felt No Different?

Would Mark Dever Say Christians Can Vote for Democrats in Good Conscience?

What Can Anyone Do? How to Put a Stop to the Enemies Within the Church

Dinosaurs Prove My 4-Year Old Son Is a Functioning Classicalist

Did Ligon Duncan Mean to Endorse Sam Allberry’s Ideas on Same Sex Attraction?

ICYMI: Is Spock right? Do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few?

ICYMI: Communications & Decency

ICYMI: What is Biblical Justice — Debate with Jacob Brunton and Brandon Watts Tejedor

ICYMI: What Has Athens to Do with Jerusalem?

ICYMI: Shepherd’s Conference 2019 Q&A – What Does a Good Shepherd Do?

ICYMI: Shepherd’s Conference Q&A – Behind the Scenes Discussion with Jacob Brunton and Cody Libolt

The Author of Your Favorite Children’s “Bible” Is a Heretic. And Your Pastor Didn’t Know.

The Jesus Storybook Bible Ignores Authorial Intent to Build Its Own Narrative

The Core Theme of the Jesus Storybook Bible is Wrong

Sam Allberry’s Desires Are Inherently Sinful

Nipsey Hussle Was Tragically Murdered—And Identity Politics Is Still Bad.

Make the Neo-Marxists Feel How Unjust They Are

Can a Christian Really Say Taxation Is Theft?

Science, Economics, Politics

“Whiteness is Wickedness”?

How Goes the Battle?

Pray for the wicked men at Gillette. But don’t be weak. Identify your enemy.

Be Angry and Do Not Sin

I got WOKE this morning with a WOKE question.

Whoever Relaxes One of the Least of These Commandments

You Have a Big Goal — But What Can You Do THIS Month?

Western Civilization Smolders

Diverse Thoughts on the Burning of Notre-Dame

Rebuilding Notre Dame

Why Do Conservative Christians Blindly Follow Big-Name Moderates and Liberals?

It’s not for fun that I share this junk.

I’m Having a Little Fun with the PhDs

Thoughts on “Earth Day” — The socialists are all for it. The end.

Christian friends — It’s time to start creating online content…

Do You Want a Weak Pastor and a Sick Church?

I denounce and repudiate white nationalism, white supremacy, and racism.

Why the Political Left Has to Abuse Language

Woe to you, when all people speak well of you.

Stop Redefining White Supremacy If You Want To Be Taken Seriously

You can’t make this stuff up — But Joe Carter can.

Writers Block? Try Frasier’s Dirty Little Secret

Hone In On Your Distinct Message

Ethos — How to Gain Credibility for Your Argument

Step Up Your Game — Quit Burying the Lede

The Art of Culture War through Marketing

How do you make sure your opportunities are always expanding?

How do you get your body and your mind to serve you optimally?

How do you overcome procrastination and create peace of mind?

How do you find out what people actually want YOU to create?

How do you build trust AND never run out of content ideas?

How do you speak in a way that people find easy and relatable?

How do you get people to pay attention?

How do I find my life mission, my message, and my audience?

How do you know which idea to write about today?

Invest in people now — that way they will still listen to you in ten or twenty years.

How do you give your content the best chance to fly?

It’s dangerous to call a person “Fool.”

The Rabbit Hole: 25 Crazy Things Happening to Our Gospel Comrades

Beth Moore, Do You Have Your Own Rule Book?

Single? Waiting on the Lord?

Discernment Bloggers Want to Expose and Destroy Things.

Cody Libolt is a Coward. (I have a troll account.)

Why Did Eric Metaxas Quit Russell Moore’s Evangelical Immigration Table?

The Southern Baptist Convention Did What?!

Dr. Danny Akin On the Theology of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, SEBTS, May 2019

The Aftermath of Black Lives Matter

Moore Baloney: Russell Moore Redefines True Complementarianism at SBC19

Jesus Said Wolves Are Coming. Do You Have a Plan?

How to Fight for Truth Without Being “Wise in Your Own Eyes”

5 Easy Ways to Keep Tabs on the So-Called Gospel Coalition

Russell Moore’s Pragmatic Critique of Socialism Does More Harm than Good

The Parable of The Pit

Please Do Not Dignify Thabiti’s Unmanly Non-Apology

Radical Leftist Terrorism and the Gospel

What Are the Differences Between Being Conservative, Republican, and Right-Wing?

How to Tell Your Pastor His Position on Masks Makes Him the Weaker Brother

Christian Social Justice Warriors: Your Illiteracy is Boundless

A Quarrelsome Person? Response to The Gospel Coalition

MARS, A Rational And Scientific Review of The National Geographic Series

One Simple Question for James White (IMPORTANT UPDATES)

Self-Driving Trucks, A Case For Automation

I Used An “All Gender” Bathroom, It Was Awful

Bombs Or Bibles? The Only Solutions To The Middle East

Comparing Dunkirk and 1917

Trump, Vulture Capitalism, Gay Christianity, and the Porn Ban (ICYMI)

War, Immigration, and Walls + Division in the Church (ICYMI)

Masculinity, Evasion, and the Incompetent Opposition to Social Justice (ICYMI)

Van Til vs. Christianity

Why Is Presuppositionalism Mistaken?

Dear Dr. Frame: When Will the Presuppositionalists Clarify Their View?

Influencer Outreach: Weird Mistakes and What to Do Instead

No Presuppositionalist Is More than Half-Educated

Christian: You Must Learn to Distinguish Friend from Foe

We Are Not “In this Together.”

Friends, Allies, Neighbors, and Enemies

Why Does Cody Block Everyone?

Can Christians Defy Lockdown Orders?

Reflect on This, and May the Lord Give You Understanding

How To Prevent A Post-Covid Economic Collapse

Continue Exposing the Downgrade at Southern Seminary

Albert Mohler Is a J. K. Rowling Villain

Apologetics, Philosophy, and Rational Christianity (ICYMI)

What Socialism Does to Your Mind (ICYMI)

How to Talk About Systemic Racism (Like an Adult)

“We just need to focus on the gospel.”

What is General Revelation? Why Does it Matter? (ICYMI)

You Won’t Stop Marxism by Saying, “Just Focus on the Gospel.” (ICYMI)

Toward a Theology of Polemics (ICYMI)

Can a Faithful Christian Vote for a Democrat? Jonathan Leeman Thinks So.

How Can I Love Church Members with Different Politics? (BOOK REVIEW)

Christians Against Marxism: Get Off the Sidelines

Atlas Shrugged and the Silver Screen — Is a movie adaptation of Ayn Rand’s masterpiece possible? And what we need to make it happen.

On Division in the Church

Reflections On God And The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind

Cultural Marxists are Obsessed with Power. Here’s the Alternative.

Arguing with Atheists: Yea or Nay?

Manhood Is a Mindset (ICYMI)

Contrasting Race & Culture, Individualism & Collectivism (ICYMI)

How Tim Keller Gets Justice and Voting Wrong (ICYMI)

FTNCI’s Quick Guide to the Social Justice Controversy

The Woke Religionists Are All Wrong on Individual Rights

The SIN of Voting Democrat (ICYMI)

Is Moral Relativism Controlling Your Church? (ICYMI)

Gun Rights & 1776 vs. the Christian Pansies (ICYMI)

We Criticized John MacArthur and Tom Ascol — Here’s What We Learned. (ICYMI)

Presuppositional Apologetics vs. Common Sense and Logic (ICYMI)

Christian Pride — Made In God’s Image

Be a Man. Fight TODAY’S Battles

The Anger of a Good Man

Does God Hate Sinners? What Is a Biblical, Christian Answer? (ICYMI)

We Need Profane Authors

Against the Tradcons and Ethno-Nationalists (ICYMI)

Pastors Emasculated: How David Platt’s “Death to Self” Makes Men Too Weak to Fight Socialism (ICYMI)

Epistemology Is the Heart of the Culture War: From G. Hegel to Ed Litton (ICYMI)

Can American Society Be Reformed?

No, Gun-Grabbers and Pacifists Are Not “Loving Like Jesus”

Under Collectivism, You Find the Social Metaphysic

Anti-Reagan Conservatism? American Reformer Sells Out Inalienable Rights, Repackages Timothy Keller (ICYMI)

A Right to Say No? Is It Moral to Refuse the Vaccine? (ICYMI)

Capitalism VS Slavery

Tell These Filthy Children What They Have Become: Sign the Petition to Impeach Joe Biden

My Body, My Choice? The Cost of Pretend Arguments (ICYMI)

Bart Barber Defends Ed Litton: “God Inspired Mark to Plagiarize Peter”

Natural Theology and Philosophy Matter (ICYMI)

Is FTNCI useless?

Reformed Christians: Do What John MacArthur and James White Won’t (ICYMI)

Natural Theology | Christian Philosophy Q&A

James White Answers Jacob Brunton

Something Bad Happened, It Must Be Climate Change

Faith Is Key — But Most Christians Don’t Know What It Is

Guarding Against Nice Spirituality — The Angel

Pokémon And Genesis — A Welcome Connection

Christian Leaders: Moral Relativism Kills Your Credibility

Don’t surrender the point: Democrats are pro-death on EVERY major issue

Do We Need Government? What Limits Government?

What Is the “Common Good”?

Government Shall Not Take From the Mouth of Labor the Bread It Has Earned

Does Phil Vischer (VeggieTales) Actually Care About Injustice?

Tradition — The New Right, the Dissident Right, and Us.

Gossip Gang: Rosebrough, Johnson, and Peters Show Why Discernment Matters 

Netflix, Wednesday Adams, And The Glorification of Violence Against Males

No More Pretending

Black Little Mermaid – New Trailer, A Hopeful Skeptic’s Take

10 Points of Encouragement for the SJ Contras–From Dr. Mohler

Aren’t There “Public Goods”?

An Appeal to William Wolfe and Yoram Hazony

The Ten Lukewarm Commandments

Critiquing the “General Equity Theonomists”

No, You’re Not Really a Theonomist (If You Believe In Religious Liberty)

Why do you do the weird intermittent blocking thing?

A Skeptic’s Biggest Objection to Christianity

Gun Control and Gun Rights — A Rational Approach 

The Monoparable of Jesus Christ

The Problem With “Woke” Fiction

The Bible VS Socialism

Hatred of Man

The Global Conspiracy — And What You Can Actually Do

Disagreement VS Wickedness

How DEI Hiring Policies Hurt Everyone

Looking to get your writing SEEN?

The Importance of Objectivity in Polemics: A Case Study Involving AD Robles

Ayn Rand’s Political Theory: A Reading List

Do You Feed the Trolls?

Videos

Apologetics, Philosophy, and Rational Christianity

Debate: Presuppositionalism vs. Classicalism – Man’s Structure of Knowledge

Debate: What Has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

Debate: What Is Biblical Justice?

How I Got From Alpha to Omega – A Rundown on this Month’s Presuppositionalism Discussions (Video)

How to Know If You Are Presuppositionalist or a Classicalist

Why Bill Nye Is Not A Scientist – And Why It Matters

Social Justice and the Gospel – 01

Social Justice and the Gospel – Defining Terms – A Roundtable Discussion

Social Justice and the Gospel – How to Engage – A Roundtable Discussion

Jacob Brunton on Immigration & Individual Rights – Interview with Matt Travis

Shepherd’s Conference 2019 Q&A: What Does a Good Shepherd Do?

Shepherd’s Conference Q&A: Behind the Scenes Discussion with Jacob Brunton and Cody Libolt

Rethinking Poverty and Charity  — Better Ways to Help the Poor and the Least of These

R.C. Sproul: The Inherent Logical Discrepancies Within the Presuppositional Apologetic

Shapiro vs. Brook: Reason, Religion, and Rational Self-Interest Part 1

Shapiro vs. Brook: Reason, Religion, and Rational Self-Interest Part 2

Shapiro vs. Brook: Reason, Religion, and Rational Self-Interest Part 3

Shapiro vs. Brook: Reason, Religion, and Rational Self-Interest Part 4

Moral Truths, Ayn Rand, and Christianity

Philosophy for the Christian Intellectual

Social Justice: Challenging Timothy Keller’s Generous Justice

Epistemology in the Christian Life, Ministry, and Worldview

Classical Epistemology for Christians – First Person Discernibility

Individual Rights and Justice

Divine Egoism

Christian Egoism

Implications of Christian Egoism

The Necessity of Moral Judgment

The Unreason of Social Justice and Presuppositionalism (Q&A)

The Connection Between Presuppositionalism and Cultural Marxism

The Sin of Moderation: Why Trying to Be a Moderate in Morality and Politics Is Evil

Jonathan Edwards and Divine Egoism

Ideology Is Bad, Say Conservatives. But Why?

SJWs Will Keep Winning Until Christians Learn This

Exposing Russell Moore, Timothy Keller, and The Enemies Within The Church

Problems with Theonomy – Is It Theonomy vs. Religious Liberty?

Is Jesus an Altruist?

Is Spock Right? Do the Needs of the Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few?

What Is Neo-Marxism?

Racism & Schism — Division of the Church due to redefinitions, ignorance, and apathy.

Captive Audience: A Parody of the Hurtful Rhetoric of The Witness

Big Eva & The Enemies Within the Church

SBC Affirms Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality? Why Is Race Becoming Such a Divisive Issue?

Philosophy and Theology: How Are they Different—and Related?

50 Years Since Apollo 11—But Why Do Liberals and Conservatives Hate Industrial Progress?

“I am a racist” – Matthew Hall, Provost at Southern Seminary

SBC Professor Caught Pushing Liberation Theology

Jarvis Williams on “Whiteness” Pursuing Gospel Centered Racial Reconciliation

How To Use Your Emotions… So They Help You And Make Your Life Better

Capitalism: The Answer To Social Justice

Dear Social Justice Contras…

Debate on Libertarian Free Will – Jacob Brunton vs Kyle Alander

Four Horsemen of the Tonepocalypse

So You Want To Fight Against Cultural Marxism?

War, Immigration, and Walls + Division in the Church

Trump, Vulture Capitalism, Gay Christianity, and the Porn Ban

Masculinity, Evasion, and the Incompetent Opposition to Social Justice

Christian: You Must Learn to Distinguish Friend from Foe

What Socialism Does to Your Mind

What is General Revelation? Why Does it Matter?

You Won’t Stop Marxism by Saying, “Just Focus on the Gospel.”

Toward a Theology of Polemics

Tucker Carlson is Wrong on Morality of Capitalism

How Tim Keller Gets Justice and Voting Wrong

Contrasting Race & Culture, Individualism & Collectivism

Manhood Is a Mindset

Evangelicals Embrace Systemic Racism Lie

The SIN of Voting Democrat

Is Moral Relativism Controlling Your Church?

Gun Rights & 1776 vs. the Christian Pansies

We Criticized John MacArthur and Tom Ascol. Here’s What We Learned.

Presuppositional Apologetics vs. Common Sense and Logic | Part 1

Presuppositional Apologetics vs. Common Sense and Logic | Part 2

Does God Hate Sinners? What Is a Biblical, Christian Answer?

Against the Tradcons and Ethno-Nationalists

Pastors Emasculated: How David Platt’s “Death to Self” Makes Men Too Weak to Fight Socialism

Epistemology Is the Heart of the Culture War: From G. Hegel to Ed Litton

American Reformer Sells Out Inalienable Rights, Repackages Timothy Keller

A Right to Say No? Is It Moral to Refuse the Vaccine?

My Body, My Choice? The Cost of Pretend Arguments

Natural Theology and Philosophy Matter

Reformed Christians: Do What John MacArthur and James White Won’t

Natural Theology | Christian Philosophy Q&A

Theistic Arguments & Natural Theology

Why Christians Need Wartime Polemics (Pt. 1)

Why Christians Need Wartime Polemics (Pt. 2)

Why Christians Need Wartime Polemics (Pt. 3)

The Rise and Triumph of Anti-Individualism

Do Mohler and Burk Really Believe Abortion Is Murder?

Christians CAN Win the Culture War

Social Media Strategy that Goes Beyond Owning the Libs

Why Christians Can Benefit from Ayn Rand

Objectivism Book Study (Week 01) – Axioms

Objectivism Book Study (Week 02) – Causality and Identity

Objectivism Book Study (Week 03) – Objective Metaphysics

Objectivism Book Study (Week 04) – Perception and Volition

Objectivism Book Study (Week 05) – Sensation and Consciousness

Objectivism Book Study (Week 06) – Perception and Focus

Objectivism Book Study (Week 07) – Volition

Objectivism Book Study (Week 08) – Concept Formation

Objectivism Book Study (Week 09) – Measurement Omission

Objectivism Book Study (Week 10) – Definitions

Objectivism Book Study (Week 11) — Objectivity

Objectivism Book Study (Week 12) — Context

Objectivism Book Study (Week 12B) — Similarity

Objectivism Book Study (Week 13) — Hierarchy

Objectivism Book Study (Week 13B) — Essences and Universals

Objectivism Book Study (Week 14) — Objective Epistemology

Objectivism Book Study (Week 15) — Reason and Emotion

Objectivism Book Study (Week 16) — Reason vs the Alternatives

Objectivism Book Study (Week 17) — Certainty and Context

Objectivism Book Study (Week 18) — Nature of Man

Objectivism Book Study (Week 19) — The Reasoning Individual

Objectivism Book Study (Week 20) — Life and Value

Objectivism Book Study (Week 21) — Value and Virtue

Objectivism Book Study (Week 22) — Objective Morality

Objectivism Book Study (Week 23) — Independence

Objectivism Book Study (Week 24) — Integrity and Honesty

Objectivism Book Study (Week 25) — Justice and Productiveness

Objectivism Book Study (Week 26) — Pride

Objectivism Book Study (Week 27) — Trader Principle and Force

Objectivism Book Study (Week 28) — Happiness

Objectivism Book Study (Week 29) — Individual Rights

Objectivism Book Study (Week 30) — Good and Bad Government

Objectivism Book Study (Week 31) — Capitalism as Moral

Coming Soon…

Objectivism Book Study (Week 32) — Capitalism as Objective

Objectivism Book Study (Week 33) — The Role of Art

Objectivism Book Study (Week 34) — Objective Esthetics

Objectivism Book Study (Week 35) — How Ideas Move History

Critiquing the “General Equity” Theonomists

Preaching One Verse Each Week?

An Appeal to William Wolfe and Yoram Hazony

Short Summary: What Does the Bible Teach About Expansive Governments and Taxes?

Blood-Red Church (You Need This Book)

Andrew Sandlin is right: We need more liberals

Q: Do you oppose race realism?

Dear AD Robles: Here are 7 Cheap Tactics Christian Nationalists Should Avoid, Your Friend, Cody

Election 2022 Winner – Government Schools

Cultural Marxists are Obsessed with Power. Here’s the Alternative.

Are there ways that Stephen Wolfe is right?

“For the New Christian Intellectual?”

“Humble, Self-Effacing, and Proud of It”

Teach us to number our days. Aim for honesty.

“Pastors must not be politically partisan!”

Was the “conservative” turn toward statism really unpredicted?

The Regime, The Cathedral, and Big Eva

Avoid Getting Friend-Zoned

Is Ideology Bad?

Get GREAT at talking about politics?

What’s WRONG with racism? (How would you answer…)

Society is in decline, therefore give the state more powers? (How would you answer…)

Should you be a Dominionist? (How would you answer…)

New Founding claims Ancient Egypt as Inspiration

The rise of post-liberal thought? (How would you answer..)

Dunking on Tim Keller again?

Disappointed on your life progress? (How would you answer…)

Barbarians vs. Rights Respecters

I want YOU to make videos

Did Jesus teach self-denial for its own sake? (How would you answer…)

What is the limit of government? (How would you answer…)

Is Social Justice Merely “Off Mission”?

Should you argue on social media? (How would you answer…)

The Lord will judge his people.

Why I block so much.. (Psalm 26:4-5)

Please stop using “Sola Scriptura” this way…

Imprecatory Prayers? (How would you answer…)

Self-sacrifice is not an end in itself…

Should you CARE what others think? (How would you answer…) 

The Cost of Van Tillianism

Michael Foster is right. (Why we post hot takes…)

Is Social Justice “Off Mission”?

My long record of failing to persuade people (and what to do…)

“So anyways, tax the rich”

What is really going on between William Wolfe and me?

How Andrew Torba Twists the Great Commission

Yes or No? Do You Feed the Trolls?

The Lord will judge each person.

How Do Calvinists Understand the Warnings Against Falling Away?

Why we fight SO much… (culture war, winning, being a man of peace)

Masculine Theology? (How would you answer…)

Lacking motivation? This works.

He is like a tree planted by streams of water

Brotherly Reply to AD Robles (Christian Nationalism / Classical Liberalism)

What I’ve been up to and why it works

Discerning Stephen Wolfe – A Two Year Reflection

Discover Your Two MOST Important Gifts

 

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