0 A Culture Is Only as Good as Its Ideas

I’ve been reading Christianity Versus Fatalistic Religions in the War Against Poverty by Udo Middelmann, president of the Francis A. Schaeffer Foundation. In this book he tells how he visited an East African village and observed two very different ways of living.

0 FTNCI 020: Apologetics, Philosophy, and Rational Christianity

0 I Embraced Functional Gnosticism

I’ve encountered a mindset of compartmentalization in the church. In fact I shared it for a long time.

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

But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God. —2 Corinthians 4:2 ESV There is a godly way to address doctrinal controversy. And there are many […]

0 Unrealistic Predictions, COVID-19 Lockdown, Cost Lives

On May 6, Shelley Luther, a Dallas hair salon owner who ran her salon despite her governor’s executive order, was sentenced to 7 days in prison and was fined $7,000. Shelley refused to apologize and said that she needed to run her salon so that she and her employees could feed their kids.

0 The Fight Against Presuppositionalism: Why Does It Matter?

In the recent weeks, we’ve really amped up our opposition to presuppositional epistemology in the Church. We’ve even begun to see others (like Josh Sommer) begin to join the fight with helpful articles and videos. One of the questions we’re often asked is, “Why does this matter?” This is our attempt to give an answer.

0 The Immovable Mover — An Argument for the Egoist God

This is the working first chapter of a book I intend to publish one day entitled, “The Galt-Like God.” This chapter is my somewhat polemical argument for the existence of God presented to and for the admirer of Ayn Rand’s philosophy. However, one need not be familiar with Rand’s work in order to understand and […]

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

0 Dear Conservatives: Biblicism Won’t Stop Social Justice

“The Reformation doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture does not claim that Christians need only Scripture and not natural revelation, but that Christians need only Scripture and not other kinds of special revelation.” -David VanDrunen   “The Bible is enough” isn’t going to stop Christians who claim they see Social Justice and Intersectionality in the […]

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