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July 2021

July 13, 2021

Four Ways Tim Keller’s Gospel Falls Flat

In the penultimate chapter of his Reason for God, Tim Keller attempts to pull together...

July 12, 2021

Seven Bad Arguments for the Resurrection of Jesus

Maybe I spoke too soon. I previously said that Tim Keller was done trying to...

July 09, 2021

But Why Does There Have to Be Blood?

With only three more chapters to go in Tim Keller's The Reason for God, it...

July 01, 2021

Your Religion Is Special, Just Like All the Others

I remember once believing that my religion was unlike all other religions in the world....

June 2021

June 20, 2021

Why Everything You Do Is Wrong

Two-thirds of the way through a book entitled The Reason for God, Tim Keller confesses...

June 08, 2021

Tim Keller and the Argument from Morality

Reformed pastor Tim Keller devotes Chapter 9 of The Reason for God to regurgitating the Argument from...

May 2021

May 28, 2021

The Argument From Misunderstanding Evolution

In my last post, we looked at four (bad) arguments for the existence of God...

May 23, 2021

Four (Bad) Reasons For God

When I first picked up Tim Keller's The Reason for God, I did not expect that out...

May 20, 2021

Changing Gods Midstream

"You can't ride two horses with one a**, sugarbean." ---Earl Smooter, Sweet Home Alabama Halfway...

May 19, 2021

For the Bible Tells Me? No.

I don't have any concrete numbers on this, but I believe most Christians who are...

May 18, 2021

What’s Wrong with Asking for a Miracle?

When people ask me why I left my faith, I always find myself spending the...

May 14, 2021

Believing In Evolution, But Not Too Much

Moving on to Chapter 6 in his The Reason for God, Tim Keller takes on Richard Dawkins, who...

May 14, 2021

The Evolution of Hell in The Reason for God

Growing up in an evangelical church I was taught that no matter what it is...

May 12, 2021

Whitewashing Christian History in The Reason for God

To hear Tim Keller talk, you'd think the Christian church was responsible for every progressive...

May 10, 2021

The Problem of Evil In The Reason for God

Christian theology has wrestled since its inception with the problem of evil. Generally speaking, they...

May 09, 2021

Christian History, Revised

Tim Keller must read history through a highly specialized pair of lenses, because what he...

May 08, 2021

Revisiting Tim Keller’s The Reason for God

I don't really care for apologetics books. It's a tedious chore to make it all...

June 2017

June 02, 2017

Help Me Write a Book (and Make Some Videos) This Summer

I have some ambitious goals for this summer. I've been putting off writing a book...

May 2017

May 14, 2017

Apologetics: Preaching to the Choir

Apologetics isn't for the lost, it's for the already saved. Generally speaking, apologetics books and...

August 2015

August 29, 2015

The Core of the Christian Faith Isn’t Intellectual, It’s Emotional

Over the past few days during spare moments on planes and in between meetings I've been...