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January 2020

January 09, 2020

Why Gay Jesus Isn’t Blasphemous

You've probably heard about the "Gay Jesus" film on Netflix that has been creating a...

January 04, 2020

Christians: We Can End War In 2020

There are over 2.3 Billion Christians in the world today, according to most polls. In...

December 2019

December 27, 2019

7 Examples Where God Forgives Sins Without Bloodshed

Most Christians break one of the biggest rules of Biblical interpretation: Basing all of your...

December 24, 2019

How Christians Embraced Virgin Sacrifice

Most Christians - if you ask them - will strongly deny that they believe in...

December 23, 2019

Stop Surpassing God’s Infinity

There you go again, loving sinners more than God does. It's getting kinda annoying, to...

December 17, 2019

Why The God Of Wrath Let Cain Off The Hook

Every time. Every single time I try to teach people that God is love and...

December 13, 2019

More Christmas Presence

Even though Jesus was not born on December 25th, this is the time of year...

December 12, 2019

The Inevitable Death of Evangelical Christianity

Whenever I read the surveys from Christianity Today, or Baptist News, or The Christian Post...

December 06, 2019

Filthy Rags VS Pregnant Faith

Recently, as I was expounding on the evils of "Worm Theology" and refuting the idea...

December 06, 2019

Where Was God In The Holocaust?

In the current season of the Netflix series, "Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee", Jerry Seinfeld...

November 2019

November 22, 2019

Did Jesus Need To Fail In Order To Save Us?

For those who embrace the doctrine of Penal Substitutionary Atonement Theory [PSA], the Gospel message...

October 2019

October 31, 2019

Is Jesus Right (Or Wrong)?

Sometimes the simplicity of Jesus gets lost in the quagmire of today's Christian Theology and...

October 30, 2019

Who Deserves Love?

A few days ago my wife and I watched a little film on Netflix...

October 11, 2019

Where The Hell Did Hell Come From?

If you look for the traditional view of Hell - Eternal Conscious Torment - in...

August 2019

August 21, 2019

Behold The Lamb of God Who Keeps Reminding Us Of Our Sins

It's quite disturbing to me that so many Christian churches today are continually fixated...

August 13, 2019

Part 3: Why Are [Some] Christians So Mean?

In response to my comment: “If you would shoot your enemy in the head, you...

August 09, 2019

Why Are (Some) Christians So Mean?

It happens far too often. A few weeks ago my non-Christian friend shared with me...

August 08, 2019

Part 4: Healing My Affluenza

In this final section of the interview, my friend, Thomas Crisp and I talk about...

August 07, 2019

Part 3: My Affluenza

In this section of our interview, my friend, Biola Professor Thomas Crisp and I get...

August 01, 2019

Finding A Cure For My Affluenza

My good friend Thomas Crisp is a professor of Philosophy at Biola University. We became...

July 2019

July 30, 2019

The Pharisee in Me and The Christ in Trump

Over the weekend, I spent some quality time with a few amazing people in Woodstock,...

July 19, 2019

Why It’s So Hard To Talk About Racism

I am no stranger to disagreements. My friends on Facebook are very used to engaging...

July 09, 2019

Christ In Everyone? Yes. Everyone.

I'll admit, this is a concept that has taken me a long time to accept;...

July 05, 2019

The Wackadoodle Way Christians Use Romans 13

Yes. I said "Wackadoodle." But, it's true. I'm constantly running into Christians who use...

June 2019

June 26, 2019

Yes, God Will Let You Down

There are a handful of modern worship songs that I genuinely enjoy, but more and...

June 13, 2019

What Jesus Reveals To Us About Forgiveness

All my life I've been told by my Sunday School Teachers, Bible Teachers and Pastors...

May 2019

May 31, 2019

Beware the Wrath of the Suckling Lamb

Whenever we point out that God is love, it’s not uncommon to hear at...

May 24, 2019

God Sees Your Heart (When No One Else Can)

As a young man, I was challenged to read the world’s best-selling book from cover...

May 14, 2019

Early Christians On Non-Violence

Quotes from first and second century Christian writers about the continuing posture of non-violence...

May 13, 2019

How Jesus Uses Tribalism To Subvert Our Tribalism

Next weekend I'll be leading a few sessions with people in El Paso, Texas to...