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Control Without Controlling: Rethinking Divine Sovereignty

Photo by Skyler Ewing on Pexels.com As we’ve seen in Part 2, Luke 13 poses a problem for those who assume that “everything happens for a [divine]…… Read more “Control Without Controlling: Rethinking Divine Sovereignty”

Photo by Palo Cech on Pexels.com Part 1 of this mini-series ended with a discussion of God not being the only agent of choice in the world.…… Read more “Everything Happens For A Reason, Part 2: Two Examples Without Divine Reason”

Photo by Ravi Roshan on Pexels.com “Everything happens for a reason” is a statement I’m sure you’ve heard dozens if not hundreds of times in your life.…… Read more “Everything Happens For A Reason, Part 1: Divine Purpose Revisited”

Photo by Brett Sayles on Pexels.com Eternal Security. It’s a term that nearly all Christians are familiar with, whether they’ve ever stepped foot in a seminary or…… Read more “Eternal Security Versus Conditional Security”

Former Christian Rock band Hawk Nelson band member Jon Steingard announced recently that he no longer believes in God. In his Instagram confession, he gives a bit…… Read more “Atheism And The Problem Of Evil (Answering Atheism)”

#AnsweringAtheism

In my post on Time and Eternity in The Promise and The Prize mini-series, I made it clear that there’s reception of the promise in eternity…… Read more “Already There: The Trouble With Eternal Security”

In Part 1 of this mini-series, I tackled the idea of eternal life as providing some present experience and yet, a majority of eternal life is a…… Read more “The Promise And The Prize: On Losing Eternal Life, Part 3: Time And Eternity”

#EnduringTheRace #Luke4

In the first part of this discussion, I tackle whether or not God is the cause of the coronavirus pandemic. So many believers jump to the question…… Read more “Coronavirus Pandemic As God’s Judgment?: A Scriptural Rebuttal”