Thoughts & Commentary

Before addressing a skeptic’s predictable response to option 4  (next post), I need to unpack a critical concept – the power of being. The problems noted last time should reveal that illusion, self-creation, and self-existence respectively are absurd options for the cause of the universe. So this calls into question the fourth possible cause, a…

The question of how the universe got here is tied to the argument for the existence of God. Below is a variation of R.C. Sproul’s four options for the cause of the universe: 1) It is an Illusion (Hinduism, the Matrix) > Problem: Something real must be causing the illusion. Even Hindus look both ways…

The following excerpt is from the recent film Hereafter starring Matt Damon as a psychic medium who is able to reconnect living people with dead relatives: Marie: What do you think happens when we die? Didier: That’s a strange question. Marie: Tell me. Didier: When you die, you die. The lights go out that’s it. Why? Marie: That’s it. Just blackout? Didier: Totally…

Regarding moral standards we have two basic options: acknowledge an objective/transcendent moral standard, or sculpt some form of morality for ourselves, i.e. relativism. (A third option, evolved morality, is not morality at all > previous post)  The argument here is not that a person must believe in God in order to recognize right and wrong…

The standard kilogram is a cylinder of platinum and iridium kept under three glass domes (left) accessible by three separate keys in Sevres, France. But there is a problem; it is losing mass–on a minute, atomic level–but enough to create alarm for the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. Speaking at Hillsdale College, NY Sun…

I’m not sure where Bono stands regarding Christ’s lordship over his life, but he offers great explanations regarding the faith: “But I love the idea of the Sacrificial Lamb. I love the idea that God says: Look, you cretins, there are certain results to the way we are, to selfishness, and there’s a mortality as…

A second standard Google uses to measure a site’s relevance is connectivity. Being linked to many other sites helps the browser ranking of your site. So how does this apply to sharing our faith? Merely bumping into a lot of people and hitting them with the gospel or trying to one-up them in a debate…

My point in the last post was that using fashionable means to try to show the relevance of our faith to the popular culture will only go so far. The substance of Christianity is the most relevant message in the world: 1) God is holy and people are not. 2) A savior is needed to reconcile…

How can we make Christianity more relevant? Should we wear geeky-chic glasses and metro-sexual clothing? Stop believing in Hell? Carry skinny Bibles? Have coffee shops in our lobbies and lasers in our services? Preach sermons from an iPad? This is all window dressing (except the part about Hell), but what substantive things can we do?…