RSS FeedTHE LIMITS OF SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVITY
Enlightenment thinkers in the eighteenth century understood the world through the lens of experimental science. Believing that all phenomena operated according to universal natural laws, they judged every intellectual proposition according to the test of reason. Their...
THE COWARDICE OF EXCUSES
In answer to those who questioned his credentials, and the source of his teaching, Jesus claimed that it came from God who sent him. But how do we know that this is the truth? Jesus said, “If anyone chooses to do God’s will, he will find out whether my teaching comes...
BLAMING GOD
For many years, my wife and I sponsored a needy child through the work of World Vision. Four times a year their magazine came in the mail. It was filled with stories of how children throughout the world were being helped by World Vision. But from time to time there...
STAGES OF FAITH
Some people, like Billy Graham, enter into a full-blown faith all at once when they experience a spiritual conversion or personal encounter with Christ. More people, like Billy’s wife, Ruth, experience a slow growth of their faith over a lifetime. The apostle Paul...
THE RISK OF FAITH
Jon Guttman, in his Editorial for the June, 2002 edition of Military History, wrote about three decisive battles that owed their outcomes to calculated risk-taking. He says that officers today are taught risk assessment – the art of comparing the importance of one’s...
AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN STOTT
Recently I came across an interview with John Stott, the great English preacher and writer on his life and ministry (80 Years Ago Today: The Conversion of John Stott, www.thegospelcoalition.org). In it he was asked about the state of preaching today. His reply was...
WHAT IS FAITH?
In 1986, my wife Antoinette and I were in a shopping mall in Christchurch, New Zealand, when we noticed people looking at the televisions in the stores. My cousin, whom we were meeting for lunch, arrived, and said, “Have you heard about the space shuttle?” We hadn’t...
REASONS TO DOUBT AND TO BELIEVE
The book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible expresses the skepticism of a life that has seen most things, and finds it hard to make sense of it all. The more we know about life, the more cynical we can become. We may have more, rather than less, unanswered questions as we...
HELP FOR MY UNBELIEF
Doubt is a double-edged sword. It can act as either a deterrent or a stimulant. Doubt about whether it was possible to sail west across the Atlantic Ocean could have kept Christopher Columbus from discovering America. Instead, he doubted that the world was flat and...
DOUBT
C.S. Lewis tells the story of a military man who, though he confessed to being religious, had no time for doctrines such as found in the creeds. He preferred his religion to be mysterious and experiential, and did not want to know about the facts of the faith. His...
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