Apologetics 101
- Two atheists walk into a bar…
- Can God create a rock so heavy He can’t lift it?
- Pro-life shirts that spark, spur, and speak
- The case for bumper-sticker and T-shirt Christianity
- The Triangle Curvature Inclusion Bill
- One simple question: “What do you mean by that?”
- God is visible to any with eyes to see
- On “the Overton Window” and talking crazy
- Highflying comparisons, down-to-earth questions, and truthful declarations – apologetics in 3 steps
- Tactics in defending your faith
- 10 tales to help us clear away transgender confusion
- Apologetics 101: Stay on message
- Atheists can’t explain evil
- The JFK assassination and apologetics: the facts don’t speak for themselves
- Abortionist: “God performs way more abortions than I do…”
- What is Man?
- Disarming a name-caller by asking them to define their insult
- Witnessing without knowing it all
- “Am I A Chinese Woman?” How questions can defend the Truth
- I love apologetics
- The theology of dirty jokes
- Princeton scientists announce discovery of “sex chromosome”
- The don’t and do’s of answering fools
- Don’t Argue the Exceptions: Beating bad arguments for Abortion and Transgenderism
- Wrong questions lead to wrong answers
- A Christian & an Unbeliever Discuss Life, the Universe & Everything
- Four things you can do when someone challenges your faith
- Apologetics 101: Give them what they are asking for
- If the unborn are not our equals…
Assorted
- Call me Billy
- Vindication and the spider
- Two Trees And The Big Storm: a parable for children about COVID-19
- On the Trinity: Augustine, the American Revolution, and my Jehovah’s Witness friend
- Prince Jonathan on showing up
- Love is…
- Ringing in the New Year
- The boy that drove the plow
- I Have A Son Seven Years Old; He is to me full dear…
- “Yes, Virginia, there was a Santa Claus”
- Merry X-mas
- The Great Moon Hoax of 1835
- He who has ears, let him hear
- Worldviews and Dogviews: what are they?
- Cremation: why and why not
- Losers are part of the plan
- Is it ever permissible to lie?
- Fossil fuels are essential to the modern world
- A true story of a journey from sexual exploitation to freedom
- Age
- Why should we study Scripture together?
- Technology and our anxious hearts
- Henry VIII’s reformation, Big Bird, and the end coming to us all
- Mental illness: responsibility and response
- Little white lies and why we tell them
- Remembering the head nurse and other people
- Come now, let us reason together
- Singleness: on being active and included in the body of Christ
- The destiny hermeneutic
- The Christian job description
- God gives rest: On the 4th Commandment
- How important is “nothing”?
- Saturday Selections – March 9, 2019
- Reformed Harmony: a new tool promotes friendship…and sometimes marriage
- Ready Christian answers to life’s deepest questions
- Maintaining the motivation of elders and deacons
- On tidying up with and without Marie Kondo
- The Bible and Alcoholics Anonymous
- …but I have a couch
- Song of Songs (A Christine Farenhorst Christmas story)
- When should we unwrap presents?
- Santa Claus at Nicea
- Beyond Monopoly – They’ve taken the bored out of board games
- Wax on, wax off: the world’s increasingly shaky understanding of tolerance
- When we have to parent our parents: help and hope for caregivers
- Living out Lord’s Day 1: a Cuban story
- Is recreational marijuana sinful?
- Eve: the mother of all living
- C.S. Lewis on real happiness and real Christianity
- Stepping into the story: Hamlet with a happy ending?
- A history of Healthcare…and why Christians have done it different
- What are we to make of gambling?
- Which bits of the Bible would you walk around with?
- Communism’s ongoing influence
- On a wife deciding to leave her husband
- Report of a meeting which was never held
- “Did God answer her prayer?“
- Hull humanity
- That cloud of witnesses….
- Reflections on “12 ways your phone is changing you”
- Aging in hope!
- The conceited apple-branch: a Romans 12:3-8 fable?
- Go to the ant, you sluggard…
- Is the Proverbs 31 wife an unrealistic supermom?
- On being a Titus 2 young woman
- 10 QUOTES: On technology and the family
- “The Devil’s Delusion” and the baseless confidence of the certain atheist
- Older women have much to give
- G.K. Chesterton on the difference between reformers and deformers
- “Othercott” – like a boycott but better
- What my grandma taught me
- Older men still have a job to do
- “So what you’re saying is…”
- Seniors: Florida does not exist
- John Piper on debating moral issues in the public square
- To be known
- Why doesn’t the OT say more about what happens after death?
- On being separated
- Help wanted: Prophets
- What’s next? The growth of Statism in Canada
- Allies vs. cobelligerents: don’t mix them up!
- Election
- Is Jordan Peterson the champion we’ve been looking for?
- The gift of sleep: it’s good for what ails you
- A plea to read
- 4 reasons to remember your Creator in your youth
- “And behold, I come quickly” – the dying need to hear the gospel
- Afterward…
- It’s necessary: use words!
- Hospitality hacks for folks who want to be, but keep finding excuses not to be, hospitable
- Good habits help us minimize trouble…
- If only for this life we have hope in Christ…
- When gray hair meets green
- The Gift: an allegory of sorts
- MODERATION: Where beer and psalm-singing go hand in hand
- On the Truth, and the cost of lies
- One week in: Facebook isn’t for everyone
- Truth requires you to love and love requires you to be truthful
- Jacobus Arminius: professed the confessions even as he opposed them
- The slippery slope is real
- The Pursuit of Wisdom: do it ‘til you die
- The untimely death of Emmett Louis Till: The power of graphic pictures
- Too certain by half
- God wants young men to be brave, not crazy
- What should we think of withdrawals?
- Some cultures are better than others
- The End was near
- What does fleeing sin look like?
- Professor Peterson is not PC
- Choice words – a queen’s folly
- The smartphone stack
- What does God’s “favorite” Bible verse tell us?
- Is our curiosity controlling us, or are we controlling it?
- Overpopulation is a myth, and we should have known
- Manure into mattresses
- Am I a fanatic?
- Quotes on the single life
- Not all humility is humble
- Simply and truly
- What is Grace?
- Holding on to wisdom: What would a younger you tell you to do?
- A hill to die on
- Sliver Mustard’s journey
- “You too?” What friendship is, and why it’s so hard to find
- To appear before the Lord
- A crowd can make you crazy
- What to do when you don’t know what to do
- The “Force” behind bad statistics
- The definition of patience
- Did Adam have a belly button?
- Confirming what we’ve always confessed
Christian Education
- A Christian perspective on 2+2
- Learning like an adult
- Martin Luther on the vital, foundational, educational calling of parents
- Church, Home, and School – A Two-Legged Stool?
- Do what the guru says? Public schools are spiritual too.
- Educating Royalty
- On public schools: evangelism is not discipleship
- Rating books for the school library
- School: who should rule?
- Reformed teachers are different… right?
- Peter and PICS: Inclusive Education
- Teaching English from a Christian perspective, as brought to you by the Letter C
Economics
- Thinking in terms of tradeoffs rather than solutions…
- It’s A Wonderful Loaf: why free enterprise makes bread in abundance
- Two tales of trade: how free trade creates wealth
- 5 things Christians should know about income inequality
- I started my business for the wrong reasons
- Wait till it’s free
- On Union Membership: voices from the past
- A sad tale of a wealthy millennial’s moral confusion
- A multi-level warning about multi-level marketing
- Sales as a noble calling
- The $33/hr minimum wage?
- On equality…
- What makes a salesman good?
- What if selling could be a beautiful thing?
- If work is worship, does that mean I just gotta be warm and fuzzy all day?
- The rich get richer by making us all wealthier too
- Work is Worship
- The rich keep getting richer… and they’re not the only ones
- Counting our blessings: Ways the world is getting better
- BUSINESS IS BEAUTIFUL! How do you view your business?
- Manure into mattresses
- What is “Equal Pay for work of Equal Value”?
- Let’s not be the squeaky wheel
Gender Roles
- Daughters in sports
- No, complementarianism is not inherently misogynistic
- #chairchallenge highlights male/female divide
- Boys and sports
- Highflying comparisons, down-to-earth questions, and truthful declarations – apologetics in 3 steps
- “Homemaking is the ultimate career” – C.S. Lewis (sort of)
- Faint heart never won fair maiden
Human Rights
- Do we have a “right” to life?
- ABILITY ≠ WORTH ….but the world thinks so, and sometimes we do too
- Abortion supporters don’t believe in equality
- Human Rights need God
- The foundation of Human Rights? God’s prohibitions
- On equality…
- Should Christians be free to obey our conscience?
- How mom and dad can fight Big Brother
- A Christian perspective on freedom of speech
- The world doesn’t dare ask why we have human rights
Humor
- The Triangle Curvature Inclusion Bill
- Humor and the life of faith
- #chairchallenge highlights male/female divide
- Comedy as a calling
- Ode to hurt…or why my tolerant nature can’t stand your opinions
- Tearing down tyranny, one joke a time…
- Why men are superior to women – a pro-life analogy
- Based on a true story
- On equality…
- 27-year-old man becomes first Transage winner in World Under-10s Cross Country Championship
- Say what? Insights from the “Devil’s Dictionary”
- What is humor?
Media Bias
- Proverbs 18:17: the antidote to Fake News
- A call for Christian journalists: an interview (of sorts) with Marvin Olasky
- Our dangerous diet of clips, tweets, memes, and headlines
- Religious “ghosts” haunt the mainstream media
- Even a talking horse beats quiet convictions
- Wikipedia: reader beware
- FAKE NEWS: Media gets it wrong about the Bible getting it wrong
- Don’t watch the news, read it!
- Don’t read the news, read a book!
- Now YOU are the media
- Someone, somewhere, said something stupid today
- Lies, Mistakes and Half-truths – 3 types of media bias
Parenting
- The problem with explanations
- TikTok passes 2 billion downloads
- Gentleness: a gift to your family
- Marriable Men
- Exposing the poor research fueling the anti-spanking campaign
- “I will fight for our young people. Will you?” – a pastor’s plea to Christian parents
- CD REVIEWS: Bach and Beethoven for kids (and adults)
- Martin Luther on the vital, foundational, educational calling of parents
- In defence of Biblical spanking
- On the difference between punishment and discipline
- Questioning daycare and preschool: how young is too young?
- Why you should consider fostering
- Patricia Polacco gets woke
- Kids and alcohol: parents are more influential than they may know!
- Teaching boys to fight
- 3 picture books that tackle anxiety, anger, and failure
- A smartphone contract for our kids
- Parents: Understand that much depends on you
- J.C. Ryle on teaching our children to pray
- The Golden Rule: the biblical response to self-pity
- Is recreational marijuana sinful?
- 6 Duties of Parents
- Ignore your inner defense attorney!
- Just how bad is the teen anxiety epidemic?
- On reading together
- Three questions for you
- Fathers, fear, and self-interest
- What my grandma taught me
- Discipline or punishment: do your children know the difference?
- When you’re asked, “Do you spank your child?”
- 5 frank quotes from Jonathan McKee’s “Sex Matters”
- Should it be “I’m sorry” or “Please forgive me”?
- Gel-Pen faith
- Teaching small fries to take notes, sing psalms, and speak to God
- How mom and dad can fight Big Brother
- Parents: do you have the courage to be gentle?
- Spanking on trial: how to make a public defense
- Is Cleanliness next to Godliness?
- What’s the purpose of family devotions?
- Children’s games that mom & dad can play without going batty
- The high cost of fatherhood
- 21 things I learned living with teenagers
- “When you coming home, dad?”
- Parents, are you pushing or leading?
- 5 tips for family devotions with small children
- Raising readers: the surprising power of reading aloud
- Quantity, not quality: good parenting takes time
- One way to talk to your kids about God
- Chores are good for our kids, and the earlier the better
- Are our children leaders?
- Teaching your kid to appreciate broccoli
- “Daddy issues”
- A book for children, to help prevent sex abuse
- 13 quick thoughts on “Screen-Smart Parenting”
- There is more to life than being safe and legal
- Parenting: many approaches – only one set of guiding principles
- Why Reformed churches should be full of adopted children
- Fun music for your kids (that you might like too)
- The part about parenting I didn’t find in any parenting book
- Raising children who despise themselves
- Parenting the Internet Generation
- From explanations to dialogue, from monologues to questions
- Five things I wish I had known… about being a father
- If you want to spank your child, don’t
- Spanking does have a place in Canada
- 4 for family movie night
- The definition of patience
Politics
- Compulsory voting is only for show
- Exposing the poor research fueling the anti-spanking campaign
- Reforming Canada’s electoral system?
- On “the Overton Window” and talking crazy
- 5 ways God’s providence should impact how we approach politics
- Even the world should agree…Christians activism is good for democracy
- Backing away from Big Brother: government overreach doesn’t just happen in China
- The rise and fall of Canada’s most effective opposition MP
- Dethroning the dictator
- “Am I A Chinese Woman?” How questions can defend the Truth
- How mom and dad can fight Big Brother
- 4 bad arguments for Traditional Marriage…and 1 good one!
- The Bible and Pluralism
- What is Principled Pluralism?
- First and Second Things: Power is a wonderful servant but a terrible master
- Electoral Reform: paper and pen beat bits and bytes
- Should one issue determine who we vote for?
Pro-life – Abortion
- Pro-life shirts that spark, spur, and speak
- FREE FILM: Babies are still murdered here
- Do we have a “right” to life?
- ABILITY ≠ WORTH ….but the world thinks so, and sometimes we do too
- Some pro-life arguments are not pro-life arguments
- The Missing Project
- Does the birth control pill cause abortions?
- The Supreme Court did not find a right to abortion
- Jagmeet Singh, abortion, and illogic
- Abortion supporters don’t believe in equality
- Only one question to debate: What are the unborn?
- Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
- Harder Truth
- A 2,000 year history of Christian pro-life activity
- On “the Overton Window” and talking crazy
- Babies are murdered here
- 180: from pro-choice to pro-life in minutes
- Can Christians do pro-life undercover work?
- Apologetics 101: Stay on message
- Real progress: Canada is warming up to an abortion law
- Why men are superior to women – a pro-life analogy
- DIRECTION MATTERS: the difference between legal, decriminalized, and regulated abortion, & why we support gestational limits
- STAY ON MESSAGE: a lesson from the Chilliwack pro-life flag display
- Should all adoption records be unsealed? A pro-life perspective
- Don’t know? Don’t kill.
- A person’s a person, no matter how small-hearted (or not so) pro-lifers might be
- Margaret Sanger: Planned Parenthood’s apostle of eugenics
- Don’t Argue the Exceptions: Beating bad arguments for Abortion and Transgenderism
- Investigating the Birth Control Pill
- Abraham Lincoln, on abortion
- People with Down Syndrome in “civilized” Denmark almost all exterminated
- Why pro-lifers should publicize, not mourn, the Morgentaler decision
- Does God require, or forbid, graphic pictures in the abortion debate?
- Can a politician be personally, but not politically, pro-life?
- If the unborn are not our equals…
- Should one issue determine who we vote for?
Pro-life – Euthanasia
- They shoot horses, don’t they?
- Euthanasia and the folly of downward comparisons
- SPEAKING AGAINST SUICIDE: a summary review of “A Guide to Discussing Assisted Suicide”
- Physician-assisted suicide: would it be wrong to refer?
- Euthanasia film highlights horrors, but offers the wrong solution
Religion – General
- Christianity explains everything…even Reincarnation
- The Qur’an gets the Trinity wrong
- Why Do We Suffer? Buddhism vs. Christianity
- Talking to your neighbor about Islam
- Mormons and Masons have their secrets. We don’t.
- Will the Islamic State disappear?
- An open letter to Glenn Beck on the difference between Mormons and Christians
- Questioning Islamophobia
Science Creation – Evolution
- Secrets of the Cell with Michael Behe
- Evolution as a gravedigger
- The cost of an old earth: Is it worth it?
- I believe in theistic evolution
- What you need to know to survive and thrive in your secular science class
- Why I am a six-day evolutionist
- “Inferior” design: a proof of evolution?
- Scarred Earth (The Grand Canyon)
- God is visible to any with eyes to see
- 12 free Creation videos that’ll have you awestruck
- Science Uprising: a revolutionary case for Intelligent Design
- Evolution’s Achilles’ Heels
- Mankind is rusting out…and that’s a problem for evolution
- Why haven’t we heard from ET?
- The ordinary is extraordinary: Dr. Gordon Wilson at Creation Weekend 2018
- Deep Time – the god of our age
- ON THE ORIGIN OF ARTICLES: You thought this article was designed? How unscientific of you!
- Biomimicry recognizes the genius (but not the Genius) behind the wonders of creation
- The appendix question solved
- On DNA and how “things are seldom what they seem”
- The “Watchmaker argument”
- MOLECULAR MOTORS: Design on a microscopic scale
- Of baby birds, and death before the Fall
- Not all humility is humble
- The Galileo myth as a universal solvent
- Wrong questions lead to wrong answers
- The Galileo myth: Stories that we all know, often ain’t so
Science – Environmental Stewardship
- Global warming crisis? A brief biblical case for skepticism
- Manure into mattresses
- Environmentalists: How to tell the bad ones from the good
- The making of the Cornwall Alliance
- Environmentalism and marriage?
- The Poor: why we can’t let the Global Warming debate be over
- FREE MOVIE: Blue
Science – General
- Your head is fearfully and wonderfully made
- Genetically-engineered babies have now been born
- Don’t push Dad into the pond (and don’t tell Mom about the bugs!)
- Plants that pack an explosive punch!
- We’ve all got rhythm – internal clocks in plants, animals, and people too
- Amazing green meat-eaters!
- DNA: good discovery, bad agenda
- Stephen Jay Gould: An evolutionist who helped creationists
- The appendix question solved
- WONDERFUL WHALES: Design on a gigantic scale
- How the nose knows!
Sexuality
- Are bans on conversion therapy actually bans on religious conversion…in drag?
- Solomon on smartphones and the pull of pornography
- Propaganda disguised as Sex Education
- What is conversion therapy and why does it matter?
- Porn addiction isn’t just a guy thing
- How do you like me now? When a child, parent, spouse, or sibling says they’re gay
- 10 tales to help us clear away transgender confusion
- A careful look at the issue of birth control
- The ethical issue of transsexuality
- Why won’t safe-sex advocates advocate safe-sex?
- The world doesn’t always think “abstinence” is a four-letter word
- “Am I A Chinese Woman?” How questions can defend the Truth
- When a gay couple wants you to help them celebrate sin
- 5 frank quotes from Jonathan McKee’s “Sex Matters”
- The transgender debate isn’t about washrooms
- NO SATISFACTION: James’ Epistle on pornography
- 3 problems with transgender surgeries
- Transgenderism 101: Share the truth with compassion
- A book for children, to help prevent sex abuse
- Is Porn more like heroin, or driving a car?
- Don’t Argue the Exceptions: Beating bad arguments for Abortion and Transgenderism
- Abraham Lincoln, on abortion
- You think feelings can redefine reality? What if I told you I feel like they don’t?
- A is A…except when it wants to be S?
- FIGHT! A message from the most porn-riddled country in the world
- Apologetics 101: Give them what they are asking for
