Apologetics

This blog post is shorter than usual because I will request additional reading. Gary DeMar provoked me to make this appeal. One of his recent blog posts reminded me of a traumatic period in my life. I felt like the Israelites during their Exodus from Egypt, trapped between two powerful…

  One of our readers said, “As I read through your blog … I was struck to ask you one single question—so what?” We began our response in our last post (here). Our prophetic model—inmillennialism—makes a difference in five categories: Vision, Apologetics, Legacy, Understanding, and Experience. That post addressed the…

A few days ago a reader sent me an interesting message. He said, “As I read through your blog … I was struck to ask you one single question—so what? So what if what you say about Jesus in Matt 24 is real, what does it mean for us?” Other…

Looking at street signs in the rearview mirrors of our cars does not help us get to our destination in most cases. Nevertheless, we can benefit by looking back at the signs of which we have been writing. In our last post, we completed our examination of the individual signs…

How could we have missed an event as phenomenal as the end of the world? Reading Jesus’ final group of signs for the destruction of the Temple can lead us to the conclusion we did just that. Jesus said: For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth…

  [Note: this article also appeared (here) in The Paper Pulpit of The Gadsden Times, Jan. 28, 2017.] We Christians place all our eggs in one basket—Jesus Christ. Our knowledge of Jesus comes from a single source—the Bible. We believe it “is given by inspiration of God” (2 Timothy 3:16–17)…

Let me share with you the primary reason I began the AD 70 blog. I believe myself to be in a situation similar to the four lepers who discovered God had caused the army surrounding their city to flee the previous evening. The leprous men found incredible riches in the…

Christians inherently owe the world an apology. Christ’s apostles taught us as much (e.g. 1 Peter 3:15). Our debt is not an expression of “regret, remorse, or sorrow for having insulted, failed, injured, or wronged another.” We owe an “apology” in the secondary sense of the word: “a defense, excuse,…