Apologetics

Book Review: Urban Apologetics

There was a time when urban culture was limited to the inner city. That is no longer the case. Urban culture has spread far beyond the inner city with the influence of hip hop, rap music, and the cultures that those musics represent and have helped to create. Urban Apologetics is a book aimed at …

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Book Review: A Practical Guide to Culture

If you are looking for a good primer on culture and worldview, John Stonestreet and Brett Kunkle have written a real gem. A Practical Guide to Culture comes close to being a must-read for parents and anyone who works with young people. The book is very readable and engaging with wit and humor mixed in. Stonestreet …

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Pray More Than You Post and Share More Than You Shout

Farenheit 451 is the first dystopian novel I ever read and it is still my favorite (though I’m working through A Brave New World–if you can call it dystopian–right now, so it could change). I read it in middle school, so I didn’t fully understand the concepts in the book or the purpose behind the …

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Book Review: Why Trust The Bible?

Our student ministry always gives books as a graduation gift. This year the gifts included an ESV Study Bible for anyone who didn’t already have one and a collection of other books that Luke (@LukeTolbert), our student pastor, hand selected. Among those books was Why Trust The Bible? by Greg Gilbert. This is a short book …

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Apologetics: The Silent Argument

Evangelicalism has done poor job of transferring the Christian faith to the millennial generation. Rather than a robust theology that stands up under fire, many who grew up in youth groups throughout the 80s and 90s developed a fun and flimsy sentimental kind of faith. Church was a place you went to play games, sing …

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What are you Defending?

Everyone should read C.S. Lewis. His wisdom is timeless and his journey of faith is beneficial for the Christian mission. His intellect and ability to communicate are a gift to the church and his ministry continues many years after his death. He is not only a Christian writer, he is a fantastic writer who happens …

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Put Your Knife Away

Some of the Bible’s teachings are hard to accept. In fact, some people find many of the Bible’s teachings to be unpalatable and even offensive. In our historical ignorance, we often beleive that these criticisms of God’s word are new. In fact, many who would seek to alter God’s word do so with the false …

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Truth Matters

Truth Matters is a new book by Andreas Kostenberger, Darrell Bock, and Josh Chatraw aimed at equipping college students to defend their faith (or cling to their faith) against the liberal attacks they will experience in liberal religion classes. The book is one that I strongly suggest for any college student and really for anyone who …

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There Is No Christianity Without a Nativity

Our current sermon series at Malvern Hill, The Lights of Christmas, focuses on the good news that came with Jesus. As a part of the introduction to that series, I wrote, “Christianity rises and falls on the truth of the virgin birth.” Without the virgin birth, there can be no biblical Christianity. During this time …

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Religious Naturalism

Writing in the 40’s, C.S. Lewis found himself “constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our hearers but by their real religion.” The “real religion” of the popular world of Lewis’ time was one that he defined as Pantheism. Pantheism is the religious idea that the universe or nature is one with the divine. Pantheistic …

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