Peace Be With You
By Jason Oakland
07/11/25
5mins

Peace Be With You

‘Peace’ means “I have forgiven all those sins against me.”
An Excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: A Watery Fortress
Kathy Morales
Kathy Morales
07/10/25

An Excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: A Watery Fortress

This is an excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: A Sinner Saint Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2025) by Kathy Morales, pgs 6-9.
Inception and the Paradox of Grace
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
07/09/25

Inception and the Paradox of Grace

Paradoxes hold everything together, not just in Inception’s plot, but in your life and mine.

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Sam P. Schuldheisz
Sam P. Schuldheisz
04/28/14

Legos and Apologetics: Imagination, Art, and Sub-Creation (Part 3)

What do imagination, Lego bricks, and Sub-Creation have to do with apologetics?
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
04/26/14

Living the Victorious Christian Life at McDonald’s

I sin more in thirty minutes than those of the “victorious Christian life” supposedly sin in thirty years.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
04/22/14

Why I Don't Want to Go Back in Time Anymore

The thing is, not only is fixing our past impossible; who’s to say we wouldn’t repeat the same mistakes? In fact, who’s to say we wouldn’t make matters even worse?
Daniel Deen
Daniel Deen
04/21/14

Science and Religion, A Series

I will take a look at the locus classicus on the relationship between science and religion, Religion and Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues (1997) by Ian Barbour.
Steve Byrnes
Steve Byrnes
04/07/14

Theology as Science and Art

The concept of Theology as science is foreign to our ‘enlightened’ century where the subject has been removed to the Liberal Arts category.
Jeff Mallinson
Jeff Mallinson
03/26/14

How to Think: Vicious Cycles

A clever skeptic named James Huber created a clever skit called “Kissing Hank’s Butt”. That’s the version he created for use in G-rated contexts. His main site uses more mature language. Many Christians will find it offensive.
Daniel Deen
Daniel Deen
03/19/14

Christian Intellectual Arrogance

Much like the 2014 Superbowl, the debate itself was lackluster and utterly predictable. However, one aspect of the debate struck me as worthy of commentary; the way Mr. Ham presented himself as a Christian intellectual.
Jessica Thompson
Jessica Thompson
03/11/14

Proclaim the Good News (to Children)

Why is it that we are so afraid to give the message of grace to our little ones? We bombard their ears with law on a constant basis.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
02/24/14

Smut and Smug: Secret Religious Delight in Society’s Moral Degradation

I think the chief reason that a faction within me welcomes the disintegration of the American ethos is this: it makes me feel so much better about myself. The smut makes me quite smug.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
02/19/14

Tripping Helen Keller

Why, given all the things we wish God had told us, but didn’t, does he “waste our time” by stating the patently obvious? Was there, in Moses’ day, an outbreak of violence against the disabled?
Daniel Deen
Daniel Deen
02/18/14

Defending The Gospel, Dirty Jobs Edition

We tend to think about apologetics as an academic enterprise, as something that requires formal training.
Rod Rosenbladt
Rod Rosenbladt
02/10/14

Gift? An Imaginary Dialogue on the Gift of Grace

Sinner: I see. I see for the first time. It’s clear to me. You died for me and for my sin. You took my verdict. God: I did.
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