by pastor | Dec 12, 2013 | Apologetics, Ask the Pastor
Question: I recently met a new co-worker who said right out, “I don’t believe in God.” How do I handle that and respond to that? Answer: You have asked two distinct questions, so let me answer them separately: “How do I handle that?” is a good question with which to...
by pastor | Aug 5, 2013 | Apologetics
Indeed nothing makes a man more unpopular in the controversies of the present day than an insistence upon definition of terms. Anything, it seems, may be forgiven more readily than that. Men discourse very eloquently today upon such subjects as God, religion,...
by pastor | Apr 4, 2013 | Apologetics, Ask the Pastor
Question: In a recent Bible study on personal witnessing, a lot of different denominations were mentioned in the discussion (i.e., Baptist, Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, Pentecostal, etc.). Personally, I prefer to call myself simply a “Christian” and sometimes wonder...
by pastor | Mar 26, 2013 | Apologetics, Ask the Pastor
Roman Catholics and Protestants agree on many central doctrines of the Christian faith, including the Trinity, deity of Christ, and bodily resurrection of Jesus. But one important issue which separates Roman Catholics and Protestants is the extent of canonized...
by pastor | Mar 23, 2013 | Apologetics
A Calvinist (Charles Simeon) and an Arminian (John Wesley) had this conversation over two hundred years ago and we can all learn much from it today: Charles: Sir, I understand that you are called an Arminian; and I have been sometimes called a Calvinist; and...
by pastor | Feb 6, 2013 | Apologetics, Events, Heresies, Youth
On January 6, 2013 an op-ed by Susan Jacoby entitled “The Blessings of Atheism” was published in The New York Times. Her main premise was that “The absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on...
