My Review of James White’s “The Forgotten Trinity.” ★✩✩✩✩ The writer of “The Forgotten Trinity” strikes me as a someone so content with his own knowledge, and so sure his own views are true, that he can no longer see what he actually writes. His own incoherence no longer activates his logic alarms. He’s like…

Behold! I’ve started working on Chapter 5 (of 7) of my book “Surprising God.” The Chapter is called: God is One. It’s actually about: • Trinity • Covenant Bonding • Agape Love. Right now I’m slogging through Trinity research (pray for me). While it’s true that I’ve now come to a place in life where…

I just finished the book “Prince of Darkness,” about Jeremiah G. Hamilton, America’s first black millionaire. In the early 1800s he made a great deal of money scamming insurance companies—especially maritime insurance companies. The racket was simple during those early days of maritime insurance. Insure the cargo for more than its worth, then sink the…

Good sentences give you fodder for contemplation. I’ve come to adore the writing of Cormac McCarthy this past year. Right now I’m reading “All the Pretty Horses” and I want to share a sentence from that book. The Context John Grady and his pal, Rawlins, were preparing to sleep under the stars after a long…

A book about God is a book about everything. No wonder books about God sprawl all over the place: the topic ‘God’ touches every other conceivable topic. Any true thing about God will echo in the fibers of all that God has created. Me, I have no interest in writing a book about everything. I…

Podcaster Nick Loper once confessed: “I thought I liked cashews, until we got some unsalted ones. Turns out I just like salt.” A similar epiphany happened to me. I thought I liked theology and Bible study. I downloaded sermons, listened to lectures, and read books-too-big-for-backpacks. I even earned a master’s degree from Bethel Seminary. Many…

Step out in search of free will and you encounter many traps. Say you make the astute claim that something free must be something uncaused. The way you see it, if something is predetermined it cannot be free. If we witness a free act, we must be witnessing something that has no prior cause. As…

“Seek the Lord.” That imperative is found over a hundred times in scripture. Why so often? For one thing, finding God is not easy. Not because God is a construct, but because God is not a construct. God is the very real treasure, found by those who truly seek (Proverbs 2:4-5). God wants to be…

The Book of Revelation begins with an angel telling John: “Do not be afraid.” But then the angel goes on to pummel John with one terrifying vision after another. How do you explain this? Is John a fraud? He says not to be afraid, but then he paints, in great detail, many scary threats. That’s…

In 1957, as a college freshman, R.C. Sproul heard the captain of his football team quote a verse from Ecclesiastes, and Sproul’s life changed forever. The verse was Ecclesiastes 11:3: “If clouds are full of water, they pour rain on the earth.
Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north,
in the place where…