The forces in our universe, both small and large, appear to be fine-tuned to make life possible.

While only some of us are gifted and called to be evangelists, all of us are called to be case makers. It’s our duty as Christians.

science (the systematic, rational examination of phenomena) and scientism (the refusal to consider anything other than natural causes).

The disciples were consistently described as having chosen a life of material poverty in pursuit of spiritual truth.

the more we understand the importance of words, the better we become at discerning their meanings.

The gospel eyewitnesses had something very specific to say about Jesus. They did not give their lives sacrificially for personal opinions about God; they gave their lives because their claims were an objective matter of life and death.

These councils did not create the canon or the current version of Jesus we know so well; they simply acknowledged the canon and description of Jesus that had been provided by the eyewitnesses.

While it’s reasonable to believe that you and I might die for what we mistakenly thought was true, it’s unreasonable to believe that these men died for what they definitely knew to be untrue.

In the vast majority of textual additions that have been made to the Bible over the centuries, the changes have been so insignificant as to have very little effect on the content of the narrative and virtually no impact on the important doctrinal claims of Christianity.