Category: Theology

To believe something means to accept a claim as true. To disbelieve something means to reject a claim as false. But to doubt means to question whether a claim is true or false. Belief is a decision to accept a claim. Disbelief is a decision to reject a claim as false. But doubt means to…

1 I was small among my brethren, and youngest in my father’s house: I tended my father’s sheep. 2 My hands formed a musical instrument, and my fingers tuned a psaltery. 3 And who shall tell my Lord? the Lord himself, he himself hears. 4 He sent forth his angel, and took me from my…

Alisa Childers in her book Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity, makes a fundamental error about Progressive Christianity. It is that Progressive Christianity is one thing. As I say in “A Progressive Christian Declaration”: “Progressive Christianity is not a unified group, but a movement that seeks to be honest…

Every so often somebody will ask me about which translation of the Bible do I recommend. Although there are exceptions to this, I usually recommend one of two translations. It depends on what they are going to be using the Bible for. Read or Study? There are two basic uses of the Bible. The first…

Lent 2025 begins today, Wednesday, March 5, it ends Saturday, April 19. This is Psalm 51:1-17, it is an appropriate prayer to pray every day during Lent. God, be merciful to me     because you are loving. Because you are always ready to be merciful,     wipe out all my wrongs. Wash away all my guilt     and…