It has been said that the title of a recent book “My Christian Apology” is a play on words.  The sub-title is “Apologetics Explained and Applied.”  If it was a play on words then the author might lay claim to Jacques Derrida’s postmodern deconstructionism.  Since I am the author of  “My Christian Apology” I apologize for my apology and denounce literary deconstructionism. 

A few words about deconstructionism will suffice.  The alleged father of deconstructionism, Jacques Derri...

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Everyday the headlines feature the economic condition of the western world in general and the US in particular.  I wonder how many people predicted an inflated, head over heels debt, and demoralized society over a half century ago?  There were probably many, but I remember one such prediction.  It was by my father.  In the early 1950’s Mr. Ransom McElroy came by the house to ask for my father’s vote for supervisor.  They started talking about what I now understand to be the economy and my...
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God created human beings with unique learning abilities.  God gave man the rational ability to understand and communicate knowledge.  Some knowledge is innate that the Bible describes as “evident within them” (Romans 1:19).  They also learn by empirical experience.  The Bible explains in terms of “being understood through what has been made” (Romans1:20).   Isaac Watts identified five ways that rational creatures might use God’s gifts
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There are five eminent means, or methods, whereb...
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Have you heard someone say, “I don’t want doctrine or theology, I just want the Bible?”  The apostle Paul warned the church that “the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine.”  The word doctrine, as it is used in that text and many others, refers to instruction in the Christian faith.  Jesus commanded His church to “make disciples.”  The only way to make disciples is to instruct from the whole counsel of God.  Anyone who says, “I don’t want theology” means ...

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