Barth §1.2: Is Apologetics a Waste of Time? Not to Mention a Brain?
Well, if you read into Church Dogmatics §1.2, you’ll notice that Karl Barth thinks so. For the uninitiated, ‘apologetics’ is the fancy word that describes the attempt to rationally account for- and...
View ArticleConfirmation and My Problem With Joel Osteen
Someone asked me, instead of picking on the ivory-toothed, snake-oil charlatan, Joel Osteen, to explain why I have a problem with him. Without intending it as such, I will give at least one answer on...
View ArticleMark Driscoll in the Hands of an Angry Pastor
Our sermon series through Romans landed us in the famous, much-loved passage 8.31-39 this weekend. The audio is here below as well as on the sidebar of the blog. You can download it in iTunes as well...
View ArticleJoel Osteen, Fifty Shades of Amish Black and Everything Working Out for Those...
For the past four months, we’ve been working our way, chunk by chunk, through Paul’s Letter to the Romans. Two weeks ago, on the way out of worship and having just heard a reading from Romans 8, a...
View ArticleTop Ten Heresies and Remedies for Them: #6
Heresy = Beliefs considered anathema by the ecumenical councils of the Christian Church If Orthodoxy = ‘right praise’ then heresy = ‘wrong praise.’ *Leviticus 10: wrong praise = a very big deal If...
View ArticleReal Millionaire Pastors of L.A.?
This is too depressing even to warrant sarcastic ridicule, save to point out that this is what Joel Osteen’s ‘Prosperity Gospel’ spawns. Not to speak for the Apostle, but I imagine this is exactly the...
View ArticleA Reason for Doubt: Because Freud Was Right
Last week I solicited responses from you, asking you to give me your best case for NOT believing in God. One of the responses I received was brief but cutting: “Rather than insisting (with no evidence...
View ArticleSermon Workbench: Jesus Loves All the Little Cheats?
I just love Jesus’ annoying habit of spinning parables so obviously designed to wipe the s#@$-eating grin off our faces. Example: In Luke 16, Jesus serves up a story that contradicts all the pious...
View ArticleJoel Osteen is Right, You Should Pray for that Parking Space
For all the crap I give Joel Osteen for his toothy grin, his Dapper Dan hair, his swarmy, snake-oil salvation sales pitch and his dilution of the Gospel to the basest of our American prosperity-driven...
View ArticleVictoria Osteen is Right, Your Worship Doesn’t Make God Happy
Anyone who’s known me for about a fruit fly’s lifespan knows that I feel about Joel Osteen the way I do genocide, testicular cancer and Verizon wireless. His toothy grin, his Dapper Dan hair, his...
View ArticleWhy I’m Not a Liberal
Over the past couple of weeks folks in and out of the faith, mostly at the gym, have marveled to me how so many evangelical Christians support Donald Trump, America’s very own Banana Republic...
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