Category Archives: The Faith

The More You Want

David Cross earned new bragging rights at the White House a while back, according to a Fox News report yesterday. That’s what he was after, and that’s what he gained, when he did cocaine at a dinner there in 2009: “It was just about being able to say that I did it, that I did …

February 22, 2012 – 11:36 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Ten Turning Points: The Incarnation

I had surgery to repair a tendon in my foot last Thursday. For the past five days, to prevent post-operative swelling, I’ve been under doctor’s orders to keep my foot elevated all day long. I’ve been on a couch, recliner, or bed 23-plus hours a day since then. Today I’ll see the surgeon, and I …

February 21, 2012 – 9:25 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith, Thinking Christianly, Worldviews | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Come To The Reason Rally!

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series True Reason

They’re billing it as “the largest gathering of the secular movement in world history:” the Reason Rally, in Washington D.C. on March 24. They’ve lined up Richard Dawkins as their headline speaker, but he’s just one of many atheist stars this show will highlight. In the meantime I’ve joined up with a handful of Christian …

February 20, 2012 – 7:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, The Faith, Thinking Christianly | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (28)

Ten Turning Points: What’s So Special About Special Revelation?

What’s so special about God’s special revelation? There’s much to be said, but I want to close this week’s study with just two words: knowledge and relationship. Knowledge We can know. It’s impossible to overstate the importance of that. Through God’s special revelation, the Bible, we know where we came from, what we’re here for, …

February 16, 2012 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , , | Comments (6)

Ten Turning Points: Progressive Revelation

God is always revealing himself. He has been doing so since (at least) the dawn of humanity. As I’ve written earlier in this series, he has done so not by dropping a book in anyone’s lap. We have a book now, but it didn’t come floating down from heaven, and it wasn’t dug up complete …

February 15, 2012 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Ten Turning Points: God’s Special Revelation

We saw last time that God has revealed himself to everyone to some extent through general revelation. The knowledge we can gain that way is limited, however. Our knowledge of God is always bound to be limited, of course: he is far beyond our comprehension. We can’t know God exhaustively, we can’t know God as …

February 14, 2012 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , , | Comments (5)

Two Views of Reality, Completely At Odds

Two articles that showed in my RSS reader today: Godlessness is the last big taboo in the US, where non-believers face discrimination and isolation. [From Atheism in America - FT.com] and The InterVarsity Christian Fellowship chapter at the State University of New York at Buffalo has three weeks to come into compliance with the school’s …

February 6, 2012 – 1:47 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, New Atheism, The Faith | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)

Sharing the Blog

I want to say thank you for visiting and reading my blog. Your coming here is a real encouragement to me. Has it been so for you? If so, would you consider sending an email to a friend about it? It probably wouldn’t be hard for you, it would be a further encouragment to me, …

February 3, 2012 – 2:03 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments Off

Our Problem: To Explain the Human Condition

Genesis 3 tells how humans first entered into what I’m calling our problem. Some people find the story there hard to believe on account of the talking serpent and the seemingly magical fruit. We’ll come back to that. For now I want to show what it is in Genesis 3 that makes more sense than …

January 31, 2012 – 5:50 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Bible, The Faith, Worldviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (28)

The Image of God Under Attack

The image of God in humans is under attack. Evolutionary doctrine leads many thinkers to conclude that there is no essential difference between us and and any other organism. (By “evolutionary doctrine,” I am referring specifically to the version of evolutionary theory that says all organisms have come to be through blind, unguided processes of …

January 28, 2012 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (19)