Tag Archives: Humility

The Essential Missing Prologue To All Apologetics

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Arrogant Christianity?

The practice of Christian apologetics faces a new and mostly unrecognized hurdle. Although this hurdle’s pieces and parts are familiar to apologists and worldview thinkers, few have recognized their full implications. It is the new fundamental obstacle to listeners’ and readers’ saying “yes” to Jesus Christ and to Christianity, so much so that for many …

December 13, 2010 – 11:41 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Postmodernism/ Relativism, Thinking Christianly | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (14)

Rising Above by Stooping Low, and How That Makes Sense After All

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Rising Above

Last Thursday I wrote asking “why rise above?” Why take it as important to rise above our own wants, needs, concerns, and interests? There is an important follow-on question: how does one rise above? In God’s economy, one rises by stooping. It that is so, it opens up several important questions. I’ll begin with whether …

May 15, 2010 – 8:42 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Deep Social Change, Service, The Faith | Tagged | Comments Off

What Christ Does For Us, Part 11: Life in Christ

We saw in earlier posts in this series that Jesus Christ lived to show us the way to live, died to rescue us from the trouble we have gotten into by not living right, and rose again to defeat death and to give new life. Christians believe in eternal life for those accept it from …

February 16, 2008 – 4:07 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , | Comments (3)