Thinking Christian Blog

Ministry Update: God at Work Through the Cincinnati-Dayton Area Apologetics Fellowship

The Apologetics Fellowship at a special-invite luncheon with conference speaker Alisa Childers. It’s time for an update on ministry, especially for prayer and financial supporters. It’s time, too, for thankfulness to God and to you, because I am seeing my ...

Pastors’ Equipping Series: Sample Sermon on the Faith-Science Challenge (Special Focus on the Virgin Birth)

Faith vs. Science: It feels like David approaching Goliath, with no sling and no stones. Or at least, that's the way a lot of people want us to feel it. As pastor, you know there's pressure on Christians to deny ...

Alisa Childers: ‘Reading Through Your Book Was … Exciting’

Alisa Childers, gifted speaker, former ZOEgirl singer, and author of the outstanding book Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity, graciously invited me on her podcast to talk about my own book Too Good to Be ...

Pastors’ Equipping Series: A Sample Sermon on Critical Race Theory

Updated: See the summary explainer article at The Stream! Critical race theory: Could you preach on it in church? Teach it in a small group? How would you approach it? Should you even address it in church? That last question ...

So You Think Critical Race Theory Is a Useful Analytical Tool?

I was with my new friend Howard that afternoon, and he was pumping me with questions about some of my projects so he could do some graphic design work. That's still in process, and you'll see the result when we're ...

At Last! Moving Forward Into the Heat to Light Pastors’ Equipping Series!

The time has come, at last, tell some of the story, and then very soon to launch the new church-equipping initiative that I’ve been building toward for months, or maybe for most of a lifetime. It's called Heat to Light: ...

Cincinnati Apologetics Conference with Alisa Childers September 10-11!

I'll be speaking as well. Kudos to Tim Waugh, pastor of Faith Community United Methodist Church, who wants to be a light for the truth of Christ in his community and among United Methodists! Click for the full-definition flier, downloadable: ...

Creative Common-Sense Apologetics — Video Here!

They say you can't use the Bible to prove the Bible; it's circular reasoning. Yes. Except... there are exceptions. Valid ones, not fallacious. The Bible actually demonstrates its own reality through its own internal character, along with some general common-sense ...

‘It’s The Best Book on Jesus’ Character in Generations, Second Only to G. K. Chesterton’

(Image: G. K. Chesterton in 1931) That headline's a paraphrase. What author and columnist John Zmirak actually said about my book Too Good to be False (just out on Kindle!) was this: For months I’ve been telling anyone who’d listen ...

Update on Pastor Equipping Ministry: ‘Heat to Light: Guiding Your People Through Cultural Conflict to Spiritual Transformation’

It's coming together in ways I never expected, and that's a good thing. If you've been following me here on the blog or the podcast, you may be wondering exactly what it's going to look like, and when it begins ...