This nearly 3 week trip back home to the farm has truly been the most exhausting time of the past year. It’s kept me from seminary homework, local church, and virtually all things apologetics, but it has been a productive time nevertheless. This year’s harvest was completed in record time (about 2 weeks). God brought [...]

I have no idea how I missed reading this in years of study. But it’s a (very) good one: O wretched lot of man, when he hath lost that for which he was made! O hard and terrible fate! Alas, what has he lost, and what has he found? What has departed, and what remains? [...]

Finished watching Rabbit Hole (on video April 2011) a couple nights ago with some friends. It’s a heart-wrenching story about grief and its divisive implications for marriage and life in general. A mother loses her toddler in a simple car accident by a high school kid driver. You’ll have to see the rest. But in [...]

Last night a dear sister in Christ, Karen Heinz, went to be with the Lord at age 61. About 8 months ago she was told she had 4 months to live due to her cancer. We are all grieved as Providence Reformed Baptist Church is a very tight and small group of committed Christians, but [...]

It’s not Scripture or even a piece from a great novel. But I found myself a little emotional while slowly reading through the following quote. When the greatest of truths comes to us in the shortest and simplest of words, it hits us like a ton of bricks, and we remember, as if waking up [...]

Spirituality isn’t a normal topic for an apologetics blog. But there was one recent experience that I think may have profound insight into the concept of thanksgiving. Since it’s Thanksgiving Day, and since it may be helpful for others in their pursuit of God and His truth and being content in His whole Being, I [...]

This ministry isn’t even yet a year old, and I still feel like this essay is overdue – for both itself and the rest of Christian apologetics. God hates pride. He hates it with a passion. Over and over and over again in the Torah and throughout all the Old covenants, God continually says things [...]