Bill Pratt | August 30, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Ronnie Jones, a commenter on our blog, recently sent me some insight from John MacArthur about discovering God’s will for our lives. It is simple and right to the point of the matter. You may not agree with his view, but you have to deal with it, because MacArthur is a [...]
Bill Pratt | August 29, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Last night I watched the DVD, The Case for Faith, featuring Lee Strobel. The video deals with two issues from the book that bears the same name: 1) How can Jesus be the only way? and 2) How can God exist and there be so much evil, pain, and suffering? In [...]
Bill Pratt | August 25, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Critics of Christianity and of religion, in general, like to take a page from Sigmund Freud and accuse believers of forming their beliefs for purely psychological reasons. Freud held that believers are projecting their need for a father figure on God. God is merely a psychological projection of the ideal father. [...]
Bill Pratt | August 23, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Any serious student of the Bible knows that the biblical authors employed a large variety of written literary genres. The Bible contains poetry, historical narrative, wisdom literature, personal letters, parables, theological and philosophical arguments, and much more. As an apologist, I have always been drawn to the theological and philosophical argumentation [...]
Bill Pratt | August 19, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt I wrote a post recently about why the state endorses and promotes marriage between a man and a woman. Simply put, the state needs children and it needs children raised in the ideal environment for them to become productive adult citizens, which is a family headed by a man and a [...]
Bill Pratt | August 17, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt The ultimate reason that virtually every civilization since the dawn of man has recognized and promoted marriage between a man and a woman is because this is the one natural union that produces children. Yes, marriage is about procreation and every civilization needs to produce children to survive and thrive. Without [...]
Bill Pratt | August 15, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Part 1 of this post discussed the use of Internet sites to help parents decide whether a movie is appropriate. Today, we talk about how we know something is inappropriate. There are at least two kinds of appropriateness, which I think a lot of parents miss. First, there is age appropriateness. [...]
Bill Pratt | August 14, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt As a parent, one of the perennial battles we fight with our children is over movies. Our son, in particular, started pushing us to watch every movie under the sun when he was about 7 years old, and he has not let up since that day. My wife and I had [...]
Bill Pratt | August 12, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Textual critics are the scholars who study the manuscript evidence for the New Testament and determine which readings among the various manuscripts are likely to be the original (see previous post for background). Although the vast majority of the variants are simple spelling or word order errors made by copyists, there [...]
Bill Pratt | August 9, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt I was once having an impassioned discussion with a fellow Christian about the curriculum of the upcoming discipleship classes to be held at our church. This Christian brother wanted to focus the curriculum on the subject of prayer, while I was adamant that we should teach a class on the attributes [...]
