Bill Pratt | November 24, 2011
Please remember to thank the one person who makes your life worth living, the Lord Jesus Christ. “I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.” Psalm 69:30
Bill Pratt | June 20, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt There are fewer words that are more loaded with a negative connotation than fundamentalism. Generally when we hear that word, we have been trained by the media to react with either fear or disdain, or both. After all, fundamentalists are supposed to be ignorant and violent. To be a fundamentalist used [...]
Bill Pratt | December 31, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Does it bother you that the Bible is composed of 66 different books instead of one single tome? What about the fact that there were errors made in copying some of the Bible manuscripts over the last few thousand years? Does it cause you to doubt Christianity because there are some [...]
Bill Pratt | December 28, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Recently I was in a discussion with a skeptic of Christianity, a man who had been Roman Catholic for 55 years, and then decided that he couldn’t believe Christianity any longer. During our conversation, he asked what historical evidence I could provide that Christianity was true, so I immediately went into [...]
Bill Pratt | December 10, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt You would think this question would be pretty easy to answer because the gospel message is something that Christians talk about all the time. However, it is difficult to find the gospel explained in one place within the Bible. There is, however, one passage where the gospel is defined, and that [...]
Bill Pratt | September 8, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Although I have written negatively of the overall theme and message of Avatar, there is an interesting analogy of the Incarnation of Christ that can be taken from the film. I heard this analogy in a podcast by William Lane Craig, and I think it may help some people understand this [...]
Bill Pratt | May 10, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt If you’ve ever listened to Ravi Zacharias, you’ve noticed he likes to quote from English journalist Malcolm Muggeridge. One of my favorite quotes from Muggeridge has to do with his description of the frailty of nations and empires, with particular attention to those of the 20th century. In a gripping message, [...]
Bill Pratt | March 31, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Recently I was conversing with a skeptic of Christianity who was explaining why he had become a skeptic. One of the most significant reasons was that he was greatly disappointed that the New Testament, and Jesus in particular, did not address a particular social institution which he considers to be particularly [...]
Bill Pratt | March 22, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt In parts one, two, and three of this series of posts, we discussed the writings of Josephus and Tacitus, who are both non-Christians. They each provide historical confirmation of key components of the history recorded in the New Testament. Before ending this series, I want to look at one more writer [...]
Bill Pratt | March 18, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt In parts one and two of this series of posts, we discussed the writings of Josephus and we saw that most historians agree that Josephus did indeed write about Jesus, even if Christians may have added a few phrases later on (this is still debatable, but possible). There are, however, others [...]
