Bill Pratt | August 27, 2012
Post Author: Bill Pratt Christians claim that God is both merciful and that he is just, but how can both of these be true? Doesn’t mercy cancel justice, or justice cancel mercy? Thomas Aquinas, one of the greatest church fathers, addressed this very issue in his monumental work, Summa Theologica. Thomas’s approach in Summa Theologica was to [...]
Bill Pratt | February 10, 2012
Post Author: Bill Pratt Failing to obey God is something that every Christian does, and repeatedly. Every one of us sins, but how should we react when we sin, when we fail God? Christian philosopher Peter Kreeft, in his book Prayer for Beginners, takes some lessons from Brother Lawrence’s little classic The Practice of the [...]
Bill Pratt | February 8, 2012
Post Author: Bill Pratt Oftentimes you’ll hear pastors or priests tell us to listen to what God has to say to us, but how exactly are we supposed to do this? Should we expect God to communicate in a booming voice, much like he spoke to Moses on the mountain? If not like this, then [...]
Bill Pratt | February 6, 2012
Post Author: Bill Pratt This is the one of the most basic and fundamental questions that every human being must come to grips with, or waste their lives away. If you don’t know what the end goal of your earthly existence is, you will drift like a boat without a rudder on the high seas [...]
Bill Pratt | September 25, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt A couple months ago, we featured a 7 minute audio clip from philosopher Peter Kreeft’s lecture on arguments for God’s existence. For this post, we are presenting an additional clip from the lecture – this time on the first cause argument for God’s existence. Again, Kreeft does a wonderful job simplifying [...]
Bill Pratt | August 9, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Philosopher Peter Kreeft gives a brilliant overview of the argument from design in the audio below. The audio is excerpted from one of Kreeft’s podcasts where he lectures on five arguments for the existence of God. I beg you to set aside just 7 minutes to listen to this audio. You [...]
Bill Pratt | July 29, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt One of the most abused words in the English language is the word faith. For skeptics, faith is believing in something despite reason. For some religious folks, faith is simply the expression of positive emotions toward God. Others claim faith is purely intellectual. Can we more rigorously define what faith is? [...]
Bill Pratt | July 4, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Everything around us is changing, moving from one state to another in time. My son was less than 5 feet tall two years ago, and now he is greater than 5 feet tall. The grass in my yard is growing every week so that I have to cut it. The paint [...]
Bill Pratt | May 13, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Below is another great quote from Malcolm Muggeridge, a man who in many ways was extremely successful. Every day I see people who think that just a little more money, or a little more pleasure, is all they need to be content. How sad and how foolish. Money, fame, and pleasure [...]
Bill Pratt | November 20, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt One of the most remarkable lectures I ever heard at an apologetics conference was a Friday morning session with Peter Kreeft, professor of philosophy at Boston College. Kreeft is a highly respected Catholic scholar who has taught at BC for many years and written more than 60 books. Kreeft’s lecture focused [...]
