You Can Code a Chatbot, But You Can’t Code a Soul Get Your Own Dust For decades, the materialist crowd told us we’re nothing more than leftover stardust, a lucky accident cooked up over billions of years by blind chemistry and natural selection. Now fast-forward to 2021. Today’s materialists, the folks leading the AI charge,…
Category: Devotional
Be Careful Little Eyes What You Read. A Doctrinal Advisory for Online Christian Material.
I asked Claude AI to examine this article from Beliefnet.com and make sure it conforms to traditional evangelical Christian doctrine. I often use online sources to jumpstart devotional material for my blog. I wanted to convert it into a 750-word devotional-style post. Since Claude already has my traditional Christian core doctrines stored in its memory,…
Not Enough? A Devotional for the Restless Heart
When Manna is Enough “Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’” (Hebrews 13:5) Every morning for forty years, Israel woke to find bread on the ground. It came with the dew, white and thin as…
What Does It Actually Mean to Be Born Again? An Introduction to John MacArthur’s Born Again: Understanding the Difference Between Saving Faith and Self-Righteousness
Few phrases in the Christian vocabulary have been more widely used — or more thoroughly emptied of meaning — than “born again.” It appears on bumper stickers, in political polling categories, and in casual conversation as a rough synonym for anyone who takes their faith seriously. Ask ten people what it means to be born…
The Writing on the Wall: Church Decline, Eschatological Realism, and What the New Testament Actually Predicted
There is something simultaneously admirable and insufficient about Karen Kilby’s recent essay in Plough Quarterly, “It’s Not All Good, Man.” Published in the spring 2026 issue, the piece wrestles honestly with a reality that many theologians have preferred to aestheticize, rationalize, or deny: the Christian church in the Western world is shrinking, and that decline…
Pascal’s Wager and The Word of God: A Theological Inquiry
Pascal’s Gambit, Biblical Salvation, and the God Who Will Not Be Bargained With A Theological Essay I. The Wager Everyone Thinks They Know Blaise Pascal is among the most fascinating figures in the history of Western thought—a prodigy who had mastered Euclid by the age of twelve, revolutionized the mathematics of probability and combinatorics, designed…
“God Told Me”—Did He Really?
Is It God Who Is Really Speaking to You? The voice seemed so clear. Sarah sat in her pastor’s office, tears streaming down her face. “God told me to marry him,” she said. “I opened my Bible, and there it was—‘For I know the plans I have for you.’ It seemed like confirmation.” Now, three…
The Divine Purpose in Creation: Why God Made Humanity
The question of why God created humanity, especially knowing humanity would fall into sin, has occupied Christian thinkers since the earliest days of the church. This inquiry touches the very heart of God’s character, His sovereign purposes, and the nature of His glory. The answer reveals not merely an intellectual puzzle to be solved, but…
Resting in Arms That Never Let Go, A Devotional on Psalm 131:2
Picture a toddler after a long day—red-faced, fists clenched, tears streaming. She wants milk now. But the mother knows better. She gathers the child close, strokes her hair, and waits. The sobs are quiet. The breathing steadies. The little one melts into her mother’s embrace, no longer demanding, simply content to be held. David understood…
The Creator Who Spoke Worlds Into Existence Speaks Wisdom Into Yours
The Treasure Chest with No Lock A father watches his daughter wrestle with a math problem at the kitchen table. She groans. She erases. She slams her pencil down. Then she does something remarkable—she looks up and asks, “Dad, can you help me?” That moment captures the heart of Proverbs 2:6: “For the LORD gives…