"The first endeavor must be to understand the man. One will not move far in this direction unless one recognizes at the outset that Lut...

"The best things have to be dug for. If you rake, you get leaves. If you dig, you get diamonds. And if you've got a raking mind, yo...

I've written before about the many Biblical passages that refer to water, cleansing, and such in relevant contexts without having bapti...

Critics of Protestantism often make much of the large amount of allegorizing in the church fathers' interpretations of scripture. But th...

Here's something I recently posted on the subject in a YouTube thread :

When it's shown that there are significant historical problems with something like the perpetual virginity of Mary, her assumption, or p...

It's common for critics of Protestantism to claim that various Protestant beliefs are absent in the historical record prior to the Refor...

The BBC recently reaired a television program about the Enfield Poltergeist that came out a couple of years ago. So, there's been anoth...

We need to keep in mind that the significance of extrabiblical sources varies, and can vary widely , from one context to another. On a subje...

Gavin Ortlund recently produced a good video about William Tyndale . It also briefly discusses another martyr of the Reformation era, one wh...

I've written before about the Biblical theme of the nearness of redemption , the concept that you can be justified at any moment through...

Since so many Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox evaluations of Protestantism involve criticizing sola scriptura without making much of a c...

Reliance on extrabiblical evidence is often equated with dependence on the alleged traditions of a group like Catholicism or Orthodoxy. But ...

Reformation Day is coming up later this month. Here's a collection of resources on Reformation issues. I occasionally update that post....

When I was a teenager, shortly before the internet came along, I got a lot of my information about Christianity from television. One of the ...

"It is no common zeal for the house of God which ought to penetrate and engross the hearts of believers. When, therefore, the Divine gl...

"So that when He biddeth thee love Him, He then most of all showeth that He loves thee. For nothing doth so secure our salvation as to ...

Over the years, as I've read pre-Reformation sources who advocated some form of eternal security, I've noticed that they often cite ...

The late Roman Catholic scholar John Meier made a good point about the perpetual virginity of Mary that should be brought up more often. Wha...

"I know that some of you are not the least interested in these [religious] things. You have no emotional resonance with what I am sayin...