WHY I BELIEVE
June 19, 1865, was the day slaves in Texas first heard about President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation three years earlier and the fact they were thus free, precious news that was brought to them by Union Major-General Gordon Granger. Americans celebrate this day as the federal holiday of “Juneteenth,” the informal contraction…
Read MoreIn each of the four Gospels, women are the first people to encounter the empty tomb and the resurrected Jesus Christ. That may not seem like a significant fact, but in reality, it is a crucially important detail that points to the credibility of Christianity. Check out the following 1:09 video in which I discuss…
Read MoreThere are among the world’s religions only two basic paths to eternal salvation. The most prevalent one is some variation on human works, on earning salvation by living a good life, however that is defined. Christianity is fundamentally different from all other religions because it is in fact not a religion at all. Instead of…
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Consider Paul the Apostle. In a work in which numerous characters stand out — Moses, Joshua, David, Solomon, Samson, Gideon, among many others — his name, exceeded only by that of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, rises above all the others. Two millennia after his four missionary journeys had spread Christianity far and wide in…
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There are mountains of evidence — historical, scientific, medical, archeological, literary, logical, philosophical and more — that point to Jesus Christ as God, Creator and Sustainer of the universe. As the Gospel of John puts it in the first five verses of its opening chapter: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was…
Read MoreUnless you’ve been asleep for the past several decades, you have heard it said many times, in many ways and in many places that faith, especially Christian faith, is based on blind acceptance, as opposed to secular, materialistic science, which is based on evidence and logic. Like so much else in the conventional wisdom of…
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Among the most common arguments from skeptics is that the claim Jesus was resurrected on the third day after the crucifixion and burial was a “later invention,” or a legend that grew over the decades following His death. If you ever played “Telephone” as a kid, you can easily understand how such assertions can sound…
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