Top Ten Posts from 2017

Here are the top 10 posts written this year for the blog in 2017.  These were posts dealing with Christian theology and apologetics.

I want to thank all of you for reading our blog, sharing it with others and commenting your thoughts!

Did you remembered any of them or were blessed by them?  Or were anything something you just got to read and you found it helpful?If so let us know!

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Last Two Comics I read for 2017

The year is almost over and I’m trying to crank out all my reviews of stuff I read in 2017.  Here are the last two comic books I read for 2017.

James Tynion IV.  Batman: Detective Comics, Volume 4: Deus Ex Machina. Burbank, CA: DC Comics, December 19th 2017. 144 pp.

4 out of 5

Purchase: Amazon

This is volume four of Batman’s Detective Comics.  The volume collects Detective Comics issues #957-962.  In the past I have not really enjoyed Batman working as a team but I think either I am getting used to it or the story for volume four really helped me enjoy it.  I must say though that this volume was enjoyable.

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Review of Two Spiritual Booklets Read in Late 2017

Here are two Christian booklets I read towards the end of this year.

William P. Smith.  When Bad Things Happen: Thoughtful Answers to Hard Questions.  Greensboro, NC: New Growth  Press, September 1st 2008. 22 pp.

5 out of 5

Purchase: Westminster | Amazon

This was a helpful and edifying booklet.  It is a “minibook” that is part of the “Resources for Personal Change” series published by New Growth Press.  The author William Smith is an adjunct faculty in the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation has written an excellent resource for those who are going through trials and asking the question of why God allows bad things to happen.  It is an excellent resource for Biblical and Pastoral Counselors to give the counselee and have them read and highlight/underline for study and meditation.  For my own use I read this title along with a church member I was discipling and counseling as a pastor.

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Video: Fallacy of “Pics or it didn’t happen” meme

Have you ever seen this meme before that is used to attack religion and Christianity?

There’s so many fallacies made in this meme.

Here’s a video refuting this meme:

It’s from a channel called “Whaddo You Meme??” It looks quite promising!

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Ants Home School Lesson 1: Ants Living Together

I thought I share my lesson plan for a series I’m doing where I’m teaching my daughters life science and also the wonder of God’s creation.  This is for kids ages 4-5.

Purpose: Introduction to ants by noting that they live together.

Book(s) read:

Ruth Berman Ants pages pages 6-17.  (Chapter 1: Thousands of Ants)

Trevor Terry and Margaret Linton The Life Cycle of an Ant pages 5-13.

 

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn how ants are insects and what insects are
2. Learn how ants live together and the types of ants in a colony
3. Learn the vocabularies related to ants
4. Reinforce the truth that God is Creator

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Apologetics: What Would Jesus Do? 4 Messages

This is a recent four part series on Apologetics from the implication of Jesus’ own apologetics in Luke 20, which is an underrated chapter in the Bible that has implication for how we do apologetics.

This series is available in MP3 and also on Youtube (sound only).  Two of the sessions have additional PDF documents as well which is also linked below.  Also if you want to start with the most practical one of these messages start with session 2.

Check it out below:

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Review: The First Days of Jesus: The Story of the Incarnation

What better time to finish and review this book on Christ’s incarnation than on Christmas day!

Andreas J. Kostenberger and Alexander Stewart. The First Days of Jesus: The Story of the Incarnation.  Wheaton, IL: Crossway, September 30th 2015.  272 pp.

5 out of 5

Purchase: Westminster | Amazon

If you think you heard it all and exhausted all there is to learn concerning the birth of Christ or the incarnation think again.  This book is written by two New Testament professors who offer their insights into passages that cover the infant narrative of Jesus Christ.  Though I felt the book started slowly and I was initially concerned whether there would be new things I can learn nevertheless as the book progressed I found it fulfilled my expectation of learning about the birth of Jesus and the incarnation through fresh eyes.

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Resolving Eight Christmas Bible Contradictions

Since this is Christmas Eve I thought I gather in one post what contradictions I dealt with surrounding the account of the Birth of Jesus from the bigger lists of Bible Contradictions we have refuted.  The following are from the last two years.  Lord willing I plan to add more posts to the list for next Christmas!

Here’s the listing:

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Bible Contradiction? Who was Zerubbabel’s father?

Since Christmas is around the corner I thought I look into this alleged Bible contradiction since it does touch on the genealogy of Jesus.

For today’s post we will tackle the question the Skeptic Annotated Bible asked: Who was Zerubbabel’s father?

Here are the two answers which the skeptic believes shows a Bible contradiction:

His father was Pedaiah.

The sons of Pedaiah were Zerubbabel and Shimei. And the sons of Zerubbabel were Meshullam and Hananiah, and Shelomith was their sister. (1 Chronicles 3:19)

His father was Shealtiel.

Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brothers arose and built the altar of the God of Israel to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses, the man of God. (Ezra 3:2)

Now these are the priests and the Levites who came up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, (Nehemiah 12:1)In the second year of Darius the king, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord came by the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, (Haggai 1:1)

After the deportation to Babylon: Jeconiah became the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel. (Matthew 1:12)

the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri, (Luke 3:27)

(All Scriptural quotation comes from the New American Standard Bible)

Here’s a closer look at whether or not there is a contradiction:

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Presuppositional Apologetics Links: Third Week of December 2017

Here are the links related to Presuppositional apologetics gathered between December 15th-21st, 2017.

1.) God and Logic: Proof

2.) Audio Message: Resolving “Christmas” Bible Contradictions

3.) Greg Bahnsen Explains Evolution

4.) Presuppositionalism, Authority, and Sola Scriptura

5.) Honor and suffering

6.) Global Atheism Versus Local Atheisms

 

Missed the last round up?  Check out the re-blogged post from a friend OR that of Another REBLOG HERE

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Quick Devotional from Psalm 69:5 (Observation from Greek Septuagint)

This is from my daily Greek exercise of sight reading a few weeks ago, courtesy of Vincent S Artale Jr.

Our text is from the Greek translation of the Old Testament known as the Septuagint.  The Greek Septuagint numbering is different than the Hebrew and English Bible numbering and the verse I translated is from the English and Hebrew Psalm 69:5.

Here’s my translation:

“6 ὁ θεὸς, σὺ ἔγνως τὴν ἀφροσύνην μου,
O God you know my foolishness

καὶ αἱ πλημμελίαι μου ἀπὸ σοῦ οὐκ ἐκρύβησαν.”
and my wrongs are not hidden from you

Here are some observations:

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Looking for Nonfiction Audiobooks Recommendations for your Winter 2017 Travels?

No doubt some people will be traveling to visit family and relatives as Christmas gets closer and/or people take a vacation or are done with the semester in school.

Here’s some nonfiction audio books recommendations to help with your travel whether you are waiting in the airport, on the bus or driving cross country.

Secret Warriors: The Spies, Scientists and Code Breakers of World War I

Taylor Downing. Secret Warriors: The Spies, Scientists and Code Breakers of World War I.  Ashland, OR: Blackstone Audio Inc, April 15, 2015. 13 hours, 8 minutes and 10 seconds.

4 out of 5

Purchase: Amazon

This work is about how the Great War/World War One was a different military conflict than the wars that came before it since it was a war in which the world entered a new age with modern warfare.  I think the author presented his case quite persuasively with his focus being primarily on the British then German and French developments in the Western front.  I enjoyed this work in audio book format and found that the work overall was informative and interesting.  It was also read in such a way that helped the listeners endure over thirteen hours of materials without any problem.

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Review: RC Sproul’s The Knight’s Map

R.C. Sproul. The Knight’s Map.  Sanford, FL: Reformation Trust Publishing, May 1st 2016. 39 pp.

5 out of 5

Purchase: Westminster | Amazon

I have previously enjoyed two of the author’s Christian children’s book titled The Priest with Dirty Clothes and The Donkey Who Carried a King.  The author R.C. Sproul was not only a gifted theologian but wrote wonderful children’s book including this one.  In light of his recent death he will surely be missed.

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Audio Message: Resolving “Christmas” Bible Contradictions

This time of year with holidays around the corner we often see the media attack the Bible and Christianity.  Sometimes it isn’t just only the media but also in our personal relationship as well where people say things like the claim that there are Bible contradictions.

I want to share in this post another resource answering Bible contradictions that has to do with Christ’s human birth.

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Quick Devotional from Galatians 2:19 (Observation from the Greek)

I’m slowly trying to get back to the groove of things so here’s a quick devotional from the Word of God for today.

This is from my daily Greek exercise of sight reading a few days ago, courtesy of Vincent S Artale Jr.

Our text is Galatians 1:8.  Here’s my translation:

“ [TP ἐγὼ TP] γὰρ διὰ νόμου νόμῳ ἀπέθανον ἵνα θεῷ ζήσω
For through the law I died to the law in order that I will live for God

Χριστῷ συνεσταύρωμαι”
I am crucified with Christ

Here are some observations:

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