2013-02-1457Comments

On My Journey to Become Charismatic

Theological opinions are hard to change. Once they have set in, they are usually there to stay. The theological glue that makes ideas stick early in your studies is, for...

by C Michael Patton

Emerging Church

Epistemology

Evangelicalism

Prolegomena

2012-12-2831Comments

The Danger of Theological Novelty

Not long ago, I met with an old friend of mine who is a “swinger.” For those of you who don’t know, swinging is when both partners in a committed...

2012-12-048Comments

Confessing to Some Crap in My Life

I have a lot of fight stories from when I was a teenager. I went to rough schools that held scrapping as a prerequisite to coolness. Being thought of as tough was about the...

by C Michael Patton

Apologetics

Epistemology

2012-10-2326Comments

What if My Wife is Having an Affair?

I just talked to my wife on the phone about forty-five minutes ago. Everything seemed fine. She was a little distracted and wanted to get off the phone for some reason at the...

2012-03-04276Comments

Why Are There So Many Divisions in the Church?

Why Doesn’t Everyone Agree with Me? I am a Calvinist; others are Arminian. I believe in a premillenial eschatology; others are amillenial. I am a traducianist with...

2012-01-0211Comments

Christianity is Bizarre But Not Absurd

Absurd n. utterly or obviously senseless, illogical, or untrue; contrary to all reason or common sense. Bizarre n. markedly unusual in appearance, style, or general character...

2011-10-193Comments

Googling for Truth: The Great Commission and Information Overload

It is no secret that our culture today has been/is undergoing a massive paradigm shift with regards to the way people come to know truth. The atmosphere of the intellectual...

2011-09-0925Comments

How I Find Scholars I Can Trust

When I first became committed to the things of the Lord, I was a sponge. I took whatever anyone was giving so long as they said they loved Jesus. I bought whatever was sold as...

2011-06-08100Comments

Essentials and Non-Essentials in a Nutshell

We Evangelicals talk a lot about essentials and non-essentials. Rightly so. We talk about distinguishing between those areas in our faith – those doctrines – which...

2011-06-0665Comments

I Am Tired of All the Options

Jeffrey Bingham, the chair of the theology department at Dallas Theological Seminary, has a phrase he uses when people advocate something that is not a part of the historic...

by C Michael Patton

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