Dealing with Your Inner Skeptic (while in the Purgatory of Doubt)
Some of you are living in a purgatory of doubt. You find yourself caught between two opinions. You have studied just about all you can study. You have read both sides to the...
Ancient Confession Found: ‘We Invented Jesus Christ’
A press release came out two days ago about an upcoming conference in the UK where the world will learn from two scholars that the Romans actually invented Christianity. A...
Theology Unplugged: Church (Part 1) – Defining the Church
[display_podcast] Join Michael Patton, Tim Kimberley, JJ Seid and Sam Storms as they kick-off a new series on the Church. This is a topic hotly debated today. What really does...
Five Characteristics of Legalism
1. Excels only in the visible aspects of righteousness Matt. 6:5-6 Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues and...
Thoughts on Homosexual Marriage, Libertarian Government, and Christian Duty
Here is a response that my (C. Michael Patton) friend Mark Gaither, Th.M., Dallas Theological Seminary and author of Redemptive Divorce, wrote to my post on Homosexual...
Changing Our Thinking About Same-Sex Marriage
I don’t expect to contribute anything substantial to this issue. Haven’t we already seen this thing from every possible angle? I am not saying that people need to...
Answering a Fool
Some people are just so ignorant. No, I don’t mean that they are uninformed, so perhaps “ignorant” is not the correct word for me to use. What I mean is that they don’t a very...
Would President Obama Bomb the Canaanites?
I’ll get right to the point. I think President Obama would have bombed the Canaanites way before God annihilated them. Why am I even bringing up this hypothetical...
Stephen Hawking Detained in Russia for Bible Smuggling
The new autobiography from scientist and well-known atheist Stephen Hawking entitled My Brief History is full of many interesting and at times surprising details. One of the...