by Mark Farnham | Oct 2, 2014 | Apologetics, Biblical Studies, Encouragement
The text of Scripture that most clearly teaches us about every believer’s responsibility to be involved in apologetics is 1 Peter 3:15-16. In this passage, every believer is commanded to be prepared to “give and answer,” lit. “make a...
by Mark Farnham | Oct 1, 2014 | Apologetics, Culture, Ethics, History, Relativism
“In a purely naturalistic universe without God there is no compelling way to resolve this dilemma [between commitment to moral relativism and human rights]. Contemporary academia is in a moral stalemate. Cultural relativism is essential to dismantling the many Western...
by Mark Farnham | Sep 30, 2014 | Historiography, History, Philosophy
Postmodernism affects everything it touches, often in ways of which we are not aware. Its effects on the writing of history are to make history inaccessible to all but a few academic elites, or to reinterpret history in the image of the historian, with little regard...
by Mark Farnham | Sep 2, 2014 | Christian Thinkers, The Church, Theology
Twenty years ago Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary church historian David Wells wrote, The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant, his grace is too ordinary, his judgment...
by Mark Farnham | Sep 1, 2014 | Book Reviews, The Church, Theology, Worship
In the last few years, books on worship seem to be either so practical as to be thin on their biblical and theological development, or conversely so abstract and philosophical that they are of little value to the church. Daniel Block’s newest book, For the Glory of...
