Being a Tech-Wise Church By Jim Dec 10 2018 Technologies may have a boomerang effect and thwart the purpose of the church. ... Face-to-face fellowship cannot be exchanged for anything of comparable value. Tags: TechnologyDouglas Groothuis 473 reads
Advice to Christian Apologists: Being Wise as Serpents and Innocent as Doves By Jim Sep 07 2018 Having been an apologist for the last forty years, I could give much more advice. I have only highlighted the need for defenders of the faith to be wise, but innocent, witnesses to Jesus Christ and the Gospel. Without these values, apologetic arguments, no matter how powerful, will sit unused and be ineffective. But when we pay heed to Jesus, our arguments will find their home in the hearts and minds of those who need his saving grace. Tags: Douglas GroothuisApologetics 656 reads
Dr. Douglas Groothuis: 40 Years of Classroom Stories By Jim May 10 2018 In apologetics, I pretended to be a jazz saxophone player named Zoot. Zoot asked that the class give him an argument for the existence of God from the existence of a saxophone. They did, and Zoot was impressed. ... and more Tags: Douglas Groothuis 598 reads
Review: "Walking Through Twilight" By Jim Apr 13 2018 Review: "Walking Through Twilight" Tags: BooksDouglas Groothuis 746 reads
8 Simple Ways to Be a Good Neighbor By Jim Feb 22 2018 It does not matter how good your apologetics arguments are if no one listens to you. The Apostle Peter says to have an apologetic for everyone who asks you about your faith (1 Peter 3:16). How might we create situations in which people ask us? One way is by being a Christian neighbor, by neighboring well. Tags: EvangelismDouglas Groothuis 1024 reads
Douglas Groothuis laments: The Book That No One Read By Jim Feb 01 2018 As the editor of a series of cultural critiques on compelling issues, Os Guinness wanted my work The Soul in Cyberspace to be “a shot across the bow.” I earnestly took up the challenge. At the time, Thomas Moore’s The Care of the Soul was a bestseller, and publishers were offering a proliferation of books on the Internet. Published in 1997, my book combined these two themes. My hope was that the book would sell well and help the church be more discerning. The book was a flop.Tags: Douglas Groothuis 1529 reads
Two Views of Suffering: Atheist Existentialism and Christianity By Jim Jan 25 2018 Suffering is not the starting point for the Christian worldview, but, nevertheless, it throbs in its philosophical marrow. Blood is shed everywhere, but that blood is not without a voice. Humans did not just appear without forethought or purpose, but are integral to a divine plan. But this plan is fully made known—and often largely obscured—to erring mortals. Tags: Douglas GroothuisSuffering 691 reads
Is Religion Dangerous? By Jim Jan 18 2018 Something strange happened that first year in college: Christianity began to speak to my condition, despite my antipathy toward it. A philosophy professor assigned some readings by Soren Kierkegaard, the Danish Christian philosopher. After having dismissed Kierkegaard in a paper, I decided to actually read the primary text, The Sickness Unto Death. I found a profound assessment of the human condition before God.Tags: Douglas Groothuis 574 reads
