The mind is a power for great good and great evil, and it is our obligation to master it, to teach it the way it should go, otherwise it will lead us astray; and the main way to train and lead the mind is through developing and memorizing creeds.

We Bible readers often like to make fun of Israel because they are so pathetic. They’re easy to make fun of. But sometimes it hits a little too close to home.

I just had to look at the ground. The lady in front of me was wearing knee-high black leather boots that had a little metal tag on the back with fine print that read “The Frye Company” and I thought how nice they were, and then I thought how Haddie will never wear those.

I’ve been having this debate with myself for a while about skeptics. If you spend any time at all reading and listening to skeptics, you’ve probably asked yourself the same question I keep asking myself. What makes them so desperate and earnest and, I guess, alive?

Our culture is on a rampage to promote sin and destroy goodness—the great irony is it doesn't realize it's hacking off the very branch its ladder is leaning on.

We Americans don’t gather around the fire and hear grandpa tell us our story anymore and that makes us feel “free” to create our own. But with that freedom comes ignorance and confusion. We’ve forgotten our True story, and it’s my constant passion to call people to the fire to hear the way things really are.

The sun rises, the sun falls: waves roll in and out with the tide. Heat comes in Summer and cold in Winter, the wind chilling the earth. We know the patterns of life, and we even expect them to flow, but sometimes they don’t—sometimes they get stuck. 

2015 was the first year for AdamSetser.com and my push to publish something regularly. I’ve had a hard time figuring out what writing means and how I am to go about doing it, and that has led me into some really dark places. But before we get there, let’s recap.

When I was young I used to pray for God to rescue me from the boredom of doing my devotions. All those Thees and Thous and henceforths (I grew up on the KJV) was like pouring water on the tiny flame of my faith. So I lowered my shouldered and repeated the words fake it ‘till you make it, fake it ‘till you make it.

Being an American is a lot like being stranded on an island, but very few of us realize it. We've come to see the island as our home, and we don't remember the way things used to be...

Social media is phenomenal. It connects us with our best friends about all the things we find important. It’s like a group forum where we share our lives together...Only, in reality, it's not all that phenomenal.

Back in April, the Guardian ran a piece by Giles Fraser entitled "Christianity, when properly understood, is a religion of losers." This is my response.

Being a human is a really weird thing. But I don’t think we get that....

I think it’s ironic that God made King Nebuchadnezzar an animal for a while to teach him how to be a better human (read: how to be able to control the distinctly human gifts of consciousness and free will), and yet many in society today just want to become like animals...

So-called safe-speech, microagressions, and trigger-warnings are ruining education, and if we lose education, we lose the battle for our humanity. God wants you to be educated, and this is what I think that means.

Art gets a bad rap, and it's truly misunderstood in our generation, but losing Art is like losing our souls. We need it more than you may think.

The books of Samuel tell a disastrous story about two kings of Israel (Saul and David) whose struggles define the trajectory of a nation. I think David is less the hero we think he is and more of a broken man, struggling to find his place in relation to the Sovereignty of God. Something we can all identify with, no doubt.

The only way to understand the Bible is in its context. We have to get the proper storyline before we parachute into texts and try to make meaning from them. Abner Chou powerfully gives that context--the entire Biblical storyline--in what is less than a 15-minute read.

Jack Lewis is the author of Narnia and lots of philosophical books which have had incalculable impact on modern Christianity. Lewis had darkness in his life which few know about, but it's that darkness that God used to shape him to create such power and beauty.

“We have got to get to the place, brothers and sisters, where we just…shut up….We need to sit down and listen to the One who created us and who has redeemed us tell us the way it is. We need to be drawn outside ourselves. Faith comes by hearing, not by looking within…”

Over the next few weeks I will be posting the lecture notes from a class Dr. Chou teaches at The Master’s College on the book of Job. I’ve found the lectures extremely helpful, so I’m going back through them and copying down the relevant notes. I will publish one lecture per day on the blog, with each lecture being about 1,000 words. That should be a great 5 minute “devotional” for you as we go through the 34-ish lectures.

"I did not set out to design a house on a pole, a three wheeled car, or geodesic structures. My objective has been humanity's comprehensive welfare in the universe. I could have ended up with a pair of flying slippers."

Spotify and other online music services lets us stream infinite music. And while this is great, it comes with baggage, especially for Christians who must navigate the "sacred-secular" divide. I think there is a better way of utilizing music and its purposes in our lives, and it doesn't have to do with more "praise" songs.