Lately, readers  have probably noticed that I’m doing less with refuting heresy and more with Christian understandings of things like Hell and predestination.  I’ve been spending more time studying historic Christianity and its creeds rather than the vitriol that drips from the mouths of the evangelistic atheist sorts.  Not that I’ve waned in my vigiliance of what the other side is saying; far from it–I’m currently working my way through the so-called Four Horsemen: Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett, and Harris.  I’ve been reading God is Not Great, and next on my plate is Letter to a Christian Nation.  Soon, I hope to get to The God Delusion and Breaking the Spell, but I’ll probably read The End of Faith first.

Not that he’s one of the Four Horseman, but since Bart Ehrman is often cited, I’ve been reading Misquoting Jesus, too.

I feel that it is prudent for me to study more historic Christianity to strengthen my faith, especially in light of all the atheistic nonsense I read.  It would be nice to live a life unafraid of God’s judgment, but I know that said judgment will be reality, and I also know that my sins can only be covered by the blood of Christ, whom I have complete faith in.  Therefore, having been chosen by God to do the work of this apologetics ministry, I feel it wise stewardship of my time to bathe myself more in the words of those who did the work before me, and whose works will survive long after my own are forgotten.

Therefore, I’m balancing my reading list a little bit more.  This means that refutations may not come as quickly as they used to, since I’m still a full-time father and BK manager.  I’m starting school in the fall, God willing, which will slow my apologetics work down even more.  But I plan to keep up the good work of this ministry, for God’s glory alone.