Is 2 Timothy 3:16–17 proof of sola scriptura? Not so fast. Learn how Paul’s words—and the rest of Scripture—point to a Church with both Scripture and apostolic authority.
Why Do Protestants Keep Doing This With the Bible?
Why do Protestants and Catholics often read the same Bible verse and come to completely different conclusions? This post explores the “broken fourth wall”—a hidden key to understanding the divide.
VIDEO: Big Problems with Sola Scriptura | A Drive-Time Monologue
This seemed like a good way to get content out the door vs. trying to do an entire video production with edits, etc. The genre here is a “Drive Time Monologue,” but I invite the listener to imagine a scenario in which we are driving together. Perhaps my passenger is a Catholic who wants to […]
Papal Infallibility | 10 Frequently Asked Questions
In my own journey into the Catholic Church, I identified around 14 theological barriers to embracing Catholicism. Near the top of my list of “deal breakers” was the notion of infallibility. As I have shared many times with many people on my journey, I had to let the Catholic Church use her own words with […]
Did Jesus have brothers and sisters by Joseph and Mary?
This morning I recounted to my wife an occasion about twelve years ago when I was preaching from Luke 8:19-21 where the text says, “Then his mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not reach him because of the crowd.” After reading this text to the congregation, I looked up with a […]
“I just go by what the Bible teaches!” (A composite, and not-so-imaginary discussion between several bible-only Christians).
Before I was a Catholic (and the entire 12 years I was the senior/teaching pastor at our congregation) I encouraged people to judge everything they believed and to judge what I was teaching them on Sundays, by the Bible — especially if there was a dispute between two contrary ideas that needed to be resolved […]
Ten questions every Catholic should ask when interpreting Scripture
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THE PHRASE, “THE BIBLE IS SUBJECT TO INTERPRETATION?” I’ve heard it more times than I can count, and honestly it makes me wonder what the people who say it think the Bible actually is. My own passion to learn to interpret the Bible carefully and properly led me to take both […]