Mike Wittmer

Category: Theology

  • the new normal

    I was teaching last night so I missed it, and I am too busy to watch it on my DVR, but according to its own press release the NBC show “The New Normal” is the latest attempt to mainstream homosexual behavior. The strategy began with “Will and Grace” (according to Joe Biden), made significant strides…

  • wrecked

    The steering wheel of my riding mower was smashed last week when I: a)      Mowed the lawn while texting. b)      Hooked a chain to the steering wheel to pull a dead tree stump out of the ground. c)      Became entangled with my children’s swing set and flipped the mower upside down. The embarrassing answer became…

  • cover up

    Here is my latest draft for Our Daily Journey, using a story from Carl Trueman’s Histories and Fallacies, p. 63-64. Any suggestions for improvement are always appreciated. Thanks! read > Joshua 7:1-26 Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, by telling the truth. Make your confession and…

  • Scripture, science, and evil

    I much enjoyed Alvin Plantinga’s important book, Where the Conflict Really Lies:  Science, Religion, and Naturalism. It’s a chance to read the premier Christian philosopher at the top of his game, in a winsome style that is accessible to anyone. If you had difficulty wading through the analytical arguments of Warranted Christian Belief  and God,…

  • begin with the bad

    My family was driving home from another fun and rejuvenating week at the Upper Peninsula Bible Camp when I heard the beginning of the press conference announcing Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan. I turned to my wife and said, “Wow. This changes everything.” I don’t know the specifics of the Ryan plan (though I suspect…

  • moral to the story

    A little over a month ago I heard a dynamic presentation from Arthur Brooks, president of The American Enterprise Institute, at Acton University in Grand Rapids. Brooks caught my attention when he began by saying that the average age of unhappiness for men is 45, which explains why I’ve been crabby lately, though I suspect…

  • unpopular

    There are so many firestorms on the Internet right now, it’s hard to know which ones to comment on and which ones are better to let burn themselves out. I thought of the Chick-Fil-A controversy yesterday when I came across what the Jews in Rome said to Paul:  “We want to hear what you believe, for the…

  • backslap back

    Here’s another Our Daily Journey devotional that I offer for your constructive critique and/or use in your ministry. When I lived in China, I had an American friend who was radically committed to bringing the gospel to that nation. He mastered the Chinese language until even the Chinese thought he spoke exactly like them, with…

  • the empty arrogance of ingratitude

    The recent discovery of the Higgs-boson (a.k.a., the “God particle”) has led some to declare that physics is closer to proving that the universe could have brought something out of nothing without God’s help. They forget that the Higgs-boson is a something, so even if it is what causes the existence of mass, they still have…

  • blind sided

    There has been a bit of commentary on Lifeway Christian bookstores bowing to Southern Baptist pressure to stop selling the movie “The Blind Side” because it contains some profanity and racial slurs. The comments I have seen have been entirely critical, ranging from “This is what’s wrong with Christian bookstores” to “When will Christians stop…