Mike Wittmer

Category: Theology

  • amplified

    Here is my latest entry for Our Daily Journey.  It’s a thought that occurred to me, perhaps by the Spirit of God, as I attended Acton last week. read > Matthew 12:22-37 “A tree is identified by its fruit.  If a tree is good, its fruit will be good.  If a tree is bad, its…

  • churches without borders

    This month a nearby church changed its name from “Christ Community Church” to “C3Exchange.”  Besides the obvious benefit of being mistaken for a Star Wars character, the pastor said the name change indicates their desire to be an “inclusive, spiritual community” which includes Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and even atheists.  The church will remain true to…

  • presuppositional follow-up

    My new friend got back to me a few days later.  He said that his presupposition was that he knew very little and was likely wrong about many things.  And he suggested that my view was immoral for not caring enough to offer proof for itself when heaven and hell were at stake.  I think…

  • presuppositional apologetics

    About a month ago I received a spirited email from a self-described skeptic whose friend had recommended that he read Don’t Stop Believing.  The reader said that he had been raised in a conservative Christian home, but now he thought that there was insufficient proof for the existence of God and Scripture.  He was singularly…

  • so open it’s shut

    I’ve been too busy with summer school, retaining walls, computer crashes, and toilet back-ups to post anything this week, but this morning I found enough space to revise my devotional on “The New Pharisees.”  I’m glad for your feedback, because I realized that the discussion about whether or not some emergents meet the criteria of…

  • baptism

    One of the ironies of being a Baptist is that my tradition puts much less weight on baptism than most others.  As my friend Dave Lamb said recently, we spend so much time saying what the sacraments/ordinances aren’t that we end up with very little when we’re done.  Dave had a word for that, which…

  • vanhoozer on wright

    I just bought my first ipod, so I’m not exactly an early adopter.  I generally try to stay one step behind the Amish, and now that Titus Miller has a cell phone, I think that God will understand if I have an ipod touch.  The first podcast I downloaded was Kevin Vanhoozer’s lecture on N.T.…

  • faith and regeneration: which comes first?

    My desk is temporarily clear of end of semester grading, so I’d like to share my heuristic take on an issue which recently came up in class.  Like any good Reformed theologian, I have always argued that regeneration precedes faith.  I cut my teeth on Ephesians 2:1-5, which states that “you were dead in your…

  • it’s only money

    I liked this story and decided to turn it into a devotional for Our Daily Journey.  It’s a good reminder for me. read > Luke 12:13-21 “Beware!  Guard against every kind of greed.  Life is not measured by how much you own” (v. 15). Grigory Perelman won the Millennium Prize from the Clay Mathematics Institute…

  • smashing serpents

    Here is my latest entry for Our Daily Journey, where near the end I abandon the wisdom of my teachers and experiment with allegory. In my defense: 1) If you are going to experiment with allegorical interpretation, then a devotional seems to be the place to try it; 2) Technically I’m only reappropriating Jesus’ allegory–so…