Mike Wittmer

What I think. What I know. What I think I know.

  • doubt away

    My working title for my doubt book was Doubt Away:  Believe What You Know, It’s More than You Think. I liked the double meaning of “doubt away,” because on the one hand there are benefits to doubt, so go ahead and do it, while on the other hand believers need to put their doubt away…

  • despite doubt

    My book on doubt is officially out. I’ll say more about it in the weeks ahead, but here’s why this book is different than anything else you’ve read on the subject. 1. I emphasize what you know, not what you don’t. Most books on doubt emphasize how hard it is to believe in God, Jesus,…

  • sports

    Last night Eric brought Ian to my worldview class. I was feeling a bit giddy after NE Ohio’s spectacular sports weekend, and during the evening I mentioned how the New Earth would be a lot like this one, minus the city of Ann Arbor (Ezekiel 28:20). After class Ian told me that his last name…

  • art prize

    The weekend success of both the Browns and Indians have nearly persuaded me to be an open theist. It’s hard to believe an omniscient God would let that happen. Unless he is setting us up for a fall. But that is getting harder to do, after 50 years of losing. We won’t let ourselves believe…

  • full atonement, can it be?

    Here is a post on the atonement that I wrote for The Gospel Coalition. Drop over and say something nice, if you’re so inclined. You might notice on my sidebar that I have a new book coming out. I’m probably biased, but I really like it. It’s not available in bookstores or Amazon until next…

  • salvation history for kids

    I enjoy the challenge of communicating theology to a general audience, but Jim Hamilton has taken this to a whole new level. He has published an illustrated storybook for children that winsomely presents the main turning points of salvation history. The Bible’s Big Story covers creation, fall, the protevangelion, flood, Abrahamic covenant, Exodus, conquest, David’s…

  • on the money

    Some former students go on to do great things. Then there is Nate Archer, who on his way to great things also has time to be creatively funny. Here are his musings about which theologians should appear on which bills in the kingdom of God. This is written from an American perspective, with U.S. dollars,…

  • Jesus’ plows

    Os Guinness makes an intriguing observation in The Call. He writes that Justin Martyr “notes that the plows made by Joseph and Jesus were still being used widely in his day” (p. 202). Chuck Colson taped a Breakpoint recording around this point and many preachers have mentioned it in sermons. I have myself, but always…

  • compelling conversion

    I just finished Rosaria Champagne Butterfield’s moving testimony, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert. I read the first chapter before bed, and then, against my better judgment, I read the next chapter when I awoke, and then I couldn’t stop until I had finished it. What a timely story for today, honestly told with…

  • selfish servants

    This is an ODJ devotional I wrote after last week’s visit to Pictured Rocks Lakeshore in the beautiful desolation of Michigan’s Upper Peninusula, which doubles as a metaphor for Michigan’s upcoming football season. read > Acts 4:1-21 “What should we do with these men?” they asked each other. The tour guide at the Au Sable…