The Provoked Apologist

Scripture: Mark 1:1-3 "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, "Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight." Here begins one of the most significant narratives in the history of the world. There has never been such a time as this, a time that God, the creator of this world steps down into his own creation to go through the embarrassment of an infant, the mockery of his home town, even the beating of those that he created and the ones that he came to save. We should find such a sentiment with John the baptists' message: "Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight." A concept that can be lost on us because of such a tremendous time difference between the time of Mark and our own. The sentiment that John the Baptist gives us should be the same message that we p...

A few days ago, I was doing an assignment for a class I'm taking in college. The assignment required me to read through the book of Job and create a theology of suffering according to Job's life and "circumstance" as most would call it. All that I could think of was Job's thoughts regarding the profit of the wicked in chapter 21. "Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power? Their offspring are established in their presence, their descendants before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them. Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves do not miscarry. They send out their little boys like a flock, and their children dance. They sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe. They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace, they go down to Sheol." (21:7-13) The intriguing thing here is that Job was considered righteous by God. However, Job considered prosperity for t...

My Testimony So, here we are on some random guys blog. If you are reading this, you might know me personally, or you may be a mutual friend. Either way, I'm excited that you decided to take time out of your social media scrolling to read about some dude on the internet and hear my story. If you're wondering what the purpose of this blog is, I have it written somewhere on my blog site. The purpose of this particular blog post is to let you know a little bit about me and hopefully bring you to understand our mutual need for a savior. Here, I'll talk about the story of hope that stepped into my life of hopelessness, and gave me undeserved righteousness. My Family Well, I suppose that a testimony isn't really a testimony without talking about family life. Some may disagree, but here goes.  I grew up in a Christian home with a mom and a dad, then two younger siblings, brother, and sister. For most of my life, I grew up going to church, mostly just Sundays. We went...