Giving an Answer is a command. Yet it usually feels like a privilege and a joy -not a command. It’s everyone’s job, yet I usually don’t see it as a job because I love speaking with people about the reasons for the hope that I have. It’s my passion! Most of the time... I do encounter resistance.  External resistance yes, but also internal resistance. There is always something “more important” and “more urgent” and “more pressing” and “more realistic” that should take Read more [...]

Reason and hope. Is our hope a result of reason or is our hope without reason? Hope without reason isn’t really hope – it’s hopelessness. You see, hope and reason go together, because hope without reason is invalid, and reason without hope is cynicism and despair. Reason is a function of the mind whereas hope is a function of the heart. Neither is meant to stand alone. No one is made of just one or the other, and no worldview can stand upon only one. That’s why Peter said “Always be Read more [...]

Am I the only one who gets frustrated by the uncooperative physical universe? The continual appearance of obstacles in my path that block me from getting things done is never ending and appears to gain virulence in direct proportion to the urgency of the task. I can see why people give up.  It's easy to go down that path.  Yet, hopelessness isn't the right response to the never ending difficulties of life. Wouldn't the right response be born of perspective?  Of course I'm speaking of the right Read more [...]

The days fly by in rapid succession. A flurry. A blur. Beyond my grasp, yet I reach out to grab hold... The morning sun brings cheer to the vineyards and trees that shuffle past my view my drive south, and turns up the blue light in the sky. The nighttime darkness is chased and flees from the sun's magnificent smile. The world awakens and goes about its business entrenched in routines like ants, unaware of the majestic timepiece in which they toil. I can't catch up with or retrieve time lost, Read more [...]

Do you ever feel like you don’t know enough?  I often do.  I feel it now. But I have to ask: know enough for what? To make a decision.  To take an action.  Both. Thinking I don’t know enough puts me at a standstill.  I’m frozen in time, inactivated, suffocated, inert.  I’m gripped tight by an intellectual/emotional straight jacket that grieves my soul.  What can I do? Apologetics has taught me the value of facing doubts in my worldview -why not also my personal doubts? I believe Read more [...]

Time moves so quickly, doesn’t it? Which brings up the question: how can we best make use of the time that we have? By devoting our time whenever possible to the Creator of time who is beyond time: God Himself. And isn’t that our purpose: to know God and make Him known?  There is no greater or more fulfilling way to live because we were made for that purpose. Jesus said the first and greatest commandment is to “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with Read more [...]

I'm still amazed that Christ suffered for us, for me, for everyone. I was one of those who jeered & spat at Him as He hung nailed there on my behalf. I'm sorry beyond words for that. Yet the grief of my actions are far outweighed by the grace of His.   Like This Blog? Sign Up to Receive New Blog Post Notifications! © 2018 Marc Lovig · ALL RIGHTS RESERVED · GIVEANANSWER.ORG · FOLLOWING THE EVIDENCE WHERE IT LEADS· Read more [...]

Let’s cut to the chase: Apologetics is about right thinking.  Reason and logic.  First and foremost.  That is its core. Whatever you once thought otherwise -fuhgeddaboudit. Right thinking is not isolated to Apologetics, because it applies to everything, and is employed when seeking the truth in anything, anywhere, anytime, anyplace.  General Revelation or  Special Revelation. Whether studying, scripture, physics, religion, biology, philosophy, history, theology, geology or anything else Read more [...]

We don’t have to wait for an afterlife to begin living in eternity. Eternal life begins the moment we make the decision to accept the gift of Salvation. We are then no longer of this world, and though our bodies are bound by finite time we are not. We live in eternity now. We need not wish or wonder wistfully for immortality because we have it. Once we see the truth of this our lives are changed forever because our perspective shifts from a limited human lifespan to a future without end.  Read more [...]

Would it be significant if Jesus modified Old Testament Scripture by adding a word? It would be blasphemous if he were merely a man, but highly significant if he was God as he claimed to be. Would you agree? Moreover, wouldn’t you think we ought to sit up and take notice? In addition wouldn’t the significance be compounded further if the change were made in response to one of the most important questions you and I or a Pharisee could ask? The stakes of missing the point would be even higher, Read more [...]