Posts by Ben Hicks

One of the truly incredible things about God is that His attributes never contradict one another. God is perfectly just and perfectly gracious. He is love and He is truth. He is holy and merciful. Now, we shouldn’t think of this as God balancing out two opposites, as if God can’t be too much truth…

Teaching apologetics has taught me a lot. It’s made me learn to think on my feet, and it’s challenged me to think through questions I would never have thought to ask. It has also, at times, helped me to see common yet wrong thinking. This happened a few years ago as we were going through…

America is on the verge of a quiet civil war. No, I’m not talking about a war between the political left and the political right, although that may also be brewing. I’m talking about the war between the elites and the populace. The hoity-toity and the hoi polloi, as we might say. Right now these…

I remember where I was when I found out the twin towers were bombed. I remember where I was when I found out Donald Trump had been hit by a bullet. And I think I will long remember where I was when I found out that Charlie Kirk had been shot. I will remember the…

Running is rarely pretty. I don’t do a ton of running, but I do like to dabble. Now, I will admit that as an inconsistent amateur runner, my running is especially not that pretty. But one of the important lessons I have learned from running is that the key to doing it well isn’t always…

I recently had a friend of mine reach out and share that in his Bible reading he had misunderstood a passage. He thought that a certain text was saying one thing, when in reality he had simply misread what it was saying. He figured this out by asking AI what was going on, and AI…

The Pharisees are, in many ways, the main bad guys of the gospel accounts. They were the ones who rejected Jesus because He called out their sin, and they were the ones leading the charge to have Him arrested and crucified. They were evil, and in some ways they were the worst kind of evil,…

On Tuesday President Donald Trump was interviewed by Fox and Friends on the current situation with Ukraine and Russia. During this interview, the President offered the following statement: “If I can save 7,000 people a week from being killed, I think that’s a pretty– I want to try to get to heaven if possible. I’m…

I saw a recent stat about how much and when ChatGPT is used. Not surprisingly, it gets a lot of usage during the school year, although a little less on the weekends. Then when summer comes the usage drops way off. This is not exactly shocking news, but it would seem to suggest that a…