John Chipman

Jan 7, 2025 | christianpost.com | John Chipman

By , Op-ed contributor “The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world ... The glory of God, and, as our only means to glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life” (C.S. Lewis).

Dec 4, 2024 | christianpost.com | John Chipman

By , Op-ed contributor G.K. Chesterton once lamented, “The world will never starve for want of wonders, but only for want of wonder.” I believe there are precious few things that give us greater pleasure than experiencing the wonder of Christmas through the eyes of a child. Yet, alas, we are no longer children ourselves. Bah, humbug!In his book The Ragamuffin Gospel, Brennan Manning blames our “wonderless” condition squarely on science and the denial of a supernatural God.

Nov 24, 2024 | cbc.ca | Jonathan Ore |John Chipman

WARNING: This article may affect those who have experienced​ ​​​sexual violence or know someone affected by it. Ideas53:59Child Sex Abuse Prevention: How Best to Protect KidsCat Bodden, who was sexually abused by a family member as a child, never imagined she would work with convicted sex offenders. But that's what she's done for the better part of a decade, in an effort to understand the mind of a pedophile. "I had questions I wanted to ask offenders.

Oct 14, 2024 | christianpost.com | John Chipman

By , Op-ed contributor “I dropped that pencil. I did that” cried a desperate seminary student named John Piper as he confronted his professor of Systematic Theology in the hall after class. John Piper's action (and his desperation) was in response to the professor's assertion that man has no freedom of the will, a doctrine that was supported by Martin Luther, John Calvin and others.

Sep 21, 2024 | christianpost.com | John Chipman

By , Op-ed contributor “Why did you come to believe in Jesus but your neighbor (or brother, or friend, etc.) did not?”While the question of why we came to believe the Gospel and why others didn’t is not unreasonable, often the implication behind the question is the unbiblical notion that everyone’s spiritual future is settled. It is not. This basic tenet of Calvinism asserts that a person's spiritual destiny was unchangeably set by God from before the foundation of the world.