From ReformCon25: Biblical Masculinity repudiates both Leftist egalitarianism and alt-right paganism, including “Reformed” paganism. Quit trying to be a man. Be God’s man.By P. Andrew Sandlin

Recovering creational norms and returning to the Cross of Jesus Christ will solve almost any marriage problem.By P. Andrew Sandlin

The gospel is all about what God in Christ has done, is doing, and will do in restoring and enhancing everything that was lost in the Garden of Eden. The final gospel success is the final resurrection of man and the present heavens and earth.By P. Andrew Sandlin

While liberals ordinarily overemphasize the “already” of the already/not yet, conservatives tend to overstress the “not yet.” A pox on both their houses.By P. Andrew Sandlin

The Bible teaches that salvation is entirely by grace, and not by works, and equally that there can be no salvation without works. This is an apparent, not an actual, contradiction.By P. Andrew Sandlin

In this episode of The Apologist, hosted by Steven R. Martins of the Cántaro Institute, we dive into the timely and thought-provoking themes of Mere Christendom with special guest, Rev. Doug Wilson of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, and New Saint Andrews College. Rev. Wilson unpacks the challenges of secularism, the interplay between church and sta…

Elders must know their job description, and sound theology isn’t the half of it.By P. Andrew Sandlin

God deals with nations as nations, God blesses nations that adhere to biblical law, and God judges nations that turn their back on God and his written word.By P. Andrew Sandlin

As we contemplate the recovery of the gospel and the renewal of culture in relation to our apologetic mandate, we are left to ask, in what way can we influence the theology and practical direction of the broader evangelical church? And is such influence to be seen as hermetically sealed off from matters relating to public life? Dr. Tom Ascol of Fou…

Is there a place for Christianity in economics? Or is economics an irreligious sphere of society? Are any economic models compatible with the biblical worldview? Capitalism, socialism, communism? If Christ is Lord over all, is He not also Lord over economics? In this episode of The Apologist, Steven R. Martins sits down with economics philosopher D…

As we seek to develop a holistic apologetic, a reasoned defense of our biblical worldview, Institute founder Steven R. Martins sits down with Dr. David Legates of the Cornwall Alliance to discuss environmentalism, climate science, and cultural "climatology" apologetics.By Cántaro Institute

As we seek to develop a holistic apologetic, a reasoned defense of our biblical worldview, Institute founder Steven R. Martins sits down with Dr. Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance to discuss man's relationship to creation, the dominion mandate, environmentalism, and cultural "climatology" apologetics.…

The most Christian political philosophy in the current philosophical Overton Window is classical liberalism. But Progressivism (Democratic Party) and the New Right (the Republican Party) are squeezing it out.By P. Andrew Sandlin

“Our good God, our ever-flowing God, our God of Yes and Amen, has always been able to promise far more than we are able to believe. God loves to bury our finite faith under an avalanche of promises and gifts.”By P. Andrew Sandlin

We cannot grasp the Christian worldview as we should if we do not understand the covenant and the kingdom.By P. Andrew Sandlin

The Christian Faith is deeply anti-antinomian. This is a brief elaboration on the Bible’s teaching concerning God‘s law in creation, his law in Moses, and his law in the new covenant.By P. Andrew Sandlin

Every movement away from the Bible is a movement toward an alien, competing word, and that word always leads to darkness, chaos, and damnation.By P. Andrew Sandlin

The Christian worldview is founded the creational worldview. To confuse this sequence is to twist both Christianity and creation.By P. Andrew Sandlin

The United States is the most spectacularly valuable political experiment in world history – because it was founded on Christian principles.By P. Andrew Sandlin

As we seek to develop a distinctly biblical worldview, we also need a biblical understanding of the direction and climax of history. How do we understand the book of Revelation? What should our understanding be of the apocalypse? What is a Christian view of history? In this episode, Institute founder Steven R. Martins interviews David Forsythe, aut…

Fundamentalism, modernism, scholasticism, and postmodernism are bad ways of interpreting the Bible. The canonical or covenantal or worldview-ish way is the only right way.By P. Andrew Sandlin

A brief, direct, easy-to-understand explanation of one of the most harmful ways of thinking in the modern church.By P. Andrew Sandlin

A recognition of “the near impossibility of simple refutations” might lead to a mutual laying down of arms in the acrimonious sacrament wars of paedobaptists (and paedocommunionists) versus credobaptists (and credocommunionists).By P. Andrew Sandlin

What were the top five moments of apologetic history in the early church according to Wesley Huff of Apologetics Canada? Institute founder Steven R. Martins sits down with Wesley to go over these historical moments and what we can learn for our own apologetic today. Brought to you by the Cántaro Institute.…

If you’re discouraged and distraught over the surrounding depraved culture or persistent, personal difficulties, you might be helped by this bold, full-throated, biblical defense postmillenialism.By P. Andrew Sandlin

The Battle for Reality is even more pressing than The Battle for the Bible.By P. Andrew Sandlin

Why Christian education? With secular educational institutions across the country, why do we need to set that aside and not even consider that as an option for the education of our children? Ryan Eras of the Wolf's Head House and Chairmaster of the Niagara Classical Academy answers those questions and provides an introduction to Christian classical…

The terms "Cultural Marxism", "Social Justice", and "Woke" have been dropped on previous episodes of The Apologist podcast, but the occasions did not allow us to go into depth on what these terms actually mean. As part of a much larger discussion, cultural theologian Dr. Andrew Sandlin joins us to kick off our exploration of the definition, develop…

Apologetics is not solely confined to first world countries and isolated centers of intellectualism, it can and ought to be employed everywhere. There is a present need to develop a distinctly biblical apologetics, wherever that may be. Together, Institute directors Steven R. Martins and Daniel J. Lobo, discuss the need for apologetics in Latin Ame…

No matter how dire our situation, Jesus Christ is our utterly impregnable hope, and to rely on anyone or anything else is an insecure confidence.By P. Andrew Sandlin

We are saved by Christ and his redemptive work alone, but our salvation inevitably produces godly works. None who live after salvation will enjoy eternal life if they lack good works. We are justified by a working faith.By P. Andrew Sandlin

For much of our podcast series, we have approached things from a rather Van Tillian approach in regards to our apologetic, and that is for the most part because Van Til set out to develop a distinctly biblical apologetic. But as it concerns the development of a distinctly biblical worldview, while Van Til has much to share, we would do well to turn…

We have to get our own worldview right, and to know it well, before we can proceed to engage with, and deconstruct other religious worldviews. Every worldview consists of four main components: origins, meaning, morality, and destiny. How did everything begin? What is the meaning of everything? Is there a moral standard we are to live by? And what i…

A recurring theme in our study of apologetics is the comprehensive nature of the gospel, and thus the comprehensive nature of our apologetic. This brings us into the avenue of cultural apologetics, but cultural apologetics doesn't happen in a vacuum, we are in a religious historical context, and where we are now is very different from where we were…

To know God’s calling in your life, immerse yourself in the manual of his cosmic operating system.By P. Andrew Sandlin

What is a Christian worldview, and what is its primary competitor in the Western world today?By P. Andrew Sandlin

The protology and eschatology of the Bible include promises of the advancement and victory of Christ‘s kingdom before the final, perfected eternal state. We must live as victorious people — because we are.By P. Andrew Sandlin

The Bible festers with God’s promises to his people, and living consistently in those promises means living in consistent hope and victory.By P. Andrew Sandlin

Creation is the backdrop and prerequisite of our Lord’s redemptive work, and to bypass creation is eventually to overturn the gospel.By P. Andrew Sandlin

There are many kinds of apologetic "methodologies", from evidentialist to classical to presuppositional, sometimes there is even a mixed use of these methodologies. But what we want to know is, What is the "biblical" apologetic methodology? Brought to you by the Cántaro Institute.

The optimal time to trust Christ and serve God is childhood and youth, not middle and old age. God‘s preventive grace is greater than his recovering and grace, and the apex testimony of God‘s work in the world is children and young people serving him with unremitting zeal.By P. Andrew Sandlin

Salvation is much bigger than most Christians suppose. Unless we see salvation (as Paul does in Ephesians) in its personal, corporate, and cosmic dimensions, our view will be impoverished.By P. Andrew Sandlin

To live in an atmosphere of prayers to live in constant expectation for God to do both small and mighty things. To live in this atmosphere of prayer is to live a transformed, victorious life.By P. Andrew Sandlin

The family is a part of the creational OS. The blinding assaults against it in postmodern culture (socially constructed sexuality, homosexuality, gender reassignment surgery, and so on) are assaults on reality itself.By P. Andrew Sandlin

Widespread biblical law presupposes a Christian culture and society, and that culture and society will inevitably lead to biblical law.By P. Andrew Sandlin

Satan attempts to replace God’s very good created world with his diabolical alt-world. The goal of aggressive Christianity is to destabilize, delegitimize, and decimate his world.By P. Andrew Sandlin

The biblical God is often consumed by zeal, and his holy jealousy fuels his zeal, which burns against the ungodly and rescues his people.By P. Andrew Sandlin

To think correctly as a Christian you must first think correctly about creation.By P. Andrew Sandlin

This talk to Christian high school students at the Worldview Leadership Academy is the simplest, most basic presentation I’ve ever given of the dominant, secular elite vision of our time.By P. Andrew Sandlin

What is Apologetics? Far from what many perceive it as, it is not a discipline constrained to the evidential, factual, and historical, it extends well beyond that, proving to be all-encompassing in its scope. Brought to you by the Cántaro Institute.By Cántaro Institute