Elder's Blog Archives

Faith and doubt: can you have both?

Posted on April 5, 2026June 3, 2026 by Mountain Veteran Ministries

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What is prayer, and does it work?

Posted on April 5, 2026April 22, 2026 by Mountain Veteran Ministries

Prayer is either the most important thing a human being can do, or it is an elaborate form of talking to yourself. There is no comfortable middle ground. Here is an honest examination of what prayer actually is, whether it actually works, and what a man does with the gap between what he expects...

Are the Gospels historically trustworthy?

Posted on April 5, 2026April 17, 2026 by Mountain Veteran Ministries

The four Gospels are the primary sources for what we know about Jesus of Nazareth. If they are historically trustworthy, Christianity rests on solid historical ground. If they are not, the whole structure is in trouble. Here is the case for why serious historians — including skeptical ones —...

Prophecy and Fulfillment

Posted on April 5, 2026April 17, 2026 by Mountain Veteran Ministries

The Bible's predictive prophecies are among the most powerful arguments for its divine origin. Hundreds of specific predictions, written centuries before the events they describe, fulfilled in ways no human forethought could have arranged. If you've never examined this evidence seriously, what...

Old Testament difficulty: genocide, slavery, and strange laws

Posted on April 5, 2026April 17, 2026 by Mountain Veteran Ministries

The Old Testament has passages that stop people cold. Genocide commanded by God. Slavery regulated but not condemned. Laws about fabrics and shellfish that no Christian follows. If you've ever read these and wondered what to do with them, you're asking the right questions. Here's how serious...

How do I read the Bible well?

Posted on April 5, 2026April 17, 2026 by Mountain Veteran Ministries

Most men who struggle with the Bible aren't struggling because it's too hard. They're struggling because nobody told them how to read it. Hermeneutics is a ten-dollar word for a straightforward idea: every text has rules for how it works. Once you know the basic ones, the Bible opens up in ways...

How was the Bible put together?

Posted on April 5, 2026April 17, 2026 by Mountain Veteran Ministries

A lot of men have heard some version of this: "The Bible was put together by powerful men at a church council who decided what got in and what stayed out — and a lot was left out." It makes for a great conspiracy theory. The actual history is more interesting — and more reassuring — than the...

What about hell? (justice, love, and eternal judgment)

Posted on April 5, 2026April 17, 2026 by Mountain Veteran Ministries

Hell is the doctrine most people wish Christianity didn't have. It's also the one Jesus talked about more than almost anyone else in the New Testament. Before dismissing it or softening it into something more comfortable, it's worth asking what it actually says — and why a God of love might...