19Oct 2022 by Post

Why Most People Would Rather Be Right Than Find the Truth

1. Does Truth Exist?, Apologetics, Christianity, Does truth exist?, Mike Taylor, Theology and Christian Apologetics, truth
By Mike Taylor Can we be honest with each other for a minute and admit that being right feels good? It makes you feel powerful. When you’re right, it implies that someone else is wrong, which feels like you have a higher social standing than the other person. There’s a moment of elevation that happens in our minds when we feel like we’re right. Most of the time, the facts don’t matter. We’ll throw out research and data for the sake of feeling right. It doesn’t even necessarily matter if we’re right or not just as long as we feel right. But why is that? The Science Behind Why Being Right Feels So Good When you feel as though you’re right or that you’ve won an argument[i], your brain is…
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19Aug 2022 by Post

¿Deben los cristianos perseguir el éxito personal?

Apologética, Cristianismo, Español, Exito, Exito cristiano, Exito personal, Mike Taylor
Por Mike Taylor ¿Alguna vez has visto la vida de alguien en las redes sociales y te has preguntado cómo puede hacer todo lo que hace? Vemos a personas en Instagram que se toman vacaciones, compran coches, abren negocios, dejan sus trabajos y hacen otras cosas glamurosas, todo ello al mismo tiempo que crían a varios hijos y terminan su máster. O eso parece, al menos. Y mientras contemplamos su gloriosa vida, no podemos evitar preguntarnos: ¿cómo demonios tienen el tiempo, el dinero y la energía para hacer estas cosas? Entonces podríamos empezar a preguntarnos: “¿Es vivir una vida centrada en la riqueza material y el éxito personal algo que Dios quiere para nosotros?” Porque parece que la glorificación de la riqueza está en todas partes hoy en día, y…
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14Mar 2022 by Post

Should Christians Pursue Personal Success?

Apologetics, Apologetics for Parents, Christianity, Comfort, Culture CrossExamined, Jesus, Mike Taylor, success, truth, Wealth
By Mike Taylor Have you ever found yourself looking at someone else’s life on social media and wondering how they’re able to do all that they do? We see people on Instagram taking vacations, buying cars, starting businesses, quitting their jobs, and doing other glamorous things all while simultaneously raising multiple kids and finishing their Master’s degree. Or so it seems, at least. And as we take in their glorious life, we can’t help but wonder: how on earth do they have the time and money and energy to do these things? Then we might start to wonder, “Is living a life focused on material wealth and personal success something God wants for us?” Because it feels like the glorification of wealth is everywhere we look nowadays, and Christians are…
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29Feb 2020 by Post

Why Most Doubts About God Are Emotional, Not Intellectual (Part II)

Apologetics, Christian Apologetics, Christianity, Christians, Doubts, Emotional Doubts, Evidence, Mike Taylor, MikePTaylor.net, Skeptics, theology, Theology and Christian Apologetics
By Mike Taylor How to Deal with Emotional Doubt Most of the time in our lives, it’s not the facts of the situations around us that are important; it’s how we process those facts. Similarly, the worst kind of a pain in our lives is not from what happens to us but how we download it or process it. For people dealing with emotional doubt, when something bad happens, they give themselves permission to let those events determine why they have problems. However, beliefs (i.e., the way we download information) are the things that stand between those events that happen to us and the consequences that come from them. Events alone rarely cause all the consequences we experience. Events plus negative or detrimental beliefs about those events often cause excessive…
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22Feb 2020 by Post

Why Most Doubts About God Are Emotional, Not Intellectual (Part I)

Apologetics, Christian Apologetics, Christianity, Doubts, Doubts about faith, Doubts about God, Emotional Doubts, Evidence, Mike Taylor, reasons to believe, Skeptics, Theology and Christian Apologetics
By Mike Taylor If we’re honest, we would all admit that we have doubts about God to some degree or another. I mean, on some level, it almost feels like human nature to resist fully trusting anything. We doubt ourselves, we doubt other people, and more than anything, we doubt God. Doubt is normal. No matter who you are, you’re going to have doubts. Even biblical heroes such as Job, Abraham, David, Jeremiah, John the Baptist, Thomas, and Paul had doubts about God. But for some reason, too many of us think that doubts should be avoided. I think we get the idea that doubt is bad from a misapplication of Scripture. In Matthew 21:21, Jesus said we should pray without doubt, and incredible things will happen. So doubt must…
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