Caffeinated Thoughts

10/31/2024

Happy Reformation Day!

The Reformers rediscovered the Gospel, and we must keep it the center of our churches, our families, our worship, and our lives.

The Reformers rediscovered the Gospel, and we must keep it the center of our churches, our families, our worship, and our lives.

09/11/2024

I wrote this last year. With an entire generation born after 9/11/01, we must work to keep the memory of that fateful day alive.

With an entire generation born after 9/11/01, we must work to keep the memory of that fateful day alive.

08/19/2024

God made us to long for His rest. So often we try to find rest in other things, but often avoid the very One who can give us rest.

03/01/2024

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02/22/2024

Shane Vander Hart: Isaiah 43 provides a great reminder that whatever challenges we face, difficulties that arise, obstacles that seem to be in our way… we are to fear not.

Isaiah 43 provides a great reminder that whatever challenges we face, difficulties that arise, obstacles that seem to be in our way… we are to fear not.

02/21/2024

Our editor, Shane Vander Hart, announced today that we are officially closing down and will no longer be updating our website.

We thank you so much for your readership over the years.

We would like to encourage you to follow Shane on his public page, Shane Vander Hart, though we will probably update this page with his newsletter posts unless we are able to merge pages (doubtful Facebook will let us do that, but we hope that they will).

Shane Vander Hart: It's time to close the chapter on Caffeinated Thoughts, and I thank you so much for your readership over the years.

03/07/2023

John Hendrickson: U.S. Senator Mike Braun is a rare budget hawk in Congress and his efforts to address both the national debt and rein in spending should be seriously considered.

03/06/2023

“The reality of what some of us call revival is initiated by God. It is not initiated by us”

David Shedlock interviews Dr. Craig Keener, a professor at Asbury Seminary in Wilmore, Ky. about the recent spiritual awakening at Asbury University.

"The reality of what some of us call revival is initiated by God. It is not initiated by us"

01/27/2023

John Hendrickson: David Pietrusza’s account of FDR’s 1936 election is a must read for anyone who wants to understand how this important election helped shape the government that we have today.

John Hendrickson: David Pietrusza’s account of FDR's 1936 election is a must read for anyone who wants to understand how this important election helped shape the government that we have today.

04/24/2022

Collin Brendemuehl says the Christian faith has been deconstructed, but not always for the better.
https://caffeinatedthoughts.com/2022/04/deconstructing-deconstruction/

04/23/2022

Colin Smothers: "Whereas past generations of Christians faced other battles over orthodoxy, such as the Trinity, or Christology, or even Ecclessiology, today, the mettle of truth and orthodoxy are being tested the most in the realm of anthropology."
https://caffeinatedthoughts.com/2022/04/anthropology-is-the-defining-issue-of-the-21st-century/

04/22/2022

Collin Brendemuehl answers what deconstruction is and why it should matter to Christians.

04/22/2022

Jane Orient: It is not normal to wear a face mask and stay six feet away from other human beings. It is not normal to stay locked indoors. It is not normal to worry constantly about a virus that in most people is no worse than the flu.
https://caffeinatedthoughts.com/2022/04/there-is-no-new-normal/

04/21/2022

Colin Smothers: We may not be biologists, but we do know what a woman is.

04/20/2022

Dr. Jane Orient: If we let the experts prevail, will we have a brave new happy transhuman utopia? Or a pile of rubble?

03/02/2022

Shane Vander Hart: President Biden missed an opportunity to backtrack on the divisive agenda of the past year and focus instead on a bipartisan agenda.

01/17/2022

“Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken,” (Isaiah 40:4-5, ESV).

01/14/2022

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away, behold, the new has come."

2 Corinthians 5:17, ESV