The Glenpool church of Christ recently held an apologetics seminar (March 8-10) with Dr. Jim Baird. He is an expert on Christian Evidences and a delightful speaker to here. All of the audio lessons are available online at the website of the Glenpool church (in the archive section under “Sermon Series”) or you can just follow the link below. Apologetics Seminar with Jim Baird (Audio)

If you are interested in how the book we call the Bible has come to be, the Glenpool church of Christ is having a Wednesday night class on the topic from December-February. I’ll be covering the history of the Good Book from before the first letter was written in Hebrew to its current, leather-bound incarnation in your hands today. Can’t make it? No problem! The audio for the classes are uploaded on the  [ Read More ]

I’d like to take a moment to apologize for the dry spell of late as far as new articles for the blog. Some of you have told me (to my great surprise) that you read the articles and check back often for new material. The encouragement is … well, encouraging. The work I’m attempting on this website will continue if for no other reason than your positive responses, not to  [ Read More ]

With our “Faith Week” session at Frog Road Camp coming up, I am pretty busy just now. Rather than write new articles, I am passing along a few links from other sources that might interest you. First, an article dealing with a new bulla that demonstrates the existence of Bethlehem during Israel’s kingdom period. This looks pretty solid. Second, an article discussing geological evidence for an earthquake that corresponds to  [ Read More ]

The audio below is from the Gospel meeting that I conducted in April of 2012 at the Cleveland church of Christ. The lessons are an apologetic argument on the validity of faith, the shortcomings of science, and the scientific evidences that support the faith of the Bible. Audio CDs of the event can be ordered from the Cleveland congregation. (The static noise at the beginning of the audio is the  [ Read More ]

Sometimes it is good to restate the purpose that drives your work. At Dark Canopy, I cover a variety of science related topics. My goal is not actually to assert that Science can “prove” the existence of God. God, by Biblical definition, is a spirit (John 4:24) and consequently not the under the purview of scientific exploration. Instead, my goal is simply to demonstrate that the “science knows best” worldview  [ Read More ]

An Upward Trend for Dark Canopy Readership! It has been a great year for Dark Canopy! Web traffic is in an upward trend thanks to readers like you who pass along links to articles to so many others. Using Twitter and Facebook, the articles that begin on a laptop in Glenpool, OK are shared around the globe. What is in store for 2012? More developments regarding exoplanets and the frantic  [ Read More ]

Take a look at the Download section of Dark Canopy to see the new addition to the free materials provided. The material that I prepared for my course on the Prison Epistles at the Owasso School of Biblical Studies can be downloaded for free. This is a quick survey of Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon. It highlights material that I thought would not be addressed in most outlines. The writing is mostly  [ Read More ]

Dark Canopy has had its 2001st visitor!  Thanks to all those that read regularly and especially those that share the site with others!  My statistics tracker says we have had visitors from 41 countries. If you use Google to search for “how long does it take to make a fossil”, our Dark Canopy article on that subject1 is either the first or one of the first search results, meaning that  [ Read More ]

When I started Dark Canopy, I had a plan to write articles on technical tools available to preachers. However, as time has passed, I’ve decided two things. First, the technology angle doesn’t really fit into the overall theme of the site. Second, I found several sites out there that deal with that subject better than I can. So, I’m excited to announce that I have replaced the “Tech Preaching” section  [ Read More ]