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Anyone who knows me or listens to my podcast/YT videos knows I love Biblical typology. I especially love the story of Jacob as it personally resonates with me. Who is your favorite Old Testament character/prototype for Christ? Would love to hear!

Protestants… Please refrain from the argument that “Jesus had brothers” because the Gospels say that Jesus refers to some as his “brothers”. The Gospels were not written in English. By this logic, Hulk Hogan had over a thousand siblings….

This parable is a warning to every serious Christian. You can defend orthodoxy, keep discipline, pray regularly, and still poison it all with contempt. Catholic truth without Catholic humility becomes a performance. And God is not impressed by performances.

The Pharisee measured himself against another sinner and felt secure. The tax collector measured himself against God and begged for mercy. That is the difference. Pride compares sideways. Humility looks upward.

The tax collector gives one of the best prayers in Scripture: “God, be merciful to me, a sinner.” No excuses. No comparison. No self-advertising. Just truth and surrender. That prayer still saves lives.

One of the most dangerous spiritual states is being externally religious and internally proud. The Pharisee was in the temple, saying true things about his moral life, and still missed God. You can be around holy things and still be far from holiness.

The Pharisee’s problem was not that he fasted or tithed. Those were good things. His problem was that he turned obedience into self-worship. The tax collector went home justified because he brought God the one thing the Pharisee would not: his need for mercy.

Prayer, fasting, study, lifting, and training are not enemies. For a Catholic man, they can work together. Build your interior life. Build your body. Become harder to break, more ready to serve, and less ruled by comfort. That is not vanity. That is formation.

Weightlifting teaches something many men desperately need: do hard things on purpose. Fighting training teaches composure under pressure. Both can become schools of self-mastery. And a man who cannot govern himself will not lead anyone well.

Your body is not a disposable shell for your soul. Catholicism is not gnostic. God made the body good, Christ took on flesh, and the resurrection will be bodily. Treating physical training like it is shallow by definition is not Catholic thinking.

Ok X! In the Spirit of March Madness Let's have a Final Four of Terrible Protestant Apologists. To be clear, I enjoy some Protestant apologists and their insights (though I disagree) such as Dr. Ortlund and Frank Turek, but these four are certainly not that. Vote in the Comments

Actually the strongest evidence is John 6. You know… John 6? That’s the verse where Jesus goes out of his way to show his language was not metaphorical (unlike John 3 and John 4). And before you give me the line of “…the words I have spoke are spirit and life”, please note that

Catholic men do not train because vanity is holy. We train because discipline is holy. A stronger body can serve a stronger vocation: husband, father, protector, worker, leader. Strength is not the goal of manhood, but weakness is not a virtue.

A Catholic man should not want to look dangerous because he loves dominance. He should want to become capable because love requires sacrifice, endurance, and sometimes protection. Strength in the service of charity is Christian. Strength in the service of ego is corruption.

The Catholic position is balanced and biblical: salvation is by grace, never earned, always gift. But grace must be lived in, not mocked. God is faithful, but He does not force covenant love on a man determined to walk away.

Ask a sola scriptura Christian one question: “How do you know Hebrews is Scripture from Scripture alone?” No inspired author name. No inspired canon list. No verse identifying the 27 books. They can only know it by relying on the Church’s prior recognition of the canon.

The Protestant move is often: “They were never truly saved.” But notice how often that answer empties warnings of their force. Scripture speaks to real Christians as if apostasy is a real danger because it is. Grace is not a prison cell. It can be resisted.

Westminster says the Apocrypha are not inspired because they are not the Word of God. Okay. And how do you know which books are the Word of God? By the canon you already assumed. That is not an argument. That is a circle.

Catholics do not believe we save ourselves. Paul’s whole point in Galatians is that you cannot be justified by the law. But it is also true that a Christian can reject grace, return to slavery, and cut himself off from Christ by unbelief and grave rebellion.