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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
Sunday school teachers, youth workers, small group leaders, pastors, and other church leaders are always on the lookout for good resources to help equip their people.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
Chronicles 7:14 is one of the most misinterpreted and mis-claimed verses in the Bible
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:59 PM
It’s always interesting to see what topics were most popular over the year. Take a look at this year’s top ten list, and see if you missed any of these posts the first time around.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:42 PM
An ancient toilet has turned out to be an interesting discovery.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
Few doctrines of the Christian faith are more essential than the Trinity, yet many people are deeply confused about its nature.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for February 2010 “Thank you for existing,” a young woman recently wrote me. Then she explained. Her husband had become an atheist and began challenging her faith.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
Any believer who knows the Gospel can be used by God to bring Muslims to the Truth.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:40 PM
Churches are trying to be relevant, but all this relevancy is making Christianity irrelevant by removing every true and glorious thing from Christianity that makes it unique.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On May 18, 2020 8:15 PM
Have your students been exposed to the rich intellectual resources Christianity has to offer? Here’s one book for each of the seven essential apologetics topics your teen should be familiar with.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
For Christ, the cross literally meant giving up everything, even His own life. He denied His own will to do the will of the Father. God expects no less from us when it comes to the matter of sex.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:54 PM
If you try to determine the meaning of a biblical text without reading its context, you’ll create two problems that will hinder your understanding of the passage.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Oct 28, 2020 12:38 AM
Coffee Cup Christianity violates one of the most basic and well-known principles of interpretation: context, and it leads to three dangerous problems.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
I’m told writing this post won’t matter. I can clarify until I’m blue in the face and nothing will change. It doesn’t matter what Christians actually think or believe about homosexuality. It seems...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM
Don’t miss the ten most popular posts from 2017. The collection itself is an interesting commentary on what our culture is currently searching for online.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Learn to spot the non-sequiturs atheists sometimes use to argue against Christianity.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 25, 2019 10:35 PM
Alan shares 3 things to remember when discussing controversial issues with other Christians.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
Greg and Tim talk about Tim’s upcoming video series on Jehovah’s Witnesses, then they take a call on the Trinity and talk about a recent post an atheist wrote about Stand to Reason.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 26, 2022 3:16 AM
Greg reads a letter from a listener who’s living with a tactics mentality, talks about concerning trends in the top 100 Christian books, then answers questions about the place of Israel in the end...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Greg talks about raising Christian kids, Christian bias, and discusses Change Collegian Network with guest Tiffany Gelpi.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Greg talks about why Americans are becoming more pro-life, Christians and military service, then discusses the book “7 Truths that Changed the World” with author Kenneth Samples, and answers...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Feb 8, 2021 11:57 PM
Pro-gay theology advocates have invented a new type of sin by taking an existing sin and divided it up into two flavors: sinful and non-sinful—a distinction foreign to Scripture.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Nancy Pearcey has a really great article explaining a strategy for more effective conversations and public dialogue over controversial issues. In this case, she writes about sexual identity and...
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Feb 15, 2024 11:48 PM
Amy, Jon, Robby, and Tim give practical tips for how you can bloom where you’re planted and remind believers that they don’t need to know everything before they start sharing the gospel with others.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
Christians and Muslims both believe there is a deity who created the universe, administrates history, and judges human actions, but they believe differently in who fills that role.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jul 31, 2019 11:16 PM
I'm becoming increasingly depressed by the weak and empty Christianity that's being peddled out there. What's even sadder is that I see people happily eating this stuff up with no idea of what...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 24, 2020 12:38 AM
How will those who have been forgiven by God view Hell throughout eternity? Will they be saddened forever by its continued existence?
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
John Wycliffe was so despised by the church because of his reform efforts that 20 years after his death in 1384, declared a heretic by a church council, his bones were exhumed, burned, and strewn...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 26, 2020 7:13 PM
Greg addresses a situation where you may be tempted to take on the burden of proof in conversation about Christianity.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for November 2013 It’s not uncommon to find people who deny that Jesus rose from the dead.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:57 PM
Simply put, let Scripture guide your conversation with God.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jul 31, 2019 10:07 PM
We all expect the Spanish Inquisition to show up sooner or later in our discussions with atheists. Does the presence of the Inquisition in Christian history discredit all of Christianity? Does it...
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 9:44 PM
Christians need to think carefully about this issue, especially in a culture that is more than happy to co-opt Christian statements and claims in order to justify sin.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Dec 29, 2019 12:24 AM
We’ve reached the end of the year, so it’s time for the annual roundup of top posts. Here are the 2019 posts that received the most views this year. Enjoy!
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Does the Trinity make any sense at all? Brett explains why it makes biblical and rational sense.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM
Claiming that Muslims and Christians worship the same God is an expression of Islamic theology, not Christian theology.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:07 PM
Should you be trying to find out how God may be speaking to you so you can make sure you do the right thing? Maybe not.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
Talking about Jesus and Christianity isn’t always about reasoning because people don’t always have rational reasons for the things they believe.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM
The biggest divide between Christians and non-Christians is not whether or not they think Christianity is true but whether or not they think Jesus is beautiful.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:52 PM
God is gracious and merciful. But He is also avenging and wrathful. Sound theology never pits one against the other.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
What would you say to a group of Palestinian Christians and Muslims if you had the chance to teach them theology and apologetics? Here’s what Alan did.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 17, 2021 2:17 AM
Read the ten most popular posts of 2016.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
You may know that one of the topics Greg teaches on is “Decision Making and the Will of God.”
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
In the controversy over the Indiana law, comparisons are again being made between same-sex marriage and interracial marriage: We’ve all realized that banning interracial marriage was bigotry and...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
Greg answers a challenge that the Christian view of the Trinity is not Scriptural.
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Web Content Article · By aaron brake On Jun 27, 2019 9:56 PM
There’s one question you’re likely to hear from every Mormon missionary: Will you pray and ask God if the Book of Mormon is true? Here’s why that’s not a good idea.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
A couple of days ago, Robin and Jack were sitting on the sofa across from me...
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Knowledge, not just belief, about God leads to spiritual transformation. So what is knowledge, and how do we get it?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 7:22 PM
Alan explains the meaning and purpose behind the genre of Proverbs.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:10 PM
The controversy surrounding D&X is not like other abortion debates, because D&X is no ordinary abortion.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
Every year I try to offer a few words of advice for college-bound students—the kind of advice that I think could make a big difference in your spiritual survival.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM
The only way to guard against false ideas about God is to fill our minds with true ideas about God. But thinking rightly about God doesn’t come naturally, so what should we do?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
Those who adopt pro-gay theology are asking us to believe one of three options. Which of the following should we believe?
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
How the monasteries preserved and advanced education and culture in the middle ages...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
In the past, we’ve focused on secular reasons for maintaining the man/woman definition of marriage, but now we need to start paying attention to specifically Christian reasons so we can respond to...
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM
We need to evaluate movies by more than just how they make us feel.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jul 31, 2019 10:18 PM
I came across a lecture by Peter J. Williams that I found to be an excellent complement to this month’s Solid Ground (if you haven’t yet read Greg’s “The Canaanites: Genocide or Judgment?” you...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Oct 16, 2019 9:55 PM
A new book details some interesting trends in the beliefs of Mormons, and one wonders how long the LDS Church can survive with only half its members being confident that its unique, foundational...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Nov 30, 2023 9:25 PM
New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman offers an example of what he believes to be an irreconcilable contradiction in the Christmas account. But, while Matthew and Luke give some different details, it’s...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Nov 30, 2023 7:59 PM
Some people argue that since Eve was formed out of a rib containing male DNA, she was a transgender woman, and therefore God approves of people transitioning. Here’s why this argument doesn’t work.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
In a recent post, I quoted historian Rodney Stark extensively about how religions are not all the same.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
This warning against drifting away from communion with God is a reminder that something real is happening when you meet with God daily.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:07 PM
There’s is not a sharp dichotomy between God working and our working. They go hand in hand. God works through our initiative.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
A caller to the radio program asked about answering a historical challenge to Luke 2 that Bart Ehrman has raised.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Dec 29, 2019 12:34 AM
Here are the most-listened-to podcasts of 2019—ten of Greg’s long-running podcast, and, as a bonus, the top three episodes of our shorter podcast, #STRask.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 3, 2020 9:49 PM
Today’s challenge: “Jesus never said anything about homosexuality, so he must not have thought it was a sin.”
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Sep 21, 2020 10:50 PM
This year has been out of control. Unfortunately, so have many people’s manners. This is a reminder to be gracious to others—especially when it’s easy not to.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
When Christopher Yuan became a Christian, he had every reason to accept pro-gay theology; but when he studied it, here’s what he found.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM
Greg responds to the claim that “there’s no evidence for Christianity” then answers questions about ghosts, arguing civilly, comforting the sick, and materials for teaching conversational...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 30, 2021 2:41 AM
J. Warner Wallace talks about the power of the cumulative case and how the overall weight of the evidence for Christianity convinced him it’s true, then he discusses how to respond to the charge...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
Skeptics are notorious for boldly asserting that you cannot trust the New Testament documents. They will point to apparent contradictions or miracles to bolster their claim.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Different cultures create different challenges, and that makes speaking internationally both challenging and interesting. Here’s one way this played out in Alan’s recent trip to the West Bank.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM
No matter how small my audience, I never know when my own short moment of faithfulness will turn out to be the turning point in someone else’s life.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 3, 2019 10:27 PM
Greg explains how 2 Chronicles 7:14 is used incorrectly by Christians thinking it’s speaking to them.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Mar 3, 2022 10:44 PM
Some gender theorists say we should abandon the use of he/him pronouns for God and instead use they/them, but there are good, biblical reasons not to do this.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for November 2010 I met a pastor from Bangladesh last month. He left Islam in 1978, now oversees several churches, and has a heart to see more Muslims come to Christ.
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