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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 13, 2023 3:08 AM
Greg encourages Christians not to be discouraged when people don’t respond to their arguments, then he answers callers’ questions about whether Christians should be involved in the stock market and...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM
If you’re wondering what to think about Halloween, here are seven issues to consider.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Part of Utah’s law against bigamy was recently struck down by a U.S. District Judge, allowing for polygamy in practice and leaving no principled reason for not recognizing it legally, but here’s...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Dec 2, 2019 1:11 AM
If you’ve ever seen an item that belonged to someone in history, you know the feeling of awe and wonder as you’re brought close to the reality of that historical person. The same thing happens with...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 22, 2022 1:20 AM
Tim and Alan make a quick pro-life case then chat about responses to some popular pro-choice memes that claim life begins at first breath, a fetus is only a potential human, you can freeze an...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
After refusing to bake a cake that said, “Support gay marriage,” a couple in Northern Ireland was convicted of political and sexual orientation discrimination, but a LGBT activist is...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Apr 7, 2020 3:01 AM
It’s difficult to love real people in real churches when you’re trying to attain an ideal that does not exist.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Here in California, our governor and attorney general refused to defend our democratically-established constitutional amendment maintaining the definition of marriage as one man and one woman.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM
on a timer and answers questions about what to do when reasons don’t work, the Bible
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On May 15, 2024 9:55 PM
Jon Noyes explains just a few of the ways we can confidently conclude that the universe is fine-tuned by a designer.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Apr 7, 2020 12:43 AM
The filmmakers still don’t get Aslan.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jul 27, 2020 10:35 PM
Technology has given us ringside seats to every tragedy and evil act on the planet, creating two problems that hurt our soul: faux omnipresence and faux omniscience.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
The answer to this question depends on how you define “natural.”
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM
A recent study shows the number of people hostile towards Christianity hasn’t increased; it’s merely shifted to the more wealthy and influential.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Nick Roen, who has same-sex attractions, suggests “An Alternative Script for Same-Sex Attraction” for the church to offer Christians.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
The argument that may soon be taken up against our religious freedom will probably go something like this...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Greg talks about God answering prayers, a relationship with Jesus, handling stress in debates, and more.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 2, 2019 6:25 PM
Over the years, I’ve become increasingly concerned with one practice of well-meaning Christians: using the “sinner’s prayer” to lead someone to Christ.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 2, 2021 11:11 PM
When apologetics give you confidence that Christianity is actually true—true the way gravity is true—you’ll have the courage to stand when the challenges come your way.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Many Christians struggle with prayer, but you can improve your prayer life if you learn to pray specifically, intelligibly, and persuasively.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:39 PM
Greg answers questions about what the biblical basis is for thinking people go to hell immediately at death, if imprecatory psalms are still usable, why God didn’t make Adam, Eve, Cain, and Jesus...
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Oct 4, 2023 10:28 PM
The good life is the life with God, even when it involves suffering. The question is, how does the Christian live that life? The answer may be difficult, but it isn’t complicated.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
Here’s a collection of articles addressing the current state of religious freedom.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 7, 2022 1:32 AM
interpret John 20:23 about forgiving people’s sins and why we should think the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 24, 2023 2:11 AM
about a argument for the certainty of coming judgment that doesn’t refer to the Bible
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for March 2007 Sunday, February 11, was Evolution Sunday.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Comparing opponents of same-sex marriage to those who opposed interracial marriage is common, but not accurate. The arguments of same-sex marriage advocates actually have more in common with those...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Too many atheists still don’t understand the extent to which their moral views are influenced by theism, and therefore they still don’t understand the consequences of banishing that theism.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for March 2013 Today, more than ever, it is difficult to maintain a Christian view of sexuality, let alone homosexuality.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
The question “Why do Christians care how an organization that self-identifies as Christian views marriage?” requires an answer from within Christian doctrine.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
It’s a good thing before trials come to put our thoughts in proper order about how to deal with difficulties and tragedies that God allows in our lives, and not to let them shake us from what the...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:39 PM
Greg discusses what Jesus meant when He referred to Himself as “The Truth”, how to show respect in another country or to another religion without compromising our own beliefs, and if...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
Greg talks about friends who live in sin, temptation from man’s nature, Roman Catholic doctrine and practices, and how one should handle relatives who undermine the teaching of one’s child.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 9, 2023 11:40 PM
When the subject of a person’s sexual sin comes up in conversation, is there a way to share the gospel without sounding bigoted or judgmental?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:44 PM
In 4 min. or less, Greg talks about The Shack and cursing.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
There’s no need to change your religious convictions in order to treat people you disagree with like any other person that you respect.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
If you lost your integrity, how much would you pay to get it back? Your answer to that question could help you avoid losing your integrity in the first place.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM
All people are created in God’s image, and skin color is a non-moral characteristic that doesn’t diminish intrinsic value. Our laws must reflect that by upholding equality and justice.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM
In Australia, same-sex marriage activists are upset that polyamorists are trying to jump on their equality bandwagon, but they have no principled way to exclude them.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM
Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, and there’s a major misconception about this case that needs to be cleared up.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM
God has called you to the place where you are to bring redemptive life to the people you encounter, to your profession, and to those whom you serve through your work.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Mar 21, 2020 12:48 AM
Jonathan Edwards’s involvement in slavery is a sobering reminder of our limitations as human beings in applying revealed truth to our practices.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Only in a culture with a belief in a rational, orderly, sovereign Creator—where it’s believed a reasonable mind is behind things—would science be likely to appear.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Most people who promote transgenderism are interested in doing the loving thing. They’re just wrong about what the loving thing to do is.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 10, 2024 11:48 PM
How should Christians respond to stores that celebrate and/or promote homosexuality and transgenderism during Pride Month? Alan shares his approach.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Sometimes we can infer Jesus’ view on something we have no record of by listening carefully to His view on a related thing He did weigh in on.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 21, 2020 7:41 PM
help Christians of all ages address headline issues like same-sex marriage, the Bible...I’ve simply never seen another approach on the existence of...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 1, 2021 6:17 PM
Our success is not determined by numbers or even impact. Here’s what you need to remember about the proper measure of success in order to avoid discouragement.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM
Our ability to explain the gospel depends on our culture’s ability to understand the concept of justice, but use of the term “social justice” has been causing our understanding of justice to...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Oct 12, 2022 10:40 PM
When people respond to our Christianity with anger, it’s tempting to think either that we’ve done something wrong or that Christianity deserves their anger. Here’s why neither conclusion...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 8, 2021 2:01 AM
daughter transition and how to defend inerrancy when we also say some rules in the Bible
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
If you haven’t yet started thinking about how you’re going to deal with suffering and persecution (big or small), now is the time to do so. If you want to persevere, here’s where your focus...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
Nancy Pearcey notes something important about transgenderism (and the worldview of a culture that celebrates it).
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
In 4 min. or less, Greg answers questions about punishment in Hell, the role of those in need in the church, and when God talks to us.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:39 PM
Alan talks about how to respond to the LGBT moral revolution and who to “punish” for an abortion pill.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Dec 2, 2019 6:26 AM
At a recent theological and philosophical conference, Tim learned some things we should all keep in mind as Christian thinkers.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 31, 2023 6:55 PM
Given the numerous concerns, using preferred pronouns is anything but simple. It’s not that Christians are “transphobic” or unwilling to be courteous. There are principled reasons that justify not...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 2, 2022 2:35 AM
Greg gives a general principle and detailed examples to help a listener explain why, as a Christian, he is waiting until marriage to have sex.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
The Church has always been under attack.... Although many threats are external, some come from within.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
Sometimes when a person discovers I teach apologetics, they say, “You can’t argue someone into the Kingdom.”
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
Greg talks about contradiction in Deuteronomy, explaining “hope”, and whether a Christian can be spiritually dead.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 6, 2021 4:38 PM
Questions about whether any form of art brings glory to God regardless of the intent of the artist and whether one should go to a baby shower for a same-sex couple having a baby via IVF.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:43 PM
Greg talks about evolution: presuppositions, not fact, how bias affects a conclusion, then takes call son correcting misconceptions about evolution, if the Old Testament is historical, and more.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 4, 2022 11:36 PM
Advocates of gender ideology say intersex people are evidence sex isn’t binary, but here are four reasons why we know there are only two sexes.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM
In 4 min. or less, Greg answers questions about the soul, animals’s moral accountability, and a bad way of proving something is wrong.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM
Greg’s on a four-minute timer and answers questions about the contradiction between God’s promise to care for us and His promise we would be persecuted, what “judge not” means, and whether or...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 3, 2021 9:36 PM
Questions about whether stoning to death was too harsh a punishment for breaking the Sabbath in Numbers 15:32–36 and whether one can divorce a non-adulterous spouse if he has broken all of his...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 25, 2021 10:05 PM
Questions about the claim that the point of Old Testament justice is the protection of the poor and powerless and whether Jesus being “woke” proves it’s a good thing.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 31, 2019 5:14 PM
Greg reflects on how Mr. Rogers’ parting words exemplified a common misunderstanding of God’s grace.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Greg talks about deconstructing news stories, selecting a Christian college, if a Christian should help non-Christians clarify their world views, and more.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 6, 2021 12:08 AM
If you feel like Christians are losing the battle, you’re not alone. But Greg Koukl and Jon Noyes remind us that we’re “more than conquerors through him who loved us” (Romans 8:37).
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 15, 2020 4:14 AM
Greg’s brother had a good friend who died of cancer roughly a week after becoming a Christian. Here is the eulogy he wrote for that friend.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Apr 8, 2020 9:59 PM
We hear all the time that Christians divorce as often as everyone else, but it turns out this isn’t exactly true.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Learning more and more apologetic answers won’t necessarily lead to real conversations with the people who have the questions. It’s not knowledge of facts that will propel you towards this; it’s...
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Web Content Article · By natasha crain On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM
Fewer women than men seem to be passionate about apologetics right now, but this might not be primarily a function of gender.
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