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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 16, 2022 6:10 PM
conversations with people and what to say to someone who says Jesus, the stories in the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM
campus then takes questions on moral standards, whether science is superior to the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
From our biological blueprint, to the fine-tuning of the universe, to the human experience of beauty, morality, and guilt, God is the best explanation for the way things are.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 25, 2024 9:35 PM
Though many object to the idea of penal substitutionary atonement, here’s how we know Jesus’ blood cleanses from all sin, fully satisfies the divine demand for justice, and rescues us from the...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Apr 9, 2020 2:38 AM
Here’s why it’s illegitimate to disqualify circumstantial evidence from consideration.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Sep 11, 2023 11:03 PM
Alan explains why using the word “gender” will create unnecessary confusion in your conversations with others and gives advice for how to clarify the term when other people use it.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Everyone judges. Not just Christians, but anyone who engages in rational thought.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
Imagine a woman telling you, “I’m transgender. Please call me Michael.” What do you do? Here’s how to answer with truth and compassion.
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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 using the Bible to witness, getting
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:22 PM
A solid argument can be built just like a solid house: walls first, then the roof. Here’s a building plan, plus three ways arguments collapse.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:59 PM
A study on why young people are leaving the Church shows we’re not taking the life of the mind seriously enough.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
The images are sadly familiar. Buildings ripped from their foundations. Corpses mingled with debris. Parents and friends grieving for lost loved ones. Flowers and candles and makeshift memorials.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Aug 1, 2019 7:01 PM
If our culture valued micro issues, then women would feel more free to invest themselves in them without feeling guilty they’re not acting like men, and our society would be much better off.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:42 PM
Why are transgender people encouraged to “be who they are,” but boys and girls in general are discouraged from being their respective sexes?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
C.S. Lewis seems to suggest that those who sincerely pursue God the best way they know how are accepted by Him, regardless of whether or not they explicitly put their faith in Jesus. Is he right?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
I do not consider myself a particularly brave person, and I think it especially foolish, on the main, to make a frontal assault on a clearly superior force.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
How do you know when to “fold your hand” and drop out of an unproductive discussion?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 19, 2021 9:35 PM
Questions about how to steer the conversation in a Bible study towards discussing
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM
Greg talks to Alan Shlemon about how Christians can navigate the transgender discussion, interact with transgender friends and family, etc.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 3, 2024 1:18 AM
Greg talks about how some questions about how to reach people are just hard to figure out, then he answers questions about who created God, using apologetics with someone who is mentally ill and...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
You may have already seen Rev. Dr. Phil Snider’s two-minute speech to the Springfield City Council in support of adding “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the categories of...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 3, 2020 9:16 PM
Questions about proving events in the Bible, explaining mercy to a child, helping
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 21, 2020 9:45 PM
There’s a lesson to be learned from using vignettes like these. Sometimes all it takes is a short reflection or a briefly explained insight to put a stone in someone’s shoe...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 10, 2024 9:53 PM
Tim responds to a progressive pastor who claims Matthew 23:37 supports men dressing in drag.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 7, 2019 9:44 PM
college, then he takes calls about God sending babies to Hell, leviathan in the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 14, 2021 1:47 AM
those with different worldviews and different ideas about sexuality to church or a Bible
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
Muslim Followers of Christ?—A Look Inside the “Insider Movement”
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
Tom Gilson - Critical Conversations: A Christian Parents’ Guide to Discussing Homosexuality with Teens
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 27, 2021 7:27 AM
Greg responds to an article that says Jesus would have marched in a pride parade, then he answers a question about Christians disagreeing on whether the COVID vaccine is a hill to die on.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 8, 2024 2:33 PM
Questions about what to say to someone who believes the Bible and church are man-made
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Mar 31, 2023 9:34 PM
Tim Barnett encourages believers to find opportunities for youth to engage in critical thinking and interact with other worldviews.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:57 PM
Greg talks about protecting his daughters’ innocence, what to do when someone refuses the facts, the march for life, if Jesus intended to establish a visible church on earth, if Jews and...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Once you accept the reasoning for same-sex marriage, there’s no rational reason to legally discriminate against three people who love each other.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Oct 1, 2019 11:55 PM
BreakPoint’s symposium on “purity culture” has some interesting thoughts from Christian thinkers on sexual purity and how we should advance the biblical sexual ethic.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Apr 26, 2023 9:36 PM
It’s one thing to deny your preferences for the sake of others, but if accommodating another person’s requests requires you to violate your conscience, then it’s reasonable to decline.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
When it comes to spiritual warfare, the New Testament emphasis is not on prayer-infused power encounters, but on something completely different, and if we miss that, then I think we miss the heart...
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM
The Nashville Statement on the biblical vision of sex and sexuality was released last week, and many people have objected, calling it unloving.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM
Peter Boghossian’s A Manual for Creating Atheists teaches atheists a way to engage Christians that he calls “Street Epistemology.” Here’s where his project goes wrong and how you can respond...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
Careful thinking is an indispensable tool for all who are interested in knowing the way the world really is, for those who really do love truth. Thankfully, the tools of thinking are simple ones...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
It would often be easier to compromise, but we’re called to do church God’s way, even if it’s the more messy, difficult, and uncomfortable way.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Mar 31, 2023 9:02 PM
Tim Barnett reminds us that entertaining students should not be our goal. Instead, we should “throw the ball so they jump for it.”
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 3, 2020 10:44 PM
It’s often said that if you repeat something loud enough and long enough, people will begin to believe it.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
There has to be a better way to show compassion to the few children who suffer from gender confusion that doesn’t involve destroying a healthy understanding of the distinction between boys and girls.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 21, 2020 9:58 PM
In this issue of Solid Ground I continue with my collection of short vignettes I have collected over the years.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:39 PM
Greg talks about if “listening prayer” is taught in the Bible, how to teach
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
A rather lengthy passage in which Paul seems to use homosexuality as indicative both of man’s deep seated rebellion against God and God’s proper condemnation of man.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:56 PM
These twelve points have provided me with a strategy to keep in the back of my mind when asked about the veracity of the Christian faith.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Greg and Brett Kunkle discuss Summit Ministries Student Conferences, then Greg talks about how to deal with legalistic Christians, how to tactically start a conversation in a barber shop, and more.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:42 PM
In 4 min. or less, Greg answers questions about LGBTQ in the Bible, who designed
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM
question about facts and discusses “choosing your jury” and how to study your Bible
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 8:32 PM
How do we give our students confidence that the Bible is God’s authoritative voice
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 16, 2022 5:25 PM
notch, how to reconcile friends’ experiences encountering ghosts with what the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 22, 2021 2:13 AM
for a woman to be an apologist, how to respond to a Mormon interpretation of the Bible
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Feb 29, 2024 9:59 PM
Christianity offers a high view of human value and purpose. Jon Noyes explains how this should impact the way we interact with others, especially friends and family who identify as LGBTQ+.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Oct 26, 2023 7:19 PM
If you shy away from discussing controversial aspects of the Christian worldview with people who disagree with you, here’s an approach that will help you overcome your fear and get into...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 2, 2023 1:20 PM
underlining text in books, and whether we should always find something new in the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 5, 2024 1:47 AM
of persecution indicates anything about a person’s Christianity, and where the Bible
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
If our culture’s highest ideal for marriage is sameness between the partners (not to mention barrenness), then it naturally follows that the new ideal is same-sex marriage.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM
Stand to Reason wants to give you courage for every encounter, and courage begins with expecting and accepting ridicule and rejection.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 13, 2024 10:00 PM
Christians are not only called to love people who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender, but we—more than anyone else in our culture—can give a justification for loving them even...
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Brett interviews Gabriel Pagel, the head bible teacher at Upland Christian Academy
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
If you genuinely believe there is no truth, can you still be a Christian?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
I never set out to win someone to Christ.
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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 greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
discrimination, God being unfair to the Israelites in Egyptian slavery, a book on Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
Quantum physics. Ugh. The term itself is enough to make grown men weep and send theologians scurrying. It can also send chills up the spine of the Christian marshalling evidence from science for...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM
I’ve worked out a few principles I think will make a tough job easier, and I’d like to pass them on to you.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 25, 2019 10:44 PM
What was Jesus loving and accepting regarding during His ministry? Greg clarifies a common misconception.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
Greg discusses consideration, gender identity, and bathrooms, then proceeds to answer calls about if the people with demons Jesus cast out were really mentally ill, and how to evaluate...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
and the is-ought fallacy helps us to answer an important question about what the Bible
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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 alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM
Alan interviews Christopher Yuan about his new book, Holy Sexuality and the Gospel: Sex, Desire, and Relationships Shaped by God’s Grand Story.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 20, 2022 9:02 PM
Greg explains how to use the Columbo tactic with agnostics and gives an example of directing the conversation toward a specific topic.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 7, 2022 1:36 AM
whether Paul ever got a chance to stand before Caesar, whether we can trust the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
The future of thoughtful Christianity does not belong to best-selling authors or popular speakers. Rather, it will be determined by people like you—committed disciples in the local church with warm...
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