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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Brett talks about helping students engage their faith and others, if God hears the prayers of the unbelievers, and then discusses Student Training with guest Sean McDowell.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM
Greg’s on a timer and answers questions about what to do when reasons don’t work, the Bible as history, and rejecting Jesus.
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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 Aug 1, 2023 1:40 AM
Greg and Amy share how a Bible study leader can gently correct study members who fall into the trap of eisegesis.
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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 people interested in apologetics, and one of the toughest questions about God to answer.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM
Greg answers questions on reaching people who are apathetic about spiritual things, Molinism, God “regretting” making man, and witnessing in the workplace.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 30, 2019 11:20 PM
Questions about believing in a God who would send Anne Frank to Hell and Ted Bundy to Heaven and using the Ray Comfort method of street evangelism.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 4, 2019 12:05 AM
Questions about using Hell as a motivation, dinosaurs and young earth creation, a book by Norman Geisler, and presenting the gospel to an eight-year-old.
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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 someone who doesn’t know if he’s one of the elect, and whether church should only be for believers.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 30, 2020 4:54 PM
Questions about steamrollers who say there’s no proof for God, whether matter changing to energy proves it isn’t self-existent, and whether rainbows existed before Noah. (Jon fills in for Amy.)
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 8, 2020 6:29 PM
Questions about maneuvering a “gauntlet” strategy of questions in a discussion and whether Christians shouldn’t seek fear as a form of entertainment.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 22, 2020 7:23 PM
Questions about how to respond to an atheist who rejects the Bible because it contains miracles and thoughts about churches requiring liability waivers to attend worship services.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 27, 2021 10:07 PM
Question about how to transition from being an apologist to an evangelist when the person you’re talking to starts thinking about converting.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 2, 2021 9:40 PM
Questions about responding to an atheist who asks what it would take to convince you God doesn’t exist and problems with the idea that we should live however we want as long as we don’t hurt anybody.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 31, 2021 6:19 PM
Questions about how to persuade a family member who responds to the Columbo questions with anger and what Christians should expect to experience when it comes to God’s discipline.
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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 the text in context and whether there are things Greg and Amy wish they had known about apologetics work before...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 11, 2021 7:53 PM
Questions about whether it’s biblical to refer to God as the Divine Mother and tactical ways to respond to someone who says he’s offended by your views.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 6, 2022 3:21 AM
Questions about what to do if someone feels ashamed because he can’t answer the first Columbo question and whether there there are arguments we can use for God’s existence based on our experience...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 2, 2022 7:31 PM
Questions about what topics to cover when presenting an apologetics series in a church and how to handle addressing people’s doubts in an apologetics class when discussing them can confuse others...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 12, 2022 12:26 AM
Questions about whether it’s possible to go your whole life without sinning, why God put the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden, and how to “take the roof off” the claim that...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 22, 2022 7:01 PM
Questions about how to engage someone who calls himself an “agnostic atheist” and how to deal with a parent contradicting you with heretical theology while you’re teaching students in a...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 11, 2022 3:33 PM
Questions about what to say to someone who says he “believes in science, not God” and how to respond to the slogan “Love Is Love” without using the Bible.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 16, 2022 6:10 PM
Questions about how to get into spiritual conversations with people and what to say to someone who says Jesus, the stories in the Bible, Heaven, etc. are all just metaphorical.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 16, 2022 5:25 PM
Questions about what to read to take your apologetics knowledge up a notch, how to reconcile friends’ experiences encountering ghosts with what the Bible teaches, whether you should give charitably...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 8, 2023 1:02 AM
Questions about how to respond to someone who says she would only consider Christianity if it weren’t patriarchal and had a goddess to worship and how a husband could persuade his wife, who is...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 27, 2023 5:19 PM
Questions about why God expects us to be perfectly moral if he doesn’t expect us to be omnipresent, omniscient, or omnipotent and tips for interacting with someone who asks a lot of questions but...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 4, 2023 9:42 PM
Questions about whether spending time defending Christianity in chat rooms where atheists and Christians debate is a worthy endeavor and whether it’s better to choose a church you agree with...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 12, 2023 7:35 PM
Questions about how to reply when atheists respond to the evidence you offer by saying, “That’s not evidence,” and how Christians can say we have free will to choose God when we’re threatened with...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 20, 2023 9:14 PM
Questions about what questions to ask someone who claims to be a Christian but doesn’t seem to have true, saving faith and when to stop trying to convince someone who denies some essentials of the...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 24, 2023 8:03 PM
Questions about the best way to tactically and tactfully respond to those who claim God told them to do something and how to get one’s emotions under control when talking to a friend who joined a...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 16, 2023 12:29 AM
Questions about how to use Columbo questions with someone who is nonreligious but “spiritual,” what to say to someone who “followed Jesus out of the church” and now doesn’t believe spiritual truth...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 10, 2023 8:36 PM
Questions about what to do if someone uses the Columbo tactic against you, why some Christians say that only some doctrines matter and should be defended, and whether the extent to which one spends...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 19, 2023 4:00 PM
Greg and Amy chat about Greg’s new book, Street Smarts: Using Questions to Answer Christianity’s Toughest Challenges, discussing the goal of the book, how this new material differs from and...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 2, 2023 1:20 PM
Questions about whether most Christians are only Christians because they were indoctrinated at a young age, whether getting pregnant out of wedlock was “just God’s plan,” underlining text in books,...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 30, 2023 3:54 PM
Question about the hardest aspect of Christianity to defend.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 16, 2023 7:14 PM
Questions about what to ask a strict empiricist who claims he only believes in things he can see, the purpose behind God making people with senses that can’t find him, and thoughts on whether a...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 14, 2024 9:47 PM
Question about advice for debating an atheist.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 21, 2024 5:31 PM
Questions about how to start conversations with postmodernists about the need for repentance and what question one can use to put a stone in the shoe of a Buddhist friend.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 14, 2024 2:27 PM
Questions about what to do when you don’t know how to respond to someone’s answer to your question and you feel unsafe in the conversation and how to go about witnessing to and discipling a...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 26, 2024 7:37 PM
Questions about apologetics strategies to use with an agnostic who says it’s pointless to worry about whether there is a God because we can’t know if he exists and whether it’s a bad strategy to...
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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 ways to control people who don’t want to think for themselves and how to respond to the claim that Christianity...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM
Alan shows how you can use two simple questions to show that the Christian story of creation is true and reasonable.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM
Alan describes the significant shift that is occurring in our society that affects how human beings are valued.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
Alan answers the question of whether our soul continues to develop in heaven and, if so, in what way or capacity.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
Alan talks about how every apologetic subject comes back to God and that often times it’s more prudent to discuss God’s existence rather than a secondary issue.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:54 PM
Alan answers the question why Jesus is necessary by explaining how the Gospel works in non-Christian lingo.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM
Some abortion-choice advocates claim that abortion is no different than taking someone off life support. Alan explains why that is not the case.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:56 PM
Alan offers a piece of evidence that suggests that the DNA in your body is intelligently designed.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM
Alan explains the implications of being made in the image of God and why society is shooting itself in the foot for rejecting this principle.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
Besides abortion, there are several new biotechnologies that threaten innocent human life. Alan describes four of them.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Since February 12 was Darwin Day, Alan discusses Darwin’s contribution to the worldview of naturalism and explains why atheists had no choice but to accept evolution.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM
Sometimes people claim that the only reason someone is a Christian is because they were born in the United States. In this episode, Alan gives three reasons why such a claim is wrong headed.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jul 30, 2019 11:45 PM
Alan explains how the birth and survival of the smallest baby challenges four tenets of abortion-choice advocacy.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Oct 8, 2019 9:36 PM
While it’s true that Christians should prioritize their understanding of Scripture and Christian theology, Alan offers four reasons why Christians should add the study of false ideas to their to-do...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Oct 8, 2019 9:37 PM
Alan explains how the atheist’s materialistic worldview makes several miracle claims to explain reality.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Oct 16, 2019 9:49 PM
Alan talks about the six verses in Scripture that address homosexuality and how pro-gay theology advocates love to call them “clobber passages.”
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Feb 3, 2020 9:39 PM
While speaking on embryonic stem cell research at a church recently, Alan was challenged by an attendee.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Sep 6, 2020 7:15 PM
Skeptics and atheists find the problem of evil so repugnant and our solutions so hollow because they refuse to accept a fundamental reality that every Christian believes. Alan explains what that...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 12, 2021 8:00 PM
Does God require a certain amount of faith before he accepts it? Alan addresses this question by clarifying the nature of faith.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 16, 2021 8:26 PM
An upcoming film claims that Christian opposition to homosexuality is based on a 1946 mistranslation of a Greek word in the RSV Bible. Alan explains why their argument doesn’t change the Christian...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 22, 2021 5:34 AM
If someone asked you how you know Christianity is true, how would you answer them? In this episode, Alan offers his response to that question by appealing to some powerful truths that people live by.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jul 20, 2021 5:47 PM
You've heard of the Big Bang, but are you aware of the other two big bangs, each of which represents the beginning of a fundamentally new thing that didn't exist before? Alan explains what they are...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Oct 9, 2021 10:35 PM
Alan takes notice of a cultural trend to reject teleological language when describing human anatomy and shows how this explains modern thinking on sex and sexuality.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 18, 2022 11:31 PM
If you’ve never adopted a child, does this disqualify you from speaking out against abortion? Alan offers five reasons why this challenge is mistaken.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 18, 2022 11:08 PM
Do abortion-choice advocates hold a morally superior view or is their position discriminatory? Alan unpacks this question in this month’s episode.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Mar 21, 2022 11:59 PM
Alan looks at passage of Scripture that skeptics like to use to challenge Jesus’ integrity. Then, he clarifies the meaning and application of the passage by using three key interpretive principles.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 12, 2022 12:36 AM
Alan responds to the claim by some gender theorists that God’s pronouns should be they/them.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Dec 8, 2022 11:04 PM
Alan explains two reasons why abortion-choice advocates insist that pro-life arguments are religious.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 9, 2023 4:48 PM
Some object to the idea that Jesus paid the penalty for our sins through his death on the cross, calling it “child sacrifice.” Alan, however, offers three reasons why characterizing it that way is...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Apr 12, 2023 10:03 PM
A recent article in The Guardian displayed some misleading images of what is removed in an abortion from a 9-week pregnancy. Alan explains the problems with the article and the images.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 10, 2023 9:05 PM
Some Christians and many former Christians are promoting a trendy approach to doubting and questioning your faith called deconstruction. Is it the same as reforming your faith? Alan explains the...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 13, 2023 7:36 PM
Alan describes the inconsistency in current laws surrounding abortion and homicide and offers a simple solution.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jul 11, 2023 7:08 PM
Alan offers three steps to respond to the rhetorically powerful, yet flawed argument that women might get injured or killed through dangerous, back-alley abortions if abortion is made illegal.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 12, 2024 9:07 PM
When a person rejects God, they’re left to determine for themselves their own identity. Alan unpacks some problems with this approach.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Feb 13, 2024 3:19 PM
Alan explains what would happen if someone was to go back in time to 1946 and stop the RSV Bible translation team from using the word “homosexuals.” He unpacks whether this would change the Bible’s...
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