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Author of AB 2943 Withdraws the Bill

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM

The California bill classifying “sexual orientation change efforts” as consumer fraud (including efforts even to merely change behavior) has been withdrawn.

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Why Didn’t Prayer Stop Violence in Sutherland Springs, TX?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM

Greg reflects on the Texas church shooting then answers questions about souls, engaging non-Christian relatives, and the destruction of the Canaanites.

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Archaeologists Find A Piece of History from King Hezekiah’s Reign

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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Getting Faith Right

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM

Last month, Brett Kunkle and I spent six hours training students in apologetics at Watermark Community Church, a very large church in the Dallas area.

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Same-Sex Marriage Won’t Be Enough

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM

Marriage can’t be separated from biological realities. And that’s why this activist’s ultimate goal is the end of marriage.

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Why Is the Old Covenant Obsolete?

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM

Andy Stanley’s mistaken understanding of why the Old Covenant is obsolete leads him to a faulty conclusion in his new book, Irresistible.

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Progressive Christian Gets Jesus Completely Wrong

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Apr 16, 2021 2:30 AM

Mr. B responds to a classic example of reading a foreign theology—in this case, progressive theology—into the biblical text.

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Christianity Is True to What Is There

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:59 PM

Is there an objective spiritual reality, or are religious ideas merely subjective preferences? Here’s why the answer to this question matters.

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Living Biblically

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM

similar book: The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible

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The Crucifixion Stories Are Embarrassing, and That’s a Good Thing

Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Mar 31, 2023 9:59 PM

Familiarity with the Bible is good, but it can also lead to our missing important

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Tell Muslims Jesus Is the Son of Man

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM

If you speak to a Muslim about Jesus, you may be challenged to show where in the Bible

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The Trinity: A Solution, Not a Problem Part 1

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:56 PM

asking three questions I hope will alert you to problems I’m willing to bet you’ve never

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#STRask: April 27, 2017

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM

In 4 min. or less, Greg answers questions about the power of words, Jesus’ metaphor in John 11, and how Jesus is David’s descendant?

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Justice and Grace

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM

The interpretation is not narrow; the verses themselves are narrow, and there seems

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Some Things Are True

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM

“It is impossible to know the meaning of any written text.” If this is true, log off the web now. If not, read this commentary to find out about self-refuting arguments.

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Less Is More: A Case for the Resurrection

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM

Alan’s monthly letter for July 2013 Go ahead and skip church this Sunday. No need to give thanks for your next meal. You might as well throw this letter in the trash, too.

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Does My Question for Pro-Gay Theology Advocates Have a Fourth Option?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM

Alan posed a question to pro-gay theology advocates: Should we believe that Jesus was wrong, the Church has been wrong, or you are wrong? But is there a fourth option?

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#STRask: Do Verses in Acts about Baptism Support a Oneness Understanding of God?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 16, 2022 4:38 PM

Questions about whether the fact that the apostles baptized people in Jesus’ name supports a oneness understanding of God and how to reconcile the laying on of hands to receive the Holy Spirit in...

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David Bowie’s Death and Trading Eternity

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:57 PM

Greg talks about David Bowie’s death and trading eternity, then answers questions about how to answer the challenge that the Old Testament condones genocide and slavery, and what situation Timothy...

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The Film 1946 Succeeds at Very Little

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Feb 1, 2024 8:22 PM

Does the film 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture succeed in using Scripture to make the case that God approves of same-sex relationships? Alan explains three reasons why the film’s...

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Spiritual Warfare: Truth Encounters

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:40 PM

Greg discusses what the Bible teaches about the true nature of spiritual warfare—truth

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Aren’t the Apostle Paul’s Sexual Ethics Outdated?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM

How do we know that what Paul wrote still applies to us today?

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#STRask: June 12, 2017

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM

Greg’s on a timer and answers questions about Experiencing God, personality types, and sinning in dreams.

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The Holy Spirit Is God

Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Sep 28, 2023 6:51 PM

In this excerpt from Stand to Reason University, Robby Lashua examines the scriptural evidence for the divinity of the Holy Spirit and shares how we know the Holy Spirit is personal and distinct...

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Weighing a Chicken with a Yardstick

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM

Can science disprove the existence of the soul? Here Greg deals with advances in computer science and neurology, and the limitations of science.

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Is Faith Just a Feeling?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:52 PM

Feelings must not be allowed to hold our faith hostage. Instead, facts inform our faith, and faith instructs our feelings.

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We Need Restorative Rest

Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Aug 30, 2023 12:09 AM

Through his resurrection, Jesus became the truer and better Sabbath, allowing us to forever cease laboring to attain God’s favor and to rest in his mercy and grace. With this in mind, here are...

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Christians, You Will Suffer

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM

A time will come when an experience will make suffering real to you, and then you will struggle to learn how to entrust yourself to God when you can’t trust He’ll protect you from pain and tragedy....

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Witnessing to Jehovah’s Witnesses—Part 2

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM

Notes for the video “Witnessing to Jehovah’s Witnesses”—available in our store—are below. See Part 1.

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Does God Have to Obey the Ten Commandments?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM

If you want to call moral rules absolutes in the sense that they can never be trumped

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Why Believe the Holy Spirit Is a Person?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM

The New Testament attributes the three primary characteristics of personhood to the Holy Spirit: will, mind, and emotions.

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The Ethic of Caring for the Sick

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM

hospitals and clinics, was unique historically in Christianity because of what the Bible

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Jesus Is More Than a Superhero

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Sep 29, 2022 1:23 AM

Alan Shlemon uses the illustration of various superheroes to explain the two natures of Christ, why the incarnation was necessary for our salvation, and the uniqueness of Christianity.

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Are We at War with Muslims?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM

Just 29 days after the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, Oprah Winfrey invited Queen Rania on her television show.

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Are Christians to Blame for the Orlando Shooting?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM

Despite the obvious connection to Islam, some people speculated that Christians were also to blame.

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Prophecy and People: Both Design to Fit

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM

Greg sees a parallel between the evidence for grand design in nature and the fulfillment of Messianic prophecy by Jesus.

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Jesus’ Missing Years

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM

Did Jesus study in India for the “missing” 18 years of His life and then bring back a message reflecting eastern religious thought?

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Reform Your Faith, Don’t Deconstruct It

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Dec 2, 2022 12:13 AM

Despite some deconstructionists’ insistence, deconstructing your faith is not the same as reforming your faith. There's one key element that distinguishes between the two.

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Understand the Same-Sex Marriage Issue

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM

The Supreme Court will soon be ruling on whether or not the Constitution allows for defining marriage as one man and one woman. Much is at stake, and you can’t know what is fair and just...

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Does Defending Christianity Discredit Christianity?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM

Kierkegaard claimed the act of defending Christianity actually discredits it. Here’s why his criticism of apologetics doesn’t work.

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God Was Canceling People before It Was Cool

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 25, 2020 10:39 PM

Since long before the woke awoke, someone else has been the chief of cancel culture: Yahweh. But there are five significant differences between our culture’s approach to canceling and God’s.

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Essential Christian Doctrines

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM

A list of the key elements of Christianity

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#STRask: How Can Something Be Evil in Itself if Evil Is Only a Lack of Good?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 20, 2022 6:25 PM

is only a lack of good, how Jesus could have had a fully-human experience if he never

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How to Guard against False Ideas about God

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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LDS Test Is Necessary, Not Sufficient

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM

Mormons often argue that because they live good lives, they pass the test given by Jesus in Matthew 7:15-23 to determine whether or not a person is following a true prophet of God.

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Is God More Tolerant Today?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM

God relates to people in the Old Testament differently from how He relates to people in the New Testament, but it’s not because of a change in His character. If God hasn’t changed, then what has?

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Bart Ehrman’s Latest Book: How Jesus Became God

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM

I realized something about Bart Ehrman’s books reading his latest, How Jesus Became God.

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A Tribute to One of the Greatest Christian Apologists

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jul 31, 2019 5:24 PM

After decades of service defending the gospel, Dr. Norm Geisler has gone on to rest and be with Christ. Tim talks about an aspect of his service that most people did not see.

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One Way to Tell the New Testament Is True

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Aug 7, 2020 12:53 PM

Tim shows how some details in the Gospel of Luke help point to the truthfulness of the New Testament.

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Why Is Homosexuality Bad in Itself?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM

There are passages in the Old Testament and in the New Testament that give us some indication of what is really wrong with homosexuality from God’s perspective.

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What Makes a Successful Apologetic Argument?

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM

The success of any given apologetic argument is not whether it wins converts or strengthens the faith of any given believer, but whether it is faithful to Jesus.

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Sam Allberry’s Advice for Conversations about Sexual Identity

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:56 PM

If you’re afraid to have conversations about sexuality with your LGBT friends and family because you don’t know what to say, here’s some good advice from Sam Allberry.

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Does Isaiah 45:7 Teach That God Created Evil?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Mar 22, 2022 2:52 AM

What does it mean when God says he “creates evil” in Isaiah 45:7?

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#STRask: “If Jesus Didn’t Come to Condemn the World, I Doubt He Sent You To”

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 27, 2023 5:17 PM

to,” and whether it’s common for God to prepare us for a specific purpose that never

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#STRask: April 4, 2016

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM

Greg answers questions on why Jesus didn’t raise himself from the dead, what can be used instead of Jer. 29:11 for encouragement, what the difference is between Jews, Israelites, and Israel, if a...

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Acts and the Voice of God

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:07 PM

How does God speak to us?

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Three Common Objections to the Personhood of the Holy Spirit

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM

Is the personhood language used for the Holy Spirit merely personification? Why doesn’t the Holy Spirit have a personal name? How can a person fill people?

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Is the Rapture Biblical?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 9, 2021 7:23 PM

Is the concept of the rapture found in Scripture? Greg shares his findings with a caller.

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Are You Ready to Talk to a Muslim?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM

Alan’s monthly letter for November 2011 At a recent event, I was introduced as Saeed Ibn Umar. Yes, that’s a Muslim name. But no, it’s not a pseudonym and I haven’t converted to Islam.

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#STRask: July 14, 2016

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM

Greg talks about New Testament variants, the purpose of Satan, making disciples, and people giving accounts at the final judgment.

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How Do We Know That God Can Sympathize with Our Weaknesses?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 5:53 PM

Since God is perfect and never does anything wrong, can He really understand our

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Did the Council of Nicea Invent the Deity of Christ?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM

Emperor Constantine invented the deity of Christ in the fourth century, but a look at quotes

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Natasha Crain Can Help You Be Faithfully Different

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Feb 8, 2022 11:12 PM

Natasha Crain’s new book, Faithfully Different, was written to help believers understand and respond to the worldview divide between Christians and the culture—an important and needed task given...

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Do the Facts Matter?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM

It is not important for the truthfulness of Christianity for the Bible to be without

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Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM

The universe requires an explanation, and the universe requires a cause. Here’s a five-minute video to help you introduce these ideas to your friends and get a conversation started.

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#STRask: Did Jesus Ever Teach against Homosexuality?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 25, 2022 6:18 PM

Questions about how to respond to someone who claims Jesus never taught against homosexuality

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Does God Whisper? Part 3

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 1, 2019 9:16 PM

Civil war battles were tumultuous affairs. The thundering of guns and muskets was not just deafening, it was dangerous, drowning out the one means of group communication: the bugles.

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Is Consciousness an Illusion?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:39 PM

an illusion, Christmas card messages, if it is fair to send people to Hell who never

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Give ’Em Heaven—Mentoring Letter October 2013

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM

Are you giving a bit of Heaven to everyone you meet?

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When Apologetics Gets Personal

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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Jesus Didn’t Go to India

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM

Greg chats with Frank Turek about the upcoming Advanced CrossExamined Instructor Academy then gives an update on Melinda, talks about the claim that Jesus went to India, and answers a question...

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Do Not Fear Them

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM

We should never expect a fair shake, nor whine when it is not given.

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“Forced Love” Is the Wrong Way to Look at It

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM

People often compare the Calvinist view of salvation (i.e., that God gives spiritual life to those whom He chooses so that they will inevitably love and trust in Him) to an image of worthless...

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To Give a Good Answer, Sometimes You Have to Change the Question

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM

Sometimes we need to explain the bigger biblical picture in order to answer a person’s specific question.

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#STRask: Did the Mosaic Law Include Sacrifices for Intentional Sins?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 21, 2021 11:56 PM

how to respond to someone who says he isn’t a Christian because his prayers were never

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