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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:54 PM
Greg answers questions on what Jesus meant by “this generation,” what “word of God” in Hebrews 4:12 refers to, and the concept of a “personal relationship with Jesus.”
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:54 PM
Greg answers questions about whether there are levels of sin, why God punishes for eternity, leaving a church, and why Jesus spoke in parables.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
Greg answers questions about people being saved before Jesus, whether there’s a difference between forgiveness and propitiation, and how Greg doesn’t get angry at irrationality.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:42 PM
What can we learn about the design of marriage from the word “suitable” in Genesis?
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Oct 2, 2019 5:41 PM
If we want to be effective apologists, we should imitate how Paul engaged his audience. Here’s what we learn about his approach from Acts 17.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Dec 19, 2020 12:00 AM
With everything that’s happened this year, did you miss any of our most-popular posts? Here’s the list so you can catch up!
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for December 2013 You know the gay rights narrative. Homosexuals are born that way, change is impossible, and their behavior is morally permissible.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
Greg answers questions in 4 minutes or less on the difference between religion and spirituality, using verses out of context, Catholicism, and free will.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:44 PM
In 4 min. or less, Greg answers questions about Genesis, sharing the Gospel with a dying loved one, and what makes someone wise.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM
Greg answers questions about whether God would ever command someone to rape, the difference between inerrant and infallible, and whether we should say we’re spiritual or religious.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
Greg answers questions about inerrancy, a winsome response to someone who asks if you have a boyfriend or girlfriend, and why some people have intellectual disabilities.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 27, 2021 10:11 PM
Questions about using a vaccine created from cells from aborted fetuses and whether one must keep “toxic” parents in one’s life in order to honor them the way God commands.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Oct 11, 2023 8:40 PM
Alan Shlemon explains three serious concerns about the Unconditional Conference hosted by Andy Stanley, gives reasons why we can’t simply agree to disagree on LGBTQ issues, and describes how...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
If Jesus is God—our sovereign Creator—and is morally perfect and blindingly good and loving, then is it wrong for Him to call us to love Him above all others?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:42 PM
John Piper explains how the length of Israel’s long history before the coming of Jesus acts as “a lesson book for the nations about the Gospel.”
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Web Content Article · By brian seagraves On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM
If the percentage of people who identify as transgender is so small, why do all parents need to be concerned about the effect this topic will have on their children?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
Why are we to be “peaceable, gentle, showing every consideration for all men,” even—no, especially—to those who treat us poorly? Paul says it’s because this is how we illustrate something very...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Greg talks about abortion, choosing gender identity, unjust suffering, adversity and character development, and more.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Rev. Dr. John Scudder, Sr., founded the first Western Medical Mission in Asia in Ceylon in 1819. He also founded a family of medical missionaries whose combined service covers four...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM
Greg’s on a timer and answers questions about eternal life, omnipresence, and worship songs.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Arguing from Jesus’ silence on issues is not only a logical misstep, but theologically incorrect.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
Greg Koukl answers questions in 4 minutes or less Adam and Eve, apologetics, sin, conspiracy theories, decision making.
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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 Oct 4, 2019 12:14 AM
Questions about the embryos created and thrown away because of IVF, a second chance for redemption after death, C.S. Lewis’s view of Hell, and talking to Wiccans about spiritual things.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 4, 2019 10:28 PM
Greg reflects on giving a pro-life talk to a law school in Paraguay then answers questions about relativism and whether there will be different rewards in Heaven.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:43 PM
Greg talks about Father’s Day, telling the truth in order to lie: embryonic stem cell research, then takes calls on if it is possible to curse someone, why there is no monastic movement in...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:44 PM
Many people assume men in the Old Testament treated their wives like property, but does the text back that up?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
Greg talks about the sufficiency of Scripture, public schools, prideful people, and suicide.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:39 PM
Brett talks about how a college professor should evangelize about homosexuality when it might get him fired, if it is irrational for Christians to fear death, and how to respond to a Christian who...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 15, 2020 7:40 PM
Questions about whether an argument against God is fallacious, whether a Christian teen should disobey his unbelieving parents, and what to say to someone who says he’s asked Jesus into his heart...
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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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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:56 PM
Greg Koukl answers questions in 4 minutes or less on deciding a career, the apocrypha, worship songs, self-promotion, and Starbucks.
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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 greg koukl On Jan 12, 2021 8:27 PM
Questions about why Christ had to die if Old Testament believers already had access to Heaven, why we needed Jesus to be our sacrifice rather than a goat, and whether the Old Testament’s lack of...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 6, 2024 4:54 PM
Questions about whether we should provide our preferred pronouns during jury duty when a judge asks for them and how to respond to a Christian who says it’s kind to use a person’s preferred...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:43 PM
Greg talks about abortion: how to avoid red herrings, relativism: clarifying the issue, then takes calls on his opinion of Henry Blackaby’s curriculum, if Jesus questioned his own goodness, and more.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
The baptism of Jesus in Matthew 3 is a great example that distinguishes the Father, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus. Clearly, they are distinct persons.
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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 amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM
Andy Stanley’s call for pastors to “unhitch [their] teaching of what it means to follow Jesus from all things old covenant” will, sadly, lead to a diminished view of God.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 3, 2022 6:20 PM
The pro-life case against abortion involves legal, moral, scientific, and philosophical reasoning, so why do abortion-choice advocates keep insisting pro-life arguments are religious?
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Jan 27, 2024 3:11 AM
Aside from denying and twisting the clear passages of Scripture that prohibit homosexuality, pro-gay theology has another problem: A same-sex couple can’t practice Christian marriage as described...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
You already are Christ’s ambassador—how can you be a better one?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
The issue of what Christians believe about homosexuality is coming up a lot for a reason.
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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 Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
A review of Aronofsky’s Noah by Brian Mattson will help you interpret the ideas advocated in the film.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
Discussion about relativism, Christian kids going to a Mormon dance, and why abortion is still legal.
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Web Content Article · By aaron brake On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM
Acts 4 says the early church held all of their possessions in common. What does this mean for believers today?
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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 brett kunkle On Feb 29, 2020 12:20 AM
Brett explains how to navigate in conversation with your Mormon friends when the language is the same but the meanings are different.
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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 melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
I had a frustrating experience the other day you’ve probably had. A family member thanked me for being nice to her lesbian friend.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM
Greg talks about some disturbing comments made by an Alabama State Rep. about abortion, then he answers questions about the different Christian canons and misusing the promises of God.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 1, 2023 3:13 AM
Greg talks about a crisis pregnancy center that’s having trouble getting help from churches because the pastors don’t want to be “political,” then he answers questions about the Passion Translation...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 13, 2023 5:18 PM
Questions about whether Genesis 1–11 is historical or mytho-history, why Jesus referenced people “we know never existed” like Adam and Eve, Noah, and Moses, and whether there’s a method by which we...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:39 PM
Greg talks about deconstructing Sam Harris’s articles, if the Pint-Sized Preacher is preaching, then discusses the Constantine Codex with Dr. Paul L. Maier, then takes calls on what the definitions...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 4, 2024 4:45 PM
Questions about believing God is always good to his children while rejecting prosperity teaching, how God can be jealous if he is love and love is not jealous, and whether God changing his mind in...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
Is faith in opposition to knowledge? Are Christians ignorant by definition or is there a place for reason and faith?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:39 PM
Greg talks about After Birth Abortions, discusses newly discovered New Testaament manuscripts with guest Dr. Dan Wallace, then takes calls on why talk about Hell when there is no condemnation in...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Greg talks about debating Michael Shermer, Lines that Divide: The Great Stem Cell Debate with Brian Godawa, then takes calls on how the brain, mind, and soul are distinct, what Jesus did for the...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Hell is an offensive idea to a lot of people. Eternal punishment seems harsh to both believers and unbelievers. It could even be a stumbling block.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM
Greg Koukl interviews Sam Allberry, author of Is God Anti-Gay? on the question, how can the church support Christians with same-sex attraction who want to follow Christ?
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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 2.
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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 natasha crain On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
There’s a lot of secular wisdom out there that sounds good but has layers of problems. Here’s an example of how you can teach your children to evaluate what they hear.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 1, 2019 5:16 PM
Christians define sin as “missing the mark.” It almost sounds cute. Kyle lied so he missed the mark…Oops. Katy gossiped...Shucks, that was wrong. Randy was prideful…Yikes, better stop that. But...
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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 8:51 PM
In his new book, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God, Tim Keller gives a wonderfully motivating illustration of how we should view prayer.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
Greg talks about how to “conduct apologetics” with someone who doesn’t connect with good arguments, how to deal with betrayals from within the Christian community, how to mobilize the youth in...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 30, 2023 10:08 PM
Questions about how to proceed with someone who isn’t sure what she’s unsure of about Christianity, whether not having a near-death experience proves there’s no life after death, why Jesus is...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 7, 2023 5:26 PM
Questions about why no one besides Matthew mentioned the resurrection of multiple people after the crucifixion, whether there were rainbows before Noah, and why Jesus told the restored...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Greg talks about Joni Erickson Tada, Is an Incorporeal Mind without a Brain Incoherent?, the “Liverpool Care Pathway” to euthanasia, CrossExamined Instructor’s Academy with Frank Turek,...
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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 Jan 27, 2024 10:54 PM
Questions about whether Christianity is about following Jesus rather than a story of reality, what John the Baptist meant when he said, “He must increase, but I must decrease,” and why John the...
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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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