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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 14, 2021 8:33 PM
How can Christians respond to the Mormon claim that “Heavenly Father” is the only god “for us”? Greg offers one question that will help focus the conversation.
Media Type: Video Topic: Other Worldviews
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Mar 23, 2021 3:29 AM
Alan recommends a children’s book that shows the absurdity of trying to explain the complexity of creation by chance and time.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Michael Horton discussed youth ministry with Brett and Greg recently on the White Horse Inn. Here are the links to listen to their conversations.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:43 PM
Greg talks about if Intelligent Design should be taught in public schools, then takes calls on what the value of experience is to Christianity, if our senses are reliable, if faith and conscience...
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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 Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Greg talks about how Christians can deal with trials and tragedy, new fossil findings undermine evolution with Dr. Fuz Rana, then takes calls on if science explains away the reality of the soul,...
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Titus Salt was a contemporary of of John Cadbury, whom I wrote about last Thursday, and there are similarities in their stories.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM
Tim continues to respond to objections to the argument that the universe is fine-tuned to permit the existence of life.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
Greg answers questions about movies in Heaven, free will with election, the explanatory power of Christianity, and more.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Greg talks about the Bible and homosexuality, arrogant tactics, answers questions from callers, and discusses reThink Conference with guest Brett Kunkle.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:40 PM
Greg talks about his travels and witnessing on the road, having a conversation with a skeptic, Aletheia International with guest Abdu Murray, then takes calls on how candidates can answer...
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
David Bentley Hart explains that the ethic of caring for the sick and needy, establishing hospitals and clinics, was unique historically in Christianity because of what the Bible taught...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2020 11:35 PM
responds to a letter to the editor in which the writer’s pain causes him to ask the age-old
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
Oprah Winfrey is the “pastor” of the largest church in the country. “The Church of O,” Christianity Today noted, has a congregation of 22 million vigorous, faithful, evangelistic members,...
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Other Worldviews
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
We have good news for all of you who don’t live near one of the four locations where we hold our reTHINK Apologetics Student Conferences: You can live stream our upcoming conference!
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Greg talks about increasing cultural conflict, STR’s reTHINK Apologetics Conference, then takes calls on what he thinks of an argument against Roman Catholic doctrine on justification, what a...
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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.
Media Type: Article Topic: Theology
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:56 PM
Scripture is clear that Jesus is the eternal, uncreated One.
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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 greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:42 PM
Greg talks about Savior for who, apologetics feeds the mind, theology feeds the soul, then takes calls on the accurate interpretation of a common misunderstanding (Gal. 5:24), what the Christian...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
When the Bible was written, writers and historians were free to shift some things around a to make a point, and it wasn’t considered deceptive or an error. It was a different way of writing. It’s...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 29, 2020 6:42 AM
Brett talks to John Dyer, author of From the Garden to the City: The Redeeming and Corrupting Power of Technology.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Oct 23, 2020 11:25 PM
A new, visually beautiful documentary follows John Lennox from Oxford to Jerusalem as he explains why he’s convinced Christianity is true.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Richard of Wallingford lived in the early 14th century...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 8, 2023 2:50 AM
Greg reads a note from a student whose grad school program is requiring that he join an association that explicitly promotes values he disagrees with, then he answers questions about leaving a...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
Greg talks about vacations not turning out the way one expects, the Trivium learning steps, talking to Jehovah’s witnesses, immaterial things, cutting off relationships with family members,...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM
For those who think Emperor Constantine invented the deity of Christ, here are thirty-six quotations from nine different church fathers that predate the Council of Nicea.
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Web Content Article · By derek white On Apr 15, 2020 11:27 PM
Hymn by Jaroslav J. Vajda
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:56 PM
How should we speak to Jehovah’s Witnesses about Jesus?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Nov 2, 2021 12:19 AM
Abortion is a type of discrimination. It’s the worst kind, in fact. Here’s why.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 3, 2023 2:00 AM
Greg talks about the first 30 years of Stand to Reason, then he answers questions about universalism, the Roman Catholic view of the authority of tradition, and the difference between tradition and...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
In a literal playing out of Romans 1:18–21, a Boston University psychologist has recommended methods for suppressing the design intuition in children.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 10, 2021 2:55 AM
Greg talks about people declaring “evolution” over things they see without being able to show the pathway of that evolution, then he answers questions about conversing with conspiracy theorists,...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:52 PM
Mormons believe God is an exalted man who became a god, but there are both biblical and philosophical problems with this understanding.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Jul 14, 2022 6:58 PM
God calls Christians to “do justice,” but what is true justice? Jon Noyes shares a biblical picture of justice and how Christians can pursue it in his latest Stand to Reason University course.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
Feeling discouraged by the opposition to Christians and Christianity we’re seeing? You’ll be encouraged by what we learn about God in Acts.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Should a Christian freak out at the mention of evolution? Well, it depends on what someone means when they use the word.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
In his insightful article “Why Harry Potter Is Great Literature,” Brian Brown argues that J.K. Rowling’s Potter books “are easily the most morally and socially insightful works of fantasy...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Feb 27, 2020 6:18 PM
Did you know it’s wrong to kill an unborn child according to California state law?
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Christians have been at the forefront of building hospitals and providing care for the sick for centuries.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Thomas Helwys was one of the early Puritans in 17th century England. He and his fellow Protestant believers met in secret to avoid punishment for dissenting with the state religion.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:39 PM
As I travel around speaking, the vast majority of the questions I get have to do with the intersection of science and faith...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
We have a responsibility to do this. We cannot just pawn it off on teachers, or Sunday school teachers, or our pastor, or a Christian school, if we have one. They can help, but it is our primary...
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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 robby lashua On May 23, 2024 9:11 PM
When is a couple considered married? After the ceremony? When they sign the license? After sex? Robby Lashua looks at what the Bible has to say about this question.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 23, 2020 2:28 AM
Classical education depends on a three-part process of training the mind, and you can use this approach to teach your children apologetics.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
As you’re spending time learning apologetics, it’s crucial that you never stray from reading the Bible.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:42 PM
C.S. Lewis expert Jerry Root explains how experiences and earthly loves awaken desires in us that will ultimately point us to God.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 23, 2021 9:48 PM
The fulfillment of human longings (eternal love, triumph over evil, life out of death) that we find in beautiful stories can be found in reality.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Richard Dawkins once wrote, “Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.”
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
If two guys walk into a bar and the bartender says, “I can’t serve people like you—get out!” Is that wrong? Illegal? One can’t say until one knows why the discrimination is occurring.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
No matter someone’s belief or lack of belief in God, everyone has to answer for the existence of evil in the world.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Elizabeth Fry was a British Quaker Christian who led the movement for prison reform in the 19th century. She was also the driving force behind reform legislation.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Can one question evolution on a nonreligious basis? Greg discusses how the problems with the theory of evolution are rooted in science, not religion.
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Web Content Article · By aaron brake On Oct 1, 2019 10:15 PM
Because conspiracies are so notoriously difficult to execute and maintain, belief in them is nearly always unreasonable. Here’s how and why you should evaluate conspiracy theories.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:39 PM
In a New York Times op-ed titled “Stop Saying ‘I Feel Like,’” Molly Worthen says we need to pay attention to a recent evolution in language.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
An article in Fast Company titled “Can Tech Companies Continue to Innovate with No Women At the Table?” argues that businesses are harming themselves by not having both men and women on their...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
A survey commissioned by Ligonier gives a good idea of which ideas we evangelicals need to do a better job at explaining, defending, and promoting.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM
We should begin teaching our kids apologetics as early as possible. Here’s how Tim translated an answer to the problem of evil into language even four-year-olds could understand.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Dec 2, 2019 5:56 AM
Some Bible terminology can seem strange to our modern ears, and understanding its meaning can require some work. Here are some thoughts on the meaning of “the kingdom of heaven.”
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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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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:57 PM
So, how is it that Jehovah’s Witnesses can claim that Jesus was never worshipped?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Sep 21, 2021 12:18 AM
Many abortion-choice advocates claim a woman is not obligated to sacrifice her bodily autonomy for another being, citing the situation of declining to donate organs as a...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM
Have you ever wondered why Jesus had to undergo a “baptism of repentance” if He was sinless? Jonathan Pennington explains the answer Jesus gave to John the Baptist.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Bill Pratt responds as an electrical engineer to atheists who claim that the sub-optimal design of biological organisms argues against the existence of the Christian God.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM
Objections to deathbed conversions offer excellent opportunities for you to explain the Christian view of God and the Gospel.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM
One fun and effective means of helping your child memorize information is through call outs, where the parent calls out a word or phrase, and the child responds. Here are some examples.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 2, 2019 5:47 PM
In a recent podcast, Greg gave advice for speaking up at public school board meetings, and he read a statement he prepared for his local school board. Here is his statement.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
The fulfilled prophecies, unity, and impact of the Bible all point to a divine Author.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
Does a biblical view of homosexuality equate to hate?
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
The constant laws of nature that are the foundation of modern science and mathematics were a development of thinking around the 15-16th centuries—and grounded on theology, the God of the Bible.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM
Concern about whether or not we ought to be following the Mosaic Law has been increasing among Christians. Here’s what the Bible says about it.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:56 PM
The most difficult question to answer isn’t what you might expect.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
As the church continues to face cultural challenges from outside the church, we must strengthen our views of God’s Word within the church...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jul 31, 2019 5:45 PM
The moral relativist who is fighting for a moral principle is living in tension with his beliefs, and this provides a great starting point for a spiritual conversation.
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