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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:52 PM
Neil Postman predicted our downfall would come not from externally-imposed oppression but from the pursuit of trivial pleasure, and it seems he was right.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:29 PM
Just in time for Holy Week—it’s just about a tradition now for Christmas and Easter—Bart Ehrman is raising the same old doubts about the New Testament documents.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Mar 20, 2020 9:05 PM
Our view of man affects countless cultural practices and laws, including the role and power of the government.
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Web Content Article · By stand to reason On Nov 3, 2020 2:34 AM
Regardless of how the election turns out, Christians ought to stand out in our anxious society as people securely resting in the knowledge that our future—whether painful or comfortable—is in the...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
There’s a reason why religious institutions aren’t taxed, and it has to do with the First Amendment of the Constitution.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
How do you choose a good church? This question comes up frequently and I’m glad it does. It shows people are asking the right questions.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 28, 2022 11:47 PM
If you practice simple things like these, spending a few extra minutes valuing someone you’ve come in contact with, you’ll be on your way to becoming a warm, attractive ambassador for Christ.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:39 PM
Christopher Morgan on Hell and Inclusivism, then takes calls on how to read the Bible...better, if archaeology disprove the Bible, if Christians...
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Are Jesus’ human and divine natures compatible? Is this an impossibility that makes Christianity irrational?
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:39 PM
The Bible says that Christians are ambassadors for Christ.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
It’s always wrong to take a human life without proper justification.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
Most people nowadays would not say that the religious stories believers believe are actually false. At the same time, though, they do not think they’re really true, either, in any deep sense of the...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Dec 8, 2020 2:39 AM
If we interpret proverbs as promises, we will become disappointed when we think God is not fulfilling his promises. If we understand proverbs properly, however, we won’t make that mistake.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Apr 12, 2022 10:10 PM
It’s understandable that Christians would ask how they can talk to their transgender (or bisexual, gay, etc.) friends about their sexuality, but that’s not the most important issue they need to...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
If we Christians have a small view of God and the story He’s telling through history, and if our services reflect this empty perspective, we can’t be surprised when the culture around us absorbs...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Our obstinacy has been getting us into trouble for 2,000 years whenever a government makes the upsetting discovery that Christians place the authority of Jesus above that of civil authorities...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 18, 2020 4:37 AM
Greg talks about divine foreknowledge then answers questions about tactics used with LDS (Mormon) missionaries and whether there’s anything God promises to give Christians in this life.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 22, 2021 2:11 AM
Greg talks about the CRT materials the Salvation Army is promoting, then he answers a question about how to start a conversation about salvation with Catholic relatives.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
for non-Christians represented a radical difference in the values taught by the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 1, 2021 7:43 PM
As Christians, we know we’re called to share the gospel. But are we held accountable for sharing the gospel with every person we come into contact with? Greg and Amy respond, explaining relevant...
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
I want to lay out a 5-step method I use to study Scripture. I’ll apply it to John 15:1–8 to illustrate the method. It’s not the only method, and it’s not an exhaustive method, but I hope you find...
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
If the bones of Jesus were found tomorrow, would you walk away from Christianity...
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Does it matter if Jesus really rose from the dead? Can we determine whether or not it happened in history?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM
A rejection of the Judeo-Christian worldview and its idea that human beings are made in the image of God will destroy the foundation our culture has for believing in equal value and rights.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 5:44 PM
It’s easy to characterize religion as a blood-thirsty enterprise, a perpetrator of witch hunts, crusades, and religious jihad. But has Christianity been the cause of such evil, or does the truth...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
Hall and Melinda Penner discuss faithfully responding to opposition, racism, and Bible
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Web Content Article · By aaron brake On Nov 15, 2021 9:35 PM
Does the Bible teach that just as Jesus calmed the storm on the Sea of Galilee, so
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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 May 31, 2023 2:57 AM
Greg talks about five areas—salvation, abortion, gender, marriage, and sex—where Christians are drifting into falsehood because of pressure in the culture and not because of ambiguity in the text....
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
One of the thorniest textual problems any Christian can face is the apparent contradiction between Paul and James.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Aug 26, 2024 10:51 PM
Jon Noyes addresses how naturalism and legalism lead to despondency and rising suicide rates, contrasting this with Christianity, which provides hope for believers who trust in Jesus.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
There are times in the Old Testament when God does not rescue His righteous from destruction and He allows them to perish. The book of Hebrews Chapter 11 has an account of some of those times.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:54 PM
Greg answers questions on an alleged Bible contradiction, the Bible’s view of transgenderism
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 24, 2022 6:01 PM
Greg and Amy consider examples of salvation from the Old Testament next to what Paul writes about general revelation and salvation in Romans.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
Every false worldview, since it puts something that is less than God (an idol) in the place of God (as the ultimate reality and source of all things), will have an understanding of the human person...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 29, 2024 3:09 PM
separation of church and state” requires public school teachers to not reference the Bible...and government employees to remove anything Bible...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
Religious liberty laws are back in the news again, and because there’s a huge amount of misunderstanding about them, here are a few posts explaining what they are and how they work.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
Wilberforce worked for decades to end Britain’s slave trade in the late 1700s and early 1800s, but he also had this to say to Christian apologists like you.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
Greg talks about how the get over your fear of engaging critics of Christianity, how to witness to Mormon missionaries, and how to evaluate a church leader who is sincere but bears bad fruit.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM
Alan expresses a concern about the new movie “Is Genesis History?”
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM
Both Jesus and Paul spoke of (and lived) a life of singleness for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, and it wasn’t a life of loneliness.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
It’s funny that many secularists believe that Christian myths about Jesus evolved over time until they were written down generations later.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
Do we have to think the Bible is the word of God in order to benefit from it?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 17, 2024 1:38 AM
Greg responds to the claims Christians are making about the failed assassination of Trump, then he talks to callers about moral vs. political issues, talking to LDS missionaries, having peace about...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:44 PM
If people do not hear the good news, then they cannot believe. And if they do not believe, then they cannot be saved. They need the Gospel.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
When I was asked recently during a live Christian TV show why I send bi-monthly mentoring letters to Christians like you, an insight suddenly dawned on me.
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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 the King James Bible, trick-or-treating
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
Greg talks about what atheists believe, tactics to use with religious pluralists, God stopping tragedies, and tools to evaluate arguments.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM
In 4 min. or less, Greg answers questions about God’s healing, OT law similarities to secular sources, and the rapture.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On May 6, 2023 4:33 AM
As C.H. Spurgeon explains in his excellent little book All of Grace, our unbreakable union with Christ guarantees our perseverance.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 7, 2019 9:41 PM
Greg talks about a statement he wrote for a school board meeting about sex education, then he answers questions about “listening prayer” and interacting with LDS missionaries.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 11, 2024 2:15 AM
Greg talks to a caller about his interaction with a Mormon, then he answers questions about how he keeps his cool in debates, how to prove biblically that Jesus is 100% God and 100% man, and...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
Sometimes being a good representative of the Kingdom hinges on the simplest things.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Why did God destroy Sodom and Gomorrah?
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:56 PM
of the most persuasive passages to use with a Jehovah’s Witness from their own Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
laws, if when we die, we go to the grave not Hell, and if it is effective to use Bible...codes to prove the Bible’s reliability.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
A Christian’s theology is minimally defined by two miraculous events.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 12, 2024 9:38 PM
Greg and Amy remind believers that true wisdom comes from aligning our minds with God’s will rather than relying solely on personal emotions or reasoning.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Today’s a special day for me. It was 35 years ago today—September 28, 1973—in an apartment on Granville Street near Stoner Park in West Los Angeles that, sitting at the table with my younger...
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Historian Rodney Stark writes in The Triumph of Christianity about the significant contrast Christian mercy and compassion was in comparison to pagan religions.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
, getting pictures from God, dealing with challenges as a pastor, and improving Bible
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Christians who have not thought deeply about evil and suffering are one crisis away from having their trust in God shattered. Here are some key ideas you need to know.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
The Scriptures seem to identify a God in time, yet a God that is somehow beyond time, not constrained by it the way we are (1 Peter 3).
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Mar 23, 2020 9:01 PM
How does one become the kind of person who rejoices in God in the midst of the worst kind of suffering?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jul 31, 2019 4:23 PM
Christians see God as someone to be desired, but not everyone sees Him this way. Whichever side of that divide you’re on, the other side likely seems incomprehensible to you.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 7, 2020 10:37 PM
If “the life of the creature is in the blood,” as it says in Leviticus 17:11, then does that mean killing the embryo before implantation should not be described as killing a human life?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM
When we suffer as a result of evangelism, we proclaim the power and value of God and His Gospel.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:57 PM
Greg answers questions about if Christians and Muslims worship the same God, if it is probably that man can sin in Heaven, how the Samaritans in Acts 8 were baptized and believed but didn't receive...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Paul says that we are “living letters” that others read. Greg makes a suggestion for a way to apply wisdom when engaging others.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
Greg talks about the extermination of the Canaanites, the magic in exodus, faith through argument, Paul’s dispute with the Grecians, and developing joy in sufferings.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM
Muslims reject the idea that Jesus died on the cross, but the Bible says the cross
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
This article is disturbing. And that’s why you should read it. The euphemism “selective reduction” will become more and more common, so let us not forget what it’s referring to.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM
Talking about investigating the Old Testament, loving God, and whether the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:44 PM
Greg’s on a timer answering questions about the Lord’s Prayer, understanding the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 19, 2021 2:51 AM
Z and how to reach this digitally-native generation, then he describes the Bible
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