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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:42 PM
Our goal isn’t merely to argue that Christianity is true, but also to introduce people to a Person. How can we demonstrate the reality, centrality, and desirability of Jesus as part of our approach?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
Greg talks about contradiction in Deuteronomy, explaining “hope”, and whether a Christian can be spiritually dead.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 6, 2021 4:38 PM
Questions about whether any form of art brings glory to God regardless of the intent of the artist and whether one should go to a baby shower for a same-sex couple having a baby via IVF.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:43 PM
Greg talks about evolution: presuppositions, not fact, how bias affects a conclusion, then takes call son correcting misconceptions about evolution, if the Old Testament is historical, and more.
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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 the soul, animals’s moral accountability, and a bad way of proving something is wrong.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM
Greg’s on a four-minute timer and answers questions about the contradiction between God’s promise to care for us and His promise we would be persecuted, what “judge not” means, and whether or...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 3, 2021 9:36 PM
Questions about whether stoning to death was too harsh a punishment for breaking the Sabbath in Numbers 15:32–36 and whether one can divorce a non-adulterous spouse if he has broken all of his...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 25, 2021 10:05 PM
Questions about the claim that the point of Old Testament justice is the protection of the poor and powerless and whether Jesus being “woke” proves it’s a good thing.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 31, 2019 5:14 PM
Greg reflects on how Mr. Rogers’ parting words exemplified a common misunderstanding of God’s grace.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Greg talks about deconstructing news stories, selecting a Christian college, if a Christian should help non-Christians clarify their world views, and more.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 11, 2020 8:20 PM
Greg encourages Christians not to underestimate the importance of sowing seeds of truth in a person’s life.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 6, 2021 12:08 AM
If you feel like Christians are losing the battle, you’re not alone. But Greg Koukl and Jon Noyes remind us that we’re “more than conquerors through him who loved us” (Romans 8:37).
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Greg talks about how orthodox a person has to be in order to be saved, soul development being a higher goal than academic development, how to respond to “God made people gay, so why would he...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 24, 2021 4:39 AM
Greg continues his advice on what to do if you’re feeling spiritually dry, then he answers a question about what we mean when we say something is inspired.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Feb 3, 2022 3:45 PM
Jon Noyes explains how the problem of evil points to our need for a savior.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
Amy talks about eternity, feeling Christianity, talking to atheists, standards for clergy members, and transgender bathroom choice.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 8:56 PM
The goal of this video is to help parents and pastors be more focused and intentional in their discipleship of the next generation.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 9:28 PM
Greg shares how to use tactics to make a case for life.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 1, 2019 10:37 PM
Are we allowed to eat pig’s meat today or not? That’s the challenge that I want to address, and it comes from a Muslim who is citing Isaiah 65 as evidence for his case.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Aug 27, 2021 6:43 PM
In an excerpt from our “Why Apologetics?” Stand to Reason University course, Tim Barnett explains how even a trained apologist like himself benefits from a practical application of apologetics.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM
The claim that science disproves miracles is based on a misunderstanding of what a miracle is and, therefore, how one can evaluate it.
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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 on C.S. Lewis’s theology, evidence for God in creation, and someone identifying as gay.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 14, 2021 7:51 PM
Greg discusses whether or not new converts should anticipate affective encounters with God.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Our preparation is different when we have an expectation that preparation will make a difference. And when we have a plan, we are more likely to act.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM
Intelligent Design is not based on ignorance; it’s based on information. That is, ID theory rests upon what we know, not what we don’t know.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Mar 31, 2023 8:42 PM
Tim Barnett introduces the concept of TRAIN, sharing why we should test our students, require more from them, arm them with the truth, involve them in the battlefield of ideas, and nurture them as...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
The search for missing links assumes the truth of evolution. One big assumption is that similarities in the bodies imply a biogenetic relationship and ancestry.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Sep 4, 2020 2:24 PM
Alan shares how you can make the most impact in the lives of your LGBT friends and family.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2024 12:57 AM
Alan Shlemon talks about how to be a good ambassador for Christ to Muslims, the largest unreached people group on the planet, explaining their foundational objection to Christianity and how to...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 21, 2020 9:00 PM
Is baptism purely symbolic, or is it necessary to be reborn?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 5:45 PM
Greg discusses the standard of God’s law.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Jun 16, 2023 5:51 PM
In this excerpt from Stand to Reason University, Jon Noyes explains why religious pluralism does not work and examines the biblical evidence for salvation through Christ alone.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:54 PM
Greg talks about why we listen to the wisdom of the elderly then answers questions about Jeremiah 29:11 being yes in Christ and whether it’s impossible there will be an eternal man/woman union in...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
Some atheists have wrongly assumed Stand to Reason protects Christian students from hearing ideas they disagree with, but that’s the opposite of our philosophy to “inoculate, not isolate.”
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 18, 2022 3:04 PM
J. Warner Wallace talks about how the claims about Jesus are historical and can be tested (unlike claims about Peter Pan), then he answers a question about whether one should be happy that a child...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Mar 20, 2020 11:48 PM
Like St. Patrick, let us not forget the purpose of the arguments we learn or neglect the personal communion with God that empowers us.
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Dec 5, 2022 1:48 AM
When one compares Jesus’ genealogies in Matthew and Luke, two problems arise. Here’s a solution.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 22, 2020 6:23 AM
Greg responds to a charge of moral relativism, then he answers a question about whether Psalm 90:10 is a promise and responds to someone who is troubled by seeing the spiritual world.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 9, 2020 2:59 AM
Greg talks about five guidelines for students to follow for their spiritual health, then he answers questions about the correspondence theory of truth and the biblical authors’ meaning vs. God’s...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 5, 2021 3:24 PM
Why did Jesus come to earth? Was it to help the poor and promote social justice? Greg explains that though Jesus cared about those issues, his main purpose was much weightier than resolving...
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
Brett interviews Jonathan Morrow, author of Welcome to College.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 31, 2023 11:13 PM
Greg and Amy give an important reminder that, as with other non-believers who sin in other ways, being friends with those who identify as LGBTQ+ doesn’t imply you agree with their views on sexual...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Dec 16, 2021 9:24 PM
Christians focus on homosexuality as a sin but ignore other Old Testament laws. Is this hypocritical? Tim Barnett uses his Red Pen Logic to respond to this common objection.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:40 PM
Greg talks about a conversation on an airplane, the Blair-Hitchens Debate, then takes calls on what the difference is between the Trinity and tri-theism, if the multiverse theory mitigates the...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:56 PM
Harvard researchers were able to cram 700 terabytes of data onto one gram of DNA. Here are two truths we can conclude from this—truths that point to a designer.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Feb 14, 2020 9:11 PM
With Darwin Day right around the corner, a popular-level article offers evidence that humans are “still evolving,” but what do they mean by “evolving”?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Mar 19, 2020 12:45 AM
Christians are often tempted to deliver a final, verbal blow when sharing their religious convictions and noting their “opponent’s” faltering view. But taking the “Finish him!” approach is...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Oct 1, 2021 5:49 PM
The medical community has historically presupposed all human organs were designed to perform a function, but this is now changing, and the implications of this shift are legion.
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On May 26, 2023 4:02 AM
As tempting as it might be to keep your children from ever encountering any evil, that strategy won’t work in the long run. Here’s a better option that we find demonstrated in Proverbs.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Who are the scholars cited by Gary Habermas in his “Minimal Facts” approach to the resurrection, and is this approach an illegitimate appeal to authority? Habermas explains.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM
There’s going to be differences in the text, and some people have made a big deal about those differences.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM
Greg is on a timer and answers questions about the prosperity gospel, God killing babies, publishing, and if all sin is the same.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jan 24, 2020 12:40 AM
In this fourth part of Tim’s “Why Apologetics?” series, he explains how apologetics does the work of pre-evangelism by responding to people’s ideas at the worldview level, removing obstacles to the...
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Probably like most people, I wasn’t interested in history when I was a child...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
Greg answers questions about how to tell if someone is truly demon possessed, if a rational argument for determinism necessarily self destructs, if it follows that Jesus is God because he rose from...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM
Are you hoping to become an apologist but don’t know where to start? Here are some ideas for you.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM
Treat your gay friends the same way you would treat your heterosexual friends in similar circumstances.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 20, 2021 1:34 AM
School is out, but don’t stop learning this summer! Here are three organizations that are ready to equip you to charge through the challenges this world will throw at you.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
William Wilberforce is well-known for his decades-long persistence getting legislation passed to outlaw the slave trade in the British Empire.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Have grace for those who take different positions on the age of the earth, knowing that the difference is often one of biblical interpretation rather than biblical rejection.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 11, 2023 1:38 AM
Greg talks to Alan Shlemon, who attended the Unconditional Conference at Andy Stanley’s church, about the good and bad of what was taught there, how those who promote pro-gay theology viewed the...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 5, 2020 11:35 PM
Here’s a simple formula—a triad of tips—that will increase goodwill and improve harmony in every one of your relationships, especially your marriage.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 11, 2021 7:42 PM
Greg and Amy explain why prayer is not just a means to an end and discuss God’s actual purpose for prayer in believers’ lives.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
J. Warner Wallace answers questions in 4 min. or less (or more) about black lives matter and if Christianity is false.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 26, 2019 9:38 PM
Brett helps young people know where to begin if they want to study Christianity and apologetics effectively.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM
J. Warner Wallace is on a timer and answers questions about free will, consistent pro-life views, and Jesus dying for sin.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Guest host Don Stewart talks about Veritas Evangelical Seminary with Joe Holden, then takes calls on how a Christian deals with depression with faith, an embryo in the petri dish isn’t human...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 21, 2021 5:43 PM
There are troubles facing Christians both in the world and in the church. Greg describes what form these troubles take, explaining why Christians need to be alert and equipped with the truth.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
Sunday school teachers, youth workers, small group leaders, pastors, and other church leaders are always on the lookout for good resources to help equip their people.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jul 27, 2020 5:25 PM
Even if it is true that Jesus didn’t say anything about the unborn (and we don’t actually know that), nothing logically follows from it. We certainly cannot conclude that the unborn didn’t matter...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Mar 14, 2022 10:46 PM
Tim responds to a Muslim who claims the Gospels were not written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Jan 31, 2023 10:55 PM
Jon Noyes explains how you can approach Christian friends who seem to support ideas or causes inconsistent with biblical morality.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
The first time I heard C.S. Lewis’ Trilemma challenged was nearly 20 years ago.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Marc Baer, author of Mere Believers, argues “that because Equiano became a believer, the enslavement of Africans by Europeans came to an end.”
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 25, 2019 10:40 PM
Alan shares how to continue a Gospel-centered conversation with a friend or family member who says, “Enough of that!”
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