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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
The purpose of this post is merely to provide clarity rather than to argue for the theist position (see all of STR for those arguments).
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
I wrote not long ago about how a change in values in 18th-century Britain (as a result of a million people coming to Christ) affected their economy.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
The values of Christianity brought a vast number of people out of material poverty as a happy byproduct of their souls being brought of spiritual poverty.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
There are three points that especially stand out from Joni Eareckson Tada’s list of God’s purposes in our suffering.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
All the beliefs that go along with an atheist’s “lack of belief in God” can be stated as positive claims that need to be recognized and defended.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
I explained here how God’s destruction of the Canaanites through the Israelites had a dual purpose.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
The Newsroom at LDS.org posted this in response to the current controversy: Recent political events have once again brought the “Mormons aren’t Christians,” “Mormons are a cult” epithets...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
To follow up on yesterday’s post on the judgment of the Canaanites, here’s the summary of Clay Jones’s article in the Christian Research Journal, “Killing the Canaanites”
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
When God judged the Canaanites through the Israelites, He gave the Israelites a warning: But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come about that...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
Richard Wurmbrand’s book about the sufferings of Christians under the Communists helps us see with our own “eyes” the reality of the unique role suffering plays in our purpose as Christians.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
Today, on this Good Friday, we think about an event that was not only the result of evil but also the reason for allowing evil to exist in the first place.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
While it’s still unclear how LOST will ultimately end up, some recent developments seem to provide a good illustration of one way people have chosen to resolve the problem that has plagued humanity...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
A parable printed in the official LDS (Mormon) teaching manual illustrates well the difference between our view of the atonement and the LDS view.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Alan explains why abortion rarely makes the social justice list and why it should be at the top of the list.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:40 PM
Alan explains how some Christians are compromising on the topic of homosexuality.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Research has shown there are at least four ways fathers make unique contributions to the lives of their children.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Find out what scholars—even skeptical, non-Christian ones—are saying about the facts surrounding the resurrection and how that can be used as evidence that Jesus rose from the grave.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:42 PM
Alan highlights a scientific study that demonstrates that homosexual orientation in adolescents is changeable.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:42 PM
William Lane Craig’s organization, Reasonable Faith, created a simple, visually interesting, brief video explaining the basics of the kalam cosmological argument.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
James Sire describes naturalists as monistic materialists who deny the existence of immaterial entities and their ability to act in this world.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Does the traditional marriage definition of “one man, one woman” take away some people’s rights?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
If God is sovereign over history, why should we pray?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
To believe in miracles, we have to believe an immaterial God can move things in the world. Is that unreasonable?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Some atheists say that if God exists, He should show Himself to everyone so they can believe in Him and not go to Hell. Should a good God do this?
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Web Content Article · By guest author On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
By Steve Wagner To Respond, Distinguish Two Types of Objectivity
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Alan explains that Christians shouldn’t measure their success on results, but on something else.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
As I listen to many of the subjects in debate today in our culture—the dialog between secularists and Christians—there’s a fundamental difference in perspectives that I think we need to be aware of...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Adam Parker of Bring the Books has an interesting take on why the Israelites were commanded not to use mixed threads in their clothing.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Hebrews 10:32–36 has a very relevant exhortation for our postmodern times.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Alan discusses his monthly letter for October 2013.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Alan responds to a claim from the Qur’an that Jesus didn’t die on the cross.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
This question is asked regarding the Employment Non-Discrimination Act moving through the Senate.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
William Lane Craig explains why the timeless cause of the universe must be personal, not impersonal.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
We rarely hear about the pagan religious ideas promoted by the Nazis, yet they were ideologically opposed to Christianity and intended to replace it with their own pagan ideology.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Who is this Jesus whom we are celebrating this Christmas? Alistair Begg and Sinclair Ferguson explain the meaning of the title Jesus used to refer to Himself.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Dorothy Sayers expresses well and in clear vernacular the reason for Christmas, the purpose of the incarnation: “God chose to make man as he is—limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
When we consider what Jesus came to do for us, His enemies, as one of us, the birth of Christ becomes something even more astounding: a demonstration of perfect love.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Alan explains the one, inconvenient truth that undermines the gay rights narrative.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
The testimony Ryan Anderson (co-author of What Is Marriage) gave to the Indiana House Judiciary Committee earlier this week is a succinct defense of man/woman marriage. Take ten minutes to watch.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Alan answers the question of whether killing an abortionist to protect the unborn is parallel to killing a person who attempts to murder a toddler.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
No amount of reasoned arguments can trump a suspicion of bad motives once it’s firmly implanted, and unfortunately, people are currently assuming the worst of religious conservatives.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Here’s how Croatian theologian Miroslav Volf came to understand that “God isn’t wrathful in spite of being love. God is wrathful because God is love.”
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Alan answers the challenge from abortion-choice advocates who ask pro-lifers, “How many babies have you adopted?”
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Why is the resurrection so celebrated if our sins were paid for on the cross? What did it accomplish? Why was it necessary? Here’s what we learn about the work of Christ in Hebrews 7–10.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Philosopher Alvin Plantinga made a few quotable points about atheism in an interview posted by the New York Times on Sunday.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Here’s how being open about your own weakness and sin brings glory to God.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God? Alan answers this question by providing a unique understanding of how to understand the notion of God.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
For people who aren’t familiar with Christianity, the word “propitiation” can bring a pagan concept to mind rather than a biblical one. Here’s a brief outline of the differences between...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Is faith blind? Alan answers this question by explaining the biblical definition of faith.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Alan answers the challenge that opponents of same-sex marriage sometimes commit the slippery slope fallacy when they argue that same-sex marriage will lead to other forms of “marriage” like...
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