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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Mar 31, 2023 9:39 PM
Tim Barnett explains why we need to encourage, defend, and pray for our youth.  
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 10, 2023 9:05 PM
Some Christians and many former Christians are promoting a trendy approach to doubting and questioning your faith called deconstruction. Is it the same as reforming your faith? Alan explains the...
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On May 31, 2023 10:35 PM
Jon Noyes describes how he asks questions, talks about the common ground we share as sinners and people made in the image of God, and explains the truth about our sex and the hope of the...
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On May 31, 2023 10:41 PM
Jon Noyes explains his personal convictions regarding whether a Christian should attend a same-sex wedding.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 15, 2023 8:08 PM
The term “pro-life” does not mean “against all killing.” Tim Barnett clarifies how the same God who sent the flood can still be considered “pro-life.”
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Jun 15, 2023 9:25 PM
Jon Noyes explains how to avoid falling into the trap of cancel culture in how we treat others.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Jun 15, 2023 9:35 PM
Behind every objection is a person struggling to escape the snares of the devil. Let’s not forget the value of those we speak to as we share the gospel.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Aug 17, 2023 7:03 PM
Tim Barnett uses the illustration of a just judge to explain why God sends some to Hell and why those who reject Jesus can’t just choose not to go there.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Aug 17, 2023 7:13 PM
A recent “creed” to surface on the internet mentions God, Jesus, and the Spirit but is more about affirming progressive values than confessing truth.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jan 4, 2024 1:50 AM
We were all created to be in relationship with God and with each other. In this excerpt from Tim Barnett’s Stand to Reason University course “Reaching the Next Generation,” Tim shares five...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jan 9, 2024 8:08 PM
Deconstruction is built on subjective preference and has no set destination. Tim Barnett explains how this contrasts starkly with what Jesus said.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 12, 2024 9:07 PM
When a person rejects God, they’re left to determine for themselves their own identity. Alan unpacks some problems with this approach.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to the challenge that since we don’t follow Leviticus on all moral rules, we shouldn’t follow it when it comes to homosexual rules either.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to Bill Maher’s challenge that God needs to keep the devil alive so Christians will live in fear and keep going to church.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan gives highlights from his recent trip to Egypt where he trained Arab Christians in theology and apologetics.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan offers a simple question that neutralizes the claim that the problem of evil is evidence against God’s existence.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to a Muslim video that claims we don’t know the real Jesus.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to the challenge that faith is gullibility or believing things in the absence of evidence.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Alan’s monthly letter from July 2012 I had just given a talk at his church when Charlie asked for help.
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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
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
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 8:41 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 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 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 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
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 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 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 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 amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
A caller on this week’s show had a friend challenge him with Deuteronomy 13:6–11. Shouldn’t Christians “surely kill” anyone who entices them to serve other gods, as that biblical law demands?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
It’s not unreasonable or bigoted to treat the unique joining of sexually complementary partners uniquely. But in order to see that this is a reasonable understanding that isn’t motivated by hate,...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Alan addresses the following claim: Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told regardless of what is right.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Sleeping is more than just the way God designed us to function; it’s a daily confession of our own limitations, our dependence on God, and our trust in Him to run the world.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
There’s no consistent reason under the new definition of marriage why polyamorists should be denied what’s legally available to others.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Jon Bloom points out how we may be missing the answers to our prayers.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
What is marriage, why does it matter, and what are the consequences of redefining it? Ryan Anderson explains.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
The claim that “atheists are as moral as Christians” is meaningless if we’re operating under different systems of morality.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
David Brooks’s op-ed in the New York Times on “The Mental Virtues” reminds us that “character tests are pervasive even in modern everyday life. It’s possible to be heroic if you’re just...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
The “eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison” will interrupt and put an end to all our suffering. Let’s not give up now.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
If homosexuals are bullied, we need to protect them. If they’re unjustly discriminated against, we need to help them. If they’re treated with contempt, the person hurting them should be stopped.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Remember Horus Ruins Christmas? Well, he’s back with a devastating argument against Christianity he learned on the internet.
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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 alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Humans are more valuable than animals and so eating meat is permissible.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Kevin DeYoung reminds us that “all paths lead to God, but only one path will present you before God without fault and with great joy.”
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Reasonable Faith has released another apologetics video, and this one explains the moral argument for the existence of God.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Alan answers the question of whether people who eat meat are unjustly discriminating against sentient animals.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Here’s what J. Warner Wallace has to say about the charge that Christians are too biased to fairly evaluate evidence.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Here are some good words from David Mathis about “readying ourselves for whatever opposition comes.”
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
Since secular philosophies, like religions, point to an ultimate reality, they can be evaluated, just as religions can, by identifying their idols.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
The third of Nancy Pearcey’s five principles for evaluating worldviews is, “Test the idol: Does it contradict what we know about the world?”
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