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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Dec 6, 2022 10:58 PM
Jon Noyes gives advice on how to love others when we disagree with their ideologies and lifestyles.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Dec 6, 2022 11:07 PM
Tim Barnett answers an objection that claims December 25th was originally the date given for the birth of pagan gods.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Dec 12, 2022 10:41 PM
The next time someone tells you the unborn aren’t human persons, try this tactic from our new Stand to Reason University course, Making Abortion Unthinkable.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Dec 15, 2022 11:21 PM
It’s tempting to try to escape suffering by sinning or compromising the truth, and it’s tempting to think our suffering means God doesn’t love us, but Peter’s wise words point us in the opposite...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Dec 15, 2022 11:42 PM
Why would God answer a prayer for growth in faith, love, and knowledge of God with suffering? A lesser-known hymn by John Newton reflects on the answer.
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Dec 21, 2022 1:40 AM
Verifying a human’s identity is simple if you have the right documents, but how would God verify his identity to humans?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 9, 2023 4:48 PM
Some object to the idea that Jesus paid the penalty for our sins through his death on the cross, calling it “child sacrifice.” Alan, however, offers three reasons why characterizing it that way is...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jan 31, 2023 10:40 PM
Tim Barnett responds to a video that claims an infinite being would express itself an infinite number of ways and that all religions must be valid since they all have good teachers and similar...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jan 31, 2023 10:44 PM
God has invited us to pray for unbelievers. And when we do, it’s not arrogance; it’s kindness.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jan 31, 2023 10:48 PM
Just because you don’t know some trivial things about God, like his favorite color or movie, that doesn’t mean you don’t have a relationship with him.
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Feb 9, 2023 12:29 AM
Robby Lashua reflects on the purpose of miracles and how God uses suffering to disciple and grow his followers.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Feb 14, 2023 1:10 AM
Jon Noyes explains how Darwinism impacts every area of our lives when it’s allowed to become an ideology.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Feb 17, 2023 11:50 PM
If you feel unprepared, unqualified, or simply apprehensive about talking to your Muslim friends and neighbors about Jesus, check out this simple, practical advice Alan gave in a recent interview.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Feb 23, 2023 12:56 AM
Alan responds to the claim that Christians are motivated to be kind solely because they want to convert people.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Mar 11, 2023 2:54 AM
In a previous article about why Christians are kind to others, why did Alan say he “likes” people instead of that he “loves” them? And what’s the difference? Alan explains.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Mar 21, 2023 2:12 AM
When Jon went looking for answers to several important questions as an atheist, he found that atheism didn’t seem to match up with reality.
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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 amy k. hall On May 8, 2023 9:54 PM
The heavy burdens of past grief, present suffering, and anxiety about the future can easily overwhelm us, but they don’t have to. If you practice intentionally believing and living by these two...
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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 robby lashua On Jun 28, 2023 12:27 AM
It would be nice if our well-executed arguments were always received and believed, but when our efforts don’t convince, it’s comforting to know that Jesus himself encountered the same thing.
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Jul 27, 2023 3:09 AM
Robby’s Latter-day Saint friend isn’t interested in trying to convert him to Mormonism, and his view of the afterlife helps explain why.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 10, 2023 6:11 PM
Alan addresses the objection that Christians are only kind to people so they can convert them.
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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 Shlemon talks about whether or not Muslims and Christians believe and worship the same God.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan explains why there’s one apologetic topic that he gets more questions about and more challenges on than any other.
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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 talks about taking Christians on the “Muslim Mission,” a 4-day trip to practice engaging Muslims on the street and in mosques.
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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 tells the story of how he recently role-played a Muslim to a group of Christians. Find out how they responded to the Muslim challenge.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to the challenge that the parable of the blind men and the elephant is an argument against religious belief and Christianity.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan talks about his recent trip to Lebanon and training Egyptians on witnessing to Muslims.
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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 8:34 PM
Alan explains why atheists must accept evolution no matter what the science says.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Muslims come into the protestant prison chapel to hear Alan teach Christians how to witness to them.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
A man yells at Alan while he’s teaching and walks out of his class. Find out why in this podcast.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan reflects on his time in prison and the surprise that was waiting for him.
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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 alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for June 2007 Did you know you speak for God?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for October 2007 I strive to make complex ideas accessible to anyone. That’s one of my goals when I speak.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for November 2009 I’ve heard a lot of arguments against Christianity.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for December 2009 I began a recent event by telling the audience I wasn’t glad to be there.
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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 amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:40 PM
Worship leaders, if you can keep in mind the goal of enabling the congregation to worship, ruthlessly shedding anything, however musically tempting, that doesn't advance that goal, we...
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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 8:41 PM
It’s not wrong to have a special love for your family that goes beyond your love for other families, and it’s not wrong to have a special love for your country and its people that goes beyond your...
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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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