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Apologetics Is Simply a Means to This End

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Feb 26, 2020 7:22 PM

If you could move the conversation with your non-Christian friends in any direction

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#STRask: What Should I Read to Take My Apologetics Knowledge up a Notch?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 16, 2022 5:25 PM

Questions about what to read to take your apologetics knowledge up a notch, how to...Bible teaches, whether you should give charitably without taking a deduction on...

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#STRask: How Can I Help Young Men Who Accept Pornography Addiction as Normal?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 1, 2022 5:53 PM

Questions about the ideology behind pro-prostitution advocates’ argument that using your...body to do work in other jobs is the same as selling...

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#STRask - June 18, 2020

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 14, 2020 6:52 PM

think the New Testament is inspired and what it means to put God in control of your

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#STRask: August 31, 2015

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM

Greg answers questions in 4 minutes or less on lying, social justice, common descent, and reformed theology.

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Thoughts on What Secures a Marriage

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 11, 2021 6:24 PM

Greg reflects on his anniversary, discussing the implications of the marriage promise.

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#STRask: August 17, 2017

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM

Greg’s on a timer and answers questions about neo-Darwinism and free will, getting baptized, why God created man, and how to apply Scripture personally.

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The Resurrection Was a Real Event in History

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM

Though miracles have a supernatural cause, the evidence of the effect is available for our scrutiny just as the evidence for any historical event is available to us. Here’s a brief outline of...

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How Science Proves We’re Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jul 31, 2019 5:08 PM

Tim focuses on the impossibility of life existing by chance.

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#STRask: May 22, 2017

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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#STRask: Is It Okay to Use Violent Force to Defend Your Family and Home?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 27, 2021 10:10 PM

Questions about how to tell the difference between the conviction of the Holy Spirit and the accusation of Satan and whether there’s a biblical argument for using violent force in defense of family...

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#STRask: February 19, 2018

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:52 PM

deathbed conversions, and a hypothetical scenario about choosing to be annihilated so your

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Focus on Gardening

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 26, 2020 7:42 PM

Greg encourages Christians for whom evangelism seems overwhelming to focus on small opportunities of influence rather than “sealing the deal.”

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#STRask: April 1, 2019

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM

with Calvinism, praying for the lost as a Calvinist, and how to love God with all your

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#STRask: March 9, 2017

Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM

Brett is on a timer this week and answers questions about God’s emotions and argument for the soul.

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Progressive Christian Gets Jesus Completely Wrong

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Apr 16, 2021 2:30 AM

Mr. B responds to a classic example of reading a foreign theology—in this case, progressive theology—into the biblical text.

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Can Choosing God Be a Matter of Free Will if He’s Threatening Us with Hell?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 10, 2024 9:42 PM

Greg and Amy respond to the accusation that choosing God isn’t really a matter of free will if we’re being threatened with Hell if we don’t choose him.

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A Response to the Sparkle Creed

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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Evolution: Philosophy, Not Science

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM

Greg shows that Darwin’s General Theory of Evolution has nothing to do with science.

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Evolution Is Philosophy, Not Science

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM

Greg shows that Darwinism is driven by philosophy more than science.

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#STRask: January 14, 2019

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM

burning fertility clinic challenge to the pro-life view, God’s free will, reading your

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#STRask: How Can You Call Atheism a Worldview?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 29, 2022 11:52 PM

can be called a worldview and whether the idea of avoiding doing something “in your

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#STRask: June 25, 2018

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM

against God,” a Mormon explanation of Isaiah 43, and whether or not “take up your

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#STRask - April 27, 2020

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 26, 2020 11:48 PM

Jesus could be considered the first to be raised, how to respond to “That’s just your

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Will You Accept the Challenge?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 30, 2021 10:40 PM

Today, we challenge you to partner with STR and make an impact with your end-of-year

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#STRask: How Can I Lovingly Explain to Someone That I Will Not Be Using Their Pronouns?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 29, 2022 11:58 PM

their pronouns and how to explain to an employer that you will not be announcing your

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#STRask: July 11, 2016

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM

Greg answers questions about dying for Christianity, the miracle of conversion, and creating a film with a pro-LGBT message.

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Dr. Jay Wesley Richards: Darwin’s Nemesis

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:43 PM

reasonable, then takes calls on Jesus didn’t exist, and how to evaluate a claim outside your

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#STRask: July 30, 2018

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:56 PM

about whether David’s words in Psalm 139 contradict Jesus’ command to love your

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Rod Rosenbladt, Martin Luther and the Good News Your Will Is in Bondage

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM

Greg interviews Dr. Rod Rosenbladt of the 1517 Legacy Project on the Reformation and Martin Luther’s Bondage of the Will.

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#STRask: June 22, 2017

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM

Alan is on a timer, and answers questions about LGBT pride month and a pro-abortion argument.

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#STRask: How Would You “Take the Roof Off” a Denial of Objective Beauty?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 12, 2022 12:26 AM

Questions about whether it’s possible to go your whole life without sinning, why

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#STRask: How Should I Respond to Someone Who Says He’s Offended?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 11, 2021 7:53 PM

Divine Mother and tactical ways to respond to someone who says he’s offended by your

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Aren’t We All Children of God?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 16, 2023 8:57 PM

Greg explains the difference between being offspring of God in the sense of being made in his image and being children of God as heirs in Christ.

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Apologetics Removes Obstacles to the Gospel

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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#STRask: Why Do Some New Testament Passages about Salvation Ignore Faith and Focus

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 20, 2023 3:07 AM

Questions about why some passages about salvation in the New Testament (e.g., Matthew 25:31–46) seem to focus on works rather than trust in Jesus and whether the symmetry between Adam and Jesus...

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How to TRAIN Youth: Test Students to Engage Interest

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Mar 31, 2023 8:55 PM

Tim Barnett explains how we can motivate students by identifying what they don’t understand.

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#STRask: Will God Not Answer My Prayers if I’m Doubting He will?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 16, 2022 4:40 PM

in the New Testament canon if the author is unknown and whether God won’t answer your

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Monkey Morality: Can Evolution Explain Ethics?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM

Recent studies suggest that animals are capable of rudimentary forms of moral behavior. God isn’t the source of morality, evolutionists say; Mother Nature is. The evolutionary answer, though, does...

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Did the Punishment of Ananias and Sapphira Fit the Crime?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 25, 2019 10:27 PM

Greg explains why the deaths of Ananias and Sapphira were just.

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Following the Evidence

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM

Can the argument really be made that the Christian view is less biased than your

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What We Can Learn about the Problem of Evil from Paul

Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Feb 3, 2022 4:09 PM

Jon Noyes explains how God can use our experiences of suffering for a greater good.

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Even after His Death, Jesus Fulfilled the Law

Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Aug 29, 2022 7:22 PM

Jesus fulfilled all requirements of the Law—not only during his life, but also after his death, as this little-known historical fact shows.

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The Trinity Explains This!

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Feb 11, 2021 7:41 PM

Mr. B responds to an anti-Trinitarian meme, answering the charge that if Jesus is God, and Jesus prays to God, then Jesus is praying to himself.

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Van Leeuwenhoek: Father of Microbiology

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM

Antony van Leeuwenhoek was a Dutch Calvinist born in the 17th century who became the father of microbiology.

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#STRask: How Would Persecuted Christians Have Understood Psalms Promising Protection and Rescue?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 25, 2023 10:28 PM

contradiction for Jesus to say that some will be put to death but also that not a hair of your

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Science as God

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM

Alan’s monthly letter for November 2012 Secular culture has given God the boot. Science has emerged as the new religion and scientists are its priests.

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Evolution: Dancing on the Titanic

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM

Evolution is on its way out. It’s only a matter of time before the iceberg hits.

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What the Bible Doesn’t Say about Gender Identity

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Apr 30, 2020 8:39 PM

Alan explains what 1 Corinthians 6:9–10 says about gender identity.

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America’s Unchristian Beginnings?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 24, 2020 4:05 AM

Greg responds to an L.A. Times Op-Ed article by this title.