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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Dec 17, 2021 5:38 AM
How can one reconcile God’s sovereignty with the existence of evil? Here’s one illustration.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Apr 6, 2022 6:15 PM
Jon Noyes explains that the manner in which we die does not determine our eternal destiny and reminds believers that, at the same time, God’s lavish grace is not an excuse to sin.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Dec 12, 2023 12:43 AM
The world often changes or misrepresents the Christmas story. Should this ruin Christmas for us? Jon Noyes answers no and encourages us to use these occasions as opportunities to share the most...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Don’t let this Easter season pass you by without some reflection on what it means and why it matters.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM
Greg is on a timer and answers questions about doing the Lord’s work, the Orlando shooting, and major doctrines that Greg has changed his mind on over the years.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
Oprah Winfrey is the “pastor” of the largest church in the country. “The Church of O,” Christianity Today noted, has a congregation of 22 million vigorous, faithful, evangelistic members,...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:56 PM
How should we speak to Jehovah’s Witnesses about Jesus?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On May 26, 2021 11:44 PM
How can we make sense of unanswered prayer? Here are some tools for both your mind and heart to help you work through your questions when your prayers seem to go unanswered.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 9, 2021 7:23 PM
Is the concept of the rapture found in Scripture? Greg shares his findings with a caller.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
When the armies of Israel conquered the Promised Land, God commanded them to kill every living thing, including women and children?
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:57 PM
“Jesus never calls Himself God,” exclaimed my Jehovah’s Witness friend in a moment of frustration. “He calls Himself the Son of God, not God. There is a huge difference.”
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:56 PM
Does 1 Kings 19 teach that good decision making requires learning how to hear the “still, small voice” of God? A look at the passage shows that’s not what this story is about.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Aug 22, 2022 11:19 PM
Here are four reasons why we need to understand the biblical concept of justice.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Greg talks about meeting former mormons, the “gay reformation” in the church, discerning genuine questions, and more.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 2, 2019 10:10 PM
Many in Christendom today, like Pilate, are more concerned with satisfying the crowd than being faithful to Jesus. Culture may be confused on salvation, abortion, gender, marriage, and sex. Don’t...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Why did God destroy Sodom and Gomorrah?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM
In this special episode with a live audience, Greg still has to answer questions in under 4 min. Topics: God is egotistical, Greg’s daily prayer, the gift of prophecy
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
Andy Stanley’s mistaken understanding of why the Old Covenant is obsolete leads him to a faulty conclusion in his new book, Irresistible.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Is the doctrine of the Trinity an irrational idea?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
Feeling discouraged by the opposition to Christians and Christianity we’re seeing? You’ll be encouraged by what we learn about God in Acts.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Dec 2, 2019 6:18 AM
A crucial difference between human beings and God explains His command to destroy the Canaanites, as this analogy makes clear.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Aug 10, 2022 10:32 PM
Jon Noyes answers a question about whether the Fall could justify a transgender person’s belief that they have the correct mind in the wrong body.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 31, 2023 8:26 PM
Greg and Amy explain how accidental versus essential qualities of humanity help us to understand why Jesus could be fully human without experiencing anything that results from having a fallen nature.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Dec 14, 2023 11:28 PM
While lights, trees, and presents are fantastic parts of Christmas celebrations, the thing that makes this the “most wonderful time of the year” is God’s ultimate gift to humanity. Jon reflects on...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:42 PM
Understanding the author’s message is one of the fundamental skills needed to know how to read the Word accurately.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
It’s only when you’re open about your sin that people can see you’re resting on Christ’s work for you, not your own perfection. This is when you glorify Christ the most.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
Richard Mouw, professor of Faith and Public Life and former president of Fuller Seminary, has written a piece at First Things titled “Mormons Approaching Orthodoxy.”
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
I am astounded in many ways by why it is so difficult for us as a church to simply follow the directions.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
In 4 min. or less, Greg answers questions about other creation stories, Matthew 27’s historicity, and if God gave light during creation.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
One of the thorniest textual problems any Christian can face is the apparent contradiction between Paul and James.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
Painful seasons in our lives can cause us to doubt God’s ability to act, but He is always working in our lives, and sometimes He even does miracles. Here’s one.
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Web Content Article · By keith plummer On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM
Many think Proverbs 3:5–6 teaches God will give us specific directions for our lives, but when we look at the words in this passage in context, we find something different.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
An atheist who wants to reduce Christianity to the avoidance of Hell has missed the point of Christianity.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Mormonism demands perfection. Thankfully the God of Christianity offers true grace to our LDS friends and family.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
“Can God do anything?” I asked an audience of Christians at a recent apologetics conference.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Hannah More, born in the 18th century, became an author, social activist, and philanthropist because of her brilliant mind and Christian convictions.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM
Why would God punish non-believers with an eternity in Hell for a finite amount of sin? People who raise this complaint fail to understand the nature of two things: the nature of the offender and...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
Here’s what my tombstone will say....
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Jul 6, 2022 11:32 PM
Jon Noyes discusses the roles that identity, authority, and ever-changing morality play in today’s secular world.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 7, 2023 12:59 AM
Greg and Amy explain why people have different interpretations of their near-death experiences and how near-death experiences can support biblical views on the soul and the afterlife.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM
In this special episode with a live audience, Greg still has 4 min. to answer questions about different religions worshipping God and “born this way.”
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
Greg’s on a timer and answers questions about praying to the Holy Spirit, God’s wrath revealed, and right-brained delivery by a left-brained person.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
The most taxing objection to the biblical message of salvation that I face is: What about the good, sincere person who has never heard about Jesus?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
How do you make sense of the different denominations with everybody saying their way is right? Some distinctions to help you avoid quarreling about non-essentials.
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Web Content Article · By aaron brake On Nov 15, 2021 9:35 PM
Does the Bible teach that just as Jesus calmed the storm on the Sea of Galilee, so
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
Why do Christians continue to trust God, even in the midst of suffering, even when they think God could have prevented it? If I were an atheist, I would be endlessly curious about this.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM
After the Orlando shooting, there was an almost reflexive response by analysts who gave the usual talking points about how Islam is a religion of peace and its practitioners are peaceful people.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
After the tragic mass shooting in Orlando, many clues pointed to a familiar explanation: Islamic terrorism...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:42 PM
When we look at the facts, we see that the response to Galileo in his time doesn’t prove Christianity is anti-science. What we actually do learn from his story is important to keep in mind today.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:03 PM
A government that lets criminals off the hook would rightly be called corrupt and couldn’t be trusted, so why do people accuse God of not being good when He punishes?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Apr 9, 2020 12:53 AM
A comment by a Mormon illustrates the difference between the Mormon and Christian understandings of grace.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 25, 2022 8:02 PM
Greg explains why believers may apply “hate the sin, love the sinner” to their own lives but should be cautious about trying to apply this saying to God.
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Mar 29, 2022 9:17 PM
Somehow, Jesus convinced his brother he was God—and James was so confident, he was willing to die for his belief. What convinced his own brother to acknowledge Jesus was God and worship him?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2022 7:37 PM
What is promised to the “two or three” who are “gathered together in Jesus’ name” according to Matthew 18:19–20, and does that promise apply to us today?
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Dec 19, 2022 6:19 PM
Some of the details of the Christmas story that we’ve all come to cherish find their origin in cultural myth rather than biblical truth. Here are three common misconceptions about Jesus’ birth.
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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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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Drinking. Premarital sex. Abortion. Homosexuality. Same-sex marriage. Christians have so many hang-ups with the behavior of non-Christians, don’t they?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
If Mormons won’t allow polygamists to redefine Mormonism in order to include polygamists, they ought not demand that Christians accept a redefinition from Mormons as to what’s foundational to...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
It isn’t the poor who Jesus commends on the Sermon on the Mount, but rather the poor in Spirit, not the poverty stricken, but the morally broken.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Greg and guest Frank Turek discuss the Cross Examined Instructor’s Academy, then Greg answers questions on if the age of accountability is consistent with election, the professor’s ploy, and more.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Just 29 days after the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, Oprah Winfrey invited Queen Rania on her television show.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
In 4 min. or less, Greg answers questions about punishment in Hell, the role of those in need in the church, and when God talks to us.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 24, 2020 4:27 AM
If you do not put your faith in Jesus but are sincere in what you believe, is it that enough for salvation? Read more for Greg's answer to religious inclusivism.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:57 PM
Greg answers questions about if Christians and Muslims worship the same God, if it is probably that man can sin in Heaven, how the Samaritans in Acts 8 were baptized and believed but didn't receive...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Understanding the Trinity may be impossible, but proving the Trinity is not especially difficult. You don’t need to master theology and philosophy. All you need is one irrefutable argument. Here it...
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Web Content Article · By guest author On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
An Examination of the Buddhist Worldview by Ted Miyake.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jul 30, 2019 10:26 PM
Tim Barnett and Greg Koukl explain why the most natural reading of the full corpus of Scripture on Hell supports the church’s historical position of eternal conscious torment and not nonexistence.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 29, 2020 5:41 AM
How can we make sense of the bad things that happen to us? Greg responds to a question from Wuhan, China, where the coronavirus originated.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 14, 2022 7:17 PM
Can we trust the eyewitness testimony of the New Testament? Greg and Amy explain why the answer is yes.
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Oct 3, 2022 7:28 PM
Here are four questions you can ask Jehovah’s Witnesses about the love of God to help you demonstrate the truth of the divinity of Jesus.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Nov 15, 2022 6:06 PM
Jon Noyes explains why efforts to earn our salvation leave believers without hope and how we can find forgiveness in Jesus.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 5, 2023 10:14 PM
Greg and Amy explain how God’s purposeful justice displays his glory.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Mar 31, 2023 9:10 PM
Tim Barnett explains how we can inoculate our youth by exposing them to challenges and supplying them with answers.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On May 6, 2023 12:42 AM
After Jephthah made his foolish vow, did the Mosaic Law require him to keep his vow or break it? A principle found in the laws for vows can help answer this question not only for Jephthah’s vow,...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Why do atheists and Christians see Jesus so differently?
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