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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM
Brett talks about his apologetics mission trips and how these Gospel-driven, real-life activities change the students.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 21, 2020 3:34 AM
Greg revisits his discussion from last week about respecting the original meaning of a text, then he answers questions about discerning between different views and adjusting how you communicate...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
Israeli mathematicians and archaeologists say they have found evidence to suggest that key biblical texts may have been composed earlier than some scholars think.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:44 PM
Greg reflects on his time in San Antonio with the Berry family, highlighting how their devotional life impacted him. Then he answers questions about Lucifer’s sin and a Greek word in Mathew 5:6.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:59 PM
As followers of Christ, we know we have nothing to fear from the truth, and we’re willing to work to find it. We care about the truth because we care about God.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 15, 2023 1:47 AM
Greg answers questions about why God would create a world that has so much evil in it, how a book written by men could be the divine word of God, whether it’s okay to date a Christian who doesn’t...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
why Greg uses straw men arguments against the young earth view, whether the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 12, 2023 2:03 AM
Greg explains how to interpret promises God made in the Old Testament and when to apply them to Christians today, then he answers a question about whether verses in Romans about the Holy Spirit...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 8, 2024 2:04 AM
Greg talks about how we were enemies of God before we were reconciled to him through the atonement, then he answers questions about how to determine a guest pastor’s theology and whether all...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Dec 2, 2019 5:56 AM
Some Bible terminology can seem strange to our modern ears, and understanding its
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 7, 2021 8:17 PM
Questions about whether there’s a second chance for salvation after death and how there can be no sin in Heaven if we’re all sinners by nature.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 6, 2023 11:44 PM
In this class from Greg Koukl’s Stand to Reason University course “Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air,” Greg shares tactics for confronting the inconsistencies that make moral relativism...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 1, 2019 9:16 PM
Civil war battles were tumultuous affairs. The thundering of guns and muskets was not just deafening, it was dangerous, drowning out the one means of group communication: the bugles.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:57 PM
Greg talks about David Bowie’s death and trading eternity, then answers questions about how to answer the challenge that the Old Testament condones genocide and slavery, and what situation Timothy...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 24, 2024 2:05 AM
Greg talks to callers about differences between Protestants and Catholics, whether Jesus ever told people to worship him, how to tell if an experience was spiritual, emotional, or demonic, whether...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM
In 4 min. or less, Greg answers questions about baptism, polygamy, and polytheism.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 22, 2020 5:37 AM
Questions about the comparison between giving someone a love potion and the Holy Spirit’s work in the elect and what “knowing Jesus” entails.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 6, 2021 3:43 AM
Greg talks about our need to grasp the grace of God, then he answers questions about how to respond to charges of homophobia and how to make an argument for biblical inerrancy.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
What is the apocalyptic event described in First Thessalonians 4 and First Corinthians 15? Perhaps not exactly what you think it is.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
According to Romans 12:2, decision making isn’t about trying to hear special messages from God.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:54 PM
Greg answers questions on what Jesus meant by “this generation,” what “word of God” in Hebrews 4:12 refers to, and the concept of a “personal relationship with Jesus.”
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:54 PM
Greg answers questions about whether there are levels of sin, why God punishes for eternity, leaving a church, and why Jesus spoke in parables.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM
Greg answers questions on what Jesus meant by “this generation,” what “word of God” in Hebrews 4:12 refers to, and the concept of a “personal relationship with Jesus.”
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
Greg answers questions about people being saved before Jesus, whether there’s a difference between forgiveness and propitiation, and how Greg doesn’t get angry at irrationality.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 7, 2020 11:30 PM
Alan explains how to argue cordially and effectively.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:42 PM
Greg talks about Christopher Hitchens’ book God is Not Great, then takes calls on if theories have to be falsifiable to be “scientific,” if it is ethical to participate in a...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:44 PM
In 4 min. or less, Greg answers questions about Genesis, sharing the Gospel with a dying loved one, and what makes someone wise.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM
Greg answers questions about whether God would ever command someone to rape, the difference between inerrant and infallible, and whether we should say we’re spiritual or religious.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
Greg answers questions about inerrancy, a winsome response to someone who asks if you have a boyfriend or girlfriend, and why some people have intellectual disabilities.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
If Jesus is God—our sovereign Creator—and is morally perfect and blindingly good and loving, then is it wrong for Him to call us to love Him above all others?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:42 PM
John Piper explains how the length of Israel’s long history before the coming of Jesus acts as “a lesson book for the nations about the Gospel.”
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Rev. Dr. John Scudder, Sr., founded the first Western Medical Mission in Asia in Ceylon in 1819. He also founded a family of medical missionaries whose combined service covers four...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM
Greg’s on a timer and answers questions about eternal life, omnipresence, and worship songs.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:42 PM
Greg talks about are you “Anti-Homosexual,” Nova’s “Judgement Day” with Dr. Steve Meyer, then takes calls on why the freedom to choose evil is necessary for human free-will but not for God, if...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Arguing from Jesus’ silence on issues is not only a logical misstep, but theologically incorrect.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
Greg Koukl answers questions in 4 minutes or less Adam and Eve, apologetics, sin, conspiracy theories, decision making.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 4, 2019 12:14 AM
Questions about the embryos created and thrown away because of IVF, a second chance for redemption after death, C.S. Lewis’s view of Hell, and talking to Wiccans about spiritual things.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:44 PM
Greg talks about Islam and terrorism, then takes calls on what the Christian ambassadors response regarding giving to beggars is, what happens when we die, if the old earth view is represented in...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:44 PM
Many people assume men in the Old Testament treated their wives like property, but does the text back that up?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 15, 2020 7:40 PM
Questions about whether an argument against God is fallacious, whether a Christian teen should disobey his unbelieving parents, and what to say to someone who says he’s asked Jesus into his heart...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:44 PM
Greg talks about Postmodernism facing reality, calling evil evil, then takes calls on better understanding God’s grace, if Christianity and government are compatible, if all worldviews/religions...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
A list of the key elements of Christianity
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 12, 2021 8:27 PM
Questions about why Christ had to die if Old Testament believers already had access to Heaven, why we needed Jesus to be our sacrifice rather than a goat, and whether the Old Testament’s lack of...
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
The baptism of Jesus in Matthew 3 is a great example that distinguishes the Father, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus. Clearly, they are distinct persons.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
Since the birth of the church, no Christian authority—no theologian, no church council, no denominational confession, no seminary—ever hinted that homosexual behavior was morally legitimate.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM
Andy Stanley’s call for pastors to “unhitch [their] teaching of what it means to follow Jesus from all things old covenant” will, sadly, lead to a diminished view of God.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
A review of Aronofsky’s Noah by Brian Mattson will help you interpret the ideas advocated in the film.
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Web Content Article · By aaron brake On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM
Acts 4 says the early church held all of their possessions in common. What does this mean for believers today?
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Feb 29, 2020 12:20 AM
Brett explains how to navigate in conversation with your Mormon friends when the language is the same but the meanings are different.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 28, 2020 1:37 AM
Alan emphasizes the importance of looking to Islam’s authoritative sources in order to know what Islam really teaches then explains a key teaching about the Qur’an.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
Greg responds to an argument against capital punishment and then answers questions about the Reformed vs. Arminian debate, God’s view of women, the acceptability of AA, and salvation before Jesus.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 13, 2023 5:18 PM
Questions about whether Genesis 1–11 is historical or mytho-history, why Jesus referenced people “we know never existed” like Adam and Eve, Noah, and Moses, and whether there’s a method by which we...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:39 PM
Greg talks about deconstructing Sam Harris’s articles, if the Pint-Sized Preacher is preaching, then discusses the Constantine Codex with Dr. Paul L. Maier, then takes calls on what the definitions...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:40 PM
Greg talks about marriage retreat, date my daughter questionnaire, then takes calls on if the Tree of Good and Evil was intrinsically evil, what Wiccans believe, if secular books are bad, and more.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Greg talks about dealing with doubt, church planting in India with Jossy Chacko, then takes calls on if God has rules He follows, suggesting tactics to use with a dishonest skeptic, and more.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 4, 2024 4:45 PM
Questions about believing God is always good to his children while rejecting prosperity teaching, how God can be jealous if he is love and love is not jealous, and whether God changing his mind in...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM
Greg talks about Melinda’s accident and asks for prayer, reflecting on the hope we have as Christians, then takes questions on the third commandment and inerrancy.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:39 PM
Greg talks about hating religion but loving Jesus, Tim Tebow, the Rapture, then takes calls on if denominational differences are significant, explaining the difference between intelligent design...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:42 PM
Guest host Brett Kunkle talks about the emergent church unorthodoxy, Finding God Beyond Harvard with Kelly Monroe Kullberg, then takes calls on if knowing God’s purpose for your life is dependent...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Hell is an offensive idea to a lot of people. Eternal punishment seems harsh to both believers and unbelievers. It could even be a stumbling block.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
Notes for the video “Witnessing to Jehovah’s Witnesses”—available in our store—are below. See Part 2.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 26, 2020 7:37 PM
Greg explains the first step in a tactical approach to sharing your Christian convictions with others.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 25, 2019 11:44 PM
Tim explains that in order to have a biblical view of God, we must acknowledge His wrath.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
Greg talks about how to “conduct apologetics” with someone who doesn’t connect with good arguments, how to deal with betrayals from within the Christian community, how to mobilize the youth in...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:44 PM
Greg talks about enjoying nature, talking about touchy subjects at work, and words having power.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM
Greg gives reasons to think Hell is eternal conscious torment then answers questions about getting into spiritual conversations and the Native American “Creator” vs. the biblical God.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 30, 2023 10:08 PM
Questions about how to proceed with someone who isn’t sure what she’s unsure of about Christianity, whether not having a near-death experience proves there’s no life after death, why Jesus is...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 7, 2023 5:26 PM
Questions about why no one besides Matthew mentioned the resurrection of multiple people after the crucifixion, whether there were rainbows before Noah, and why Jesus told the restored...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Greg talks about the minimal facts argument for the resurrection, remembering Chuck Colson, interview with Frank Turek about CrossExamined Instructors’ Academy, then takes calls about advice...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:42 PM
Greg talks about raising children to be adults, if there is any power of positive thinking, then takes calls on how a person can share his concerns with his pastor about “emergent” teachings...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 27, 2024 10:54 PM
Questions about whether Christianity is about following Jesus rather than a story of reality, what John the Baptist meant when he said, “He must increase, but I must decrease,” and why John the...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
Nervously I asked my friend, “Is your daughter a Christian?” “No,” she replied, “but that’s okay!” I thought to myself, That’s strange. Why would a mother be okay that her...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Christians and Jehovah’s Witnesses have fundamentally different views not only on why Jesus died on the cross but also on whether Jesus died on a cross. Here are five reasons to think He did.
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Dec 20, 2023 5:48 AM
You may not have noticed before that the Isaiah 7:14 prophecy shows that God, the true author of Scripture, not only can accurately predict future events but is also sovereign over the development...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Verses Commonly Misunderstood, Mischaracterized, or Maligned It doesn’t happen often, but this time I was caught completely flatfooted, struck dumb by a challenge from a young Christian woman in...
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