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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM

Cadbury Chocolate was founded by a Quaker, John Cadbury, who has a strong sense of social responsibility motivated by his Christian convictions.

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Apologetic Arguments Can Reshape What Our Culture Considers Plausible

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM

Even when the current set of beliefs held by atheists prevent them from seeing any argument for God’s existence as plausible, those arguments still have an effect on our culture.

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Why I Take Christians to Mosques

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM

Alan explains the details of a mosque experience and the benefits of taking Christians to mosques.

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How God Answers Our Prayers

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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What Is Marriage from a Policy Perspective?

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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Use Your Knowledge to Serve Others, Not Judge Them

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM

There’s a great temptation to get frustrated with the people in your church as you learn theology and apologetics, but this is a spiritually dangerous misunderstanding of how the body of Christ was...

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Utilitarian Atheists Aren’t “Just as Moral,” They’re “Differently Moral”

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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Character at the Keyboard

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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Your Labor and the Two Great Commandments

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM

Your work, whatever it is, is your opportunity to glorify God by serving others.

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Cal State Universities Derecognize InterVarsity Clubs

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship’s requirement that leaders in their campus clubs be Christian has been declared unacceptable discrimination by the Cal State University system.

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Serving the Persecuted Church

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM

Alan gives a short recap of his trip to Beirut, Lebanon. He highlights the experiences of training the persecuted church and meeting his cousin who recently fled Baghdad, Iraq.

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Are We at War with Muslims?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM

Alan answers the question of whether we are at war with Muslims. He also offers a handy tactic to help you determine whether a doctrine or behavior is truly Islamic.

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How to Turn Your Theology into Communion with God

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM

Here’s what Tim Keller had to say about turning your theology into communion with God through biblical meditation and prayer.

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God Ends Suffering in His Own Time

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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Bad Reasons to Adopt Pro-Gay Theology

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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Horus on the Old Testament Law

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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Dawkins and the Lure of Pro-Gay Theology

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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Santa Claus: Defender of the Incarnation

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM

Even though it’s questionable how much of it is true, I still love the stories about the real St. Nicholas. Here’s what Fred Sanders had to say about him.

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If God Could Save Him, God Could Save Anybody

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM

If you know someone you think is beyond God’s ability to save, watch this story of how David Wood became a Christian, and have hope.

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From Emergent to Evangelical, through Apologetics

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM

If you or someone you know drifted out of Christianity by way of the Emergent Church movement, listen to what Matt Rawlings discovered that brought him back.

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Are the Chick-fil-A Cows on to Something?

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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All Paths Do Lead to God

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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Could “Good” and “Evil” Exist without God?

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

Are the Chick-fil-A Cows on to Something?

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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Can a Socio-Cultural Revolution Be Reversed?

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM

In an article in The Week, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry addresses the popular understanding “that social change driven by appeals to science and reason is (a) good and (b) irreversible.”

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The Biased Constraint of Scientism

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

Object to the Procedure, Not the Patient

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM

A doctor in Michigan wrongly refused to take a lesbian couple’s baby as a patient. This is simply a misunderstanding and misapplication of the conscience rights people have been fighting for.

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Advice on Becoming an Apologetics Speaker

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM

How can you become an apologetics speaker? Here’s some advice on getting started.

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Pastor Calls Trinity “The First Throuple”

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM

The number of things you’ll be called a “bigot” for not endorsing will only increase, and possibly even in your own church. Are you ready?

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Ready Yourself with Joy for Whatever Opposition Comes

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.”

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

Read Nancy Pearcey’s Finding Truth with Me

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM

Nancy Pearcey has the unique ability of getting to the heart of things in the cultural conversation, and her penetrating critique of the worldview “idols” of our age is chock-full of gems.

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RFRA Reaction Is Driven by Agenda, Not Principle

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM

The kind of response we’re seeing from people who oppose Indiana’s RFRA proves just how much we need these laws if we’re to continue to function as a diverse society.

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Refusing to Serve Individuals vs. Refusing to Participate in Events

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM

Christians do not want to “refuse service to gay people.” There’s an important distinction between refusing to serve individuals and refusing to participate in events.

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Why Same-Sex Marriage Can’t Afford to Be Tolerant

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM

Mere Orthodoxy’s Matt Anderson explains why “an anti-liberal approach toward dissenting views is part of the DNA of the logic of the current gay rights argument.”

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How can homeschooling parents avoid sheltering their kids too much?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM

Alan explains one way homeschooling parents can avoid sheltering their kids too much.

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Finding Truth: Twilight of the Gods

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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One Nation under Allah?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM

There have been a couple of incidents where a school has asked a Muslim (or perhaps just an Arabic-speaking student) to recite the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic.

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Finding Truth: Secular Leaps of Faith

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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The Christian Worldview Grounds Human Dignity

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM

There are many ideas we simply take for granted as natural and obvious, when in fact they didn’t exist until the arrival of Christianity changed things completely.

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Finding Truth: Why Worldviews Commit Suicide

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM

Nancy Pearcey explains how to find where a worldview contradicts itself.

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Where Did Jesus Claim to Be God?

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

Where did Jesus claim to be God? Jesus made this claim a number of times, and it was very clear to those He was talking to.

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Finding Truth: How Critical Thinking Saves Faith

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM

Some Christians think the way to avoid being “conformed to this world” (Rom. 12:2) is by avoiding “worldly” ideas. A better strategy is to learn the skills to critically evaluate them.

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Relativism’s Moral Hero Disproves Relativism

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM

Any worldview that lacks the ability to explain what we know to be true—that there are objective moral facts, regardless of whether an individual or an entire society rejects them—is devastatingly...

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More Doubling Down on Faulty Principles

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM

Remember when I talked about our culture biting absurd bullets? Here’s how it works.

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Every Parent Is in Youth Ministry

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM

I believe parents are responsible for their children’s spiritual training. Of course, pastors, youth leaders, and Sunday school teachers can help. But parents have to do most of the work.

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InterVarsity Is Back on Cal State Campuses

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM

In a happy turn of events, InterVarsity has announced they’ll be allowed back on CSU campuses without having to compromise their commitment to having Christians lead their Christian groups on campus.

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Supreme Court Ruling on Marriage

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM

God isn’t surprised by this ruling, and by His sovereign will He’s allowed this to happen. And He’s put us here in this time for a purpose.

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Marriage Decision Is a “Totalitarian Impulse to Redefine Reality”

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM

The Supreme Court decision yesterday won’t just affect marriage. Giving the government the power to redefine a pre-political institution changes the relationship of the government to all of our...

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Advice from Chesterton: Don’t Take Down the Fence until You Know Why It’s There

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM

Most people—religious or otherwise—have no idea what marriage is, why it exists, and what we need it for, and it’s dangerous to fundamentally change things when you don’t understand why...

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The Fruit of Relativism Is Naked Power

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM

More disturbing than the fact that a new definition of marriage is now the law of the land is the way in which this transformation was accomplished.

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Abusing Freedom

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM

“Freedom is destroyed not only by its retraction; it is also devastated by its abuse.”—Ravi Zacharias

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Why Tax Exemptions for Religious Institutions Should Continue

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM

Since Time is saying “Now’s the Time to End Tax Exemptions for Religious Institutions,” it’s important we understand why our government has not taxed religious institutions in the past.

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Muslim Authority

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM

Alan explains how he knows authority is the key issue when talking to Muslims.

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Praying for Unsaved Loved Ones

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM

What is the appropriate response when our arguments and evidence seem to be ineffective with our unsaved loved ones? In a word: prayer. In this podcast, Tim highlights two responses that you need...

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Evidence for God and the Human Heart

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM

Many people believe that belief in God’s existence is merely an evidence issue. That is, given enough evidence, everyone would believe. But is it really that simple? Does belief in God merely...

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Can You Argue Someone Into the Kingdom?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM

Many Christians claim you can’t argue someone into the kingdom, suggesting that apologetics is useless for evangelism. Alan address this question and explains why he, in part, agrees.

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If God Requires Atonement, Does He Lack Something?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 25, 2019 10:05 PM

Is God really God if He needs something? Tim responds.

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Why Can’t More Christians Perform Miracles?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 25, 2019 10:21 PM

Tim explains what Jesus means by believers doing “greater things” in John 14:12.

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Tactics for Online Discussions

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 25, 2019 10:57 PM

Alan shares important tips for having productive interactions about your convictions on the internet.

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Real Faith Isn’t Blind

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 25, 2019 11:04 PM

Tim clarifies a common misconception about the biblical definition of faith.

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Can Atheists Ground the Claim That Abortion Is Wrong?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 25, 2019 11:07 PM

If a pro-life atheist doesn’t believe in a Moral Law Giver, can their view be consistent?

Media Type: Video Topic: Bioethics

Can Christians Have Doubts about God?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 25, 2019 11:09 PM

What should we do when doubts come? Tim encourages Christians not to feel shame about having doubts then shares examples of how doubt can ultimately point us back to God.

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What Follows If You Don’t Believe Any Religion Is True?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 25, 2019 11:25 PM

Alan discusses the implications of not subscribing to a particular religion and the most probable beliefs that follow.

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Is Abortion the Same as Taking Someone off Life Support?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 25, 2019 11:29 PM

Some abortion-choice advocates claim that abortion is no different than taking someone off life support. Alan explains why that is not the case.

Media Type: Video Topic: Bioethics

Could God Be Merely a Function of the Brain?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 25, 2019 11:41 PM

Alan responds to an argument against God’s existence.

Media Type: Video Topic: Philosophy

Why Do Christians Fight Against Euthanasia Laws?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 25, 2019 11:47 PM

Alan responds to the question: If going to Heaven is so great, why do Christians want to prolong unhappy life on Earth?

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Is Faith A Feeling?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 25, 2019 11:49 PM

Tim explains that although faith and feelings might be related, they’re actually two different things.

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Do Our Souls Continue to Develop in Heaven?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 4:19 PM

Alan distinguishes between two types of soul development and shares his thoughts on which one we’ll experience in Heaven.

Media Type: Video Topic: Philosophy

Why Is There So Much Evil?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 5:07 PM

Alan shares some thoughts regarding three realms of brokenness that produce evil in the world.

Media Type: Video Topic: Theology

Do You Need Religion to Have Morals?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 5:20 PM

Alan responds to an atheist’s challenge: “You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.”

Media Type: Video Topic: Philosophy

Why Do Other Religions Emphasize Works for Salvation?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 5:49 PM

In Christianity, salvation is a gift rather than a reward for works. Alan shares why Christianity is different from many other religions in this way.

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The Best Explanation for the Way Things Are

Web Content Article · By stand to reason On Jun 26, 2019 6:48 PM

Will you consider sharing this video with your friends and family? It’s the perfect share, answering why we are here and opening the door to share the Gospel.

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Does God Care about Our Pain and Suffering?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 26, 2019 6:54 PM

Tim offers biblical insights highlighting the reality of God’s immeasurable care for us.

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How Is Christianity Different From Other Religions?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 6:57 PM

Alan unpacks the unique reality of Christianity, as compared to other world religions, as the only means of salvation.

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Is Christianity the Only Way?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 26, 2019 7:01 PM

Tim highlights the eternal significance and exclusivity of Christianity.

Media Type: Video Topic: Philosophy

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