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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
There are many out there who see Christianity as being mainly about teaching us how to be better people. Here’s why this moralistic focus is likely a major contributor to a relativistic view of...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Jared Wilson explains how local church involvement plays an important role in confronting our tendency to reject authority and embrace an unhealthy individualism.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Apr 23, 2024 6:19 PM
Many Muslims love to cite Mark 13:32 as proof that Jesus cannot be God. Tim Barnett explains why this objection doesn’t work.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 31, 2019 9:29 PM
The three aspects of faith – knowledge, assent, and trust – are all necessary for saving faith.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:43 PM
Greg talks about misc., then takes calls on if salvation can be at the end of a rational analysis of the evidence, Calvinism is unjust and unappealing, his debate with Deepak Chopra, and more.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:44 PM
Greg talks about if the truth is oppressive, if having psychological confidence makes you wrong, then takes calls on if it is biblical for women to be in leadership positions over men in the...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
Here’s a challenge I received: You can’t claim anyone’s beliefs to be “right” or “wrong” when it’s all based on conjecture.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Jan 12, 2022 10:44 PM
As we observe the law of causality at work in the world around us, the explanation for our existence begins to look a lot like God.
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Feb 8, 2024 10:22 PM
Amy, Tim, Jon, and Robby remind us that treating people with kindness as we’re engaging in apologetics isn’t just about being a nice person, but rather it’s about modeling Christ in how we act.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
Greg and Tim talk about Tim’s upcoming video series on Jehovah’s Witnesses, then they take a call on the Trinity and talk about a recent post an atheist wrote about Stand to Reason.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Mar 11, 2021 8:34 PM
Some atheists claim Christianity is a science stopper. The facts of history show the opposite. Christianity was the modern science starter.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Dec 12, 2023 9:48 PM
Alan Shlemon introduces his new Stand to Reason University course, “Transgenderism: Truth and Compassion,” explaining why we should listen to God’s direction for our sexuality and clarifying some...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 5:55 PM
Is true love only possible if one has the ability to do otherwise? Greg explores this question in relation to God’s love for us.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Sep 25, 2020 1:41 PM
Tim shows how the inclusion of embarrassing personal details in the New Testament points to the reliability of the accounts.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
How did you get your soul? Even to ask the question is a little awkward since “you” are your soul.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 1, 2019 11:05 PM
Alan uses a helpful analogy to explain the difference between the Mosaic Law and the New Covenant.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Feb 26, 2020 5:24 PM
Alan helps Christians know which common phrases to avoid when talking to a friend or family member who identifies as gay.
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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 9:51 PM
Greg talks about an evangelistic sign he saw hanging over a freeway then answers questions about Samson vs. suicide bombers, what to say to an unbeliever who says he follows the Golden Rule, and more.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 9:44 PM
Christians need to think carefully about this issue, especially in a culture that is more than happy to co-opt Christian statements and claims in order to justify sin.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
Is Jesus of the Gospels simply recycled ancient myths?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Greg talks about Bart Ehrman’s Book Jesus Interrupted with Dr. Ben Witherington III, conversation in a restaurant about God’s existence, bloom where you're planted: how to get into apologetics...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM
Our apologetics aren’t Christian merely because of the arguments we use or the conclusions we’re arguing for. What does it mean to use Christian apologetics Christianly?
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Feb 15, 2024 11:20 PM
Amy, Jon, Robby, and Tim consider how our need to be right can get in the way of productive conversations and how to know when to step away from a conversation.
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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 greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
Are non-Christians merely “gospel fodder,” or are they valuable in spite of their eternal state?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
Greg talks about Peter’s warnings against the destructive heresies of false teachers then takes questions on marrying non-Christians, attending Catholic mass, and whether Jesus really sacrificed...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:54 PM
Greg offers thoughts on what true, biblical love is versus the kind of love that simply makes people feel good.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 29, 2020 5:54 AM
Greg talks about how he was influenced by Francis Schaeffer, then he answers questions about the nature of morality, whether body-mind-soul is a good analogy for the Trinity, and Hell.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 22, 2023 2:33 AM
Greg explains that we can’t assess the church’s legitimacy by the way the world reacts to it, then he answers questions about who, according to 1 John 2, is an antichrist, our relationship to time...
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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 brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
I want to sketch out Thomas Aquinas’ theory of natural law by distinguishing between the four kinds of law he outlines in the Summa Theologiae and then discussing his conception of the Good.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Knowledge, not just belief, about God leads to spiritual transformation. So what is knowledge, and how do we get it?
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
Brett’s on a timer and answers questions about God’s presence, polygamy in the OT, and total depravity.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
Those pangs of guilt could be telling you something.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
For some, ethics is nothing more than a social contract to ensure survival. Compliance is the highest good and breaking ranks the greatest evil, regardless of the issue. This may make sense on...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
If the God of the Bible didn’t do what you think a real God would have done, that
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:44 PM
Brett talks about how to best help students navigate the cultural challenges of today, then answers questions on God’s gender, Mormon revelation vs. Christian experience, and atheistic evangelism.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 19, 2022 1:56 AM
Greg answers questions about “replacement theology,” whether pro-life advocacy is wrong since if the children live, many will go to Hell, and whether there are still apostles in the church today...
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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 greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
Greg shows how Jesus received worship and therefore is one with the Father. In doing so, he gives a good lesson on how we, too, might approach constructing arguments on issues like these.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Jan 27, 2022 9:38 PM
Jon Noyes explains why Christianity offers the best solution to the problem of evil in his latest Stand to Reason University course.
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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 alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for August 2010 “Christians are closed-minded,” the saying goes. Many people think that’s true, especially on the topic of evolution.
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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 biblical inspiration, dispensationalism, and biblical models for church leadership.
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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 greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:21 PM
Is happiness or virtue the greater good to see and cultivate in our lives?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 5, 2024 1:09 AM
Greg and Amy share key questions you can ask your friends who believe in a health and wealth gospel then remind us why it’s so important that we realize we cannot manipulate God.
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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 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 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 tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
The famous atheist philosopher Bertrand Russell was once asked what he would say to God if he found himself standing before Him after his death.
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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 May 21, 2020 7:29 PM
Is life a gift with a transcendent purpose to be fulfilled, or do we own ourselves and have the right to do with our bodies whatever we please? This question can be answered in part with a little...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
An apocryphal story of Greg’s backyard deck serves to illustrate an important lesson about the nature of human identity.
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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 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 Jun 27, 2019 9:42 PM
In 4 min. or less, Greg answers questions about skepticism, the OT law, and denominations
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
You can huff and puff but you can’t blow this house down. Christianity is a system bolted down to reality.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
John Hick takes a realist approach about the world to the question of pluralism in his article “Religious Pluralism and Salvation.”
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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 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 Feb 14, 2024 9:46 PM
Questions about whether one can argue from the existence of evil straight to the Christian God or if more arguments are required to get there and whether Abraham sacrificing Isaac would be...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
Greg interviews Joe Carter about what Christians should know about “intersectionality” and then talks about the centrality of the bodily resurrection to Christianity.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 27, 2020 10:34 PM
Greg discusses John 4, outlining a process of evangelism involving one field, one team, two seasons, and two types of workers.
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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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