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Challenge Response: Is Pig’s Meat Allowed Today or Not?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 1, 2019 10:37 PM

Are we allowed to eat pig’s meat today or not? That’s the challenge that I want to address, and it comes from a Muslim who is citing Isaiah 65 as evidence for his case.

Media Type: Video Topic: Christian Living

What Do I Really Know? A Practical Approach to Doubt

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Aug 27, 2021 6:43 PM

In an excerpt from our “Why Apologetics?” Stand to Reason University course, Tim Barnett explains how even a trained apologist like himself benefits from a practical application of apologetics.

Media Type: Video Topic: Tactics and Tools

Jihad and War in Islam and Christianity

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM

Do you know the first question I get when I teach on Islam’s long history of war and killing?

Media Type: Article Topic: Other Worldviews

Are You Ready to Talk to a Muslim?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM

Alan’s monthly letter for November 2011 At a recent event, I was introduced as Saeed Ibn Umar. Yes, that’s a Muslim name. But no, it’s not a pseudonym and I haven’t converted to Islam.

Media Type: Article Topic: Other Worldviews

Finding Truth: I Lost My Faith at an Evangelical College

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

Nancy Pearcey guides us through Romans 1, using it to create a template for examining any worldview.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

How Do I Carry On When I Don’t Feel Up to the Task?

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

Greg gives advice on how to keep going in ministry when you’re not feeling it and then answers questions about handling steamrollers and responding to moral relativists.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Stand to Reason Weekly Audio Topic: Tactics and Tools

Why Should You Take a Closer Look at Islam?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:56 PM

If we’re going to proclaim the message of the gospel to Muslims as ambassadors for Christ, we first need to know what Islam teaches and how we can respond. Here’s a good place to start.

Media Type: Article Topic: Other Worldviews

Ready for the Knock on Your Door

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM

Most of us have answered a knock on our door, only to discover a smiling, well-dressed couple—Watchtower publication in hand—standing on the other side, waiting to talk with us about the gospel...

Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Other Worldviews

Christian Living Is Not a Solitary Enterprise

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 14, 2024 8:25 PM

Greg and Amy consider what it means to do something “in your own strength” and discuss how our efforts balance with God working through us and in the world.

Media Type: Video Topic: Christian Living

Make Relationships with Your LGBT Friends a High Priority

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Sep 4, 2020 2:24 PM

Alan shares how you can make the most impact in the lives of your LGBT friends and family.

Media Type: Video Topic: Christian Living

How to Be a Good Ambassador for Christ to Muslims

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2024 12:57 AM

Alan Shlemon talks about how to be a good ambassador for Christ to Muslims, the largest unreached people group on the planet, explaining their foundational objection to Christianity and how to...

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A Response to Hemant Mehta’s Post about Stand to Reason’s Email

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM

Some atheists have wrongly assumed Stand to Reason protects Christian students from hearing ideas they disagree with, but that’s the opposite of our philosophy to “inoculate, not isolate.”

Media Type: Article Topic: Tactics and Tools

Why Are Christians Confused?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 12, 2023 9:40 PM

Greg introduces his latest STR University course, sharing two reasons why many professing Christians seem confused on controversial issues.

Media Type: Video Topic: Christian Living

God Can’t Do Everything

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM

Are non-Christians claiming that a half-full glass has more in it than a full glass? It would appear so.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

Alan Shlemon: Matthew Vines’s Reformation Project Conference

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM

Greg and guest Alan Shlemon talk about the Matthew Vines’s Reformation Project Conference, then Greg talks about Veteran’s day, how it is just that we’re accountable for Adam’s sin, and more.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Stand to Reason Weekly Audio Topic: Philosophy

Is Critical Race Theory Really an Issue?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 19, 2023 2:11 AM

Greg answers questions about whether he’s fighting a ghost when it comes to critical race theory, whether the famous Christians who have been deconstructing were ever truly regenerated, the “Divine...

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Stand to Reason Weekly Audio Topic: Other Worldviews

Does the Biblical Teaching on Homosexuality Inflame Violence?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 25, 2019 11:56 PM

Alan responds to the question of whether or not the classical biblical teaching on sexuality causes violence.

Media Type: Video Topic: Sexuality and Gender

Do Christians Pick and Choose Which Commands to Follow?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Dec 16, 2021 9:24 PM

Christians focus on homosexuality as a sin but ignore other Old Testament laws. Is this hypocritical? Tim Barnett uses his Red Pen Logic to respond to this common objection.

Media Type: Video Topic: Sexuality and Gender

I’d Like to Have an Argument, Please.

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:22 PM

A solid argument can be built just like a solid house: walls first, then the roof. Here’s a building plan, plus three ways arguments collapse.

Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Philosophy

How Can We Stay Motivated When Things Look Bleak?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 6, 2021 12:08 AM

If you feel like Christians are losing the battle, you’re not alone. But Greg Koukl and Jon Noyes remind us that we’re “more than conquerors through him who loved us” (Romans 8:37).

Media Type: Video Topic: Christian Living

Discussing “17 Points of the True Church” with Mormons

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM

Need some help discussing theological differences with your LDS friends? Here’s a list of points to get you started.

Media Type: Article Topic: Other Worldviews

Should Religious People Legislate Their Beliefs?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On May 20, 2021 2:44 PM

Mr. B responds to a tweet by the Richard Dawkins Foundation seeking to disqualify religious people from enshrining their beliefs in law.

Media Type: Video Topic: Christian Living

What Are the Marks of a True Christian?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 31, 2023 10:52 PM

Greg and Amy make an important distinction between new believers who do not yet understand the doctrines of Christianity and those who call themselves Christians while knowingly rejecting key...

Media Type: Video Topic: Theology

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...

Media Type: Video Topic: Christian Living

Will You Accept the Challenge?

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

Stand to Reason has helped Christians stand tall in a hostile culture for 28 years. Today, we challenge you to partner with STR and make an impact with your end-of-year gift.

Media Type: Video Topic: Announcements

Are There Moral Implications to Cremation vs. Burial?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 25, 2019 5:44 PM

As Christians, should we be concerned with what happens to our bodies after we die?

Media Type: Video Topic: Bioethics

Was Jesus Really Tempted If He Could Not Sin?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 25, 2019 10:29 PM

Alan helps clarify how it was possible for Jesus to truly experience temptation even though he never would have given into it.

Media Type: Video Topic: Theology

For the Student Who Wants to Be a Christian Apologist

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM

Are you hoping to become an apologist but don’t know where to start? Here are some ideas for you.

Media Type: Article Topic: Tactics and Tools

How Should You Talk to a Friend Who’s Gay?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM

Treat your gay friends the same way you would treat your heterosexual friends in similar circumstances.

Media Type: Article Topic: Tactics and Tools

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jul 30, 2019 11:57 PM

Spend enough time in artificial worlds that are grounded in false assumptions—especially without analyzing what you’re seeing—and you’ll be changed in ways you didn’t count on.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

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