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What to Do When You Think a Friend Is Considering Suicide

Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Feb 14, 2023 1:54 AM

Here are five simple things you can do if you think a friend or loved one might be considering suicide.

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Interview with Gabriel Pagel

Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM

Brett interviews Gabriel Pagel, the head bible teacher at Upland Christian Academy

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Naturalism and Reality

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM

Greg talks about his trip to Poland and the European Mission Field, if evolution can explain morality, how to convince a Christian who gets their theology from personal revelation and visions, and...

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Are People Who Divorce and Remarry Living in Continuous Adultery?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 18, 2023 1:55 AM

means that divorced people who remarry are living in continuous adultery, whether Bible

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Disagreement Is Not Oppression

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 31, 2023 2:51 AM

fellowship is simply brainwashing, the need for epistemological certainty, whether the Bible

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Truth Is a Strange Sort of Fiction: The Postmodern Turn—Part 2

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM

If you genuinely believe there is no truth, can you still be a Christian?

Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Philosophy

Apologetics with Brokenhearted Boldness and Contrite Courage

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM

As followers of Christ, we’re told to emulate His humility and kindness towards those who are suffering, including those who don’t yet know Him.

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Euthyphro’s Dilemma

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM

Plato’s challenge concerning the nature of goodness is still being heard today: Is an act right because God says it’s so, or does God say it’s so because it’s right...

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Give ’em Heaven

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM

I want to talk about what I did the last couple of weeks.

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Wisdom Model Summary

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM

anything we want within the dual parameters of God’s moral will (revealed in the Bible

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What Does It Mean for Jesus to Be Affirming?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 25, 2019 10:44 PM

What was Jesus loving and accepting regarding during His ministry? Greg clarifies a common misconception.

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How Should Christians Approach Spiritual Warfare?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 30, 2021 8:02 PM

The world is held in the power of the evil one, but the truth sets us free. Greg Koukl gives a biblical case for why truth matters when we enter spiritual warfare.

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Remembering Greg’s Mom

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:57 PM

Greg talks about his mother, what the definition of faith is, and if a Christian should attend their family member’s same-sex wedding.

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Does God Give People the Best Opportunity to Respond to Him?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 5, 2021 3:07 PM

Greg answers a caller’s question about whether the life situation a person is born into affects their accountability before Christ and opportunity to receive him.

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How Can We Reconcile Differences Between the Accounts of Jesus’ Birth?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Nov 30, 2023 9:25 PM

New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman offers an example of what he believes to be an irreconcilable contradiction in the Christmas account. But, while Matthew and Luke give some different details, it’s...

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Another Challenge to Objective Morality

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 12, 2020 3:04 AM

in Matthew 5:17–20 and whether 1 Samuel 28:15–19 contradicts other parts of the Bible

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Take Heart, New Zealand, for He Has Overcome the World

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM

Sometimes we’re tempted to think evil is stronger than God, but the answer to making sense of the destructive power of evil all comes down to this simple truth.

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Burden or Freedom

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM

Rachael Slick, the daughter of an apologist, has written an article recounting her theological and apologetic training growing up—and her subsequent rejection of Christianity.

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Living as Expatriates

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

As Christians, we are not exiles from Christendom. We are expatriates from heaven. Here’s what that means for us.

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When I Read This, It Stopped Me Cold...—Mentoring Letter October 2016

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:42 PM

We are facing a full-court press against everything we cherish and value.

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Try This Powerful Question to Throw Light on Enigmas like the Problem of Evil

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 2, 2019 9:38 PM

Here is a question I want to encourage you to start asking: What’s the alternative? In the right circumstances, it can be a powerful query. Let me tell you why.

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Tactics for Conversations with Agnostics

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 20, 2022 9:02 PM

Greg explains how to use the Columbo tactic with agnostics and gives an example of directing the conversation toward a specific topic.

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Here’s Another Reminder to Be Gracious During 2020

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Sep 21, 2020 10:50 PM

This year has been out of control. Unfortunately, so have many people’s manners. This is a reminder to be gracious to others—especially when it’s easy not to.

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The Third Column

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

The future of thoughtful Christianity does not belong to best-selling authors or popular speakers. Rather, it will be determined by people like you—committed disciples in the local church with warm...

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Was Paul a Universalist?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 25, 2019 10:16 PM

Could Romans 5:18–19 be used to argue for universalism?

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Always Ask What They Mean by “God”

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM

When people tell me they don’t believe God exists, I have a specific question for them: What do you mean by “God”?

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Why Is Apologetics so Important?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Oct 3, 2019 9:59 PM

Tim introduces a series of videos he’ll be presenting called “Why Apologetics?” that explains what apologetics is and why it’s so vital.

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Bosnia, Rape and the Problem of Evil

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2020 11:35 PM

Greg responds to a letter to the editor in which the writer’s pain causes him to ask the age-old question of why God allows evil to exist.

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Our Pain Has Meaning

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

Joni Eareckson Tada, who was paralyzed in a diving accident at the age of 17, has this to say about her suffering over the decades...

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Born Atheist?

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM

Glenn Peoples responds to the popular atheist claim that we’re all “born atheist.”

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Your Role as Christ’s Ambassador Starts in Your Neighborhood

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:59 PM

Your role as Christ’s ambassador starts in your home, your neighborhood, your community, with the people you know personally, not with politics.

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Reasons for Capital Punishment

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 31, 2019 9:22 PM

There's a reason both the Old and the New Testaments promote capital punishment. That reason was applicable then and still applies today.

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Are Miracles Illogical?

Web Content Article · By keith plummer On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM

Someone might conclude on the basis of the observed regularity of nature that miracles are impossible and therefore illogical, but are they really contrary to the laws of logic?

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Believing Biblical Doctrines Requires Humility, Not Arrogance

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM

It isn’t arrogant for Christians to believe Jesus is the only way of salvation and other biblical doctrines. In fact, it requires humility.

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Cultivate the Moral Imagination to Develop Character

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM

If you’re trying to teach your children moral virtues (or you’re being intentional about developing them in yourself), here’s some good advice from Hillsdale College professor Daniel Coupland.

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Chronicle of Higher Education: Stop Accrediting Christian Colleges

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

An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education argues that accreditation ought to be denied to Christian colleges that require professors to sign statements of faith or otherwise “draw lines...

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Do Extraordinary Claims Demand Extraordinary Evidence?

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM

Hume offered this challenge in “Of Miracles” in Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.

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Guard Yourself against the Dangers of Fame

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 26, 2021 2:22 AM

need to guard ourselves against the dangers of fame, then he takes calls about the Bible’s

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Arguments Don’t Have to Be Argumentative

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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Don’t Forget about Character

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

Facing our sin and developing our character by focusing on the Gospel is as integral to being an ambassador of Christ as both knowledge and wisdom.

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How the New Meaning of “Dignity” Is Changing Everything

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM

Roberta Green Ahmanson explains why our culture’s new understanding of human dignity “may well be the harbinger of a social transformation the likes of which we have not seen in the West for 1400...

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There Can Be No Moral Progress if There’s No Standard

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jul 31, 2019 5:45 PM

The moral relativist who is fighting for a moral principle is living in tension with his beliefs, and this provides a great starting point for a spiritual conversation.

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Atheist Gives Four Reasons He Doesn’t Believe in God

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Sep 8, 2022 9:57 PM

Tim responds to an atheist who says there’s no proof for God and that religion is an emotional comfort that holds back progress and is used to control people.

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#STRask: What Parenting Advice Would You Give Christian Fathers?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 11, 2023 8:12 PM

Questions about whether the Bible considers medicine to be sorcery, making the case

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What’s the Main Concern for Christian Parents When It Comes to Gender?

Web Content Article · By brian seagraves On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM

If the percentage of people who identify as transgender is so small, why do all parents need to be concerned about the effect this topic will have on their children?

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Be a Parable of God’s Grace

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM

Why are we to be “peaceable, gentle, showing every consideration for all men,” even—no, especially—to those who treat us poorly? Paul says it’s because this is how we illustrate something very...

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Seven Issues to Consider as You’re Thinking about Halloween

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM

If you’re wondering what to think about Halloween, here are seven issues to consider.

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The Problem Is Not with the Evidence

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 13, 2023 3:08 AM

Greg encourages Christians not to be discouraged when people don’t respond to their arguments, then he answers callers’ questions about whether Christians should be involved in the stock market and...

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Faith & Wishing

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM

If you “just take Christianity on faith” you may be in trouble...

Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Philosophy

What Would Polygamy Do to Society?

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM

Part of Utah’s law against bigamy was recently struck down by a U.S. District Judge, allowing for polygamy in practice and leaving no principled reason for not recognizing it legally, but here’s...

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