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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Mar 6, 2024 10:44 PM
At some point, you will likely be pressured by family or friends to attend a same-sex wedding, but here are two reasons why you should not attend, along with some practical advice on how to...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Because of the tragic death of Robin Williams, people are commenting on suicide and depression who have not loved someone who was devastated by them. A post by Ann Voskamp is different.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 1, 2019 5:11 PM
Here's today's challenge: "If God made people gay and they don’t have a choice in the matter because they were born with that orientation, then isn’t it unfair that He punishes them for just being...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Reading the Qur’an, going to mosques, listening to Islamic scholars—these all sound like the behaviors of a Muslim.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Feb 24, 2020 9:49 PM
When most people think of evangelism, they think of leading a person to Christ, but there is more to evangelism than this. Before there can be a harvest, there is always a season of gardening. Know...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 26, 2022 7:07 PM
Questions about how to make the case that the Bible is the Word of God and how we...can be “anxious for nothing,” as the Bible commands, when we...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
The Book of Mormon says God may institute polygamy in order to raise up more children, but does polygamy really accomplish this?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
to Sean McDowell about resources for students, including the Apologetics Study Bible
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
An atheist’s request for a miracle to prove God’s existence requires a careful answer. Brett offers that response.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM
Because Christians have false beliefs shaped by society’s values rather than the Bible’s
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Learn to spot the non-sequiturs atheists sometimes use to argue against Christianity.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
Sadly, the majority of Christian students aren’t prepared for the serious intellectual challenges awaiting them, let alone the barrage of moral challenges from an increasingly secular culture....
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM
We should begin teaching our kids apologetics as early as possible. Here’s how Tim translated an answer to the problem of evil into language even four-year-olds could understand.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
Greg talks about how to disagree in a biblical way, then answers questions about how to correct ideas of the Hebrew Roots movement and coping with many problems.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 22, 2021 2:11 AM
Greg talks about the CRT materials the Salvation Army is promoting, then he answers a question about how to start a conversation about salvation with Catholic relatives.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:52 PM
Neil Postman predicted our downfall would come not from externally-imposed oppression but from the pursuit of trivial pleasure, and it seems he was right.
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Web Content Article · By stand to reason On Nov 3, 2020 2:34 AM
Regardless of how the election turns out, Christians ought to stand out in our anxious society as people securely resting in the knowledge that our future—whether painful or comfortable—is in the...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
There’s a reason why religious institutions aren’t taxed, and it has to do with the First Amendment of the Constitution.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
How do you choose a good church? This question comes up frequently and I’m glad it does. It shows people are asking the right questions.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 28, 2022 11:47 PM
If you practice simple things like these, spending a few extra minutes valuing someone you’ve come in contact with, you’ll be on your way to becoming a warm, attractive ambassador for Christ.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:39 PM
The Bible says that Christians are ambassadors for Christ.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
Most people nowadays would not say that the religious stories believers believe are actually false. At the same time, though, they do not think they’re really true, either, in any deep sense of the...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 1, 2021 7:43 PM
As Christians, we know we’re called to share the gospel. But are we held accountable for sharing the gospel with every person we come into contact with? Greg and Amy respond, explaining relevant...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Dec 8, 2020 2:39 AM
If we interpret proverbs as promises, we will become disappointed when we think God is not fulfilling his promises. If we understand proverbs properly, however, we won’t make that mistake.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Apr 12, 2022 10:10 PM
It’s understandable that Christians would ask how they can talk to their transgender (or bisexual, gay, etc.) friends about their sexuality, but that’s not the most important issue they need to...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
If we Christians have a small view of God and the story He’s telling through history, and if our services reflect this empty perspective, we can’t be surprised when the culture around us absorbs...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Our obstinacy has been getting us into trouble for 2,000 years whenever a government makes the upsetting discovery that Christians place the authority of Jesus above that of civil authorities...
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
for non-Christians represented a radical difference in the values taught by the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
Hall and Melinda Penner discuss faithfully responding to opposition, racism, and Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 31, 2023 2:57 AM
Greg talks about five areas—salvation, abortion, gender, marriage, and sex—where Christians are drifting into falsehood because of pressure in the culture and not because of ambiguity in the text....
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 5:44 PM
It’s easy to characterize religion as a blood-thirsty enterprise, a perpetrator of witch hunts, crusades, and religious jihad. But has Christianity been the cause of such evil, or does the truth...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
There are times in the Old Testament when God does not rescue His righteous from destruction and He allows them to perish. The book of Hebrews Chapter 11 has an account of some of those times.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
You already are Christ’s ambassador—how can you be a better one?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
Greg talks about how the get over your fear of engaging critics of Christianity, how to witness to Mormon missionaries, and how to evaluate a church leader who is sincere but bears bad fruit.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM
J. Warner Wallace talks about the basic rules of evidence and answers a question about John the Baptist’s objection to Herod’s marriage.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 24, 2022 6:01 PM
Greg and Amy consider examples of salvation from the Old Testament next to what Paul writes about general revelation and salvation in Romans.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
Wilberforce worked for decades to end Britain’s slave trade in the late 1700s and early 1800s, but he also had this to say to Christian apologists like you.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM
Both Jesus and Paul spoke of (and lived) a life of singleness for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, and it wasn’t a life of loneliness.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
Greg interviews Todd Wilson, author of Mere Sexuality: Rediscovering the Christian Vision of Sexuality.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
When I was asked recently during a live Christian TV show why I send bi-monthly mentoring letters to Christians like you, an insight suddenly dawned on me.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 7, 2019 9:41 PM
Greg talks about a statement he wrote for a school board meeting about sex education, then he answers questions about “listening prayer” and interacting with LDS missionaries.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:56 PM
of the most persuasive passages to use with a Jehovah’s Witness from their own Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
Sometimes being a good representative of the Kingdom hinges on the simplest things.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
laws, if when we die, we go to the grave not Hell, and if it is effective to use Bible...codes to prove the Bible’s reliability.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Today’s a special day for me. It was 35 years ago today—September 28, 1973—in an apartment on Granville Street near Stoner Park in West Los Angeles that, sitting at the table with my younger...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Lady Gaga’s mega-hit song, “Born this Way,” expressed what many believe: Homosexuality is hardwired in the genes.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Have you ever taken a verbal beating when trying to talk about Jesus? If so, I’ve got a tip for you.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Christians who have not thought deeply about evil and suffering are one crisis away from having their trust in God shattered. Here are some key ideas you need to know.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Mar 23, 2020 9:01 PM
How does one become the kind of person who rejoices in God in the midst of the worst kind of suffering?
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Nov 2, 2021 11:25 PM
Jon Noyes answers the question “How should I approach my atheist friends?”
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM
arguments on any topic as he discusses an article challenging the historicity of the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
If I have only a short time to read, Proverbs is where I turn first. Every day that I do, I feel like my foundation is being shored up.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 26, 2021 2:15 AM
J. Warner Wallace talks about how the Christian worldview interacts with police work, then he answers questions about communicating effectively to LDS missionaries and bringing Mormons to Jesus.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 19, 2021 2:51 AM
Z and how to reach this digitally-native generation, then he describes the Bible
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM
Muslims reject the idea that Jesus died on the cross, but the Bible says the cross
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 1, 2021 2:44 AM
Greg talks about his love for his Bible, a caller tells his story about becoming...blind and reading the Bible as a blind Christian, and Greg...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Paul says that we are “living letters” that others read. Greg makes a suggestion for a way to apply wisdom when engaging others.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 20, 2023 1:32 AM
Greg recommends a film about the Bible and talks about a conversation he had with...love one another trumps the command to love God and explains how he annotates his...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:56 PM
tips for interacting in a public forum then answers questions on slavery in the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM
Differences between Christian and Muslim views on homosexuality, convincing a Muslim the Bible
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Since incest is a turning inward towards those in our family who are like us, rather than an outward turning towards a different family, it’s contrary to the purpose of our sexuality.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Aug 10, 2022 10:32 PM
Jon Noyes answers a question about whether the Fall could justify a transgender person’s belief that they have the correct mind in the wrong body.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Mar 12, 2020 3:49 PM
Is the question of whether or not homosexuality is sinful something Christians should divide over, or can we agree to disagree?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
Greg answers in 4 minutes or less if tithing applies to Christians, what elders and deacons are for, and if prayer persuades God.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:44 PM
As we face serious challenges on two broad fronts—trouble in the world and trouble in the church—we’re called to “contend earnestly for the faith once for all handed down to the saints,” but...
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM
The other day, I retweeted Brian Seagraves’ tweet: “The transgender community wants a right no one has had: the right to use a bathroom that doesn’t match your sex.” Someone replied that...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM
Greg talks with Michael Horton about his new book Core Christianity and how to find ourselves in God’s story.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 5, 2020 2:31 AM
Greg talks about Alan’s article “How 2020 Is Taking a Toll on Your Soul” then answers a question about how to respond to a naturalist who says free will is just an illusion.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Aug 1, 2019 4:38 PM
Long ago, I heard Greg recommend praying Colossians 1:9–12, and that has stuck with me.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
Greg is on a four-minute timer and answers questions about reasons to believe the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Greg answers questions about Bible versions, declining to attend a same-sex wedding
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Feb 15, 2022 1:07 AM
A 30-year-old book on the fundamental ideas of the fascist worldview (a rejection of a transcendent God and moral standard) reminds us of what can happen when truth is no longer valued.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
Even if you set aside the biblical texts that prohibit same-sex relations, you can still make a solid case against pro-gay theology by simply looking at Scripture’s teaching on marriage.
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Jul 28, 2022 2:29 AM
Fulfilled prophecy is evidence that God communicates and is involved in mankind’s history, but it’s often overlooked as an apologetic for Christianity. Here are three criteria for using specific...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 20, 2023 8:46 PM
Question about whether there’s anything in the Gospel of John that a Bible study
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