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The Crucifixion Stories Are Embarrassing, and That’s a Good Thing

Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Mar 31, 2023 9:59 PM

Familiarity with the Bible is good, but it can also lead to our missing important

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Don’t Be a Couch Potato During This Crisis

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 25, 2020 2:16 AM

Greg gives some practical advice for going through this crisis, talks about the hope we have when our lives turn out differently than we thought, answers a question about becoming an apologist, and...

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#STRask: April 27, 2017

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM

In 4 min. or less, Greg answers questions about the power of words, Jesus’ metaphor in John 11, and how Jesus is David’s descendant?

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Some Things Are True

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM

“It is impossible to know the meaning of any written text.” If this is true, log off the web now. If not, read this commentary to find out about self-refuting arguments.

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Less Is More: A Case for the Resurrection

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM

Alan’s monthly letter for July 2013 Go ahead and skip church this Sunday. No need to give thanks for your next meal. You might as well throw this letter in the trash, too.

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#STRask: Do Verses in Acts about Baptism Support a Oneness Understanding of God?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 16, 2022 4:38 PM

Questions about whether the fact that the apostles baptized people in Jesus’ name supports a oneness understanding of God and how to reconcile the laying on of hands to receive the Holy Spirit in...

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David Bowie’s Death and Trading Eternity

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

Greg talks about David Bowie’s death and trading eternity, then answers questions about how to answer the challenge that the Old Testament condones genocide and slavery, and what situation Timothy...

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#STRask: June 12, 2017

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM

Greg’s on a timer and answers questions about Experiencing God, personality types, and sinning in dreams.

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Who Says God Is Good?

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

Sometimes the simplest questions—questions that seem so basic we never expect them

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Weighing a Chicken with a Yardstick

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM

Can science disprove the existence of the soul? Here Greg deals with advances in computer science and neurology, and the limitations of science.

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New Prophets and Words from God

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM

the deity of Christ, if one should tithe when in debt, why the inerrancy of the bible...compassion in action, cans science disprove science, how to be faithful to the...

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Does God Have to Obey the Ten Commandments?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM

If you want to call moral rules absolutes in the sense that they can never be trumped

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The Ethic of Caring for the Sick

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM

hospitals and clinics, was unique historically in Christianity because of what the Bible

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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.

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Last Day Live on KBRT

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM

Greg talks about the Last Day Live on KBRT, emerging churches, seeker churches, and more.

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Prophecy and People: Both Design to Fit

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM

Greg sees a parallel between the evidence for grand design in nature and the fulfillment of Messianic prophecy by Jesus.

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Jesus’ Missing Years

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

Did Jesus study in India for the “missing” 18 years of His life and then bring back a message reflecting eastern religious thought?

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Hour 1 Interview: James Emory White, “Serious Times”

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:44 PM

Times,” then takes call son if a zygote is a human being, if unbelievers who have never

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Does Defending Christianity Discredit Christianity?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM

Kierkegaard claimed the act of defending Christianity actually discredits it. Here’s why his criticism of apologetics doesn’t work.

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#STRask: How Can Something Be Evil in Itself if Evil Is Only a Lack of Good?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 20, 2022 6:25 PM

is only a lack of good, how Jesus could have had a fully-human experience if he never

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#STRask: “If Jesus Didn’t Come to Condemn the World, I Doubt He Sent You To”

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 27, 2023 5:17 PM

to,” and whether it’s common for God to prepare us for a specific purpose that never

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#STRask: April 4, 2016

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM

Greg answers questions on why Jesus didn’t raise himself from the dead, what can be used instead of Jer. 29:11 for encouragement, what the difference is between Jews, Israelites, and Israel, if a...

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Ken Samples: Residual UFOs

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:44 PM

calls on other natural explanations for UFOs, the oddity that UFO sightings are never

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#STRask: July 14, 2016

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM

Greg talks about New Testament variants, the purpose of Satan, making disciples, and people giving accounts at the final judgment.

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How Do We Connect with God in a Way That’s Biblically Sound?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2024 12:53 AM

Greg responds to a request for advice on how to move from a “listening for the voice of God” view to connecting with God in a way that’s biblically sound, discussing stages of Christian maturity...

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Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM

The universe requires an explanation, and the universe requires a cause. Here’s a five-minute video to help you introduce these ideas to your friends and get a conversation started.

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#STRask: Did Jesus Ever Teach against Homosexuality?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 25, 2022 6:18 PM

Questions about how to respond to someone who claims Jesus never taught against homosexuality

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Is Consciousness an Illusion?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:39 PM

an illusion, Christmas card messages, if it is fair to send people to Hell who never

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Is God Just a Crutch?

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

Are You a Christian because You Were Born in America? Would you Be a Muslim If You Were Born in Iraq? Maybe. But So What?

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Jesus Didn’t Go to India

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM

Greg chats with Frank Turek about the upcoming Advanced CrossExamined Instructor Academy then gives an update on Melinda, talks about the claim that Jesus went to India, and answers a question...

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#STRask: Did the Mosaic Law Include Sacrifices for Intentional Sins?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 21, 2021 11:56 PM

how to respond to someone who says he isn’t a Christian because his prayers were never

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Unique Issues When Teaching on Abortion in a Muslim Culture

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

Alan talks about the unique questions that arise when teaching Christians in a Muslim culture about abortion in the case of rape, then he answers questions about homosexuality and Mormonism.

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Interview: J. Warner Wallace – Updated and Expanded Cold-Case Christianity

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 5, 2023 5:45 PM

Greg talks to J. Warner Wallace about the updated and expanded version of Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels—what’s new in the book, chain of...

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#STRask: How Should I Respond to a Formerly Muslim Friend Who Is Unwilling to Pay the Price for Becoming a Christian?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 16, 2023 7:16 PM

challenges or discuss differences and whether Acts 17:23 implies that people who never

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There’s No Evidence for God?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM

Greg responds to the claim that “there’s no evidence for Christianity” then answers questions about ghosts, arguing civilly, comforting the sick, and materials for teaching conversational...

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Interview: Neil Shenvi on Critical Theory

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 25, 2020 2:08 AM

Greg interviews Neil Shenvi on critical theory vs. the Christian worldview.

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Pilgrim Governor

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM

William Bradford was the long-serving governor of the Plymouth Colony.

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Star Light & the Age of the Universe

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM

When you look up into the midnight sky do you see stars? Or are the lights in the heavens mere appearances, images created in transit? The answer settles the question of whether the creation of the...

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#STRask: If We Can’t Impose a Moral Standard from One Period of Time on Another, How Does That Affect the Moral Argument?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 27, 2024 10:52 PM

from one period of time on another and responding to someone who says she would never

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If Naturalistic Evolution Is True, People Are Not Equal

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:44 PM

Worldviews matter, they lead to myriad consequences, and everyone has one. Make sure you think through yours - and its implications - carefully.

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If Pro-Gay Theology Advocates Could Change the Past, Would That Change the Future Like They Want?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Feb 13, 2024 3:19 PM

explains what would happen if someone was to go back in time to 1946 and stop the RSV Bible...He unpacks whether this would change the Bible’s...

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#STRask: October 3, 2016

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

In 4 min. or less, Greg answers a question about “calling”, how not to be wise but not afraid, and the OT sounds like a storybook.

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Stand to Reason’s 25th Anniversary

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:54 PM

Reason, gives an update on AB 2943, and takes questions on Jesus’ statement “I never

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#STRask: September 4, 2017

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM

Greg’s on a timer and answers questions about unbiblical counsel, Zeitgeist, and how God interacts with us.

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All Truth Is God’s Truth

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM

A true scientific discovery made by an atheist scientist is just as true as the biblical teaching that God is love or that Christ died for our sins. All truth is God’s truth.

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The Gospels Aren’t Ancient Fiction

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:56 PM

Bernard Howard has imagined a conspiracy-creating conversation based on Dawkins’s assertion that “the Gospels are ancient fiction.”

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J. Warner Wallace: God’s Crime Scene, Part 1

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM

Interview with J. Warner Wallace on God’s Crime Scene: A Cold-case Detective Examines the Evidence for a Divinely Created Universe—Part 1

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J. Warner Wallace: God’s Crime Scene, Part 2

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM

Interview with J. Warner Wallace on God’s Crime Scene: A Cold-case Detective Examines the Evidence for a Divinely Created Universe—Part 2

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Five Things to Look for in a Christian College

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 20, 2021 5:00 AM

Greg talks about five things to look for in a Christian college, then he answers questions about universalism, a “too high” view of Scripture, whether Jews and Christians worship the same God, your...

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Getting Science Right

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Mar 27, 2023 9:14 PM

Tim Barnett explains the difference between scientific methodology and scientific philosophy and shares how this key distinction impacts how we view evidence for Christianity.

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Does Gender Identity Matter?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:59 PM

Alan explains gender identity and what the Bible says about it.

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Got Context?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM

Learn a Secret Skill of Pastors to Help You Understand the Bible

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Thanksgiving Trip to Seattle

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

Greg talks about his Thanksgiving trip to Seattle, how to distinguish discrimination of race and same-sex couples, someone’s niece becoming their nephew, and more.

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#STRask: Will People Make Mistakes in Heaven?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 17, 2021 11:51 PM

will still be fallible and make mistakes in Heaven, whether the people who will never

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The Problem with Happiness

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:21 PM

Schaeffer said: All utopian ideals end up being cruel in the end, because they can never

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Respect the Order of Leadership

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 24, 2022 1:57 AM

culture has lost this value, then he answers a question about how we can expect to never

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Unified Truth: Faith and Reason

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM

You’ve probably heard of Thomas Aquinas because he was so influential, but you may not know why.

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Do Pro-Lifers Really Think Abortion Is Murder?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM

Alan responds to the claim that pro-lifers don’t really think abortion is murder if they don’t think women should get the death penalty for having an abortion, then he answers questions about God’s...

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Os Guinness Impossible People: How Christians Should Engage the Culture

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM

Guest Os Guinness talks about his book “Impossible People—How Christians Should Engage the Culture”

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How to Test for Intelligent Design

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

Intelligent Design hypothesis is untestable by science, exactly because we can never

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Does the Bible Limit Gender to Just Male and Female?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Sep 5, 2021 10:54 PM

Alan responds to a trendy new argument that claims that a non-binary interpretation can be imposed on the Genesis account of creation.

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The Truth about Christmas

Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Dec 19, 2022 6:19 PM

Some of the details of the Christmas story that we’ve all come to cherish find their origin in cultural myth rather than biblical truth. Here are three common misconceptions about Jesus’ birth.

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Are Christians Just Blind Followers?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 7, 2023 10:03 PM

makes sense for people who are convinced Christianity is true to believe what the Bible

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More Resources for Understanding and Discussing the Marriage Decision

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

Tom Gilson of Ratio Christi has gathered together “Top Christian Resources on the Marriage Debate (Books, Articles, Videos, Podcasts on Gay Marriage/Same-Sex Marriage).” Take a look and spread...

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#STRask: November 1, 2018

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM

Greg answers questions about whether God would ever command someone to rape, the difference between inerrant and infallible, and whether we should say we’re spiritual or religious.

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Gratitude: To Someone for Something

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM

Greg reflects on Thanksgiving and thankfulness then answers questions on the historicity of Adam and Eve and whether or not a Christian who lost his memory would still be saved.

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J. Warner Wallace: Accidental vs. Evidential Faith

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM

Greg Koukl talks with friend J. Warner Wallace his project “Forensic Faith”.

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Pluralism?

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

But one thing that we can never say is that we’re both right.

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Can Science Test Prayer?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM

Does science have the right tools to test whether prayer works? And is that the right question?

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#STRask: February 9, 2017

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:44 PM

Greg’s on a timer and answers questions about God’s revelation, prophecy, and Jesus’ deity

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Airplane Conversation

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM

Greg talks about airplane conversation, the Bible’s big picture, taking the Bible

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Are Science and Faith Compatible?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 11, 2024 11:00 PM

Tim Barnett discusses the compatibility of faith and science by first defining “faith” and “science” and then exploring the three problems a naturalist has to overcome in order to explain how even...

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Interview: Sean McDowell, The Beauty of Intolerance

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

Greg talks with Sean McDowell about his new book on the beauty of intolerance.

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Perception Is Truth?

Web Content Article · By j.t. wynn On Jun 27, 2019 9:54 PM

Some professors teach that “truth” depends on our perceptions, but does it?

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#STRask: May 4, 2017

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM

Greg’s on a timer, and answers questions about sexual sin and lying.