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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Dec 12, 2019 7:41 PM
Alan fills in for Greg and answers questions about the image of God in the mentally disabled, the drawbacks of a homosexual lifestyle, and how to pray for a family member who says she’s bisexual.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Dec 12, 2019 8:17 PM
Alan talks about Ellen DeGeneres’s statement about being friends with people she disagrees with, answers questions about evidence vs. Holy Spirit and submitting to authority, then talks to Scott...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Dec 12, 2019 8:20 PM
Alan talks to Tim Muehlhoff, author of Defending Your Marriage: The Reality of Spiritual Battle, about spiritual warfare.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Dec 12, 2019 10:05 PM
Alan explains how to use a common yet powerful question to help point people to God.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Dec 12, 2019 10:22 PM
What is the current state of the church on sexuality, and how can we compassionately but truthfully address this topic? Alan answers questions like these in this discussion with Jack Hibbs.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 7, 2020 10:50 PM
Is there hope for a person who experiences same-sex attraction? Alan responds to this question and more in part two of his discussion with Jack Hibbs.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 10, 2020 10:08 PM
The Columbo Tactic—asking question—is powerful. But what if you could amplify the impact you make with it? In this episode, Alan explains how to upgrade your approach to create even more powerful...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Feb 3, 2020 9:03 PM
Alan explains why we should care about God’s view of how we should use our bodies.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Feb 3, 2020 9:39 PM
While speaking on embryonic stem cell research at a church recently, Alan was challenged by an attendee.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Mar 2, 2020 5:26 PM
Ed Komoszewski of Parchment and Pen reviewed the recent Bart Ehrman/Dan Wallace debate ("Can we trust the text of the New Testament?"), offering these six points (abridged below) to summarize...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Mar 15, 2020 7:45 PM
The culture has been pressuring Christians to pick a side: celebrate homosexuality and same-sex unions or continue to consider them sinful. Alan discusses whether Christians should divide over this...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Apr 5, 2020 4:11 PM
A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has just struck down California’s Prop 8—an amendment to the Constitution that defines marriage as one man and one woman.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Apr 28, 2020 4:34 PM
What should you say to your non-Christian friend who rejects Christianity? In this episode, Alan explains an important principle to help him navigate this situation.
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Web Content Article · By j. warner wallace On May 5, 2020 10:57 PM
people_history_worldview27.jpg When you write a book that seeks to evaluate the Gospels as eyewitness accounts, you shouldn’t be surprised to find that some critics will attack the premise that the...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 15, 2020 4:09 PM
Believe it or not, there’s a valuable lesson that Christians can learn from the violent video game Mortal Kombat. Alan explains the lesson and how it should affect your conversations with people...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 23, 2020 12:32 AM
Alan shows us where we can find Jesus’ clearly-stated views on sex and marriage.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Jun 24, 2020 7:28 AM
Jon tells the story of how he came to realize atheism can’t explain reality but Christianity can.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 3, 2020 10:21 PM
Lady Gaga’s mega-hit song “Born this Way” sold millions of copies affirming what many people believe: homosexuality is hardwired.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 3, 2020 11:29 PM
I often hear this question loaded with two scenarios...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 4, 2020 2:13 PM
What are some ways Christians can show love to homosexuals, both inside and outside the church?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Sep 6, 2020 7:15 PM
Skeptics and atheists find the problem of evil so repugnant and our solutions so hollow because they refuse to accept a fundamental reality that every Christian believes. Alan explains what that...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Oct 18, 2020 11:20 PM
Alan talks about how Christians were caught off guard by the current cultural revolution sweeping society today. He offers a two-step strategy to prepare for the next revolution and to protect...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Oct 22, 2020 1:26 PM
Tim explains how the disciples had nothing to gain by making up what they professed about Jesus.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Nov 17, 2020 4:23 PM
Alan sounds the alarm on a pop Christian culture habit called Coffee Cup Christianity. He unpacks three of its harms and explains how they are fueling biblical illiteracy.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Dec 8, 2020 4:53 PM
A worldview that denies God and embraces naturalism has serious repercussions, the most egregious being a logical slide to nihilism. Alan unpacks three reasons why nihilism flows logically from...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 12, 2021 8:00 PM
Does God require a certain amount of faith before he accepts it? Alan addresses this question by clarifying the nature of faith.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Feb 21, 2021 6:02 PM
Have you ever been called a "phobic" term like homophobic, Islamophobic, transphobic, or xenophobic? Alan discusses three reasons why you don’t have to fear the “phobic” label.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Mar 20, 2021 11:32 PM
When you realize your theology is in error, do you overcorrect by swinging wildly to the opposite position? Alan offers a biblical approach to correcting your view, one that looks more like using a...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Mar 31, 2021 8:32 PM
If they can get you to say that “biological sex” is a fiction and we don’t know how to tell the difference between boys and girls, they can get you to say anything.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Apr 18, 2021 4:37 PM
Alan received some harsh feedback from a recent event. He explains three steps he takes when he gets these kinds of critical comments.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 22, 2021 5:34 AM
If someone asked you how you know Christianity is true, how would you answer them? In this episode, Alan offers his response to that question by appealing to some powerful truths that people live by.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jul 20, 2021 5:47 PM
You've heard of the Big Bang, but are you aware of the other two big bangs, each of which represents the beginning of a fundamentally new thing that didn't exist before? Alan explains what they are...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Oct 9, 2021 10:35 PM
Alan takes notice of a cultural trend to reject teleological language when describing human anatomy and shows how this explains modern thinking on sex and sexuality.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Nov 17, 2021 3:26 AM
Tim Barnett chats with Josh Brahm of Equal Rights Institute about how to respond to the different kinds of “my body, my choice” bodily rights arguments for abortion.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 3, 2022 10:59 PM
Some people claim God can give a person the wrong body, and that fixing his mistake is just like getting glasses or braces. This thinking, however, is misguided for at least four reasons.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 18, 2022 11:08 PM
Do abortion-choice advocates hold a morally superior view or is their position discriminatory? Alan unpacks this question in this month’s episode.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jan 20, 2022 6:06 AM
In the past, we’ve made a distinction here at Stand to Reason between agreeing to use a person’s preferred name vs. using his preferred pronouns. Why would we agree to one but not the other?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 25, 2022 12:19 AM
Transgender people believe their internal state accurately reflects what their body should be like, but why presume one’s internal psychological thinking is always correct?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Feb 11, 2022 8:12 PM
Alan responds to a tweet that suggests that transgender people are fixing God’s mistakes.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Feb 23, 2022 12:53 AM
The Christian claim is that every believer who is transformed by the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit experiences a change of identity and lifestyle, including LGBT people.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Mar 7, 2022 9:50 PM
If we honor God’s pronouns revealed in Scripture, why aren’t we willing to honor people’s preferred pronouns? Alan explains why the two situations are not parallel.
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Apr 28, 2022 11:20 PM
Did Jesus truly rise from the dead? Surprisingly, something you do almost every week is powerful evidence that he did.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 12, 2022 12:36 AM
Alan responds to the claim by some gender theorists that God’s pronouns should be they/them.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On May 27, 2022 10:00 PM
For decades, our culture has been denying the differences between men and women in order to promote sameness­—in genders, roles, couples, etc. But reality has a way of asserting itself.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 4, 2022 8:10 PM
A popular tweet claims that if someone can believe God became a man, then they can also believe that a man can become a woman. Alan unpacks this tweet, defines some key terms, and shows why the...
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Jun 25, 2022 1:31 AM
When it comes to Pride Month, staying discouraged won’t help us. What we need instead is clear thinking from a biblical perspective to help us move away from discouragement and toward...
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Aug 29, 2022 7:22 PM
Jesus fulfilled all requirements of the Law—not only during his life, but also after his death, as this little-known historical fact shows.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Sep 18, 2022 2:01 AM
Many biologists, doctors, and scientists tell us today that sex is on a spectrum or that there are more than two sexes. Alan addresses this claim by looking at the evidence from both Scripture and...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Dec 6, 2022 11:07 PM
Tim Barnett answers an objection that claims December 25th was originally the date given for the birth of pagan gods.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Dec 8, 2022 11:04 PM
Alan explains two reasons why abortion-choice advocates insist that pro-life arguments are religious.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 9, 2023 4:48 PM
Some object to the idea that Jesus paid the penalty for our sins through his death on the cross, calling it “child sacrifice.” Alan, however, offers three reasons why characterizing it that way is...
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Jan 30, 2023 9:57 PM
A slogan promoting polyamory proclaims, “Love is not a finite resource.” Here are three reasons why you shouldn’t be swayed by this catchy saying.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Feb 8, 2023 5:46 PM
Alan addresses a progressive Christian who claims that Jesus wants LGBT people to “come out,” by explaining how he misuses a common literary device.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Mar 12, 2023 7:46 PM
When it comes to answering critical questions about how we humans should live, identify, and behave sexually, who should we listen to? Man or our Maker?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Apr 12, 2023 10:03 PM
A recent article in The Guardian displayed some misleading images of what is removed in an abortion from a 9-week pregnancy. Alan explains the problems with the article and the images.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On May 5, 2023 11:12 PM
This man’s response to his employer’s pronoun request graciously covers key points and could serve as an excellent outline for you as you plan how you will respond in future situations.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 10, 2023 9:05 PM
Some Christians and many former Christians are promoting a trendy approach to doubting and questioning your faith called deconstruction. Is it the same as reforming your faith? Alan explains the...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On May 23, 2023 12:01 AM
Andrew Sullivan recognizes the destructive danger queer theory poses to societal norms, but it was the same-sex marriage movement that destroyed the basis for sexual norms in the first place,...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On May 25, 2023 4:09 PM
Chromosome variations other than XY and XX still only produce either a man or a woman, not additional sexes. This short and simple video explains why.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On May 31, 2023 10:35 PM
Jon Noyes describes how he asks questions, talks about the common ground we share as sinners and people made in the image of God, and explains the truth about our sex and the hope of the...
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On May 31, 2023 10:41 PM
Jon Noyes explains his personal convictions regarding whether a Christian should attend a same-sex wedding.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 13, 2023 7:36 PM
Alan describes the inconsistency in current laws surrounding abortion and homicide and offers a simple solution.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 20, 2023 4:32 AM
When people reject their Maker, they no longer have an external source to tell them who they are, so they often tap into their inner thoughts and feelings to create their own identity. This...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jul 11, 2023 7:08 PM
Alan offers three steps to respond to the rhetorically powerful, yet flawed argument that women might get injured or killed through dangerous, back-alley abortions if abortion is made illegal.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 10, 2023 6:11 PM
Alan addresses the objection that Christians are only kind to people so they can convert them.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Sep 10, 2023 8:48 PM
Why has it become so hard to define a woman? Alan looks at a few definitions that are offered, explains what’s wrong with them, and then offers his own definition.
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Oct 3, 2023 5:37 PM
The theory that Jesus merely fainted on the cross then regained consciousness in the tomb is a popular alternative story to the resurrection of Jesus, but is it reasonable?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Oct 27, 2023 4:13 PM
Alan attended Andy Stanley’s Unconditional Conference, an event intended to equip parents and ministry leaders how to reach out to LGBTQ youth. In this episode, Alan provides his assessment of the...
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Nov 2, 2023 11:30 PM
Some people claim Jesus was still alive when he was taken off the cross, but there are three major problems with this theory.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Nov 10, 2023 7:08 PM
People who identify as LGBT routinely ask their Christian friends and family to accommodate various requests. Are you justified in declining to go along even if it might damage your relationship...
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Nov 22, 2023 5:01 AM
Our public school system has become a way for the government to indoctrinate your children according to a highly divisive view of sex and sexuality. Here’s how you can respond.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Dec 15, 2023 7:59 PM
Alan addresses whether it’s reasonable to refuse to use a transgender person’s preferred pronouns.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 8, 2024 11:29 PM
A progressive Christian claims that advocating for pro-gay and pro-trans theology is countercultural and courageous, but is it?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 12, 2024 9:07 PM
When a person rejects God, they’re left to determine for themselves their own identity. Alan unpacks some problems with this approach.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan explains how the important principle of truth and compassion plays out in the discussion on homosexuality.
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