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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.

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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jul 30, 2019 10:26 PM

Tim Barnett and Greg Koukl explain why the most natural reading of the full corpus of Scripture on Hell supports the church’s historical position of eternal conscious torment and not nonexistence.

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The Trinity: A Solution, Not a Problem Part 2

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

In this second installment, I want to center on the biblical fact of the Trinity.

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Take Your Christianity with You into the Public Square

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

Greg talks about the value of voting then takes questions on whether or not God would create a Christian who was incapable of love, the biblical canon, and why God didn’t provide a way to...

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Your Work Is Important

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

You’re not a second-class citizen in God’s eyes if you’re not in the ministry.

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What You’ll Need Most to Continue to Engage Atheists

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

We all need to take seriously our need for God’s supernatural work in and through us, if we’re going to persevere in apologetics. Are you diligently pleading with Him for this?

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#STRask: August 31, 2015

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

Greg answers questions in 4 minutes or less on lying, social justice, common descent, and reformed theology.

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One Way or Any Way? Part 1

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:59 PM

You may hear someone say, “I am a Christian. I believe that Jesus is my savior. He is the only way for me. But I can’t say He is the way for others.” Here’s why this confused confession fails.

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Morality Doesn’t Depend on Belief in God, but It Does Depend on God

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 29, 2023 1:51 AM

Greg explains why objective morality doesn’t depend on belief in God but does depend on God, then he answers questions about responding to Mormon missionaries about how they know the Book of Mormon...

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Did Paul Know about Homosexuality?

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

Is it the case that the behavior the Bible is really against is not the kind of loving

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Look for Your Moral Blind Spots

Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Jul 28, 2022 1:47 AM

What injustices of our generation are we unaware of? We need to remind ourselves that we’re all blind to certain issues and intentionally look for our moral blind spots.

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Are Christians opposed to same-sex marriage because homosexuality is a sin?

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

flowchart that claims Christians mistakenly oppose same-sex marriage because of the Bible’s

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Faith Is Not Wishing

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

Here’s what the Bible has to say about the true nature of faith.

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Three Reasons Why College Students Leave Christianity

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 12, 2020 2:47 AM

What are three significant speed bumps for college kids when it comes to Christianity? Greg shares his thoughts.

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Why You Shouldn’t Lose Heart When Prayer Is Difficult

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

John Newton found prayer to be difficult, but here’s what gave him hope.

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Your Prayers Don’t Have to Be Monotonous—Mentoring Letter February, 2016

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

Simply put, let Scripture guide your conversation with God.

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Proverbs for Apologists

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:56 PM

Proverbs has some good words for those who are seeking to persuade others to follow Christ.

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Four Simple Ways to Grow Spiritually

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:59 PM

If one of your goals in 2019 is to grow spiritually, focus on doing these four simple things.

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#STRask: September 7, 2017

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

questions about women teaching in the church, psychopaths, Christian doctors, and Bible

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If Sin Is Finite, Why Is Hell Eternal?

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

Why would God punish non-believers with an eternity in Hell for a finite amount of sin? People who raise this complaint fail to understand the nature of two things: the nature of the offender and...

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#STRask: Why Do Atheists Get Angry When I Bring up Belief in God?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 7, 2024 3:08 PM

, and why the Lord’s Prayer says, “Lead us not into temptation,” when God would never

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The Scoop on Judging

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

If you’ve been to Starbucks lately, you might have noticed a new campaign to lift the consciousness of caffeinated patrons.

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#STRask: November 10, 2016

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM

Greg is on a timer and answers questions about the Gap Theory, the existence of objective morality, and Jesus praying in Gethsemene.

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The Doctrine of the Trinity at Nicaea and Chalcedon

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 5:38 PM

An in-depth look on how the early church took both the Bible and rationality seriously...and used the Bible as the authority and source of doctrine...

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Interview: Rosaria Butterfield, Openness Unhindered, Further Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert on Sexual Identity and Union with Christ

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM

Greg talks with Rosaria Butterfield about her conversion, sexual identity, and the Christian’s union with Christ.

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Are We Claiming to Know the Unknowable?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 7, 2023 2:30 AM

Greg corrects some of his speculations about Neanderthals from the previous episode, then he answers questions about what “weeping and gnashing of teeth” indicates, the influence of the Jesus...

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Dr. William Lane Craig, A Reasonable Response

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM

Greg talks about the beginning of life, evolution, moral relativism, and more.

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What Creation Reveals about God

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

Significant insights can be gleaned about a maker by looking at what he has made. Here are four truths creation reveals about the nature of God.

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To the Atheist Who Called Jesus “The Magic Carpenter” (And a Warning to Churches)

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

To the atheist commenter who referred to Jesus as ”the magic carpenter”: You can say Christianity is false. You can even say it’s dangerous. The one thing you can’t say is that it’s silly and shallow.

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We Are the Body of the Wounded Healer

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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#STRask: How Can We Not Be Anxious When We Know God Allows Bad Things to Happen to Us?

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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Christmas Reflections

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

Greg talks with a caller about relating to God, then reads some Christmas-themed articles.

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Thomas and Evidence

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

then discusses calls about how we know that the God who exists is the God of the Bible..., how to get a friend to take the Bible seriously, and more.

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The Claim about Homosexuality in the Film 1946 Is Irrelevant

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 16, 2021 8:26 PM

opposition to homosexuality is based on a 1946 mistranslation of a Greek word in the RSV Bible

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Did Jesus Die on a Torture Stake?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM

Christians and Jehovah’s Witnesses have fundamentally different views not only on why Jesus died on the cross but also on whether Jesus died on a cross. Here are five reasons to think He did.

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Interview: Sean McDowell, Resources to Equip Students

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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Remember “HANDS” When Arguing for Jesus’ Deity

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM

Komoszewski have a handy acronym to help you remember how to make the case that the Bible

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#STRask: April 17, 2017

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

Greg’s on a timer and answers questions about “The Shack,” women’s head coverings, and Jesus’ end times comments.

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How to Disagree in a Biblical Way

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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Not All Judgment Is Wrong

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

If you’ve been to Starbucks lately, you might have noticed a new campaign to lift the consciousness of caffeinated patrons.

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Interview: Tim Barnett, The Truth about Galileo

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM

Greg talks with STR speaker Tim Barnett about the commonly held misbeliefs about Galileo and the church, and Greg chats with callers.

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Full of Facts, Empty of Knowledge and Virtue

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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A Reminder of What Will Not Change Today

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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Why Religious Institutions Aren’t Taxed

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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Divine Foreknowledge Is Not the Same Thing as Omniscience

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 18, 2020 4:37 AM

Greg talks about divine foreknowledge then answers questions about tactics used with LDS (Mormon) missionaries and whether there’s anything God promises to give Christians in this life.

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Salvation Army Promoting CRT

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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Christopher Morgan on Hell and Inclusivism

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

Christopher Morgan on Hell and Inclusivism, then takes calls on how to read the Bible...better, if archaeology disprove the Bible, if Christians...

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A 5-Step Method for Studying Scripture: John 15:1–8

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

I want to lay out a 5-step method I use to study Scripture. I’ll apply it to John 15:1–8 to illustrate the method. It’s not the only method, and it’s not an exhaustive method, but I hope you find...

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How to Choose a Church

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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Are Jesus’ Two Natures Compatible?

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM

Are Jesus’ human and divine natures compatible? Is this an impossibility that makes Christianity irrational?

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