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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Dec 4, 2019 12:27 AM
The more you can learn about a person’s religion, the more likely you’ll be able to leverage that knowledge to ask informed and powerful questions. Here’s how Alan applies that principle to...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Dec 12, 2019 7:34 PM
Alan fills in for Greg and answers questions about ethical objections to a woman giving birth to her sister’s embryo and whether women should be required to see an ultrasound before an abortion.
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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 28, 2019 2:51 AM
Why and how should you mark up a book? Alan reflects on an article by Mortimer Adler, explaining three benefits you will receive when you interact with what you read.
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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 amy k. hall On Jan 23, 2020 10:51 PM
Contrary to the opposite charge people tend to make today, early Christianity was mocked for being too pro-women. Here’s why.
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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 alan shlemon On Feb 26, 2020 7:22 PM
If you could move the conversation with your non-Christian friends in any direction, what would you talk about? Alan offers insight.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Mar 2, 2020 6:19 PM
Peter Kreeft explains how our innate, unmet desire for something beyond the "finite and partial" argues for the existence of God
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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 tim barnett On Mar 31, 2020 1:42 AM
As you become more dependent on video technology during this difficult time, here’s how you can better connect with the person on the other end of the video.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Apr 4, 2020 12:43 AM
If Christ is the foundation of all reality, if all things were made through Him, then to learn truly about Him is to align ourselves with reality.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Apr 4, 2020 5:13 PM
I encourage you to read Tim Challies’s explanation of how he uses this prayer app and then get it for yourself.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Apr 4, 2020 5:58 PM
If you're interested in becoming an apologetics speaker, consider attending CrossExamined Instructor Academy this year, where you'll learn from Greg Koukl, Brett Kunkle, and more.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Apr 6, 2020 9:47 PM
Don’t discount apologetics because you think it’s argumentative. There’s a distinction between apologetics and the manner in which it is practiced.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Apr 7, 2020 2:55 AM
There are those who see Jesus on the cross and say, “See how He loved us!” And there are those who say, “Couldn’t He have prevented the suffering in the first place?”
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Apr 15, 2020 8:56 PM
The coronavirus crisis has consequences, and there is one consequence of this crisis you may not have considered.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Apr 28, 2020 4:04 PM
Before you can refute an idea, you have to actually understand the idea. Otherwise, you end up defeating a defenseless imitation of an argument—a straw man—instead of the real thing.
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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 amy k. hall On Apr 30, 2020 4:42 PM
How do we fight being lured away from our reasoned convictions about the truth of Christianity during a time of upheaval? Here’s some advice from C.S. Lewis and practical help from Trevin Wax.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 8, 2020 3:40 PM
Alan reminds Christians of an important way to be kind and winsome before expressing an opposing view.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 8, 2020 3:47 PM
Alan shares a helpful tip on what to do when you’re stuck in a conversation with someone who has an opposing viewpoint.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 8, 2020 3:58 PM
Alan encourages Christians not to stress about getting to the gospel in every conversation with non-believers. Instead, aim to put a stone in their shoe.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On May 12, 2020 9:52 PM
Questions are a legitimate way to get people to think. But if questions subtly create confusion, fallacy, or error, they only serve to conceal the truth rather than reveal the truth.
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Web Content Article · By aaron brake On May 13, 2020 11:45 PM
We should hate and denounce the evil of racism, but we shouldn’t assume that every violent encounter between people of different races is motivated by racism.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 21, 2020 7:57 PM
STR’s mission is to train Christians to make an even-handed, incisive, yet gracious defense for Christianity. By doing that, we hope our vision will become a reality for you.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 22, 2020 1:28 PM
Alan shares the most important topic Christians can bring up if they want to start a conversation with their Muslim friend or neighbor.
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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 16, 2020 5:16 AM
It’s certain that we will face many circumstances where we either succumb to our desires or surrender to God. We need to be prepared to make the right decision no matter the cost.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 18, 2020 9:50 PM
Omnipotence is not the power to do anything. Rather, it’s the ability to do anything power can do. Even infinite power cannot do what is contradictory or absurd.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 23, 2020 12:15 AM
On the podcast a couple of weeks ago, Greg spoke about an event he attended—a conversation between Ryan Bell (a former pastor who is now an atheist) and Sean...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 23, 2020 2:28 AM
Classical education depends on a three-part process of training the mind, and you can use this approach to teach your children apologetics.
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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 stand to reason On Jun 27, 2020 11:30 PM
Merry Christmas from all of us at Stand to Reason!
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jul 3, 2020 1:56 AM
Given the current state of news reporting, how do we decipher truth from falsehood? Here are three steps we can take to avoid being fooled by fake news.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jul 23, 2020 8:06 PM
Alan shares how he uses apologetics in conversation.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 12, 2020 9:58 PM
Sin twists, destroys, and leaves a path of destruction in its wake. And, as in this case, trying to justify sinful decisions also leads to contradictions.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Aug 22, 2020 5:20 AM
As you're engaging people in spiritual conversations online, make sure you're seeking to win them, not be rid of them.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Sep 3, 2020 12:23 AM
A good teacher questions assumptions, exposes errors, and challenges students to think critically—which is why Tim created Red Pen Logic with Mr. B.
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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 Sep 25, 2020 8:11 PM
It’s our fault that so many believers have embraced a false philosophy—critical theory—and are attempting to parrot it back into the church. There’s a simple reason why: lack of training.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Oct 1, 2020 5:52 PM
Jon discusses how the word “tolerance” has been redefined in order to silence some viewpoints.
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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 alan shlemon On Oct 21, 2020 6:08 AM
WWJD? We should take our cues from Jesus’ life and public ministry, but we shouldn’t—and can’t—always do what Jesus would do. Here are three things Jesus did that we should not do.
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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 Nov 19, 2020 11:12 PM
When times are tough, it’s tempting to downplay giving thanks, but no matter how bad things get, we should continue to give thanks for at least three reasons.
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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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