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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:22 PM
A solid argument can be built just like a solid house: walls first, then the roof. Here’s a building plan, plus three ways arguments collapse.
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Philosophy
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
The images are sadly familiar. Buildings ripped from their foundations. Corpses mingled with debris. Parents and friends grieving for lost loved ones. Flowers and candles and makeshift memorials.
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Theology
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Aug 1, 2019 7:01 PM
If our culture valued micro issues, then women would feel more free to invest themselves in them without feeling guilty they’re not acting like men, and our society would be much better off.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
C.S. Lewis seems to suggest that those who sincerely pursue God the best way they know how are accepted by Him, regardless of whether or not they explicitly put their faith in Jesus. Is he right?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
I do not consider myself a particularly brave person, and I think it especially foolish, on the main, to make a frontal assault on a clearly superior force.
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Theology
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:42 PM
Why are transgender people encouraged to “be who they are,” but boys and girls in general are discouraged from being their respective sexes?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 23, 2021 10:55 PM
Here’s a story that illustrates why presupposing materialism is detrimental to science.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:42 PM
takes calls on if empirical knowledge is the only truth we can know, how to use the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM
Greg talks to Alan Shlemon about how Christians can navigate the transgender discussion, interact with transgender friends and family, etc.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Harper on the Titanic, then takes calls on what the meaning of marriage is in the Bible
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
You may have already seen Rev. Dr. Phil Snider’s two-minute speech to the Springfield City Council in support of adding “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the categories of...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 22, 2023 2:36 AM
preaching against abortion even though people in the congregation have had abortions, Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 21, 2020 9:45 PM
There’s a lesson to be learned from using vignettes like these. Sometimes all it takes is a short reflection or a briefly explained insight to put a stone in someone’s shoe...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 10, 2024 9:53 PM
Tim responds to a progressive pastor who claims Matthew 23:37 supports men dressing in drag.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
Evolutionists love to point to vestigial structures in the biological realm as evidence for evolution.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Mormonism demands perfection. Thankfully the God of Christianity offers true grace to our LDS friends and family.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 14, 2021 1:47 AM
those with different worldviews and different ideas about sexuality to church or a Bible
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
Muslim Followers of Christ?—A Look Inside the “Insider Movement”
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
Tom Gilson - Critical Conversations: A Christian Parents’ Guide to Discussing Homosexuality with Teens
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 27, 2021 7:27 AM
Greg responds to an article that says Jesus would have marched in a pride parade, then he answers a question about Christians disagreeing on whether the COVID vaccine is a hill to die on.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 20, 2022 6:23 PM
science can test supernatural worldviews and how to respond to the claim that the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:42 PM
with Lee Strobel, then takes calls on how to check the historical facts in the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM
Greg and Wayne Rossiter discuss Theistic Evolution and the Absent God.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Once you accept the reasoning for same-sex marriage, there’s no rational reason to legally discriminate against three people who love each other.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 16, 2024 10:27 PM
move from the cosmological argument for the existence of God to the God of the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
When it comes to spiritual warfare, the New Testament emphasis is not on prayer-infused power encounters, but on something completely different, and if we miss that, then I think we miss the heart...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Oct 1, 2019 11:55 PM
BreakPoint’s symposium on “purity culture” has some interesting thoughts from Christian thinkers on sexual purity and how we should advance the biblical sexual ethic.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Apr 26, 2023 9:36 PM
It’s one thing to deny your preferences for the sake of others, but if accommodating another person’s requests requires you to violate your conscience, then it’s reasonable to decline.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM
The Nashville Statement on the biblical vision of sex and sexuality was released last week, and many people have objected, calling it unloving.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM
Peter Boghossian’s A Manual for Creating Atheists teaches atheists a way to engage Christians that he calls “Street Epistemology.” Here’s where his project goes wrong and how you can respond...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
Careful thinking is an indispensable tool for all who are interested in knowing the way the world really is, for those who really do love truth. Thankfully, the tools of thinking are simple ones...
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Philosophy
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
It would often be easier to compromise, but we’re called to do church God’s way, even if it’s the more messy, difficult, and uncomfortable way.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
A recent study in Finland showed that both believers and non-believers in God showed physical evidence of emotional stress when daring God to do something that would hurt them.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 2, 2023 4:15 PM
at temporary kiosks around town, witnessing to New Age siblings who misquote the Bible
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 3, 2020 10:44 PM
It’s often said that if you repeat something loud enough and long enough, people will begin to believe it.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
There has to be a better way to show compassion to the few children who suffer from gender confusion that doesn’t involve destroying a healthy understanding of the distinction between boys and girls.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 21, 2020 9:58 PM
In this issue of Solid Ground I continue with my collection of short vignettes I have collected over the years.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
A rather lengthy passage in which Paul seems to use homosexuality as indicative both of man’s deep seated rebellion against God and God’s proper condemnation of man.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:42 PM
In 4 min. or less, Greg answers questions about LGBTQ in the Bible, who designed
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
Any believer who knows the Gospel can be used by God to bring Muslims to the Truth.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Feb 29, 2024 9:59 PM
Christianity offers a high view of human value and purpose. Jon Noyes explains how this should impact the way we interact with others, especially friends and family who identify as LGBTQ+.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 14, 2022 2:29 AM
talks to callers about whether there was a doctrine he couldn’t have seen in the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
opinion and is therefore subjective, and whether we should only use King James Bibles
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
If our culture’s highest ideal for marriage is sameness between the partners (not to mention barrenness), then it naturally follows that the new ideal is same-sex marriage.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Apr 9, 2020 12:35 AM
Communicating Christian theology to Mormons is very difficult, but here is a possible point of contact.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Why would Jehovah’s Witnesses care whether Jesus died on a pole or a cross? The answer to this question could help you spot less obvious cults more quickly.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 13, 2024 10:00 PM
Christians are not only called to love people who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender, but we—more than anyone else in our culture—can give a justification for loving them even...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 25, 2023 4:34 PM
Greg answers questions from callers about visions of Mary, the biblical view of yoga, how we can know Hosea 11:1 is really a prophecy about Jesus, and whether people are misusing prophecies about...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
Christians and Muslims both believe there is a deity who created the universe, administrates history, and judges human actions, but they believe differently in who fills that role.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for November 2012 Secular culture has given God the boot. Science has emerged as the new religion and scientists are its priests.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
If you genuinely believe there is no truth, can you still be a Christian?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
What would you say to a group of Palestinian Christians and Muslims if you had the chance to teach them theology and apologetics? Here’s what Alan did.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
discrimination, God being unfair to the Israelites in Egyptian slavery, a book on Bible
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
Muslims hold a deficient and distorted view of Jesus. It’s a tragic case of mistaken identity with dire consequences. Here are three ways Muslims mistake the true Jesus.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
Quantum physics. Ugh. The term itself is enough to make grown men weep and send theologians scurrying. It can also send chills up the spine of the Christian marshalling evidence from science for...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
and the is-ought fallacy helps us to answer an important question about what the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 25, 2019 10:44 PM
What was Jesus loving and accepting regarding during His ministry? Greg clarifies a common misconception.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
Greg discusses consideration, gender identity, and bathrooms, then proceeds to answer calls about if the people with demons Jesus cast out were really mentally ill, and how to evaluate...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jul 31, 2019 10:18 PM
I came across a lecture by Peter J. Williams that I found to be an excellent complement to this month’s Solid Ground (if you haven’t yet read Greg’s “The Canaanites: Genocide or Judgment?” you...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Nov 30, 2023 7:59 PM
Some people argue that since Eve was formed out of a rib containing male DNA, she was a transgender woman, and therefore God approves of people transitioning. Here’s why this argument doesn’t work.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM
Alan interviews Christopher Yuan about his new book, Holy Sexuality and the Gospel: Sex, Desire, and Relationships Shaped by God’s Grand Story.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:42 PM
Does saying “God did it” short-circuit thinking and curiosity?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 7, 2022 1:36 AM
whether Paul ever got a chance to stand before Caesar, whether we can trust the Bible
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
When Christopher Yuan became a Christian, he had every reason to accept pro-gay theology; but when he studied it, here’s what he found.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
The future of thoughtful Christianity does not belong to best-selling authors or popular speakers. Rather, it will be determined by people like you—committed disciples in the local church with warm...
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Christian Living
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Nov 6, 2020 3:16 AM
Without understanding God’s immanence, one can fall into deism, which is often the route to naturalism.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Apr 5, 2023 11:36 PM
In the controversy over how to answer the question “What is a woman?” some proposed definitions are circular or even absurd. Here’s how you can respond accurately.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 8, 2023 1:25 AM
Greg interviews Justin Brierley, author of The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God: Why New Atheism Grew Old and Secular Thinkers Are Considering Christianity Again, about the rise and fall of...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 30, 2022 5:43 PM
Here’s why you shouldn’t interpret phrases in ancient Scripture through the lens of modern English idioms.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Many scientists exclude God as an explanation for any event. In some cases, agent causation is the only rational conclusion.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
Alan responds to a question he frequently receives when teaching on Islam.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM
If we don’t address the worldview causes at the root of all of our culture’s controversies, new symptoms will just continue to pop up faster than we can address them.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:57 PM
How should Christians respond when those who identify as gay or lesbian come to their church?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
Greg’s on a timer and answers questions about truth in other religions, yoga, and God’s character.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM
Jesus, though a true human, was no mere mortal. Rather, He was and is God’s Son, the world’s unique, one-and-only Savior; and if Jesus were not God the Son, He could not be the Savior, either.
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