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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 20, 2023 8:46 PM
Question about whether there’s anything in the Gospel of John that a Bible study
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:44 PM
Both Jesus and Paul modeled genuine love in the context of making a right judgment. We should do the same for the sake of others.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 15, 2022 2:53 AM
A mélange is a mixture, a medley, an array of miscellany combined together for a common purpose. That is what you’ll find here—a potpourri of thoughts and reflections addressing issues that will be...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM
Greg is on a timer and answers questions on using transgender pronouns, interpreting a parable, and understanding a tricky passage.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM
Joseph Smith’s “First Vision” is at the root of Mormonism’s unique doctrines, but a look at the historical records reveals a problem: Its major details seem to have evolved over time.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On May 23, 2022 6:30 PM
If two women had abortions for the sake of convenience—one at one month and one at eight months—would both abortions be equally heinous?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Social justice is trendy nowadays. Homelessness. Poverty. Human trafficking. It’s cool to care about these social ills, even among non-Christians.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM
campus then takes questions on moral standards, whether science is superior to the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
From our biological blueprint, to the fine-tuning of the universe, to the human experience of beauty, morality, and guilt, God is the best explanation for the way things are.
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Science
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 25, 2024 9:35 PM
Though many object to the idea of penal substitutionary atonement, here’s how we know Jesus’ blood cleanses from all sin, fully satisfies the divine demand for justice, and rescues us from the...
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Theology
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM
After the Orlando shooting, there was an almost reflexive response by analysts who gave the usual talking points about how Islam is a religion of peace and its practitioners are peaceful people.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
If Mormons won’t allow polygamists to redefine Mormonism in order to include polygamists, they ought not demand that Christians accept a redefinition from Mormons as to what’s foundational to...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Sep 11, 2023 11:03 PM
Alan explains why using the word “gender” will create unnecessary confusion in your conversations with others and gives advice for how to clarify the term when other people use it.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
Imagine a woman telling you, “I’m transgender. Please call me Michael.” What do you do? Here’s how to answer with truth and compassion.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for September 2008 Which of these statements is taught in the Qur’an?
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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.
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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 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 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.
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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 8:34 PM
Greg talks about Proverbs 23:7, When God Weeps—Bad Solutions, pro-life presentation at the public library, and more.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Apr 8, 2020 11:00 PM
How do advancements in science outside of a mother change the value and rights of the human being growing inside a mother?
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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 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 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 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 10:00 PM
answers questions about whether the pro-life syllogism proves too much, whether the Bible
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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 Jun 27, 2019 8:44 PM
the right balance integrating Christianity and government, resolving difficult Bible
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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 Jun 27, 2019 8:44 PM
Training Institute with Scott Klusendorf, debating truth, then takes calls on if the Bible
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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 tim barnett On Oct 6, 2022 7:20 PM
Tim Barnett responds to the objection that a pro-life God would have saved all pregnant women when he sent the flood.
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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...
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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 alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
The unborn is not part of the mother’s body, but rather a separate body that lies within her. Scientifically, there are a number of qualities and characteristics that are different about the unborn...
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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 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 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 alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
Do people change their minds about abortion? Some say no. They believe that people are committed to one side or the other and no one ever changes their mind. This is false.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM
Are anti-abortion laws merely the Christian version of Sharia law, religious beliefs imposed on the rest of society?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for March 2010 Why would an alcoholic father, strapped for cash, sell his son and daughter for $30? Why would pediatricians at the University Medical Center of Gronigen kill...
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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 Jul 14, 2021 2:45 AM
Greg explains how the issue of abortion is addressed in the Bible and responds to
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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 amy k. hall On Apr 8, 2020 11:39 PM
Despite all the missing girls in India who were lost to abortion, an economist is arguing that laws against sex-selection abortion are the wrong way to go.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM
After more than a decade of training Oregon Right to Life students and taking them to the streets of Portland to talk to people about abortion, Alan noticed a possible new trend this year.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 21, 2022 11:07 PM
The topic of abortion is about to heat up dramatically with the likely overturning of Roe v. Wade. Here’s something to help you make a case against abortion in less than a minute.
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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 25, 2019 10:44 PM
What was Jesus loving and accepting regarding during His ministry? Greg clarifies a common misconception.
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