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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jul 14, 2020 10:46 PM
If you trust Jesus to be your substitute, meeting God’s standard of perfection is possible. God will cancel your crimes and credit your account with Jesus’ record.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Oct 17, 2020 5:38 PM
In Peter Boghossian’s tactical approach in A Manual for Creating Atheists, anything that moves believers towards doubt is considered a success. Even invalid arguments with false premises.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 22, 2020 6:23 AM
Greg responds to a charge of moral relativism, then he answers a question about whether Psalm 90:10 is a promise and responds to someone who is troubled by seeing the spiritual world.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:10 PM
Western civilization is shuddering under a tidal wave of activism in favor of same-sex marriage. Here is a careful response to their most compelling arguments.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:54 PM
Because our culture ties love and hate to agreement and disagreement in some contexts, we need to ask for clarification when people call us to love or accuse us of hate.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
Rule of law is what makes a good society possible, but there is also a time and place for civil disobedience, grounded in a Law higher than man’s. Determining where the line should be drawn between...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for October 2012 Centuries ago, scientific knowledge was in its infancy. Although our understanding of the natural world progressed, there were gaps in the explanations.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
Not long ago I read a stunning (and scathing) response in a blog post by a Christian woman who was furious with those taking exception with the “Christian” convictions of a well-known Mormon...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 11, 2021 7:42 PM
Greg and Amy explain why prayer is not just a means to an end and discuss God’s actual purpose for prayer in believers’ lives.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:56 PM
38,000 Muslims die every day and enter eternity without Christ. We need to hone our skills so we’re more effective at sharing the truth with them.
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Web Content Article · By aaron brake On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM
Science is good, but science isn’t everything. It’s one way to discover what is true, but it’s not the only way. To believe otherwise is to have a self-refuting view of knowledge.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for July 2007 When I heard the knock on the door I knew it was probably the Mormons.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jul 31, 2019 4:06 PM
No matter who is making a claim about Islam, what they say must conform to these three authoritative sources in order for their claim to accurately represent Islam.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Mar 21, 2020 1:01 AM
Sometimes atheists make arguments that can only come from a misunderstanding of the radical differences between the ancient pagan gods and the Christian God.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
In May of this year, a scientific paper was released that fanned the flames of the evolution/intelligent design debate to new intensity.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 31, 2019 9:53 PM
You want to inform them, in as polite a way as possible, that they cannot knock on your door as missionaries promoting their religion, proselytizing and seeking to convert you, and then say you are...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:43 PM
Greg talks about misc., then takes calls on if salvation can be at the end of a rational analysis of the evidence, Calvinism is unjust and unappealing, his debate with Deepak Chopra, and more.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:44 PM
Greg talks about if the truth is oppressive, if having psychological confidence makes you wrong, then takes calls on if it is biblical for women to be in leadership positions over men in the...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
Greg and Tim talk about Tim’s upcoming video series on Jehovah’s Witnesses, then they take a call on the Trinity and talk about a recent post an atheist wrote about Stand to Reason.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
Here’s a challenge I received: You can’t claim anyone’s beliefs to be “right” or “wrong” when it’s all based on conjecture.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Jan 12, 2022 10:44 PM
As we observe the law of causality at work in the world around us, the explanation for our existence begins to look a lot like God.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 5:55 PM
Is true love only possible if one has the ability to do otherwise? Greg explores this question in relation to God’s love for us.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
Is Jesus of the Gospels simply recycled ancient myths?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Greg talks about Bart Ehrman’s Book Jesus Interrupted with Dr. Ben Witherington III, conversation in a restaurant about God’s existence, bloom where you're planted: how to get into apologetics...
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
We (most of the STR office staff) just got back from seeing the movie Risen. I think it’s one of the best Christian movies I’ve seen, and it’s a movie that would be interesting (and not...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
“The days drag on, the years fly by,” the saying goes. So true. Our time is precious, and the older I get the faster it seems to go.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
I want to sketch out Thomas Aquinas’ theory of natural law by distinguishing between the four kinds of law he outlines in the Summa Theologiae and then discussing his conception of the Good.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Knowledge, not just belief, about God leads to spiritual transformation. So what is knowledge, and how do we get it?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
Those pangs of guilt could be telling you something.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
For some, ethics is nothing more than a social contract to ensure survival. Compliance is the highest good and breaking ranks the greatest evil, regardless of the issue. This may make sense on...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
If the God of the Bible didn’t do what you think a real God would have done, that
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
A faithful ambassador does not retreat in the face of opposition. Instead, he’s at least willing to listen to what the other side has to say. It’s one of the most effective ways to...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:22 PM
Is homosexuality “natural”? Do gays have a “right” to adopt children?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
“More Sweat, Less Blood”—that’s the title of the final chapter in my recent book, Tactics. I took the idea from a Marine Corps training motto: The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in...
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Jan 27, 2022 9:38 PM
Jon Noyes explains why Christianity offers the best solution to the problem of evil in his latest Stand to Reason University course.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for August 2010 “Christians are closed-minded,” the saying goes. Many people think that’s true, especially on the topic of evolution.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 5, 2020 5:25 PM
Euphemisms and verbal tricks aside, a woman’s question, “Do I choose for a baby or for me?” boils down to choosing between the child she already has and the life she wants to have instead. Is the...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:21 PM
Is happiness or virtue the greater good to see and cultivate in our lives?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
After the tragic mass shooting in Orlando, many clues pointed to a familiar explanation: Islamic terrorism...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Apr 9, 2020 12:53 AM
A comment by a Mormon illustrates the difference between the Mormon and Christian understandings of grace.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
The famous atheist philosopher Bertrand Russell was once asked what he would say to God if he found himself standing before Him after his death.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
An apocryphal story of Greg’s backyard deck serves to illustrate an important lesson about the nature of human identity.
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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 skepticism, the OT law, and denominations
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
You can huff and puff but you can’t blow this house down. Christianity is a system bolted down to reality.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 14, 2024 9:46 PM
Questions about whether one can argue from the existence of evil straight to the Christian God or if more arguments are required to get there and whether Abraham sacrificing Isaac would be...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
Greg interviews Joe Carter about what Christians should know about “intersectionality” and then talks about the centrality of the bodily resurrection to Christianity.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Greg talks about the Duck Commander visit, Christian family values on TV, Christians can be intelligent, and more.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:42 PM
Greg talks about free-will and Calvinism, the five points of Calvinism being one, then takes calls on if God knows us in the womb, why isn’t everyone saved, explaining parables, if Hell is a real...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
Everyone has a worldview, but a worldview is only a good one if it describes reality accurately. You can start helping your young children develop an accurate worldview.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
The billboards read: “No God? No Problem. Be Good for Goodness’ Sake,” and “Are You Good without God? Millions Are.”
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Web Content Article · By j.t. wynn On Jun 27, 2019 9:56 PM
We can learn a lot about the brokenness and fears of the guilty human heart through dystopian stories like the new Netflix film Anon.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:21 PM
“It’s okay as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone.” Is that adequate justification for concluding something is ethical?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:44 PM
Greg talks about Islam and terrorism, then takes calls on what the Christian ambassadors response regarding giving to beggars is, what happens when we die, if the old earth view is represented in...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 6, 2023 11:44 PM
In this class from Greg Koukl’s Stand to Reason University course “Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air,” Greg shares tactics for confronting the inconsistencies that make moral relativism...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:56 PM
Greg Koukl answers questions in 4 minutes or less on deciding a career, the apocrypha, worship songs, self-promotion, and Starbucks.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:39 PM
Greg talks about putting together the pieces into the big picture, if there can be a creator, then takes calls on if circumstances are relevant in moral objectivism, what repentance is, and more.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:40 PM
Greg talks about his spiritual birthday, respect and tolerance, King James Only Controversy with James White, then takes calls on if we can waste God’s time in prayer, if morality can be explained...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Greg talks about the debate in Calgary, Berlinski’s Debate, where Bart Ehrman has erred with Mike Licona, then takes calls on evaluating the historical evidence for Jesus, what kind of evidence we...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:42 PM
Greg talks about The Better Hour: The Legacy of William Wilberforce with Sheila Weber, then takes calls on what we know historically about Paul, if timelessness requires immateriality, and more.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
Greg talks about freedom then takes calls on biases, biblical interpretation, and lust.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:42 PM
Greg talks about if God’s existence can be proved, then takes calls on what the proper way is to contextualize the Gospels without changing the message, if prayer changes things, if doubt is sin,...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:43 PM
Greg talks about the grip of materialism, Virginia Tech: media overreaction, then takes calls on if there is any moral authority for a relativist, where someone goes immediately after death, and more.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
One of Christianity’s most important claims is also one of its most controversial: Jesus is the only way to God (Acts 4:11–12, John 8:24)...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM
In this special episode with a live audience, Greg still has 4 min. to answer questions about different religions worshipping God and “born this way.”
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
Is faith in opposition to knowledge? Are Christians ignorant by definition or is there a place for reason and faith?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Greg talks about Christless Christianity with Mike Horton, the Christian Story: Why All Religions Aren’t the Same, then takes calls on what the biblical view of the power of words is, nationalized...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Greg talks about the best question you can ask, biblical manuscript evidence, New Testament manuscript evidence, then takes calls on what makes us believe in Jesus, how to prove we will be raised...
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
Christianity can be seen as an explanatory hypothesis to account for certain phenomena we observe in the world: the origin of the universe, the design of the universe, and the universality of...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Greg challenges a misinterpretation of what it means to have a soul which occurred on an episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Would a clone be a faux human being, a physical facade with nothing inside?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:39 PM
Greg talks about leaving a legacy for the kingdom, claims of prophesy, categorizing morality, then takes calls on if Christianity is guilty of “God of the Gaps,” if the prophesies about Jesus were...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:40 PM
Greg talks about Christians’ relationship to the law, in but not of: a robust Christian worldview, then takes calls on why there is one universe and not many, alternative explanations for...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
Would you die for truth? Of course you would. Multitudes do everyday. Or more precisely, they die because they don’t have truth.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
Infamous New Atheist Christopher Hitchens recently debated Privileged Planet author Jay Wesley Richards at Stanford on the existence of God. In the middle of Richards’s opening remarks, Hitchens...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 29, 2022 6:53 PM
Many Christians have rejected the idea that sex is only for marriage, buying into the culture’s notion that chastity is unrealistic. Here’s why this “try before you buy” mentality reflects mistaken...
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