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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM
In recent years, opposition to the doctrine of endless punishment by those who are rethinking Hell has gained enough popular momentum that “conditional immortality”—also known as...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 9:02 PM
Greg offers three tips for tactical evangelism gleaned from overhearing a conversation on a flight.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM
Conditionalists—those who hold to the annihilation of the wicked at the judgment—insist that Jesus’ and John’s descriptions be interpreted in light of other passages, texts they think give an...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 29, 2021 6:14 PM
Did Jesus come here to champion the cause of the poor? There’s no question God has a heart for the destitute. Even so, a careful study of the Gospels shows that Jesus’ principle purpose...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 29, 2022 8:27 PM
What about those who have never heard the gospel? The only way to know what God wants from us for salvation is for him to tell us, so to answer this question, we must trade on biblical truths and...
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Web Content Article · By guest author On Jun 27, 2019 5:44 PM
A comprehensive look at what a Bible promise is, how we should understand its contextual meaning, a detailed look at the parts of a promise, and a step by step analysis of particular biblical...
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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 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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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Mar 31, 2023 9:02 PM
Tim Barnett reminds us that entertaining students should not be our goal. Instead, we should “throw the ball so they jump for it.”
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM
Most of us have answered a knock on our door, only to discover a smiling, well-dressed couple—Watchtower publication in hand—standing on the other side, waiting to talk with us about the gospel...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:40 PM
Greg uses Solomon’s advice for engaging an opponent in a biblical way.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM
In this part of the Story I answer the second of the two most important questions anyone could ever ask about the remarkable man from Nazareth: Why did He come? It is a question there is far too...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:21 PM
Does the archeological accuracy of the Bible have anything to do with it’s truth claims? Not according to many world-class archaeologists. There’s a catch, however, which tells us volumes about...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
The Torah’s teaching about accidental “miscarriage” has been hotly contested concerning the value of the unborn. Is the passage pro-life or pro-abortion? Here are the facts. You decide.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 26, 2020 9:29 PM
When you come across an article challenging your beliefs, keep these steps in mind to help you make sense of what you’re reading and possibly see the error in the author’s thinking.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:56 PM
The “paraphrase principle” trades on two obvious features of language, and it will help you weed out bad Bible interpretations.
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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 26, 2019 11:09 PM
Postmodernism is on a crash course with Christianity. In fact, we’ve already collided. Here’s how to sort through the wreckage.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
“The Bible has been changed and translated so many times over the last 2000 years, it’s impossible to have any confidence in its accuracy. Everyone knows that.”
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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 Jun 26, 2019 9:28 PM
Greg shares how to use tactics to make a case for life.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
I would like to offer you, in a nutshell, what I think is the simplest, most powerful way, strategically, to make your case as a Christian...
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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 greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Since conversations can get awkward, I have a suggestion that could make your job easier: Get back to basics.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM
Don’t know where to start in a discussion about Christianity with your Mormon friends? Here is a list of verses that can serve as a rough outline for your conversation.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
Is there a conflict between faith and science? I think not. Rather, I think the current quarrel between the two has been contrived.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jul 19, 2022 2:04 AM
To be effective at teaching apologetics to people in different cultures, you need to think like an ambassador. Here are three things to keep in mind.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
To many Christians, the Bible is like putty. Just add the Spirit and it can be molded into almost anything at all.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Evolution is on its way out. It’s only a matter of time before the iceberg hits.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
I overheard a conversation on the airplane coming back from my vacation in Wisconsin.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Feb 15, 2024 11:20 PM
Amy, Jon, Robby, and Tim consider how our need to be right can get in the way of productive conversations and how to know when to step away from a conversation.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM
I’ve worked out a few principles I think will make a tough job easier, and I’d like to pass them on to you.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
Some evangelicals search the Bible for a personal “word” from the Spirit that is unrelated to the text’s original meaning, and the results can be silly or even dangerous. Regardless of the outcome,...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
Do we have any good reasons to think God has spoken supernaturally in the Bible? The way to answer this question is to look at the book itself. Here are six evidences of supernatural...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 18, 2021 12:23 AM
Will the followers of Christ continue to thoughtfully engage—with truth and grace—the critical ideas in culture, or will we retreat from the public square again and take refuge behind the walls of...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 23, 2021 10:41 PM
At times, the tsunami of change we’re facing seems overwhelming for its force, dizzying for its speed, and chilling for its darkness. It’s easy to begin feeling helpless, but that is not our path....
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
As ambassadors for Christ, we often never know the true impact of our efforts. Yet every once in a while we get a glimpse...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 2, 2019 10:10 PM
Many in Christendom today, like Pilate, are more concerned with satisfying the crowd than being faithful to Jesus. Culture may be confused on salvation, abortion, gender, marriage, and sex. Don’t...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM
All the big questions—issues of origin, meaning, morality, and destiny—and all the secondary concerns, too—issues of sex, gender, liberty, equality, bodily rights, etc.—eventually come down to one....
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
The story behind “The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why”
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
We’re dealing with a mixed culture, a clash of the modern with the postmodern. It therefore requires an eclectic approach best summed up by the word “ambassador.”
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 17, 2020 9:30 PM
The totalitarian world Greg experienced as a young Christian while visiting fellow believers behind the Iron Curtain demonstrates an insight often quoted but frequently ignored: Ideas have...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 31, 2019 10:03 PM
My mind's made up. Don't confuse me with the facts. Come again? Don't get caught with this wrong-headed attitude!
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
Last week I got a call from my brother who lives in Florida. He had stumbled upon a website apparently done by Jewish scholars and meant to serve the Jewish community that was experiencing in-roads...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 3, 2022 10:35 PM
Many believe in a mixed gospel of grace plus works. Greg explains why this does not line up with the good news of the Bible and offers two ways to approach friends who hold a mistaken view of...
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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 26, 2019 11:09 PM
True biblical faith is essential for salvation. But faith—and its relation to evidence—is often deeply misunderstood in a way that hurts Christianity and harms Christians. Here’s what the Bible has...
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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 27, 2019 8:35 PM
If you “just take Christianity on faith” you may be in trouble...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Have you ever taken a verbal beating when trying to talk about Jesus? If so, I’ve got a tip for you.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 20, 2020 8:18 PM
As a Christian ambassador, your biggest challenge may be making sense of the problem of evil. Surprisingly, though, evil is actually evidence for God, not against Him.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
Are You a Christian because You Were Born in America? Would you Be a Muslim If You Were Born in Iraq? Maybe. But So What?
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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 greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
Sometimes the simplest questions—questions that seem so basic we never expect them to be asked—can stop us in our tracks if we’re not equipped to engage them.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
In Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, four children, poking about in the back of an old wardrobe in the attic, stumble on another world filled with peculiar delights and strange enchantments. Did you...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
If there was one bit of wisdom, one rule of thumb, one single skill I could impart, one useful tip I could leave that would serve you well the rest of your life, what would it be?
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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 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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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
A Christian’s theology is minimally defined by two miraculous events.
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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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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 greg koukl On Oct 24, 2020 1:04 AM
The Trinity is a huge speed bump for many, especially atheists, Muslims, Mormons, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Here are some tactical questions you can use to show objectors the Trinity is a solution,...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:56 PM
I want to start by asking three questions I hope will alert you to problems I’m willing to bet you’ve never thought about as a Christian...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 24, 2021 11:21 PM
Human lives will be ruled by one of two fundamental forces: either truth or power. When truth is relativized, suffering will follow.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Lady Gaga’s mega-hit song, “Born this Way,” expressed what many believe: Homosexuality is hardwired in the genes.
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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 Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
Each new generation that emerges in culture needs a new generation of Christians to speak to it in its own cultural language.
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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 greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Verses Commonly Misunderstood, Mischaracterized, or Maligned It doesn’t happen often, but this time I was caught completely flatfooted, struck dumb by a challenge from a young Christian woman in...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
One justification for the atheists’ claim to high moral ground is what seems to them to be the patently immoral conduct of the God of the Old Testament.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
Since the birth of the church, no Christian authority—no theologian, no church council, no denominational confession, no seminary—ever hinted that homosexual behavior was morally legitimate.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
It seems like every time I turn around I hear of another prominent Christian thinker or theologian who has embraced Darwinism.
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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...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 31, 2021 5:01 PM
These news tidbits illustrating the ideologically-driven downward trajectory of secular culture are “iceberg tips” connected to a larger story, a spiritual drama that lies behind the headlines.
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