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Is 10% of the Population Homosexual?

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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You Can’t Erase Gender, but You Can Sure Try

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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How to Teach Children to Defend their Faith

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:39 PM

Greg talks about if “listening prayer” is taught in the Bible, how to teach

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Dr. Mark D. Roberts: Can We Trust the Gospels?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:42 PM

Greg talks about if you should take the Bible literally, Can We Trust the Gospels

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The Three Things Your Worldview Needs to Explain

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 25, 2020 4:01 AM

how to respond to three challenges to the reliability and trustworthiness of the Bible

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The Gospel Is the Only Stable Source of Identity and Value

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM

Whether you find your identity and value in living up to an objective, external standard or through having your subjective, personal standard affirmed, the Gospel offers a better way.

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Romans 1 on Homosexuality

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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#STRask: How Should I Respond to Someone Who Is Word-Faith and Believes in a Second Baptism of the Holy Spirit?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 20, 2024 4:34 PM

is Word-Faith and believes in a second baptism of the Holy Spirit and what the Bible

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Twelve Points That Show Christianity Is True

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:56 PM

These twelve points have provided me with a strategy to keep in the back of my mind when asked about the veracity of the Christian faith.

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#STRask: October 13, 2016

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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Prepare Your Kids for Engagement

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM

question about facts and discusses “choosing your jury” and how to study your Bible

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Would We Know Good without Evil?

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Aug 7, 2020 12:37 AM

Would we know good without evil? Could good exist without evil? Can God truly be good if he can’t choose evil? Amy responds to some questions from a reader.

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Brett Kunkle: Summit Ministries Student Conferences

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM

Greg and Brett Kunkle discuss Summit Ministries Student Conferences, then Greg talks about how to deal with legalistic Christians, how to tactically start a conversation in a barber shop, and more.

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#STRask: What Should I Read to Take My Apologetics Knowledge up a Notch?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 16, 2022 5:25 PM

notch, how to reconcile friends’ experiences encountering ghosts with what the Bible

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#STRask: July 24, 2017

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM

Greg is on a timer and answers questions about God knowing man would sin, patriotic songs in church, Satan reading our minds, and good resources for kids.

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Tips for Christian College Students

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 22, 2021 2:13 AM

for a woman to be an apologist, how to respond to a Mormon interpretation of the Bible

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Four Reasons Why Biblical Anthropology Matters

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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Literature and the Gospels’ Genre

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM

C.S. Lewis is well known for being an apologist and writer. But first, he was a literature scholar.

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#STRask: They’re Only Christians Because They Were Indoctrinated at a Young Age

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 2, 2023 1:20 PM

underlining text in books, and whether we should always find something new in the Bible

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How to Get off the Bench and Get into Conversations That Matter

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Oct 26, 2023 7:19 PM

If you shy away from discussing controversial aspects of the Christian worldview with people who disagree with you, here’s an approach that will help you overcome your fear and get into...

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Eternal Punishment

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM

Is Hell eternal or everlasting? We have to be careful how we define the words.

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What to Say to a Consistent Moral Relativist

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 5, 2024 1:47 AM

of persecution indicates anything about a person’s Christianity, and where the Bible

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#STRask: February 18, 2019

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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Framework for Discussing Evolution

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:40 PM

being different, federal funding of abortion in the health care bill, what the Bible

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Evil as Evidence for God

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM

The presence of evil in the world is considered by some to be solid evidence against the existence of God. I think it proves just the opposite.

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White Lies and Other Deceptions

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:21 PM

I think lying is wrong. However, we have to be clear on what constitutes lying, that is, immoral deception.

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Same-Sex Marriage Is the New Ideal

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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Let the Ridicule and Rejection Come

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM

Stand to Reason wants to give you courage for every encounter, and courage begins with expecting and accepting ridicule and rejection.

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The Uniquely Christian Justification for Loving LGBT People

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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The Case for Miracles

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 14, 2020 1:40 PM

Greg interviews Lee Strobel on the case for miracles and whether God answers prayer.

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#STRask: August 30, 2018

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM

who aren’t in heaven, reconciling two key ideas in Christianity, and an alleged Bible

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Heretic Reformer

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM

John Wycliffe was so despised by the church because of his reform efforts that 20 years after his death in 1384, declared a heretic by a church council, his bones were exhumed, burned, and strewn...

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What About the Inquisition?

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jul 31, 2019 10:07 PM

We all expect the Spanish Inquisition to show up sooner or later in our discussions with atheists. Does the presence of the Inquisition in Christian history discredit all of Christianity? Does it...

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#STRask: January 18, 2018

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:52 PM

a four-minute timer and answers questions about why God spoke to us through the Bible

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Disagreement Is Not Oppression

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 31, 2023 2:51 AM

fellowship is simply brainwashing, the need for epistemological certainty, whether the Bible

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Truth Is a Strange Sort of Fiction: The Postmodern Turn—Part 2

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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Euthyphro’s Dilemma

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM

Plato’s challenge concerning the nature of goodness is still being heard today: Is an act right because God says it’s so, or does God say it’s so because it’s right...

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A Stone in the Shoe

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM

I never set out to win someone to Christ.

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Reasoning with Someone Who Doesn’t Want to Reason

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM

Talking about Jesus and Christianity isn’t always about reasoning because people don’t always have rational reasons for the things they believe.

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Alan Shlemon, Dealing with Homosexuality and Transgender Issues in the Church with Truth and Compassion

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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Restoring People: The Leprosy Doctor

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM

Paul Brand was born to missionary parents in India. He became a surgeon in England and returned to India to care for leprosy patients.

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5 Ways to Share Christ with Ease and Impact—Mentoring Letter June 2017

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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Homosexuality Is Unnatural: An Is-Ought Fallacy?

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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#STRask: Are Christians Who Study and Adhere to the Truths Revealed in the Bible

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 16, 2022 5:26 PM

Questions about how to respond to someone who says adhering to biblical inerrancy, studying Scripture, seeking to obey the Word, and adhering to its core truths is “bibliolatry” and how to explain...

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Christianity and Culture

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM

How the monasteries preserved and advanced education and culture in the middle ages...

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What Does It Mean for Jesus to Be Affirming?

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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Consideration, Gender Identity, and Bathrooms

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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How Can We Reconcile Differences Between the Accounts of Jesus’ Birth?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Nov 30, 2023 9:25 PM

New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman offers an example of what he believes to be an irreconcilable contradiction in the Christmas account. But, while Matthew and Luke give some different details, it’s...

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Was Eve the First Transgender Female?

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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Another Challenge to Objective Morality

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 12, 2020 3:04 AM

in Matthew 5:17–20 and whether 1 Samuel 28:15–19 contradicts other parts of the Bible

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