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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Dec 17, 2020 7:01 PM
The efficacy of faith is dependent not on the subject who expresses faith, but on the object of faith. It doesn’t matter how much or how little faith you have. It only matters in whom you place...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Dec 19, 2020 12:35 AM
We’re so grateful for you, our readers. Here are some short Christmas reflections we’d like to share with you to wish you a merry Christmas.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Dec 24, 2020 1:04 AM
The opening line to the CNN article reads, “It was the good news that gave the world hope.” But their good news is not the source of true hope.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 12, 2021 8:00 PM
Does God require a certain amount of faith before he accepts it? Alan addresses this question by clarifying the nature of faith.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Feb 11, 2021 7:41 PM
Mr. B responds to an anti-Trinitarian meme, answering the charge that if Jesus is God, and Jesus prays to God, then Jesus is praying to himself.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Feb 15, 2021 11:48 PM
Some argue the universe has always existed, but an eternal universe would mean there’s an actually infinite number of past events, and such a thing is impossible. Here’s why.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Feb 25, 2021 5:35 AM
When talking to unbelievers about Hell, it can be helpful to focus on its significant worldview implications. Hell isn’t the problem people think it is. In fact, it’s a solution to these two...
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Mar 16, 2021 10:42 PM
On the cross, Jesus fulfilled the Law of Moses by satisfying the demands of it. By doing that, He paid our certificates of debt we each earned.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 22, 2021 5:34 AM
If someone asked you how you know Christianity is true, how would you answer them? In this episode, Alan offers his response to that question by appealing to some powerful truths that people live by.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 9, 2021 11:20 PM
Christianity both condemns racism and offers the cure. Derek Rishmawy explains how this truth is beautifully reflected in the practice of the Lord’s Supper.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 17, 2021 1:04 AM
J. Warner Wallace explains why you can’t make sense of the problem of evil apart from an understanding of the wisdom of God.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 17, 2021 1:39 AM
When a researcher set out to discover why many mainline churches are headed towards extinction, he discovered that theology matters.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 23, 2021 9:48 PM
The fulfillment of human longings (eternal love, triumph over evil, life out of death) that we find in beautiful stories can be found in reality.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jul 20, 2021 5:47 PM
You've heard of the Big Bang, but are you aware of the other two big bangs, each of which represents the beginning of a fundamentally new thing that didn't exist before? Alan explains what they are...
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Aug 12, 2021 9:24 PM
We all want to be “tolerant” people. We want to be kind and respectful of others, even when we disagree. The problem is, this isn’t what tolerance means anymore.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Aug 12, 2021 11:43 PM
When we’re afraid discussions about truth will get us labeled intolerant, that fear stifles critical thought and hampers productive discussions about religion, values, ethics, morals, and...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Sep 13, 2021 10:07 PM
How will the people in Heaven view Hell? How can they enjoy the glories of God while others are suffering? Here’s an answer in two parts—a direct answer and a crucial context for that answer.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Oct 9, 2021 10:35 PM
Alan takes notice of a cultural trend to reject teleological language when describing human anatomy and shows how this explains modern thinking on sex and sexuality.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Feb 22, 2022 11:15 PM
Those who recognize, through their experience of the world, that justice is objectively real and not merely a matter of preference should ask themselves, what must be true for ultimate justice...
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Mar 10, 2022 4:17 AM
Jon Noyes considers three realities concerning the soul, guilt, and human value and discusses why only Christianity provides a reasonable explanation.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Apr 26, 2022 12:47 AM
Tim Barnett’s latest Stand to Reason University course asks a question that could change everything.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 12, 2022 12:36 AM
Alan responds to the claim by some gender theorists that God’s pronouns should be they/them.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Sep 12, 2022 9:45 PM
If a man murders another man, but they both end up in Hell because neither put their trust in Christ, how is that just? The answer gets right to the heart of the gospel.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Oct 10, 2022 7:29 PM
Tim Barnett responds to two atheist challenges to the command to “have no other gods before me.”
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Dec 21, 2022 1:40 AM
Verifying a human’s identity is simple if you have the right documents, but how would God verify his identity to humans?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 9, 2023 4:48 PM
Some object to the idea that Jesus paid the penalty for our sins through his death on the cross, calling it “child sacrifice.” Alan, however, offers three reasons why characterizing it that way is...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jan 31, 2023 10:48 PM
Just because you don’t know some trivial things about God, like his favorite color or movie, that doesn’t mean you don’t have a relationship with him.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 10, 2023 9:05 PM
Some Christians and many former Christians are promoting a trendy approach to doubting and questioning your faith called deconstruction. Is it the same as reforming your faith? Alan explains the...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Aug 17, 2023 7:03 PM
Tim Barnett uses the illustration of a just judge to explain why God sends some to Hell and why those who reject Jesus can’t just choose not to go there.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Aug 17, 2023 7:13 PM
A recent “creed” to surface on the internet mentions God, Jesus, and the Spirit but is more about affirming progressive values than confessing truth.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 12, 2024 9:07 PM
When a person rejects God, they’re left to determine for themselves their own identity. Alan unpacks some problems with this approach.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to the challenge that since we don’t follow Leviticus on all moral rules, we shouldn’t follow it when it comes to homosexual rules either.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to Bill Maher’s challenge that God needs to keep the devil alive so Christians will live in fear and keep going to church.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan gives highlights from his recent trip to Egypt where he trained Arab Christians in theology and apologetics.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan offers a simple question that neutralizes the claim that the problem of evil is evidence against God’s existence.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to a Muslim video that claims we don’t know the real Jesus.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to the challenge that faith is gullibility or believing things in the absence of evidence.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Alan’s monthly letter from July 2012 I had just given a talk at his church when Charlie asked for help.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
The purpose of this post is merely to provide clarity rather than to argue for the theist position (see all of STR for those arguments).
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
I wrote not long ago about how a change in values in 18th-century Britain (as a result of a million people coming to Christ) affected their economy.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
The values of Christianity brought a vast number of people out of material poverty as a happy byproduct of their souls being brought of spiritual poverty.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
There are three points that especially stand out from Joni Eareckson Tada’s list of God’s purposes in our suffering.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
I explained here how God’s destruction of the Canaanites through the Israelites had a dual purpose.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
To follow up on yesterday’s post on the judgment of the Canaanites, here’s the summary of Clay Jones’s article in the Christian Research Journal, “Killing the Canaanites”
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
When God judged the Canaanites through the Israelites, He gave the Israelites a warning: But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come about that...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
Richard Wurmbrand’s book about the sufferings of Christians under the Communists helps us see with our own “eyes” the reality of the unique role suffering plays in our purpose as Christians.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
Today, on this Good Friday, we think about an event that was not only the result of evil but also the reason for allowing evil to exist in the first place.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
While it’s still unclear how LOST will ultimately end up, some recent developments seem to provide a good illustration of one way people have chosen to resolve the problem that has plagued humanity...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Research has shown there are at least four ways fathers make unique contributions to the lives of their children.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:42 PM
William Lane Craig’s organization, Reasonable Faith, created a simple, visually interesting, brief video explaining the basics of the kalam cosmological argument.
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