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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 alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
Who taught you how to interpret the Bible? I bet I can guess your answer: no one. When it comes to God’s Word, though, isn’t it critical we strive to correctly understand it?
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On May 27, 2022 10:41 PM
When hard times come—and they will come—pray for a miracle, but understand that God may choose to use your difficult situation to make you more like Christ.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
A review of Aronofsky’s Noah by Brian Mattson will help you interpret the ideas advocated in the film.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 28, 2024 1:25 AM
Many think Jesus rebuked doubting Thomas for seeking evidence to buttress his belief instead of taking the “blessed” path of blind faith, but there are two problems with reading Jesus this way.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:56 PM
The question “If Jesus pays for all your sins, then why not sin?” is an objection to grace anticipated by Paul in Romans 6:15.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Christians and Jehovah’s Witnesses have fundamentally different views not only on why Jesus died on the cross but also on whether Jesus died on a cross. Here are five reasons to think He did.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
How could a good God forgive those who commit moral crimes? This objection is a powerful challenge to Christianity for anyone who has a sense of the goodness and rightness of justice.
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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 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 jonathan noyes On Nov 15, 2022 6:06 PM
Jon Noyes explains why efforts to earn our salvation leave believers without hope and how we can find forgiveness in Jesus.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 5, 2023 10:14 PM
Greg and Amy explain how God’s purposeful justice displays his glory.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for April 2011 Do you want to learn the skills taught at seminary without the time, money, and energy spent on going to graduate school.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 6, 2024 6:27 PM
Since it seems some Christians are starting to waver on original guilt and sin, here are two passages that support these doctrines.
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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 26, 2019 10:52 PM
What is evil? Could it have a purpose? Here is a view of evil from an adult rather than a childish perspective.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM
People want the judge in the Brock Turner case recalled because he’s not a good judge. He did not uphold justice. The arguments for leniency were not good ones...yet they’re the same arguments...
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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 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 tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:44 PM
The fact that there have been many different religions throughout human history does not mean human beings are trying to find the true God.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
What makes you think the ability to take away evil from the world has anything to do with God’s strength?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
There is discomfort that grabs us because we simply don’t understand the gravity of our sin in the presence of a perfectly holy God.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
Greg’s on a timer and answers questions about “The Shack,” women’s head coverings, and Jesus’ end times comments.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
Why do some people accuse Christians of “living in fear”? They think Christians see God the way they do.
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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 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 greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM
In 4 min. or less, Greg answers questions about teaching junior high students, severity of punishment in Hell, and moral relativism.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM
Jehovah’s Witnesses claim Jesus is the archangel Michael, but what does the Bible say?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 24, 2022 6:01 PM
Greg and Amy consider examples of salvation from the Old Testament next to what Paul writes about general revelation and salvation in Romans.
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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 Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
Greg’s on a timer and answers questions about praying to the Holy Spirit, God’s wrath revealed, and right-brained delivery by a left-brained person.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM
J. Warner Wallace is on a timer and answers questions about free will, consistent pro-life views, and Jesus dying for sin.
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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 amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
The fact that everyone has to function as though Christianity is true opens a creative opportunity for addressing the secular world.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
Jesus is an antidote to a deadly disease. Some people have the symptoms of the disease more obviously or in a greater manner than others. But everybody is sick.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
When the armies of Israel conquered the Promised Land, God commanded them to kill every living thing, including women and children?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
Religions are like puzzles that represent, when pieced together, a picture of reality. These pictures are not all basically the same because the puzzle pieces are different for each religion.
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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 8:58 PM
Greg talks about whether it was immoral for God to create man, the outward signs of a person’s salvation, where unbelievers go before judgment, the inspiration of Paul’s lost letters, and knowing...
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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 8:38 PM
Stand to Reason represents classical Christianity—orthodox Christian beliefs that have been affirmed since the first Christians.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
The Scriptures seem to identify a God in time, yet a God that is somehow beyond time, not constrained by it the way we are (1 Peter 3).
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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 tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
Last month I was asked to speak at a church on the question “Should Christians Embrace Evolution?” The way you answer this question depends entirely on what you mean by evolution.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
I am astounded in many ways by why it is so difficult for us as a church to simply follow the directions.
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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 Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
A list of the key elements of Christianity
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 1, 2019 9:16 PM
Civil war battles were tumultuous affairs. The thundering of guns and muskets was not just deafening, it was dangerous, drowning out the one means of group communication: the bugles.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Are Jesus’ human and divine natures compatible? Is this an impossibility that makes Christianity irrational?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
Are “Bible only” advocates right in claiming that any combination of man’s philosophy and biblical wisdom is poison?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
Greg talks about friends who live in sin, temptation from man’s nature, Roman Catholic doctrine and practices, and how one should handle relatives who undermine the teaching of one’s child.
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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
Is God the author of evil or its helpless victim?
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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 Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
If we shouldn’t use arguments to promote the Gospel—because it’s leaning on human wisdom and not God—then what are we to say?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
Many promises in the Bible were made to other people and we cannot legitimately claims those. We can learn from them. They’re profitable for us. All Scripture is.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
Christians have to be able to communicate to the rest of the world. We’ve got to be able to make coherent sense of our message, even before we demonstrate that our message is actually true.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 5:44 PM
What are a nature and a person? Is it possible for one person to have more than one nature?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
To put it simply, the one who says, “I don’t need forgiveness,” is at odds with God and doesn’t get it.
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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 26, 2019 10:55 PM
Is capital punishment compatible with Christianity? Greg outlines a biblical argument for capital punishment, makes a case for retributive punishment, and responds to objections.
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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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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 Aug 14, 2020 1:40 PM
Greg interviews Lee Strobel on the case for miracles and whether God answers prayer.
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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 10:55 PM
What do you say when someone throws the “But abortion is legal” mantra at you?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
Moral relativism. It sounds so reasonable, so tolerant, and so neutral. But there’s a fundamental flaw.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:57 PM
Greg answers questions about if Christians and Muslims worship the same God, if it is probably that man can sin in Heaven, how the Samaritans in Acts 8 were baptized and believed but didn't receive...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:57 PM
Greg responds to questions about John 15:22, the moral principle of seeking to fulfill unchosen sexual desires, Genesis 30, and how to define Christian orthodoxy.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM
Greg’s on a timer and answers questions about dreams, a Bible discrepancy, and God’s nature.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
Last month, Brett Kunkle and I spent six hours training students in apologetics at Watermark Community Church, a very large church in the Dallas area.
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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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