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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Apr 9, 2020 12:35 AM
Communicating Christian theology to Mormons is very difficult, but here is a possible point of contact.
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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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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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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Why would Jehovah’s Witnesses care whether Jesus died on a pole or a cross? The answer to this question could help you spot less obvious cults more quickly.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On May 21, 2020 9:17 PM
We got a little history lesson at the STR office yesterday thanks to a stamp.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Tim Keller had this to say about doubt in The Reason for God.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
The Christmas song “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” has something to say about celebrating the peace of Christmas in a time of suffering.
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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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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 melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Nancy Pearcey has a really great article explaining a strategy for more effective conversations and public dialogue over controversial issues. In this case, she writes about sexual identity and...
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Feb 14, 2023 1:54 AM
Here are five simple things you can do if you think a friend or loved one might be considering suicide.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 14, 2021 2:45 AM
Greg explains how the issue of abortion is addressed in the Bible and responds to
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
Christians and Muslims both believe there is a deity who created the universe, administrates history, and judges human actions, but they believe differently in who fills that role.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jul 31, 2019 11:16 PM
I'm becoming increasingly depressed by the weak and empty Christianity that's being peddled out there. What's even sadder is that I see people happily eating this stuff up with no idea of what...
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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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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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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Greg talks about his trip to Poland and the European Mission Field, if evolution can explain morality, how to convince a Christian who gets their theology from personal revelation and visions, and...
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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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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Brett interviews Gabriel Pagel, the head bible teacher at Upland Christian Academy
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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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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 25, 2023 4:34 PM
Greg answers questions from callers about visions of Mary, the biblical view of yoga, how we can know Hosea 11:1 is really a prophecy about Jesus, and whether people are misusing prophecies about...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 11, 2024 3:20 AM
could have paid the penalty of being separated from God, Bonhoeffer’s views on the Bible
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
Because of God’s artistry, just as there are layers of meaning in a painting, there is an unfathomable depth to the world He created and the words He revealed.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Apr 8, 2020 11:39 PM
Despite all the missing girls in India who were lost to abortion, an economist is arguing that laws against sex-selection abortion are the wrong way to go.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 10, 2021 4:00 AM
reflects on God and time and the type of answers we find (and don’t find) in the Bible
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
As followers of Christ, we’re told to emulate His humility and kindness towards those who are suffering, including those who don’t yet know Him.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM
After more than a decade of training Oregon Right to Life students and taking them to the streets of Portland to talk to people about abortion, Alan noticed a possible new trend this year.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 21, 2022 11:07 PM
The topic of abortion is about to heat up dramatically with the likely overturning of Roe v. Wade. Here’s something to help you make a case against abortion in less than a minute.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Dec 29, 2019 12:24 AM
We’ve reached the end of the year, so it’s time for the annual roundup of top posts. Here are the 2019 posts that received the most views this year. Enjoy!
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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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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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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM
If I’m a sinner, does that mean I will not inherit the Kingdom of God?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 1, 2022 9:07 PM
Some object to the idea that Jesus paid the penalty for our sins through his death on the cross, calling it “child sacrifice,” but here are three reasons why characterizing it as child sacrifice is...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for November 2012 Secular culture has given God the boot. Science has emerged as the new religion and scientists are its priests.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 18, 2023 1:55 AM
means that divorced people who remarry are living in continuous adultery, whether Bible
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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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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 27, 2019 8:41 PM
I want to talk about what I did the last couple of weeks.
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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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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM
The biggest divide between Christians and non-Christians is not whether or not they think Christianity is true but whether or not they think Jesus is beautiful.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
What would you say to a group of Palestinian Christians and Muslims if you had the chance to teach them theology and apologetics? Here’s what Alan did.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 3, 2024 1:29 AM
Greg discusses what the Bible says about penal substitutionary atonement, then he
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 3, 2023 2:03 AM
that the Jews of today are not the real descendants of Abraham, reason vs. the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
When the Bible was written, writers and historians were free to shift some things
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
Muslims hold a deficient and distorted view of Jesus. It’s a tragic case of mistaken identity with dire consequences. Here are three ways Muslims mistake the true Jesus.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Apr 7, 2020 1:26 AM
The Golden Compass movie plays down some of its more objectionable elements.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Apr 19, 2023 9:32 PM
Many are offended by the idea that Jesus is the only way to God, and there are four common objections you’ll hear in response to this claim. Here’s why those objections miss the mark.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
why Greg uses straw men arguments against the young earth view, whether the Bible
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 17, 2021 2:17 AM
Read the ten most popular posts of 2016.
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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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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
Last week I was asked a question by a friend whether I was really a Calvinist or not and, if so, if I was a five-point Calvinist.
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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 derek white On Apr 15, 2020 11:27 PM
Hymn by Jaroslav J. Vajda
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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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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 20, 2024 1:54 AM
Greg answers questions about whether one must believe in eternal generation to be saved, why the question of significance is so important, reconciling Matthew 7:21–23 with grace, and justifying...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
anything we want within the dual parameters of God’s moral will (revealed in the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
Quantum physics. Ugh. The term itself is enough to make grown men weep and send theologians scurrying. It can also send chills up the spine of the Christian marshalling evidence from science for...
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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 25, 2019 10:44 PM
What was Jesus loving and accepting regarding during His ministry? Greg clarifies a common misconception.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 9, 2020 3:01 AM
Greg discusses what the Bible has to say about Christian workers receiving payment
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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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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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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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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:39 PM
Could it be that our acceptance of abortion, like acceptance of the slave trade, is still mainly a matter of ignorance?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:42 PM
Does saying “God did it” short-circuit thinking and curiosity?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Sometimes we’re tempted to think evil is stronger than God, but the answer to making sense of the destructive power of evil all comes down to this simple truth.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Rachael Slick, the daughter of an apologist, has written an article recounting her theological and apologetic training growing up—and her subsequent rejection of Christianity.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Today is the 42nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade and a good time to report on a recent poll that tried to get beyond the “pro-life” and “pro-choice” labels people claim for themselves to...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
As Christians, we are not exiles from Christendom. We are expatriates from heaven. Here’s what that means for us.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jul 31, 2019 10:18 PM
I came across a lecture by Peter J. Williams that I found to be an excellent complement to this month’s Solid Ground (if you haven’t yet read Greg’s “The Canaanites: Genocide or Judgment?” you...
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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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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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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 20, 2023 1:34 AM
Greg continues answering a question about how he annotates his Bible, then he answers
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM
Alan interviews Christopher Yuan about his new book, Holy Sexuality and the Gospel: Sex, Desire, and Relationships Shaped by God’s Grand Story.
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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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