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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:54 PM
Because our culture ties love and hate to agreement and disagreement in some contexts, we need to ask for clarification when people call us to love or accuse us of hate.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Nov 8, 2023 10:25 PM
Pro-gay theology advocates claim Christians are making the same kind of grievous interpretive error past Christians made with antisemitism and slavery, but when you look closer at the details, it...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:21 PM
The result of criminalizing hate under certain circumstances is that only certain types of people get protected.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Gay activists prepared to protest FIRE Church in Concord, North Carolina.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
It’s not unreasonable or bigoted to treat the unique joining of sexually complementary partners uniquely. But in order to see that this is a reasonable understanding that isn’t motivated by hate,...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:54 PM
Alliance Defending Freedom summarizes their concern with this bill by stating that it is “content-based speech regulation and impermissibly burdens free exercise of religion.”
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
The terms “conversion therapy” and “reparative therapy” are used as general terms to refer to all attempts to change one’s sexual orientation. This is incorrect.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 23, 2020 12:35 AM
Greg finds a prime example of confused morality on a popular TV talk show.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM
The California bill classifying “sexual orientation change efforts” as consumer fraud (including efforts even to merely change behavior) has been withdrawn.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Dec 26, 2023 10:32 PM
The topics in this year’s top ten list indicate this has been a difficult and confusing time for many.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 8, 2024 11:29 PM
A progressive Christian claims that advocating for pro-gay and pro-trans theology is countercultural and courageous, but is it?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 5, 2021 2:23 AM
Greg talks about accomplishing things by being faithful, then he answers questions about what Christians should expect to experience in terms of communication with God and how to respond to a gay...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM
For someone with all the answers, Jesus didn’t always respond directly to challenging questions. Sometimes He answered a question with another question. Sometimes He answered a different question.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 21, 2020 3:34 AM
Greg revisits his discussion from last week about respecting the original meaning of a text, then he answers questions about discerning between different views and adjusting how you communicate...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Nov 9, 2021 12:14 AM
As ambassadors for Christ, we should understand a view we disagree with before we try to formulate a response to it. Here are three reasons why.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Since incest is a turning inward towards those in our family who are like us, rather than an outward turning towards a different family, it’s contrary to the purpose of our sexuality.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
Greg talks to Sean McDowell about resources for students, including the Apologetics Study Bible for Students.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Greg talks about ancient new testament manuscripts, the relationship between Jonathan and David, how to determine biblical meaning, and more.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
the first time in my six years of teaching on controversial topics like abortion, homosexuality
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
cans science disprove science, how to be faithful to the Bible and gracious to a homosexual
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
If marriage is a particular thing, then everyone has a right to take part in that institution as it stands, regardless of their personal characteristics, but they don’t have a right to change that...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 2, 2022 1:48 AM
Greg responds to Doug the atheist’s comments on one of Tim Barnett’s videos, then he answers questions about what Christians mean when they say God told them to do something, slavery, going on...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
J. Warner Wallace talks about why some verses are missing from the Bible and how to deal with family members in immoral relationships.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:07 PM
For any knowledge at all to be possible there must be true things and there must be false things.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM
You may have noticed a trend in my work this year: truth and compassion...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:59 PM
As Christmas approaches, we want you to be able to talk about Jesus with the people you care about when the opportunity arises. So we put together a group of helpful videos on topics that might...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jul 23, 2020 8:06 PM
Alan shares how he uses apologetics in conversation.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM
Alan Shlemon is on the timer and answers questions on transgender brain mapping, the connection of brain and mind, and how to talk to a gay friend.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM
Questions about what the atonement has to do with Heaven, using incremental legislation against abortion, and the Brunei stoning law.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
We all have people in our lives with whom we disagree. We’re against some people’s ideas. We’re against some people’s behaviors. We’re against some people’s attitudes and inclinations.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 15, 2020 3:32 AM
Greg talks about how we should never give up, then he answers questions about the universal moral law applying to animals, the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah, and decisional regeneration.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
It’s always wrong to take a human life without proper justification.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM
Greg answers questions about whether the universe needed a cause, Jesus’ response to the woman caught in adultery, and adoption for same-sex couples.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
Even if you set aside the biblical texts that prohibit same-sex relations, you can still make a solid case against pro-gay theology by simply looking at Scripture’s teaching on marriage.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
Whether you’re gay or straight, Jesus doesn’t guarantee you a life free from sexual temptation, but He will empower you to deny yourself and follow Him.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
No amount of reasoned arguments can trump a suspicion of bad motives once it’s firmly implanted, and unfortunately, people are currently assuming the worst of religious conservatives.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:43 PM
Greg talks about adoption & abortion, then takes calls on society becoming ruder, how to determine what God’s will is, emergent leader’s appearance at a conference, and more.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM
Greg Koukl interviews Sam Allberry, author of Is God Anti-Gay? on the question, how can the church support Christians with same-sex attraction who want to follow Christ?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM
Greg is on a timer and answers questions about doing the Lord’s work, the Orlando shooting, and major doctrines that Greg has changed his mind on over the years.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
Can sexual orientation change?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:42 PM
Greg and Tom Gilson talk about the accusation that Christians are intolerant, and callers discuss blind faith, sociology, and emotion.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 20, 2021 1:34 AM
School is out, but don’t stop learning this summer! Here are three organizations that are ready to equip you to charge through the challenges this world will throw at you.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM
Greg answers questions about the genetic fallacy, proving objective morality, the 70th anniversary of Israel, the inscription on the Liberty Bell, and tips for retaining apologetic information.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:40 PM
Greg talks about speaking at Saddleback, then takes calls on how it is fair for us to be punished for Adam’s sin, if prevenient grace is inconsistent with Calvinism, if the Big Bang is consistent...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:43 PM
Greg talks about tactical persuasion with a tough challenger, The Lost Virtue of Happiness with J.P. Moreland, then takes calls on how Christians can affirm human value when God has...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 15, 2023 10:52 PM
Questions about whether miscarriage is manslaughter, the implications of removing explicit pro-transgender books from the children’s section of a library, and responding to an evolutionist who...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
The Supreme Court will soon be ruling on whether or not the Constitution allows for defining marriage as one man and one woman. Much is at stake, and you can’t know what is fair and just...
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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 8:46 PM
The real question we face is not whether or not to take the Mosaic Law literally, but whether we are now under that same legal code.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Do you know someone who thinks legalizing same-sex marriage won’t change anything?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for December 2009 I began a recent event by telling the audience I wasn’t glad to be there.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
In the past, we’ve focused on secular reasons for maintaining the man/woman definition of marriage, but now we need to start paying attention to specifically Christian reasons so we can respond to...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Greg talks about worship music and aesthetics, how to respond to a friend who wants to pursue same-sex relationships, if spanking is wrong because Jesus is a pacifist, and more.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:42 PM
Greg talks about what kind of dad are you, A Touch of the Transcendent: Paul Potts, then takes calls on what the Old Testament expectation of the Messiah was, if the Roman Catholic church is...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:43 PM
Brett Kunkle talks about applying a Christian worldview to sports, guest Dr. Frank Beckwith, then takes calls on values being imparted by coaches for good or ill, sports being at odds with...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
In 4 min. or less, Greg answers questions about catering a same-sex wedding, visits from dead relatives, and preparing for attacks on students’ faith.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 23, 2022 4:59 PM
Questions about whether we should patronize businesses that collide with our moral beliefs, promote the LGBTQ lifestyle, or pay for employees to travel to other states for abortions and why God...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:57 PM
Is it unloving to tell people they are sinners. While thinking about this question, an analogy immediately came to mind that I think brilliantly articulates why telling people they are sinners...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Nick Roen, who has same-sex attractions, suggests “An Alternative Script for Same-Sex Attraction” for the church to offer Christians.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:39 PM
Greg talks about conversations on a plane, four criteria when choosing a Christian college, if the Bible is a good luck charm, then takes calls on why there are different dates for the crucifixion,...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
“The days of comfortable and acceptable Christianity are now over,” said Robert George.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:39 PM
Some LGBT activists and Frozen fans have created the viral hashtag #GiveElsaAGirlfriend to urge the sequel’s writers to make Elsa Disney’s first lesbian queen. They believe that Disney is long...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for February 2010 “Thank you for existing,” a young woman recently wrote me. Then she explained. Her husband had become an atheist and began challenging her faith.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Aug 19, 2021 10:41 PM
Our new season of Reality Student Apologetics Conferences (for middle school through college students) is about to begin! Here’s what this year’s conference is all about.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 2, 2023 2:04 AM
Greg talks about Calvary Church Albuquerque’s “cultural axioms” and encourages churches to likewise be “more concerned with reaching the lost than pacifying the critics,” then he answers questions...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Oct 3, 2019 10:32 PM
Alan encourages Christians to point to Jesus when their biblical views are challenged as politically incorrect.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:44 PM
Greg talks about what gives you the right, then takes calls on what Reformation theology is, gyn performing abortions, what to do when a heart grows cold, and more.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
Over the last decade as a Stand to Reason speaker, I’ve been yelled at, cursed at, and even threatened. How do I keep my cool? Here’s my secret: I let God take the heat.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 9, 2023 11:40 PM
When the subject of a person’s sexual sin comes up in conversation, is there a way to share the gospel without sounding bigoted or judgmental?
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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 greg koukl On Mar 30, 2023 8:57 PM
Critics accuse Christians of conveniently picking and choosing from Old Testament laws, and even Christians can be confused about why we follow some Mosaic laws but not others. Here’s an explanation.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Now that the dust has settled on the hysteria surrounding SB 1062, Arizona’s failed religious freedom bill (widely dubbed the “anti-gay bill” by the press), Ramesh Ponnuru clarifies the...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
If you’re placed in a situation where you suspect your convictions will be labeled intolerant, bigoted, narrow-minded, and judgmental, turn the tables.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Greg talks about the Last Day Live on KBRT, emerging churches, seeker churches, and more.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:44 PM
Greg comments on an article about the secularization of Christianity in current culture, and takes some calls on knowing if God is real, age of accountability, and prophecies.
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