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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 4, 2020 7:02 PM
The California Judges Association is guilty of the same thing they accuse the Boy Scouts of—discrimination.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM
Sometimes we need to explain the bigger biblical picture in order to answer a person’s specific question.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
The Church has always been under attack.... Although many threats are external, some come from within.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jul 30, 2019 11:50 PM
Many people who identify as gay or lesbian think that Christians hate them and so does God, but this isn’t the case. Alan explains why.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Why did God destroy Sodom and Gomorrah?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
When, gay or straight, you’re prepared to give up what Jesus asks you to give up, whatever it turns out to be, then you’re ready to go to the Bible and find what He wills there.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:21 PM
The key to answering the claims of same-sex marriage advocates is understanding the basic rule of justice: Treat equals equally.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 1, 2019 5:11 PM
Here's today's challenge: "If God made people gay and they don’t have a choice in the matter because they were born with that orientation, then isn’t it unfair that He punishes them for just being...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Richard Dawkins once wrote, “Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.”
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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 alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM
How do we know that what Paul wrote still applies to us today?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
The argument that may soon be taken up against our religious freedom will probably go something like this...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Dec 21, 2021 12:55 AM
These ten posts had the most views this past year, so take a look to see which topics people were most interested in, and catch up on what you missed.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
Those who adopt pro-gay theology are asking us to believe one of three options. Which of the following should we believe?
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
I had a frustrating experience the other day you’ve probably had. A family member thanked me for being nice to her lesbian friend.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Oct 11, 2023 8:40 PM
Alan Shlemon explains three serious concerns about the Unconditional Conference hosted by Andy Stanley, gives reasons why we can’t simply agree to disagree on LGBTQ issues, and describes how...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:42 PM
What can we learn about the design of marriage from the word “suitable” in Genesis?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM
Treat your gay friends the same way you would treat your heterosexual friends in similar circumstances.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM
Despite the obvious connection to Islam, some people speculated that Christians were also to blame.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM
The first thing we should focus on is the Gospel, but many times, people express doubts, objections, or concerns with Christianity. That’s when apologetics comes in.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Most of the world seems to believe that same-sex attraction can’t be changed.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:52 PM
Recognizing that our beliefs and values all come back to God reminds us that He is our foundation. It all starts with the first verse, “In the beginning, God...” and all things follow from there.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Feb 29, 2020 5:38 AM
Should Christians who struggle with same-sex attraction have small groups available at their churches where they can connect with others who have a similar struggle?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jul 31, 2019 5:35 PM
Paul’s first epistle to the church in Corinth has many challenging admonitions. First Corinthians 6:9–11, however, seems to top them all, especially in light of our country’s ethos.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On May 23, 2023 12:01 AM
Andrew Sullivan recognizes the destructive danger queer theory poses to societal norms, but it was the same-sex marriage movement that destroyed the basis for sexual norms in the first place,...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
Apologetics helps believers remove obstacles from the non-believer’s path to Christ, but it’s not an end in itself. It’s a means to an end.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
I recently posted a video answering a challenge: When did you choose your heterosexuality? Someone asked a follow-up question, and I thought I’d share my response.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
It would often be easier to compromise, but we’re called to do church God’s way, even if it’s the more messy, difficult, and uncomfortable way.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Homosexuality. Same-sex marriage.
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
Can sexual orientation change?
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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 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 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 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 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 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 amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM
If marriage is meant to be a parable of Christ and the church, then does that mean single, celibate people are wasting their sexuality by not using it to glorify God in this way?
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
Sunday school teachers, youth workers, small group leaders, pastors, and other church leaders are always on the lookout for good resources to help equip their people.
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