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Take This First Simple Step before You Respond

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Nov 23, 2021 4:48 AM

Here’s a simple step you can take in your conversations to make sure you don’t misunderstand the claims your friend is making.

Media Type: Article Topic: Tactics and Tools

Teaching about Hell on a University Campus

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM

Greg talks about teaching about Hell on a university campus, what the burden of proof for the existence of UFOs is, and counsel for teaching at church.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Stand to Reason Weekly Audio Topic: Christian Living

A Bedtime Story from a Materialist

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 9:25 PM

Greg shares an example of a time he used the Columbo tactic, “What do you mean by

Media Type: Video Topic: Tactics and Tools

Justin Taylor: The Final Days of Jesus

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM

Greg talks about advancing the conversation with questions, how to balance secular and Christian advice about depression, and more, then discusses The Final Days of Jesus with guest Justin Taylor.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Stand to Reason Weekly Audio Topic: Theology

Engaging Disagreement Agreeably

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM

Here are four tips from a professor of law and psychology at Yale Law School on how to have more productive conversations about differing views.

Media Type: Article Topic: Tactics and Tools

What Does It Mean to “Believe” in “God?”

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Oct 2, 2019 12:02 AM

Words and their meanings are important. Here’s how you can avoid inadvertently conceding you blindly believe in a bolt-throwing, angry being in the sky.

Media Type: Article Topic: Christian Living

A New, Expanded Edition of Tactics

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 12, 2019 9:49 PM

Greg talks about the new edition of Tactics, then he answers questions about whether the Holy Spirit knew the day and hour in Mark 13:32, ethical problems with health insurance, and reaching an...

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Stand to Reason Weekly Audio Topic: Tactics and Tools

Culturally Aware Apologetics

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.”

Media Type: Article Topic: Tactics and Tools

Tactics for Conversations with Agnostics

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 20, 2022 9:02 PM

Greg explains how to use the Columbo tactic with agnostics and gives an example

Media Type: Video Topic: Tactics and Tools

People Are More Than Labels

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Feb 23, 2021 12:26 AM

People’s views are almost always more nuanced than what we might conclude based on the labels they’ve given themselves. To avoid misunderstanding or misrepresenting others in your...

Media Type: Article Topic: Tactics and Tools

Upgrade Your Tactics with Knowledge

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Dec 4, 2019 12:27 AM

The more you can learn about a person’s religion, the more likely you’ll be able to leverage that knowledge to ask informed and powerful questions. Here’s how Alan applies that principle to...

Media Type: Article Topic: Tactics and Tools

Not Quick on Your Feet?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM

If you don’t know the answer to a challenge, asking fact-finding questions can enable good conversation, take the pressure off, and help you learn how to respond in the future.

Media Type: Article Topic: Tactics and Tools

Why I’ve Stopped Using the Word “Gender”

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Sep 11, 2023 11:03 PM

Alan explains why using the word “gender” will create unnecessary confusion in your conversations with others and gives advice for how to clarify the term when other people use it.

Media Type: Article Topic: Sexuality and Gender

5 Ways to Share Christ with Ease and Impact—Mentoring Letter June 2017

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Tactics and Tools

Getting in the Game

Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM

Brett gives some practical advice for evangelism.

Media Type: Article Topic: Tactics and Tools

Are You Good Enough?

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM

I think one of the biggest obstacles to people grasping the meaning of the Gospel is that they misunderstand the message.

Media Type: Article Topic: Christian Living

Apologetics Doesn’t Have to Be a Slug Fest

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM

Alan’s monthly letter for May 2008 “An argument is not argumentative,” I told a university audience of 1,200 students and faculty. “An argument is simply an opinion with evidence or reasons...

Media Type: Article Topic: Tactics and Tools

A Universe from Nothing?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM

Some contemporary scientists have argued that something can come from nothing, but it turns out they’re equivocating on the word “nothing.”

Media Type: Article Topic: Science

What Does It Mean That Jesus Is God’s Only Begotten Son?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:57 PM

The phrase “only begotten” has been ammunition for false teachers since at least the fourth century at the Council of Nicea.

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

Is Religion the Cause of Most Wars?

Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM

“Religion is the cause of most wars.” This cultural mantra has been uttered so often and with so much force, it has come to be accepted as an undeniable declaration.

Media Type: Article Topic: Tactics and Tools

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