The CrossExamined “I Don’t have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist” tour visited NC State’s Reynold’s Coliseum on Thursday night February 7. Over 1500 students attended the seminar which was hosted by Campus Crusade of NC State (http://clubs.ncsu.edu/crusade/). My thanks to Mike Mehaffie and his CC team for their tremendous work in making the event a success. The attendance […]
Last week we launched our invasion of college campuses for the Spring with two major events at Olivet Nazarene University (ONU is a one-hundred-year-old Christian university about 80 miles south of Chicago, but it may be best known as the site for the Chicago Bears Training camp). I spoke to 1800 students and faculty at […]
When President Bush announced in the State of the Union address his support for research on embryonic stem cells that are created without destroying life (by means of a new discovery), Republicans leapt to their feet and applauded. Most Democrats sat with their hands folded. Why? Democrats have been criticizing President Bush for not using federal funds on stem cell research. […]
Last week I was taking questions during an “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist” seminar on the campus of Olivet Nazarene University. One question challenged the legitimacy of Christian Apologetics. It was half question, half critique and it went something like, “Why are you trying to prove Christianity? We just need to love one another!” […]
Here is another achaeological discovery just made in Jerusalem that affirms the reliability of the Bible. Here is a quote from the archaeologist: “The seal of the Temech family gives us a direct connection between archeology and the biblical sources and serves as actual evidence of a family mentioned in the Bible,” she said. “One cannot help […]
Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council points out in his January 9 email that so-called “hate-crime” laws are having a chilling effect on free speech in Canada (BTW, aren’t all crimes “hate” crimes?). Mark Steyn is under attack for writing some unflattering things about Islam. Notice, the issue isn’t whether Mark’s factually correct about what he wrote, but […]
As the presidential campaign heats up (Obama? Clinton? Guiliani? Edwards? McCain? Romney? Huckabee? Thompson?), the media is likely to show disdain for what they call “one-issue voters.” The disdain will be for those who are pro-life and will not settle for a candidate who is anything but (of course, if your one issue is to keep […]
I think The Case for the Real Jesus is Lee Strobel’s best book so far, and that’s saying a lot. Josh McDowell claims, “Whatever Lee Strobel writes, God reads!” 🙂 David Limbaugh has posted a review of Lee’s book that challenges skeptics to take a fair look at the evidence.
Why do most scholars think the last twelve verses of the Gospel of Mark (Mk. 16:9-20) were not written by Mark? Lee Strobel calls on manuscript expert Dr. Daniel Wallace to answer here. Wallace, who thinks the last 12 verses were added later, has an interesting insight: One can easily see why scribes would want to add […]
Bill Hybels , the unofficial father of the seeker movement in the United States, recently admitted that seeker churches have done a very poor job of making disciples. This is damning because making disciples is what Jesus commanded us to do! Why has the seeker movement failed in the church’s central purpose? I attended a seeker church this past weekend. As I […]