5 Reasons the Resurrection of Jesus is NOT a Copy of Ancient Pagan Myths
By Alisa Childers
We are coming up on a time of year when the resurrection of a virgin-born child whose followers called the "Good Shepherd" and "Messiah" is celebrated. He had twelve disciples, ...
D.O.U.B.T.S.: An Evidential Filter For Miracle Claims
By Erik Manning
When it comes to miracles, Christians are often accused of special pleading. We’re quick to accept Christian miracle claims, but we suddenly turn into Richard Dawkins when it ...
The religion of the Force (book excerpt)
By Frank Turek and Frank Zachary Turek
The Star Wars series comprises eleven wonderful movies (some more wonderful than others) that, by design, are infused with overtly religious ...
The Big Bang and Friends of the World
By Luke Nix
Introduction
"Don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God."- James 4:4 ...
Overcoming Apathy and the Straw Man Argument
By Al Serrato
As Christians, we are told to always be ready to give an answer for our faith. But for many of us, the opportunity seldom arises. In fact, by and large, it seems we are faced with ...
How We Got Our Bible: New Testament Canonical Reception
By Ryan Leasure
This article is part 5 in a nine-part series on how we got our Bible. Part 1 considered inspiration and inerrancy. Part 2 looked at the unfolding of the Old Testament. Part ...
Should Christians Pursue Personal Success?
By Mike Taylor
Have you ever found yourself looking at someone else’s life on social media and wondering how they’re able to do all that they do? We see people on Instagram taking vacations, ...
3 Practical Steps to Help Build Your Kids’ Immunity to Anti-Christian Ideas
By Alisa Childers
When my daughter Dyllan was a toddler, I exercised quite regularly at the YMCA. (And by "exercised," I mean that I read a book on the stationary bike and pedaled as slowly as ...
A Myth Come True
By Bob Perry
If you’re anything like me, you probably associate the word “myth” with an ancient fairy tale. The Greek and Roman pantheon of gods comes to mind — magical spells, curses, and ...
Healing from Institutional Abuse
By Brian Chilton
A cabin was nestled near the top of a mountaintop in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. This cabin served as a vacation home for my family and me. The evening was humid and ...
Should Christians Have Blind Faith?
By Levi Dade
A few months ago, I sat with a close friend in one of the booths of our university’s coffee shop. My friend, whom I will call Tom, is an atheist. Tom is a genuine truth-seeker, and ...
How We Got Our Bible: New Testament Canonical Grid
By Ryan Leasure
This article is part four in a nine-part series on how we got the Bible. Part 1 looked at biblical inspiration and inerrancy. Part 2 considered the development of the Old ...
What Doctrinal Differences Tell Us
By Al Serrato
Challenges to Christianity don’t always come from the outside, from atheists committed to removing every vestige of religious faith from society. Challenges can also come from ...
Part 2: Overcoming
By Jason Jiménez
This article is adapted from Jason’s book Abandoned Faith.
“Inevitably we carry some amount of parental regrets. Freedom from regret comes when we admit our weaknesses before ...
Doubting Your Faith? Look No Further Than This New Free Resource
Are you a Christian who is struggling with doubts about your faith? A non-Christian seeker who has sincere questions about the Christian faith? Or have you recently lost your faith and want to ...
What Would It Take To Prove That God Doesn’t Exist?
By Al Serrato
Atheists who feel certain that there is no God are staking out a rather interesting position. As a corollary of their position, they are of course also convinced that those who ...
Artless Similarities: More Evidence for Gospel Reliability
By Erik Manning
While reading the gospels, you’ll notice similarities between the characters portrayed across the different stories. Parallels between the gospels concerning character depictions ...
Why God May Place More on Us Than We Can Endure
By Brian Chilton
Have you ever heard the phrase, “God will not place more on you than you can endure.” Another way of phrasing the statement is by saying “God will not place more on you than you ...
How We Got Our Bible: Old Testament Canon and Apocrypha
By Ryan Leasure
This is part three of a nine-part series on how we got our Bible. Part one addressed the inspiration and inerrancy of Scripture. Part two explained the formation and preservation ...
God and Evil
By Tony Williams
Evil, or some derivation of it, is one of the more popular reasons people cite when they walk away from believing in God or choose not to believe in Him in the first place. The ...
