By Jeremy Linn Over the past few months, I’ve been promoting an Apologetics conference which will equip young people to understand and defend the Christian worldview. As I've talked to local church leaders about the conference, questions have come up about its...
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John the Baptist in Josephus
By Ryan Leasure Several reasons exist for why we should trust the Gospels. Their eye-witness testimony, familiarity with the Palestinian world, embarrassing nature, early dating, and undesigned coincidences, all suggest that the Gospels are reliable documents. Beyond...
Did God Command Genocide in the Old Testament?
By Ryan Leasure Richard Dawkins’ famous quote just about sums up how skeptics view the God of the Old Testament. He retorts: The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving...
Bible study: Esther as an example of bravery and God’s providence
By Wintery Knight I’ve been listening to this FREE two-volume series on the book of Esther featuring pastor Alistair Begg. A whole bunch of interesting things stuck out to me, so I’ll write about one of them today. First, Esther is a Jewish woman whose father or...
Apologetic Methods and A Case for Classical Apologetics
By J. Brian Huffling In 2004 I began to pursue an MA in Christian Apologetics at Southern Evangelical Seminary. I didn’t really know much about the topic, I just really wanted to know how to defend the Christian faith and have a better justification for my own...
Three Signs of the Church’s Spiritual Disorientation
By Bob Perry It is a scary thing to be disoriented. At best, it means you’re headed in the wrong direction. But if you’re flying airplanes, it means you have no reference to the ground. You can’t navigate. You may not even know which way is up. In other words, being...
Is Apologetics “Anti-Faith”?
By Robby Hall Often, I see other Christians objecting to the use of apologetics altogether. They will usually say that faith doesn't require evidence, or it's not faith. But is that the case? If we look at the word "faith" itself, we can get a clearer picture of...
Every Christian Should Begin to Master the Moral Argument Today
By Erik Manning There’s a dizzying array of arguments for the existence of God. For a newbie looking to get into apologetics, it can be intimidating trying to figure out where to start. You have the cosmological argument, but it helps if you know something about...
Did Jesus Have a Wife? – A Simple Response to The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife
By Mikel Del Rosario The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife So your skeptical friend just heard about something called, “The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife.” But unlike the fiction Dan Brown created in the Da Vinci Code, this wasn’t in a movie or a novel. She just caught another...
How a Cold-Case Atheist Detective Became a Case-Making Christian
By Terrell Clemmons I think it may be true," Jim Wallace said to his wife, Susie. He was lying in bed, staring at the ceiling. "What may be true?" "Christianity." Why did she need to ask? He'd been obsessed with the subject for several weeks now, talking her ears off...
How Naturalism Defeats Science As A Knowledge Discipline
By Luke Nix Introduction One of the core necessities of science is the constancy of the laws that govern this universe. The fact that the laws of physics have the same since the beginning of the universe and will continue until the universe is destroyed allows...
The Education of Jesus of Nazareth
By Brian Chilton Often, critical scholars make Jesus of Nazareth out to be a country bumpkin, one who was uneducated and unsophisticated. However, when one evaluates his life and teaching style, it appears that Jesus of Nazareth was a well-polished individual who...
How Can God be Sovereign over Evil and not Morally Culpable for It?
By Ryan Leasure It’s not uncommon to hear those in the non-Reformed tradition make the claim that Reformed belief necessarily makes God blameworthy for evil. After all, if God has sovereignly decreed everything whatsoever to come to pass — including evil — how is he...
Who Made God? A Cosmological Argument for Kids
By Mikel Del Rosario Who Made God? Here’s a Simple Answer Watching Phil Vischer’s Jelly Telly show with my little boy reminded me that accessible apologetics training is for kids, too! One day after church, we sat down to watch a little clip online. There was a puppet...
Desire and God: Should I Always Do What I Feel?
By Robby Hall The debate over homosexual behavior has taken many surprising turns. The national debate has involved a Fast Food franchise and a maker of Duck Calls. It has involved extremes from Fred Phelps and his clan to groups like GLAAD comparing the whole thing...
Transcending Spiritual Gymnastics
By Nathan Howe “Spiritual” people, specifically non-believers, can have some pretty comical explanations of the supernatural as they come out of Atheism. Coming from a perspective that attributes no part of existence by any Spiritual guidance or conscious force, is a...
19 Essential Bible Verses and Passages on Apologetics
By Erik Manning Sometimes you gotta make an apologetic for apologetics. Often well-meaning Christians spout off pious-sounding platitudes like “faith isn’t based on reason, that’s why it’s called faith,” or “God doesn’t need us to defend him, just preach the gospel.”...
25 Quotes On Tolerance
By Luke Nix "Most of what passes for tolerance today is not tolerance at all but actually intellectual cowardice. Those who hide behind that word are often afraid of intelligent engagement and don't engage or even consider contrary opinions. It's easier to hurl an...
Book Review: So the Next Generation Will Know by Sean McDowell and J. Warner Wallace
By Timothy Fox You’ve probably seen the statistics and heard the concerns. Young people are leaving the church in greater numbers than ever. While the youth of every generation share many common characteristics, this generation – dubbed Generation Z – faces new and...
Did The Historical Jesus Rise from The Dead?
By Luke Nix Introduction - Why Is Jesus' Resurrection So Important? Those who have followed this blog know that I focus a lot of my writing on defending the compatibility of science with the Christian worldview and that I spend much energy addressing philosophical and...