By Evan Minton So you’ve just gone to the bookstore and got a stack of books you really want to dive into. However, you are also a dedicated Christian who wants to nourish yourself on God’s holy, inspired, inerrant word. But, there are only so many hours in the day...
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Should You Force Your Kids To Go To Church?
By Natasha Crain A reader of this blog posed this question on the Facebook page because her boys –ages 10, 12 and 15– are uninterested in church. It’s a very important question that I wanted to address with this post. At the risk of trivializing the question itself,...
Book Review: Scientism and Secularism by J. P. Moreland
By Timothy Fox (Orthodox Fox) J. P. Moreland is one of the most prominent Christian thinkers of our time, and I’ve been greatly impacted by his works, such as Love Your God With All Your Mind and Kingdom Triangle. In his latest popular-level work, Scientism and...
An Insight Into Why Young Adults Are Leaving Christianity
By Michael C. Sherrard Sociologists, apologists, and the media have well articulated the abandoning of religion by many young adults. The church is aware of the attack on the faith of teenagers. It is becoming old news. We have become saturated with the statistics. We...
33 Reasons Why We Need Apologetics
By Jeremy Linn I’ve written a bunch about what Apologetics is - a rational defense of the Christian faith - and what it all involves. But the “What” of Apologetics doesn’t matter if there are no reasons why we should use Apologetics or even have it on our minds. To...
Secular Leftists Demand Christian Student Senator Resign For Disagreeing With Them
By Wintery Knight I had to blog about this story about a tough girl at UC Berkeley who is taking a lot of heat for her Christian beliefs. It would have been easier for her to keep them private. But they forced her to vote, and she had to respect her conscience. Campus...
Thriving in Your Career as an Ambassador of Jesus
By Mikel Del Rosario Faith in the Spotlight Can you thrive in your career while staying true to your beliefs? As Christians, we are vocational ambassadors representing Jesus in all that we do. But can you really thrive in your career while staying true to your...
The Darwin Tales
By Terrell Clemmons It's Time to Remit Darwinian Storytelling to the Annals of History. Stephen Meyer was a young geophysicist working in the oil industry in Dallas, Texas, in 1985 when he saw that an interesting science conference was coming to town and he decided to...
The BGV Theorem: An Unexpected Asset for Christian Theism
By Brian Chilton Turn on the Discovery Channel or the Science Channel, and you may find interesting theories pertaining to how the universe came to be. Some propose that an eternal multiverse gave rise to our modern universe. Others will hold that eternal wiggling...
If God Created The Universe, Who Created God?
By Evan Minton This is a question that many, many atheists have asked Christians whenever Christians try to argue for God as Creator and Designer of the universe (by using, for example, The Kalam Cosmological Argument, or The Fine Tuning Argument). Once the argument...
If Kids Don’t Understand Why Miracles Don’t Discredit the Bible, Their Faith Will Be Easily Crushed
By Natasha Crain “The light of common sense, thrown on the stories of making snakes out of rods, of the Red Sea dividing itself, of Christ’s making wine from water, curing blind men by rubbing spit in their eyes, walking on water, the story of the flood, God’s making...
Apologetics is Not For The Heart
By Richard Eng Growing up, my Dad taught me apologetics. He was really excited about it, and good at it too. As someone who studied under Norman Geisler at Southern Evangelical Seminary, my Dad got some of the best training out there. As a result, He taught me a lot...
How the Most Important Attribute of God Relates to Christian Apologetics
By J. Brian Huffling Many issues that surround Christian apologetics are philosophical in nature. Thus, if we are going to be good apologists we need to be good philosophers. Evangelical apologists and philosophers typically follow the analytic tradition in...
Does The Bible Promote Slavery?
By Ryan Leasure “Consult the Bible, and you will discover that the creator of the universe clearly expects us to keep slaves.” 1 This provocative statement by atheist Sam Harris is meant to cast shade on the God of the Bible. After all, if civilized humanity...
Book Review: The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ
By Luke Nix Introduction In my late teens and early 20s, I was wrestling with many questions about what I believed. I had several challenges to my Christian faith that ranged from the philosophical to the scientific to the historical. One of the challenges that would...
Do We Have Reasons to Believe in God’s Existence?
By Brian Chilton Recently, news agencies filled the airwaves and the internet with the news of Stephen Hawking’s last book to be published and released posthumously. The book released on October 16, 2018, is entitled Brief Answers to the Big Questions. Hawking argues...
Answering Two Common Objections To The Author Of Life Argument
By Evan Minton When atheists accuse God of being immoral, they usually point to nasty Old Testament accounts like the conquest of Canaan, God sicking two female bears on a group of youths for harassing Elisha, or destroying humanity in a massive flood (Genesis 6-9)....
10 Signs the Christian Authors You’re Following are (Subtly) Teaching Unbiblical Ideas
By Natasha Crain My friend, Alisa Childers, recently wrote a review of the bestselling book, Girl, Wash Your Face, by Rachel Hollis. It started a firestorm of online discussion about what makes someone a “Christian” author, what responsibility a self-identified...
“Don’t Mix Politics & Religion!”
By Tim Stratton Complaint: Dear Tim, I love you man, but I don’t want my politics and my religion mixed. I look up to you for religious context and commentary because you are an expert in the field. Not politics. That’s just your opinions, and I can get that from...
Did the Apostles Really Die as Martyrs?
By Mikel Del Rosario Evidence That Demands a Verdict Growing up, I had a lot of questions about the faith. So I went looking for answers. One of the first apologetics books I discovered on my dad’s shelf was Josh McDowell’s classic work, Evidence that Demands a...