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Skeptics are quick to claim that there are thousands of Christian denominations.  Is that really true?  If the Bible is true and clear, why is are there so many denominations?   Join Frank as he addresses these four questions:

  1. Are just Christians divided?
  2. How serious are denominational disagreements?
  3. What causes divisions?
  4. Is God clear enough? 

Along the way, you’ll see that people disagree on almost everything— even science!  The bottom line regarding denominations is that disagreement is more about our resistance to clear doctrine than the existence of clear doctrine.

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About 70% of young people leave the church after they leave home, and only 3% of churches grow through evangelism.   Why aren’t we sharing the world’s most important truth?   One reason is that we simply don’t know how to share the truth without sounding like a religious nut.  It’s awkward in our culture.   But there’s an easy way to share Christ.

Dr. Rice Broocks, author of God’s Not Dead (the book that inspired the movie), joins Frank along with Addison Tweedy of ThinkEvangelism.org, to show you the SALT method of sharing the world’s most important truth.

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It’s time to be salt and light with the SALT method.  There’s even an app that will help you do this.  Go to the app store and download “The God Test”.  You can also invite Rice, Addison, or someone from their team, to your church by going to www.ThinkEvangelism.org.

In the second half of the show, Frank answers a question about how to answer a scientist who won’t trust the Bible because she says that the Bible teaches that the earth is young.

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Is it just human opinion? Are values just subjective preferences or is there a really objective standard of rightness, goodness, and justice beyond us?

This show delves into questions on morality and others you’ve emailed to Frank such as:

  • What moral standard are political parties using when they address the conflict between so-called LGBTQ rights and religious rights?
  • Do rights come from God or the government?
  • What kind of God does the moral argument prove? Could it be a pantheistic God?
  • What is the true nature of love?
  • Did Moses really write the first five books of the Bible?

Frank also responds to a couple of amazing letters, one from a divorced woman and another from a pastor. You don’t want to miss this one!

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Who is your commanding officer? Is it Jesus or someone else? Is it Jesus or yourself? Is it Jesus or the culture? If you say it’s Jesus, well Jesus said, “If you love me you will keep my commands.” Yet we see people in the church today not only failing to keep his commands but denying they are commands at all, especially when it comes to sexual behavior.

Join Frank for completely politically incorrect, but biblically correct, insights into what’s right and true regarding sexual behavior. The show starts with LT Hiroo Onoda, a member of the Japanese imperial army, who refused to believe WWII was over and the continued to fight on a Philippine Island until relieved of his duty in 1974!

What relevance does that have? Listen.

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Jezebel was the most wicked woman in the Bible, a powerful seductress who killed the prophets led Israel into idolatry and immorality, and emasculated men. She was seductive and determined to snuff out the voices coming against her because these voices were calling out for repentance.

In 21st century America, Jezebel is not a person, and America is not in the Bible. But it’s as if the spirit of Jezebel is alive again today. The influence of the same demonic force is being felt in throughout America in overwhelming and undeniable ways. Join Frank and Dr. Michael Brown as they uncover and respond to these dark forces by unpacking Mike’s brilliant new book “Jezebel’s War with America.” You’ll hear:

  • Who was Jezebel in the Bible?
  • What is spiritual warfare?
  • Should we really believe in demons and Satan?
  • Why are people now celebrating abortion and the killing of infants?
  • How prevalent are pornography and sexual slavery? (You won’t believe this!)
  • Why is the church silent?
  • Is Trump hatred justified in light of his policies and demeanor?
  • What are some practical things you can do to advance the spirit of Jesus rather than Jezebel?

Learn more at Dr. Brown’s website: www.AskDrBrown.org.

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  • Are people leaving Christianity for a “new” truth?
  • Does science keep piercing the truth of every religion?
  • Is the Bible full of contradictions?
  • Does God send 4 billion people to hell?
  • Is it really true that no one talks about these things?

Join Frank and he responds to these issues raised by Marty Sampsons, the Hillsong worship leader who says that his faith is now on “Incredibly shaky ground.” Frank also highlights some of the comments made about this by John Cooper, of the Christian rock band Skillet. Pray for Mr. Sampson. He says that he is familiar with the work of William Lane Craig, John Lennox, Ravi Zacharias, Michael Licona and Frank Turek. We pray he will get the answers he needs.

Frank also addressed a few of the questions you’ve sent in, including:

  • Why did God wait so long to stop the child sacrifice of the Canaanites?
  • How can you follow a God who promises eternal torture? (Does He actually promise that?)
  • Why did God give Adam and Eve access to the tree in the garden?

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Is it arrogant to say you’re right? And many other questions.

So you think you’re right and everyone else is wrong! You’re arrogant!

Is that true? Frank answers many of the questions you’ve emailed to Hello@Crossexamined.org including:

  • Is love possible if atheism is true?
  • Unless you observe it directly, do you have to have faith to believe it?
  • Why pray when these shootings keep happening?
  • How can we love America when its founders were slave owners?
  • Why do we say the God of the Bible is the ground of morality?
  • Is once saved, always saved, true? What about those who fall away?
  • Did God create us, or did we create God?
  • Is it arrogant and pompous to say you’re right and others are wrong?

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Pastor and author Joshua Harris recently announced that he has divorced his wife and left Christianity. He also has denounced Christian sexual morality. What can we learn from this? Here are some of the questions Frank addresses:

· What reasons did he give? Did he cite evidence that Christianity is false?
· By leaving Christianity hasn’t he adopted a new faith?
· By what standard does he support his new beliefs?
· Should we call out false teachers?
· According to the Apostle Paul and Thomas Aquinas, how does sexual immorality make us stupid and dismissive of those who disagree with us?
· Is this a choice between Christianity and the religion of sex?
· How is Mr. Harris being just as exclusionary as the Christians he now blames?

We need to pray for Mr. Harris and his family. But all of us have to make a choice: Are you going to trust your life and eternity to the sinless Jesus or the sinful culture?

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Join Frank as he describes more than 50 important truths that his mentor, Dr. Norman Geisler, taught him over the years.  All of these insights— some of them were profound quips— will help you defend the faith and make you a better disciple. You better get ready to listen intently because there is more than one insight per minute!  Dr. Geisler wrote or co-wrote 129 books over his 86 years, and founded Southern Evangelical Seminary.  That’s still a great place to learn apologetics, philosophy and theology.  www.SES.edu

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How many spiritual beings are there? How can we discern what comes from God and what comes from dark forces? How do we explain two Yahwehs in the Old Testament? Join Frank for Part 2 as he interviews Dr. Michael Heiser about his book Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible. (Listen to Part 1 first). Beware: your view of the Bible may be rocked as a result of this interview! Check out Dr. Heiser at www.DRMSH.com and on his Naked Bible podcast.

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