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Is Christianity Just a Personal Belief?

Greg and Amy highlight classical arguments for God’s existence and point out a faulty assumption made by those who claim religion is just a matter of belief. Greg Koukl

#STRask: What Is the Difference Between Believing and Knowing?

Rapid Fire – Part 5

#STRask: What Is Your Best Answer When Asked to Prove God Exists?

Has God Always Been Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?

Did Jesus Hate Organized Religion?

#STRask: Why Did the Sadducees and Pharisees Want to Kill Jesus?

Objections to Last Week’s Shows on Antisemitism

#STRask: Can a Person Be Saved but Have Nothing to Show for It?

Interview: Scott Keith – Being Family

Where Do Human Rights Come From?

#STRask: What Questions Do We Need to Answer to Help Keep Our Youth in the Faith?

How Should Christians View and Treat the Jews?

#STRask: How Do We Love Those Who Hate Us?

A Response to the Rising Antisemitism

Articles

Beauty Stirs a Longing for Heaven

We can appreciate the beautiful things of this world, but they don’t fully satisfy. They are merely echoes of the true, lasting kingdom that we’re longing for.

Do Eunuchs in the Bible Signal an Endorsement of Transgenderism?

Christian transgender advocates believe the biblical data about eunuchs makes a case for people who identify as transgender today. Is that true? No, and here’s why.

How to Navigate the Slippery Slope

Slippery slope arguments link one way of thinking to an unintended consequence that’s likely to follow. Some such appeals are faulty, but some are valid. Here’s the difference.

No One Suffers More than One Person’s Pain

When trying to make sense of how our perfectly good, wise, and powerful God can coexist with all the evil and suffering in the world, we can easily be overwhelmed by looking at all evil all at once, but that is not a fair way of looking at the issue.

Evangelism Is Not a Thing You Do

Evangelism is not something you do only if you feel specially called. If you are a Christian, you are already sent. But here’s why that shouldn’t scare you.

The Gospels Aren’t Myths

C.S. Lewis—a medieval and Renaissance literature scholar who was quite familiar with myths, legends, allegories, romances, etc.—explains his conviction that the Gospels are not myths.

Fishy Reasons to Deny the Sex Binary

Some transgender ideology advocates use examples from other species as evidence that sex is on a spectrum for human beings. Alan Shlemon explains why this kind of argument fails.

Rapid Fire – Part 4

Greg continues his “rapid-fire” responses to common objections to Christianity, addressing claims that one is a good person, the need to see a miracle to believe in God, the illusion of consciousness, the inevitability of mistakes from human biblical authors, abortion protecting unwanted children, evidence vs. faith, and more.

Is God in Your Life?

The culture tells you that you are autonomous; you are in control; you can be whoever you want, so why are depression, anxiety, and suicide at historic highs? Here’s why autonomy is not the key to human flourishing.

Seven Truths to Help You Prepare for Suffering

Since none of us will escape this life without suffering, here are seven truths from a new book by Clay and Jean E. Jones to help you prepare for what’s ahead.

Is a Changed Life Evidence for the Truth of Christianity?

A changed life is certainly noteworthy, but it’s not necessarily noble, so before one can know if it’s evidence of the truth of a religion, there’s a more pressing question that needs to be answered.

What to Say When Challenged to “Love and Accept” Like Jesus

If you’re asked the question “Doesn’t Jesus teach we should love and accept one another?” beware of naively affirming it, for two reasons. Greg Koukl explains.

Videos

Did Jesus Hate Organized Religion?

Where Do Human Rights Come From?

Is Truth Based on Self or Does It Come from an Outside Source?

Christian Living

What Happens When You Place Your Identity in Self Rather Than Christ

Podcasts

#STRask: What Is Your Best Answer When Asked to Prove God Exists?

Questions about our best answer when an atheist asks us to prove God exists, how God can be merciful and forgiving without the existence of fallen humanity, and why, if God is complete in himself and already receives glory from the angels, he would create us to witness his glory.

Has God Always Been Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?

Greg answers questions about whether God has always been Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, his thoughts on women in ministry, how a layperson who isn’t into apologetics can defend the idea that Jesus is the only way, and how to approach loved ones who are following a false prophet.

#STRask: Why Did the Sadducees and Pharisees Want to Kill Jesus?

Questions about why the Sadducees and Pharisees wanted to kill Jesus and why God doesn’t say anything when we pray to him.

Objections to Last Week’s Shows on Antisemitism

Greg responds to objections to last week’s shows on antisemitism, talks to a caller who objects to the term “antisemitism” and says it’s not hateful to notice patterns about people, and responds to a question about whether our justice system should also allow for substitutions like God does.

#STRask: Can a Person Be Saved but Have Nothing to Show for It?

Questions about whether 1 Corinthians 3:15 indicates that a person can be saved but have nothing to show for it in the way they live, and whether a lack of good works after salvation means the person is not really saved.

Interview: Scott Keith – Being Family

Greg interviews Scott Keith, author of Being Family: Passing Down the Faith Through the Generations, discussing the beauty and importance of the Christian vocations of marriage and family and how God works through both.

#STRask: What Questions Do We Need to Answer to Help Keep Our Youth in the Faith?

Question about the questions we need to answer for our youth to help keep them from walking away from the faith.

How Should Christians View and Treat the Jews?

Greg and Amy continue their discussion about antisemitism, explaining what Romans 9–11 has to say about how we ought to view and treat the Jews and answering questions about the meaning of Revelation’s reference to the “synagogue of Satan” and whether Jews worship a different God.

#STRask: How Do We Love Those Who Hate Us?

Question about how to love those who hate us.

A Response to the Rising Antisemitism

Greg and Amy talk about the antisemitism spreading among young conservative men and begin a discussion about what the Bible says about God’s relationship with the Jews and how Gentile believers in Christ ought to treat them.

#STRask: Is Fasting Food Specific?

Questions about whether biblical fasting is food specific or could include things like social media, how the “faith” listed as a gift of the Spirit in 1 Corinthians 12:9 differs from the saving faith given to all believers, and whether it’s biblical for people with a prophetic gift to predict suffering and death.

Your Salvation Doesn’t Depend on Following the Old Testament Laws

Greg talks about a card he received from a group saying we have to follow the Old Testament laws to be saved, then he answers questions about what happens to everyone who doesn’t trust in Jesus, making a case God sustains the universe, and a couple in a celibate same-sex marriage serving in a church.

Solid Ground

Rapid Fire – Part 5

Greg concludes his series of “rapid-fire” responses to frequent challenges to Christianity: Intelligent design is just religion disguised as science, God is not a good father, evil proves God doesn’t exist, relativism doesn’t mean “anything goes,” and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Rapid Fire – Part 4

Greg continues his “rapid-fire” responses to common objections to Christianity, addressing claims that one is a good person, the need to see a miracle to believe in God, the illusion of consciousness, the inevitability of mistakes from human biblical authors, abortion protecting unwanted children, evidence vs. faith, and more.

Rapid Fire – Part 3

Greg provides insight on common challenges you might face as a Christian ambassador, including how God can hear everyone’s prayers, euthanasia, the vast number of variants in biblical manuscripts, why death is the deadline for salvation, the deity of Jesus, and the influence of culture on people’s beliefs.

Tactics and Tools

Rapid Fire – Part 2

Greg continues fielding “rapid-fire” challenges, responding to objections about Christians’ intelligence, the subjectivity of a morality based on God, the dangers of radical Christianity, taking the Bible literally, and Christians’ use of the Old Testament Law.