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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Dec 14, 2023 4:26 PM
Tim Barnett explains three reasons why he stopped making a distinction between “good” deconstruction and “bad” deconstruction and rejected the fundamentally flawed process altogether.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
asks you to give up, whatever it turns out to be, then you’re ready to go to the Bible
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
In his new book, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God, Tim Keller gives a wonderfully motivating illustration of how we should view prayer.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On May 6, 2023 12:42 AM
After Jephthah made his foolish vow, did the Mosaic Law require him to keep his vow or break it? A principle found in the laws for vows can help answer this question not only for Jephthah’s vow,...
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Apr 9, 2020 3:21 PM
In Romans 5:3–5, Paul describes a chain of transformation consisting of four links that ultimately connect our tribulations to the deep love of God.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Dec 2, 2019 5:56 AM
Some Bible terminology can seem strange to our modern ears, and understanding its
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM
The California bill classifying “sexual orientation change efforts” as consumer fraud (including efforts even to merely change behavior) has been withdrawn.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:42 PM
An ancient toilet has turned out to be an interesting discovery.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
Last month, Brett Kunkle and I spent six hours training students in apologetics at Watermark Community Church, a very large church in the Dallas area.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
Marriage can’t be separated from biological realities. And that’s why this activist’s ultimate goal is the end of marriage.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
Andy Stanley’s mistaken understanding of why the Old Covenant is obsolete leads him to a faulty conclusion in his new book, Irresistible.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:59 PM
Is there an objective spiritual reality, or are religious ideas merely subjective preferences? Here’s why the answer to this question matters.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
similar book: The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
If you speak to a Muslim about Jesus, you may be challenged to show where in the Bible
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Mar 31, 2023 9:59 PM
Familiarity with the Bible is good, but it can also lead to our missing important
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
The interpretation is not narrow; the verses themselves are narrow, and there seems
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for July 2013 Go ahead and skip church this Sunday. No need to give thanks for your next meal. You might as well throw this letter in the trash, too.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
“It is impossible to know the meaning of any written text.” If this is true, log off the web now. If not, read this commentary to find out about self-refuting arguments.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
Alan posed a question to pro-gay theology advocates: Should we believe that Jesus was wrong, the Church has been wrong, or you are wrong? But is there a fourth option?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Feb 1, 2024 8:22 PM
Does the film 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture succeed in using Scripture to make the case that God approves of same-sex relationships? Alan explains three reasons why the film’s...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:40 PM
Greg discusses what the Bible teaches about the true nature of spiritual warfare—truth
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM
How do we know that what Paul wrote still applies to us today?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
Can science disprove the existence of the soul? Here Greg deals with advances in computer science and neurology, and the limitations of science.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
A time will come when an experience will make suffering real to you, and then you will struggle to learn how to entrust yourself to God when you can’t trust He’ll protect you from pain and tragedy....
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:52 PM
Feelings must not be allowed to hold our faith hostage. Instead, facts inform our faith, and faith instructs our feelings.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Aug 30, 2023 12:09 AM
Through his resurrection, Jesus became the truer and better Sabbath, allowing us to forever cease laboring to attain God’s favor and to rest in his mercy and grace. With this in mind, here are...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
Notes for the video “Witnessing to Jehovah’s Witnesses”—available in our store—are below. See Part 1.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
If you want to call moral rules absolutes in the sense that they can never be trumped
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
The New Testament attributes the three primary characteristics of personhood to the Holy Spirit: will, mind, and emotions.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
hospitals and clinics, was unique historically in Christianity because of what the Bible
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Just 29 days after the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, Oprah Winfrey invited Queen Rania on her television show.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM
Despite the obvious connection to Islam, some people speculated that Christians were also to blame.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
Did Jesus study in India for the “missing” 18 years of His life and then bring back a message reflecting eastern religious thought?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Greg sees a parallel between the evidence for grand design in nature and the fulfillment of Messianic prophecy by Jesus.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Dec 2, 2022 12:13 AM
Despite some deconstructionists’ insistence, deconstructing your faith is not the same as reforming your faith. There's one key element that distinguishes between the two.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM
Kierkegaard claimed the act of defending Christianity actually discredits it. Here’s why his criticism of apologetics doesn’t work.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 25, 2020 10:39 PM
Since long before the woke awoke, someone else has been the chief of cancel culture: Yahweh. But there are five significant differences between our culture’s approach to canceling and God’s.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
The Supreme Court will soon be ruling on whether or not the Constitution allows for defining marriage as one man and one woman. Much is at stake, and you can’t know what is fair and just...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
A list of the key elements of Christianity
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM
The only way to guard against false ideas about God is to fill our minds with true ideas about God. But thinking rightly about God doesn’t come naturally, so what should we do?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
Mormons often argue that because they live good lives, they pass the test given by Jesus in Matthew 7:15-23 to determine whether or not a person is following a true prophet of God.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM
God relates to people in the Old Testament differently from how He relates to people in the New Testament, but it’s not because of a change in His character. If God hasn’t changed, then what has?
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jul 31, 2019 5:24 PM
After decades of service defending the gospel, Dr. Norm Geisler has gone on to rest and be with Christ. Tim talks about an aspect of his service that most people did not see.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
I realized something about Bart Ehrman’s books reading his latest, How Jesus Became God.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
There are passages in the Old Testament and in the New Testament that give us some indication of what is really wrong with homosexuality from God’s perspective.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
The success of any given apologetic argument is not whether it wins converts or strengthens the faith of any given believer, but whether it is faithful to Jesus.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:56 PM
If you’re afraid to have conversations about sexuality with your LGBT friends and family because you don’t know what to say, here’s some good advice from Sam Allberry.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Mar 22, 2022 2:52 AM
What does it mean when God says he “creates evil” in Isaiah 45:7?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:07 PM
How does God speak to us?
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
Is the personhood language used for the Holy Spirit merely personification? Why doesn’t the Holy Spirit have a personal name? How can a person fill people?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for November 2011 At a recent event, I was introduced as Saeed Ibn Umar. Yes, that’s a Muslim name. But no, it’s not a pseudonym and I haven’t converted to Islam.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Feb 8, 2022 11:12 PM
Natasha Crain’s new book, Faithfully Different, was written to help believers understand and respond to the worldview divide between Christians and the culture—an important and needed task given...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM
Emperor Constantine invented the deity of Christ in the fourth century, but a look at quotes
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
It is not important for the truthfulness of Christianity for the Bible to be without
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM
The universe requires an explanation, and the universe requires a cause. Here’s a five-minute video to help you introduce these ideas to your friends and get a conversation started.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 1, 2019 9:16 PM
Civil war battles were tumultuous affairs. The thundering of guns and muskets was not just deafening, it was dangerous, drowning out the one means of group communication: the bugles.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Are you giving a bit of Heaven to everyone you meet?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for February 2010 “Thank you for existing,” a young woman recently wrote me. Then she explained. Her husband had become an atheist and began challenging her faith.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
We should never expect a fair shake, nor whine when it is not given.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM
Sometimes we need to explain the bigger biblical picture in order to answer a person’s specific question.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM
People often compare the Calvinist view of salvation (i.e., that God gives spiritual life to those whom He chooses so that they will inevitably love and trust in Him) to an image of worthless...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Oct 2, 2019 6:20 PM
How do we get our kids to think for themselves about Christian truths? We need to stop only asking the “what” questions and start asking the “why” questions.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Oct 11, 2021 9:58 PM
Is it the case that the unborn are simply a convenient group of people to advocate for and that’s why pro-lifers take on their cause?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
In The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally...Jacobs, succeed in following the whole Bible...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:10 PM
Objections to a ban on partial-birth abortion fall into three categories: the silly, the false, and the inconsequential. Here are the facts on each one.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On May 18, 2020 8:15 PM
Have your students been exposed to the rich intellectual resources Christianity has to offer? Here’s one book for each of the seven essential apologetics topics your teen should be familiar with.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 17, 2021 1:10 AM
Academic arguments about the reality of God are necessary but not sufficient. You will have to answer questions about His goodness.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
It seems the reports of missionaries harming the world have been greatly exaggerated.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
Brian Fleming’s film, The God Who Wasn't There, described by a reviewer on the front cover of the DVD as “provocative.”
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 31, 2019 9:25 PM
Will God answer your prayer if you don't end with "In Jesus' name, Amen"? Learn what praying in the name of Jesus really means.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
We who truly enjoy our analytical side are in danger of getting caught up in thinking about arguments for Jesus at the expense of actually communing with Him and holding Him up for others to worship.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Jul 21, 2020 10:09 PM
In the world, it’s true: All good things come to an end as innocence gives way to sin. But that’s not the end of our story.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
It seems the filmmakers who created Son of God were trying to convey a sense of piety, but they would have better served their audience by conveying a sense of reality.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
William Bradford was the long-serving governor of the Plymouth Colony.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 20, 2020 8:25 PM
Is it possible to forgive a wrong done to someone else? Should only those who repent be forgiven? Is forgiveness a selfish act, a way to make ourselves feel better? Greg grapples with these issues...
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