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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
There is, indeed, a difference between being interested in God and being interested in what we say about Him.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM
Our denial that marriage is about the unique man/woman union will require an increasing amount of legislation and term redefinitions to try to make two unlike things the same.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Feb 27, 2020 6:49 PM
“The point is, there’s clearly evidence sufficient to establish beyond reasonable doubt that there’s no evil god. But then why isn’t there evidence sufficient to establish beyond reasonable doubt...
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On May 26, 2022 12:09 AM
There are two misunderstandings about justice that have led to confusion in the Christian community. Here’s what many Christians are missing.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Oct 1, 2021 2:48 AM
Two closely related passages in Mark seem to connect Jesus’ command to follow Him with the greatest commandment to love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:44 PM
Have you ever felt “the big chill”...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
It isn’t the poor who Jesus commends on the Sermon on the Mount, but rather the poor in Spirit, not the poverty stricken, but the morally broken.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Until recently, the Bible contained the only evidence for the return of the Jews
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM
A new twist on Ash Wednesday reveals the spirit of our age—a radical individualism that we’re all infected with.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM
What is the secret to living well in disappointing, painful circumstances?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Feb 14, 2020 9:43 PM
Are we looking to politics to deliver something it can’t deliver? This is a question we should carefully consider as we enter this tension-filled election time, adjusting our passions and hopes...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Is it really correct to say that just as a horse cannot describe us, so we cannot describe God? Are the two situations analogous? Francis Schaeffer has a great insight in The God Who Is There that...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Once you accept the reasoning for same-sex marriage, there’s no rational reason to legally discriminate against three people who love each other.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On May 26, 2021 11:44 PM
How can we make sense of unanswered prayer? Here are some tools for both your mind and heart to help you work through your questions when your prayers seem to go unanswered.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM
The Nashville Statement on the biblical vision of sex and sexuality was released last week, and many people have objected, calling it unloving.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Oct 1, 2019 11:55 PM
BreakPoint’s symposium on “purity culture” has some interesting thoughts from Christian thinkers on sexual purity and how we should advance the biblical sexual ethic.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Apr 26, 2023 9:36 PM
It’s one thing to deny your preferences for the sake of others, but if accommodating another person’s requests requires you to violate your conscience, then it’s reasonable to decline.
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Web Content Article · By stand to reason On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
The following are links that were either mentioned on this week’s show or inspired by it, as posted live on the @STRtweets Twitter feed.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 29, 2024 9:30 PM
Jesus warned that the church would contain both wheat and tares. Which are you? Here’s how you can be confident you’re safe in Christ.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
It would often be easier to compromise, but we’re called to do church God’s way, even if it’s the more messy, difficult, and uncomfortable way.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
A first-century marble tablet containing an “edict of Caesar” calls for the death penalty for anyone who removes a body from a tomb. Is there a connection to Christianity?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
Over the years I’ve found that a key concept I must rest in as I talk to others about Christ if I’m to avoid despair, hopelessness, and even anger is this: My job in evangelism is to focus on...
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
John Shelby Spong, a retired bishop of the Episcopal church and participant in the Jesus Seminar, has a new book he summarized in a recent article.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
A recent study in Finland showed that both believers and non-believers in God showed physical evidence of emotional stress when daring God to do something that would hurt them.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
There’s one thing, though, that needs to be added to the list of topics discussed before marriage.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
Did Christianity really undermine slavery? If so, why did it exist for so long in Western Civilization?
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Web Content Article · By j.t. wynn On Jul 31, 2019 8:42 PM
It’s not that we shouldn’t use movies to illustrate theological truths, but we need to be very careful about how far to take this for at least two reasons.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Incarnation. The word captures the essence of Christmas.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 24, 2020 4:05 AM
Greg responds to an L.A. Times Op-Ed article by this title.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 3, 2020 10:44 PM
It’s often said that if you repeat something loud enough and long enough, people will begin to believe it.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
There has to be a better way to show compassion to the few children who suffer from gender confusion that doesn’t involve destroying a healthy understanding of the distinction between boys and girls.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 11, 2021 9:25 PM
We’ve begun a new year. Why not resolve to study Scripture regularly in 2021? Here are three reasons why this is a good idea.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
The unborn is not part of the mother’s body, but rather a separate body that lies within her. Scientifically, there are a number of qualities and characteristics that are different about the unborn...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
A rather lengthy passage in which Paul seems to use homosexuality as indicative both of man’s deep seated rebellion against God and God’s proper condemnation of man.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM
Whether you find your identity and value in living up to an objective, external standard or through having your subjective, personal standard affirmed, the Gospel offers a better way.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
I watched a conversation on one of the morning political talk shows today that was disturbing.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:56 PM
These twelve points have provided me with a strategy to keep in the back of my mind when asked about the veracity of the Christian faith.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 10, 2020 5:19 AM
The strategy used by the villains in this sci-fi movie to convince people it’s morally permissible to create human clones to harvest their body parts will sound familiar to you.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Aug 7, 2020 12:37 AM
Would we know good without evil? Could good exist without evil? Can God truly be good if he can’t choose evil? Amy responds to some questions from a reader.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
It’s not by accident that Christians who live in gratefulness and awe of Jesus’ suffering, humiliation, and death don’t seek revenge on those who mock them and their God.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Apr 5, 2022 11:08 PM
In an interview with Focus on the Family, Greg explains the five major Christian puzzle pieces that fit together to reveal a picture of the reality we live in—God, man, Jesus, cross, and resurrection.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
Few doctrines of the Christian faith are more essential than the Trinity, yet many people are deeply confused about its nature.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
Any believer who knows the Gospel can be used by God to bring Muslims to the Truth.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:56 PM
If it’s true we needed to be released from the Mosaic Law through the death and resurrection of Christ in order to bear fruit for God, does that mean the Law is bad?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Many in our postmodern world think the remedy for evil is for everyone to reduce their confidence in their beliefs, but this view misses the real problem.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
In his insightful article “Why Harry Potter Is Great Literature,” Brian Brown argues that J.K. Rowling’s Potter books “are easily the most morally and socially insightful works of fantasy...
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
C.S. Lewis is well known for being an apologist and writer. But first, he was a literature scholar.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:40 PM
Churches are trying to be relevant, but all this relevancy is making Christianity irrelevant by removing every true and glorious thing from Christianity that makes it unique.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Oct 26, 2023 7:19 PM
If you shy away from discussing controversial aspects of the Christian worldview with people who disagree with you, here’s an approach that will help you overcome your fear and get into...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Is Hell eternal or everlasting? We have to be careful how we define the words.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for March 2010 Why would an alcoholic father, strapped for cash, sell his son and daughter for $30? Why would pediatricians at the University Medical Center of Gronigen kill...
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Apr 25, 2024 8:46 PM
Though we don’t go looking for suffering, here are three reasons why we can embrace it in God’s strength when it comes.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
Do people change their minds about abortion? Some say no. They believe that people are committed to one side or the other and no one ever changes their mind. This is false.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM
Are anti-abortion laws merely the Christian version of Sharia law, religious beliefs imposed on the rest of society?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jul 23, 2021 4:26 AM
Disobedience always extracts a greater cost from us than faithfulness. But as fallen human beings, it’s not always easy to believe this, so we choose sin. Here’s how you can fight for faithfulness.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Feb 29, 2020 5:32 AM
Can Ben Shapiro be saved if he sincerely follows the commandments of the Law?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
I’m told writing this post won’t matter. I can clarify until I’m blue in the face and nothing will change. It doesn’t matter what Christians actually think or believe about homosexuality. It seems...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Devotion (in the sense I’m using the word) is different from “devotions.” My goal isn’t to squeeze a sense of well-being out of the encounter, but to focus entirely on Him, worshiping Him,...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
The presence of evil in the world is considered by some to be solid evidence against the existence of God. I think it proves just the opposite.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Nancy Pearcey has a really great article explaining a strategy for more effective conversations and public dialogue over controversial issues. In this case, she writes about sexual identity and...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:21 PM
I think lying is wrong. However, we have to be clear on what constitutes lying, that is, immoral deception.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
If our culture’s highest ideal for marriage is sameness between the partners (not to mention barrenness), then it naturally follows that the new ideal is same-sex marriage.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Apr 9, 2020 12:35 AM
Communicating Christian theology to Mormons is very difficult, but here is a possible point of contact.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM
Stand to Reason wants to give you courage for every encounter, and courage begins with expecting and accepting ridicule and rejection.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Why would Jehovah’s Witnesses care whether Jesus died on a pole or a cross? The answer to this question could help you spot less obvious cults more quickly.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On May 21, 2020 9:17 PM
We got a little history lesson at the STR office yesterday thanks to a stamp.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Tim Keller had this to say about doubt in The Reason for God.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
The Christmas song “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” has something to say about celebrating the peace of Christmas in a time of suffering.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 13, 2024 10:00 PM
Christians are not only called to love people who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender, but we—more than anyone else in our culture—can give a justification for loving them even...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
Christians and Muslims both believe there is a deity who created the universe, administrates history, and judges human actions, but they believe differently in who fills that role.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jul 31, 2019 11:16 PM
I'm becoming increasingly depressed by the weak and empty Christianity that's being peddled out there. What's even sadder is that I see people happily eating this stuff up with no idea of what...
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
John Wycliffe was so despised by the church because of his reform efforts that 20 years after his death in 1384, declared a heretic by a church council, his bones were exhumed, burned, and strewn...
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Feb 14, 2023 1:54 AM
Here are five simple things you can do if you think a friend or loved one might be considering suicide.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jul 31, 2019 10:07 PM
We all expect the Spanish Inquisition to show up sooner or later in our discussions with atheists. Does the presence of the Inquisition in Christian history discredit all of Christianity? Does it...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM
If I’m a sinner, does that mean I will not inherit the Kingdom of God?
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