Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM

True biblical faith is essential for salvation....But faith—and its relation to evidence—is often deeply misunderstood in a way that...Here’s what...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM

If you “just take Christianity on faith” you may be in trouble...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:44 PM

world and trouble in the church—we’re called to “contend earnestly for the faith

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Oct 2, 2019 10:10 PM

today, like Pilate, are more concerned with satisfying the crowd than being faithful

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM

A faithful ambassador does not retreat in the face of opposition.... It’s one of the most effective ways to strengthen your understanding of...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:21 PM

Does the archeological accuracy of the Bible have anything to do with it’s truth claims? Not according to many world-class archaeologists. There’s a catch, however, which tells us volumes about...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:21 PM

Is justification by faith, as Paul claims, or by works, as James seems to say?

Web Content Article · By Tim Barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM

Most of us have answered a knock on our door, only to discover a smiling, well-dressed couple—Watchtower publication in hand—standing on the other side, waiting to talk with us about the gospel...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM

how are accepted by Him, regardless of whether or not they explicitly put their faith

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM

Not long ago I read a stunning (and scathing) response in a blog post by a Christian woman who was furious with those taking exception with the “Christian” convictions of a well-known Mormon media...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM

Is there a conflict between faith and science? I think not.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Dec 17, 2020 9:30 PM

The totalitarian world Greg experienced as a young Christian while visiting fellow believers behind the Iron Curtain demonstrates an insight often quoted but frequently ignored: Ideas have...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM

,” Christianity Today noted, has a congregation of 22 million vigorous, faithful

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM

The future of thoughtful Christianity does not belong to best-selling authors or popular speakers. Rather, it will be determined by people like you—committed disciples in the local church with warm...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM

Imagine living in a world in which you couldn’t separate truth from error. You wouldn’t be able to tell food from poison, or friend from foe.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:54 PM

Jesus of Nazareth is a true man of history, but His history started long before He was born. He is a true man, but He is no ordinary man. He is the Son of David, the future King, the promised...

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM

Muslim Followers of Christ?—A Look Inside the “Insider Movement”

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jan 7, 2020 10:34 PM

The evil one steals the gospel seeds we sow when the message is not understood. This is why we often need to do some spadework to prepare the ground before there can be a harvest—why we need...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM

Sometimes, offering an actual case study of a specific set of complaints against your

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Feb 21, 2023 12:27 AM

How much sin can God forgive? Does it matter if we evolved? Why did God...? What role should Christianity play in our government? Greg addresses these topics and more in this issue of Solid Ground.

Web Content Article · By Brett Kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM

Sadly, the majority of Christian students aren’t prepared for the serious intellectual challenges awaiting them, let alone the barrage of moral challenges from an increasingly secular culture....

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 29, 2022 6:53 PM

Many Christians have rejected the idea that sex is only for marriage, buying into the culture’s notion that chastity is unrealistic. Here’s why this “try before you buy” mentality reflects mistaken...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM

Your job is simply to point it out, and then watch the view quietly commit suicide

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:57 PM

In this second installment, I want to center on the biblical fact of the Trinity.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On May 20, 2020 8:18 PM

As a Christian ambassador, your biggest challenge may be making sense of the problem

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM

Peter Boghossian’s A Manual for Creating Atheists teaches atheists a way to engage Christians that he calls “Street Epistemology.” Here’s where his project goes wrong and how you can respond when...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM

In Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, four children, poking about in the back of an old wardrobe in the attic, stumble on another world filled with peculiar delights and strange enchantments. Did you...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM

During this “silly season” of presidential politics, it is not uncommon to hear something I think is odd.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM

could impart, one useful tip I could leave that would serve you well the rest of your

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Apr 23, 2021 10:41 PM

At times, the tsunami of change we’re facing seems overwhelming for its force, dizzying for its speed, and chilling for its darkness. It’s easy to begin feeling helpless, but that is not our path....

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM

If you genuinely believe there is no truth, can you still be a Christian?

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Oct 24, 2020 1:04 AM

The Trinity is a huge speed bump for many, especially atheists, Muslims, Mormons, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Here are some tactical questions you can use to show objectors the Trinity is a solution,...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM

One justification for the atheists’ claim to high moral ground is what seems to them to be the patently immoral conduct of the God of the Old Testament.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:22 PM

Is homosexuality “natural”? Do gays have a “right” to adopt children?

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Apr 28, 2020 12:45 AM

You need to be prepared with specific plans to help you engage atheists’ objections thoughtfully and with grace when you encounter them.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On May 21, 2020 9:58 PM

In this issue of Solid Ground I continue with my collection of short vignettes I have collected over the years.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:56 PM

I want to start by asking three questions I hope will alert you to problems I’m willing to bet you’ve never thought about as a Christian...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM

Once in a while you will encounter people who try to overpower you instead of persuading you.

Web Content Article · By Jonathan Noyes On Aug 23, 2024 10:03 PM

When we rely on everything the world can give us, when we trust in our individual effort to make our lives meaningful or to deliver us from trials and loss, we will ultimately be consumed with...

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM

single-minded—and you need to be ready for them, because and they are coming to your

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:59 PM

You may hear someone say, “I am a Christian. I believe that Jesus is my savior. He is the only way for me. But I can’t say He is the way for others.” Here’s why this confused confession fails.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM

Understanding the Trinity may be impossible, but proving the Trinity is not especially difficult. You don’t need to master theology and philosophy. All you need is one irrefutable argument. Here it...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM

If you think you’re on safe theological ground because of a pet verse, better look twice. Simple proof-texting has its perils. Here’s how to avoid them.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM

Tolerance, one of America’s noblest virtues, has been so distorted it’s become a vice.

Web Content Article · By Tim Barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM

In recent years, opposition to the doctrine of endless punishment by those who are rethinking Hell has gained enough popular momentum that “conditional immortality”—also known as...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Aug 26, 2025 10:15 PM

Many challenges Christians frequently face require only a simple response that can easily be learned by those who want to be prepared to give an answer. In this Solid Ground, Greg answers some of...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM

Postmodernism is on a crash course with Christianity. In fact, we’ve already collided. Here’s how to sort through the wreckage.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 18, 2020 7:31 PM

Same-sex marriage is not about tolerance, freedom, or justice. It’s about something else

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM

As ambassadors for Christ, we often never know the true impact of our efforts. Yet every once in a while we get a glimpse...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM

The so-called “New Atheists” grabbing the headlines lately have been creating a stir. These are old-school modernists with an attitude. They’re angry. Not only is theism false and religion...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM

Jesus, though a true human, was no mere mortal. Rather, He was and is God’s Son, the world’s unique, one-and-only Savior; and if Jesus were not God the Son, He could not be the Savior, either.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM

Is Jesus of the Gospels simply recycled ancient myths?

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM

I do not consider myself a particularly brave person, and I think it especially foolish, on the main, to make a frontal assault on a clearly superior force.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 23, 2020 1:39 AM

can use questions to explain the moral logic of the pro-life position to your

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On May 21, 2020 9:45 PM

There’s a lesson to be learned from using vignettes like these. Sometimes all it takes is a short reflection or a briefly explained insight to put a stone in someone’s shoe...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM

Hymns are usually written as anthems of praise to God. They extol His noble characteristics and recount the benefits of his favor. But atheists have hymns, too. They celebrate the freedoms of...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM

What does it mean to be human? You can’t answer a single question of consequence regarding human beings without answering that question first. Everything vital, meaningful, and moral about us hangs...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Oct 29, 2021 6:14 PM

Did Jesus come here to champion the cause of the poor? There’s no question God has a heart for the destitute. Even so, a careful study of the Gospels shows that Jesus’ principle purpose was...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM

Most people nowadays would not say that the religious stories believers believe are actually false. At the same time, though, they do not think they’re really true, either, in any deep sense of the...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM

Evolution is on its way out. It’s only a matter of time before the iceberg hits.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM

The most taxing objection to the biblical message of salvation that I face is: What about the good, sincere person who has never heard about Jesus?

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM

Have you ever taken a verbal beating when trying to talk about Jesus? If so, I’ve got a tip for you.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM

I would like to rescue you from a mistake virtually every Christian makes now and then when they go to the Bible that prevents you from knowing what God is saying to you personally in His Word.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:10 PM

The passage of C-250 in the Canadian Parliament this spring pushed hate crime legislation to new extremes. Can one be against hate crimes, yet still oppose hate crime laws? Here are three good...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Oct 23, 2025 10:10 PM

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...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM

Each new generation that emerges in culture needs a new generation of Christians to speak to it in its own cultural language.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:10 PM

Western civilization is shuddering under a tidal wave of activism in favor of same-sex marriage. Here is a careful response to their most compelling arguments.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Feb 24, 2022 12:45 AM

When it comes to salvation, God’s way has always been narrow. There is forgiveness available, but no one will be saved without the gospel of Jesus Christ. What does this mean for those who have...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM

Naturalism can’t make sense of the reality we encounter every day, so when talking to naturalists, keep an eye out for these three significant ways they will “bump” into reality.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM

To many Christians, the Bible is like putty. Just add the Spirit and it can be molded into almost anything at all.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM

Some evangelicals search the Bible for a personal “word” from the Spirit that is unrelated to the text’s original meaning, and the results can be silly or even dangerous. Regardless of the outcome,...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM

In 1982, I lived in Thailand for seven months supervising a feeding program in a Cambodian refugee camp named Sakaeo. My charge: 18,250 Khmer refugees who had escaped the holocaust perpetrated on...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM

A Christian’s theology is minimally defined by two miraculous events.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM

Careful thinking is an indispensable tool for all who are interested in knowing the way the world really is, for those who really do love truth. Thankfully, the tools of thinking are simple ones...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM

I never like the question, “Do you take the Bible literally?”