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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Oct 16, 2020 1:58 PM
One way for a skeptic to undermine a Christian’s convictions is to show that the Christian’s ideas conflict with what the Bible actually teaches. But for this to work, he actually has to...
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Web Content Article · By aaron brake On Jun 27, 2019 9:52 PM
What does it mean for something to be true? Historically, there have been three dominant theories of truth, but only the common sense view stands up under scrutiny.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 2, 2022 2:35 AM
Greg gives a general principle and detailed examples to help a listener explain why, as a Christian, he is waiting until marriage to have sex.
Media Type: Video Topic: Sexuality and Gender
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Mar 4, 2021 6:30 AM
Whether it’s forgoing worldly approval, standing firm in your convictions, or remaining calm in all circumstances, be prepared to render to God that which is God’s.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
As I listen to many of the subjects in debate today in our culture—the dialog between secularists and Christians—there’s a fundamental difference in perspectives that I think we need to be aware of...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 27, 2020 11:33 PM
When you encounter these three common challenges, having a few good questions at the ready can help you navigate an otherwise difficult interaction graciously, safely, and effectively.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:52 PM
If God is in control, then wouldn’t that make Him the cause of evil and prevent us from condemning it?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:21 PM
The humanity of the unborn is a fact from the point of conception. It is fully human. There is no gradation in that regard. There are merely gradations of development.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM
How do you start a conversation about spiritual matters with a non-believer? Here are ten ideas to help you get started.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM
A religious freedom case is scheduled to be argued before the Supreme Court in December. Make sure you know what this case is about.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Aug 1, 2019 7:01 PM
If our culture valued micro issues, then women would feel more free to invest themselves in them without feeling guilty they’re not acting like men, and our society would be much better off.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 27, 2021 9:02 PM
Here are three reasons why you shouldn't let the label “phobic” bother you when it’s falsely applied to you because of your Christian convictions.
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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 6, 2020 11:01 PM
From Shadrach, to Peter, to Richard Wurmbrand, no law, threat, or torture can turn true Christians from loving and serving God or affirming what we know to be true.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Oct 20, 2022 12:03 AM
Our culture has divided the body from the person, rejecting the idea that our bodies have true things to say about who we are. But as Christians, we’re called to honor our bodies and live according...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
No amount of reasoned arguments can trump a suspicion of bad motives once it’s firmly implanted, and unfortunately, people are currently assuming the worst of religious conservatives.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
The Church has always been under attack.... Although many threats are external, some come from within.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jul 28, 2020 1:59 AM
Unless we address a worldview problem at its core, no amount of symptom alleviation will solve the problem.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Jul 28, 2022 1:47 AM
What injustices of our generation are we unaware of? We need to remind ourselves that we’re all blind to certain issues and intentionally look for our moral blind spots.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Greg talks about Psalm 63 and emotions, effects of same-sex marriage on individual rights, trading the gospel for social justice, and more.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
The phrase, “God won’t tamper with our free will” makes all answers to prayer impossible, except answers of direct intervention.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 21, 2020 7:41 PM
headline issues like same-sex marriage, the Bible and homosexuality, gender confusion, abortion
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Does Christian involvement in politics do nothing for the Kingdom?
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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...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 20, 2023 4:32 AM
When people reject their Maker, they no longer have an external source to tell them who they are, so they often tap into their inner thoughts and feelings to create their own identity. This...
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Nov 22, 2023 5:01 AM
Our public school system has become a way for the government to indoctrinate your children according to a highly divisive view of sex and sexuality. Here’s how you can respond.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Is there a “gay gene,” and should it change our view of homosexual behavior if there is?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
Over the last decade as a Stand to Reason speaker, I’ve been yelled at, cursed at, and even threatened. How do I keep my cool? Here’s my secret: I let God take the heat.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
Are “Bible only” advocates right in claiming that any combination of man’s philosophy and biblical wisdom is poison?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
In the movie, “The Boys from Brazil,” it was used to try to recreate Hitler. In “Jurassic Park,” it was employed to bring back an entire prehistoric era to life. In...
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:39 PM
Culture is changing fast, and it’s becoming more of a challenge to speak effectively to others about Christianity, and it’s only going to get more difficult. But that is our job as ambassadors.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
Every false worldview, since it puts something that is less than God (an idol) in the place of God (as the ultimate reality and source of all things), will have an understanding of the human person...
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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....
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Oct 11, 2023 8:40 PM
Alan Shlemon explains three serious concerns about the Unconditional Conference hosted by Andy Stanley, gives reasons why we can’t simply agree to disagree on LGBTQ issues, and describes how...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:56 PM
We have seen much evil over the past week, and it’s not wrong to long for justice.
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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...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 7, 2020 9:34 PM
Probably no concept has more currency in our politically correct culture than the notion of tolerance. Unfortunately, one of America’s noblest virtues has been so distorted it’s become a vice.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 18, 2021 12:23 AM
Will the followers of Christ continue to thoughtfully engage—with truth and grace—the critical ideas in culture, or will we retreat from the public square again and take refuge behind the walls of...
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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 greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Stand to Reason represents classical Christianity—orthodox Christian beliefs that have been affirmed since the first Christians.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:21 PM
The same thing that made the Elephant Man a human being makes a fetus a human being.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 21, 2022 10:12 PM
Greg offers advice on how to disciple the next generation of believers and shares examples of how spiritual mentorship has impacted his own life.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
Greg interprets a commonly misunderstood and difficult passage by looking at the details of the context.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:10 PM
Things like great steps of moral depravity are not really taken in great steps; they’re taken in little pieces.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:55 PM
Is capital punishment compatible with Christianity? Greg outlines a biblical argument for capital punishment, makes a case for retributive punishment, and responds to objections.
Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
Some charge that God is an imaginary “cosmic father” invented for our emotional protection, created in our image to comfort us, a phantom to fill the hollow places. But two things are wrong...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
Moral relativism. It sounds so reasonable, so tolerant, and so neutral. But there’s a fundamental flaw.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
Are You a Christian because You Were Born in America? Would you Be a Muslim If You Were Born in Iraq? Maybe. But So What?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
For some, ethics is nothing more than a social contract to ensure survival. Compliance is the highest good and breaking ranks the greatest evil, regardless of the issue. This may make sense on...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2020 11:35 PM
Greg responds to a letter to the editor in which the writer’s pain causes him to ask the age-old question of why God allows evil to exist.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
The images are sadly familiar. Buildings ripped from their foundations. Corpses mingled with debris. Parents and friends grieving for lost loved ones. Flowers and candles and makeshift memorials.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
Brett’s on a timer and answers questions about God’s presence, polygamy in the OT, and total depravity.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM
Greg’s on a timer and answers questions about the age of accountability, knowing what Bible passages refer to us, and children trusting Jesus.
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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.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 15, 2022 2:53 AM
A mélange is a mixture, a medley, an array of miscellany combined together for a common purpose. That is what you’ll find here—a potpourri of thoughts and reflections addressing issues that will be...
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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.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
Normal people are capable of great evil. That’s all I could think as I watched this latest video exposing Planned Parenthood.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM
A fire breaks out in a fertility clinic. You have the choice of saving one two-year-old or 1,000 embryos. Which do you save, and what does that prove?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM
Do pro-lifers really believe the unborn has equal value to the born if they’re willing to sacrifice the unborn when the mother’s life is in danger?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM
If only our society would once again define compassion not as offering to help people kill themselves, but as offering to walk with them through a difficult time.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
In a recent article in a science magazine, David Barash argues for creating “humanzees” in order to make a theological point.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM
There are some important questions about future medical decisions that you need to think through now so that your care will reflect both your wishes and the truth of Christianity.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
It seems that sometimes, when it serves the story, the fact that life begins at conception is perfectly clear to both scientists and the media.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:44 PM
Wesley J. Smith called Princeton to account for hiring Peter Singer with his horrendous views on infanticide.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:44 PM
Scientists have discovered in a recent study that it isn’t the mother’s body directing embryonic activity; the embryo determines that itself.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:56 PM
Most people, including Christians, have not thought through the issue of in vitro fertilization carefully enough, and the results have been tragic.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:59 PM
Given the brave new world we live in, we can’t presume that medical technologies are consistent with Christian ethics. We must do our due diligence and investigate.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:59 PM
The common, accepted practices employed in IVF are shaping the way we view human beings in an alarming way.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Alan came across an unexpected similarity between C.S. Lewis’s case for Christ’s divinity and an argument for the humanity of the unborn.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Oct 3, 2019 9:27 PM
Amy explains why all humans are also persons.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Dec 12, 2019 10:26 PM
Does the fact that unborn children don’t breathe air mean they aren’t yet live human beings? Does the Bible teach this in Genesis 2:7, as some claim?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 10, 2020 9:20 PM
Is there a legitimate dividing line between human persons and human non-persons? Greg explains why we need to be sure about the answer to this question.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Mar 3, 2020 8:40 PM
Infertility is a reality for many and can be unimaginably painful. We need God’s grace to help us walk through such pain, and we need God’s truth to help us navigate the possible road ahead.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Mar 3, 2020 8:46 PM
“I could have ended up with one of these being gone, and the one that is gone could have been one of these.”
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Mar 4, 2020 8:14 PM
We have to recognize and then fight the human tendency we have to deny the value of people who are different from us. We have to teach intrinsic human value.
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