Apologetics
As you share the gospel with friends, neighbors, coworkers and more, you may encounter questions about your faith and other religions. Find answers to the most common questions here.
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Trustworthy: Thirteen Arguments for the Reliability of the New Testament
As we share Jesus with others we are sometimes asked questions about the reliability of the New Testament.
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Why Are We Restless, A Review
In Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment, Benjamin and Jenna Silber Storey approach this subject of contentment (or the lack thereof)...
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Rediscovering a Theology of the Body
To build a “theology of the body” I will briefly highlight seven of the key building blocks of this doctrine.
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Engaging the World Like the Early Church
There is much the modern church can learn from the ancient one. The early was not perfect, but it survived and even thrived in times...
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Pagan Virtue and Christian Persuasion: Bearing Witness
For our neighbors who are already convinced that Christianity is immoral and ugly, we need ways to surprise them into reevaluating their subconscious dismissal of...
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The Reasonableness and Desirability of The Atonement, Part 2
Championed by the Protestant Reformers, the penal substitution model of the atonement takes its cues from the Old Testament motif of animal sacrifices for sin....
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The Reasonableness and Desirability of The Atonement, Part 1
The atoning work of Christ is central to the Christian faith. Humanity’s fundamental problem is guilt before God because of sin.[1] As a result of...
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Pagan Virtue and Christian Persuasion: The Beautiful
“We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put...
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The Augustine Way, A Review
Imagine apologetics that–to quote C.S. Lewis–moves us “further up and further in” the faith. Imagine apologetics that is pastoral in its care for the whole...
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Surprised by Doubt, A Review
“I don’t know man, even if you showed me a YouTube video of Jesus’s resurrection, I’m not sure I would believe it.” Something along those...
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Pagan Virtue and Christian Persuasion: The True
In the first part of this series, I explored how genuine acts of persuasion are always built on shared concepts of the good, the true,...
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The Anxious Generation, A Review
The science-fiction genre, both in film and literature, has continually tried to predict what the future might be like. Take, for example, the classic cartoon...
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Christian Philosophy As A Way of Life, A Review
Philosophy is a discipline that has been around for thousands of years. Some of the most widely known and studied philosophers predate the incarnation of...
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Pagan Virtue and Christian Persuasion: The Good
A Persuasion Problem Christians have a persuasion problem. In today’s fast-paced culture, fresh moral controversies are arising at a dizzying pace. The morality of Christian...
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The Deity of Christ, Part 2
In the first part of our two-part series, we explored Jesus’s own claims regarding His divine status. In this second part, we’re going to focus...
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The Deity of Christ, Part 1
“Where in the Gospels did Jesus say, ‘I am God’”? This is a common objection. The one asking expects the apologist to show those exact...
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How (Not) To Be Secular, A Review
Diving into James K.A. Smith’s How (Not) To Be Secular is a little bit like learning to swim in a new world of words. On...
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Contextualized Apologetics and the Letter of 2 Peter
Apologists in the late modern world, characterized by globalism, pluralism, and rapid social change, find themselves in need of a model of adaption. While the...
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Cultivating Wisdom for the Age of AI
It seems like nearly every day we hear something new about artificial intelligence (AI). We are inundated with news stories about how this technology is...
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Biblical Critical Theory, A Review
For those who have read Augustine’s The City of God and have found yourself asking, “what sort of book is this?” Is it an apologetic?...
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An Apologetic of Virtue from the Second Letter of Peter
The field of apologetics, by nature, can seem a distant discipline from something like spiritual formation. In formal ministry training, courses such as apologetics, logic,...
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A Brief History of Thought, A Review
Tertullian once famously asked, “What hath Athens to do with Jerusalem?” While Tertullian asked whether philosophy had any place in the theological task, philosophers have...
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How Faithful Diversity Provides Evidence for God’s Truth
“The more mixed the congregation is, especially in ‘class’ and ‘color,’ the greater its opportunity to demonstrate the power of Christ,” John Stott once wrote....
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What are the Pressing Needs in Apologetics?
One of the pressing needs every human heart is asking is, “What is my true name?” The gospel provides an answer to this question.
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The Church Is the Evidence
Student ministry is always filled with surprises—but, if you’ve ever worked with youth, you already knew that. I first worked with youth nearly thirty years...
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Justice: Right and Wrongs, A Review
Introduction He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love...
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A Moral Argument for God, Part 2: A Two-Part Moral Argument for God’s Existence
Moral arguments for God’s existence feature a rich history—from John Henry Newman to Immanuel Kant, from A. E. Taylor to Hastings Rashdall, from William Sorley...
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A Moral Argument for God, Part 1: Moral Realism
What follows is a two-part, succinct, aerial view of a moral argument for God’s existence. We begin with the natural assumption that there are moral...
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Apologetics in a Digital Age
Luke’s account of the apostle Paul’s engagement with the Stoic and Epicurean philosophers of Athens in Acts 17 is frequently referenced in debates about apologetics....
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Christianity’s Unique Contribution to History
What is Christianity’s unique contribution to history? Jesus took the Jewish doctrine of the imago Dei and the Jewish ethic of love, and He intensified...
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