Apologetics

Apologetics is an essential part of sharing the gospel. It is important to equip yourself and your church with clear and straight-forward answers to the…

The great psychologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) called Christianity a “fairy tale.” The phrase derived in the 1700s from the French conte de fées (“story about fairies”) and…

Christianity often is confusing to the outsider — and even to the insider. We hear different things in different denominations, different churches, and different college…

The Old Testament (OT) presents us with difficult sayings, laws, stories, and customs. Can the OT still be trusted as God’s Word? The quick answer…

Complexity as design: Irreducible complexity The irreducible complexity argument states that some things are as simple as they could possibly be and still function. As…

Last week, someone left the following comment on my blog post, “How Secular Family Values Stack Up: A Response”: “This is your interpretation of Christianity,…

Information as design: Information theory and DNA To understand this form of the argument, we must first understand the different kinds of order. Some order…

Among the leaders of the anti-theist movement today, few are professional scientists. Most leading atheists have been poets, philosophers, journalists, politicians, novelists, playwrights, dictators, or…

Scientists have come to understand the universe as having a great deal of precision. In fact, the degree of precision is so great that to…

The doctrine that compels us to share the gospel as much and as widely as we can is the return of our Lord. We do…

Miracles are essential to the historic Christian faith. If Jesus Christ was not God incarnate, and if Jesus did not rise bodily from the grave,…

Atheists do not discover that life is meaningless; they simply declare it to be so. The dictionary properly gives the primary meaning of faith as…

In the course of doing some research for my book recently, I came across the following “most helpful customer review” on Amazon for Jerry Coyne’s…

Imagine you are walking through the woods and find a watch lying on the ground. What would your first thought be? That random factors over…

Many non-scientists believe this myth. In reality, science poses more problems for atheism than it does for theism. What would scientific evidence against God be?…

How can Christians believe in a God they can’t see? Actually, there are several ways He makes His presence known. While none of these will…