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Strategies for Effective Apologetic Encounters

“But, what if the person asks me a question I can’t answer? How do I know where to go with the conversation? What if my mind goes blank?” The woman who asked these questions had just sat through one of my weekend conferences, and yet felt at a loss as she contemplated...

Doing Apologetics “within” the Church

Guest Post by Jeff Mindler [Jeff graduated from Lancaster Bible College in 2014 with a B.A. in Biblical Studies, as well as an M.A. in Counseling. He currently works as the Event Coordinator for the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals in Lancaster, PA. His wife,...

The Importance of Questions when Sharing the Gospel

Apologetics is too often taught as an approach of confrontation--which it is--but a confrontation of monologue, instead of socratic dialogue. This rarely works with an unconcerned or uninterested unbeliever. Start giving your spiel, your pre-packaged sales pitch of...

We Can Learn a Great Deal about Suffering from the Puritans

It's not that we shouldn't talk about our suffering, but we should stop expecting that we won't have any and should also not dilute the term with our petty inconveniences. Carl Trueman explains: First, the Puritans lived in a time before the discovery of antibiotics,...

The nature of idolatry and worship

Wow! Here is a piercing explanation of idolatry as a counterfeit to true worship: At the heart of worship is a sense of ‘giving yourself away’ to another.  Key to worship then are the questions ‘To whom are you giving yourself away and in what manner are you giving...

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