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5 Things I Wish Liberals Would Admit About Their Rejection of the Historic Christian Faith, Part 1
Nineteenth-century theological liberalism is all the rage in evangelical Christianity these days, although it is never identified as such by those who peddle it. It appears, rather, as “enlightened,” modern, thinking—Christianity for the 21st century—respectable, so...
How To Keep Collegians from Losing Their Faith, Part 3
[Adapted from J. Budziszewski, "Off to College: Can We Keep Them?," from Is Your Church Ready: Motivating Leaders to Live an Apologetic Life, edited by Ravi Zacharias and Norman Geisler (Zondervan, 2003).] What They Need to Hear about the Relation between Faith and...
How To Keep Collegians from Losing Their Faith, Part 2
[Adapted from J. Budziszewski, "Off to College: Can We Keep Them?," from Is Your Church Ready: Motivating Leaders to Live an Apologetic Life, edited by Ravi Zacharias and Norman Geisler (Zondervan, 2003).] What They Need to Hear about the False Ideologies Lurking...
How to Keep Collegians from Losing Their Faith, Part 1
[Adapted from J. Budziszewski, "Off to College: Can We Keep Them?," from Is Your Church Ready: Motivating Leaders to Live an Apologetic Life, edited by Ravi Zacharias and Norman Geisler (Zondervan, 2003).] In the previous post we examined 12 reasons why college...
Twelve Reasons Why Collegians Lose Their Faith
[J. Budziszewski, "Off to College: Can We Keep Them?," from Is Your Church Ready: Motivating Leaders to Live an Apologetic Life, edited by Ravi Zacharias and Norman Geisler (Zondervan, 2003).] Of course there are more than twelve reasons why so many college Christians...
Apologetics for the Average Christian: Saying “I Don’t Know”
One of the most important responses a Christian can give to someone who asks a difficult question about the Christian faith is, “I don’t know.” In the minds of many Christians, this is exactly what can never be admitted. To admit that they don’t know the answer seems...
Some Basics About the Trustworthiness of Scripture Every Christian Should Know
http://www.gospelproject.com/2013/10/how-did-we-get-the-bible-and-can-we-trust-it/ This is a guest post from Darrell Bock (Ph.D., University of Aberdeen). Bock is Senior Research Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary. You can see the whole...
Apologetics for the Average Christian: Search and Rescue vs. Seed Cultivation
One of the reasons the average Christian does not like sharing the gospel is that she may have been taught a model of evangelism that resembles a search and rescue operation. The goal in this model is to find the non-Christian, defeat the unbelief holding him hostage,...
Apologetics for the Average Christian: Agreeing with Unbelievers
Many times in a conversation with an unbeliever a Christian will find himself faced with an apparent no-win situation. The unbeliever may say something like, “I could never believe in a God who arbitrarily lets bad people live and good people die.” Or, “How can you...
The Healthy Church Is An Apologetic for the Christian Faith
The healthy church as an institution of apologetics has the advantage of being an explanation of the gospel by its very presence. The quality of life in a gathering of believers is a startling apologetic to a world that is critical, negative, competitive,...
Mystery Is a Part of Every Belief System
The true religion is not that which has no difficulties. We have to swallow mysteries with it. But we have to swallow the same mysteries without it. G. K. Chesterton Defending the Christian faith can be difficult at times. There are some questions I can't answer. This...
Apologetics for the Average Christian: Calling the Bluff
The ordinary agnostic has got his facts all wrong. He is a non-believer for a multitude of reasons, but they are untrue reasons. He doubts because the Middle Ages were barbaric, but they weren't; because Darwinism is demonstrated, but it isn't; because miracles do not...
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