by Jeffrey Mindler, Research Assistant “Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.” ~Ephesians 6:13 ESV Within Christian apologetics, an oft-neglected element of our defense of the...
When defending the faith against unbelievers, we want to strike at the heart of the unbelieving system of thought. We want to identify the main source of weakness in the unbeliever’s worldview and focus our offensive apologetic on that main point. For example, when...
by Jeff Mindler, Research Assistant at Apologetics for the Church “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but...
Charles Haddon Spurgeon was the most famous British pastor at the end of the 19th century. At its peak Spurgeon’s church exceeded 5,000 regular attenders, and hundreds of thousands read his sermons weekly. Yet, the distinction of his preaching was that he spoke...
We all find it difficult to maintain hope when hope has been dashed. For many people walking away from the faith, God didn’t come through when they felt they needed him most. For some, it was the constant efforts to conceive a baby for years upon years that petered...
No one likes to be intimidated or pressured. I remember standing in the middle of a circle of men in a warehouse with two of my classmates from Bible college one summer day in 1986. The men had discovered that we were Christians preparing for gospel ministry (or to be...