Encouragement | Apologetics for the Church

Deconstruction and Doubting Your Doubts

by Mark Farnham | Jun 18, 2024 | Atheism/Skepticism, Deconstruction, Doubt, Encouragement, Relativism, Skepticism

By Jeffrey Mindler, Research Assistant There is a widespread movement sweeping through the American church today, one that claims to be recent in nature, but upon further investigation is an old phenomenon dressed in postmodern clothes. This movement is called...

Standing Firm in Your Faith

by Mark Farnham | Apr 17, 2024 | Apologetics, Christian Living, Encouragement

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...

Doing Apologetics “within” the Church

by Mark Farnham | Aug 3, 2018 | Apologetics, Encouragement, 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,...

How often does your church host an apologetics conference?

by Mark Farnham | Jun 7, 2016 | Apologetics, Encouragement, The Church

As I wrote in an earlier post, many churches have given up on any kind of organized evangelism program. And those that still have them seldom find them to be effective, but they soldier on out of a sense of duty. The problem with both giving up and staying committed...

The Importance of 1 Peter 3:15-16 for Apologetics

by Mark Farnham | Oct 2, 2014 | Apologetics, Biblical Studies, Encouragement

The text of Scripture that most clearly teaches us about every believer’s responsibility to be involved in apologetics is 1 Peter 3:15-16. In this passage, every believer is commanded to be prepared to “give and answer,” lit. “make a...

The True Nature of Christian Mentoring, Part 2

by Mark Farnham | Jul 16, 2010 | Christian Living, Church History, Encouragement, Leadership

Mentoring as life-sharing, experience-imparting and skill-training has a long history. The third-century bishop Gregory of Neocaesarea wrote an account of his relationship with the church father Origen, who became his mentor. When Gregory came to Palestine, it was for...

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Deconstruction and Doubting Your Doubts

Standing Firm in Your Faith

Doing Apologetics “within” the Church

How often does your church host an apologetics conference?

The Importance of 1 Peter 3:15-16 for Apologetics

The True Nature of Christian Mentoring, Part 2

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