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My Advice to Apologists, Part 1
My advice to apologists is not meant to be all-inclusive, and it is not meant to be authoritative (on the level of William Lane Craig or Alvin Plantinga). Rather, it will simply be a collection of my...
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My Advice to Apologists: Part 2
My first piece of advice to apologists concerned the idea of being an unwavering disciple of Jesus Christ. This article will focus on the conduit for attaining and maintaining this status. That conduit...
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Yes, You Do Have Time to do Apologetics
Whenever I was in graduate school studying for my M.A. in Science and Religion, I was often the recipient of wide-eyed stares and exclamations of, “How on earth do you have enough hours in the day?!”...
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The Search For Truth — Agnosticism
To build an Incarnational Apologetic capable of reaching the post-modern person, it is important to understand four basic approaches in the search for truth. Rationalism Agnosticism Experientialism...
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What Nehemiah can tell us about apologetics in the church
I have heard that there are those in the church who do not feel that apologetics should be part of the discipleship process for believers. While I find it hard to believe that anyone would articulate...
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What the Case Looks Like When Young People Are Your Jury
When I was a new Christian and my two boys were still very young, they were hesitant about sitting in the children’s ministry class during our weekly church service. I decided to join them for two or...
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Positive and Negative Arguments
I briefly touched this topic in my post “Is Consistency Important?“. Today, I want to expand it a bit more. A Positive Argument is an argument for your particular position. A Negative Argument is an...
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Why The Church Needs Apologetics: A Look at Critics, Seekers, and Doubters
Introduction Over the years I have spoken to several people from a variety of backgrounds about the Christian faith. When we started a Ratio Christi apologetics chapter on The Ohio State University in...
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Defeating Ella’s Doubts
It had to happen. My one and only child, Ella is turning fourteen and despite her exposure to better Christian education, her inquiring mind raises questions that only she can deal with, by reading and...
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To build an Incarnational Apologetic capable of reaching the post-modern person, it is important to understand four basic epistemologies. Rationalism Agnosticism Experientialism Pragmatism The first...
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Homeland Security for the Church – The Need to Defend the Faith
For my generation and our progeny, the church cannot start from the position that people want religion and are shopping around to determine what religion is right or best. We cannot take for granted...
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Dancing, Chanting and Apologetics?
Last night was Laylatul Qadr, or the Night of Power. It was the 19th night of Ramadan and the night that many Muslims believe the first revelations of Islam were given and the prophethood of Muhammed...
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Having defined 4 key epistemologies in my previous video posts on Rationalism, Agnosticism, Experientialism, and Pragmatism. It is a good time to remind new readers that the focus of this series is...
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How should I respond to religious pluralism?
Religious Pluralism has become common in our daily lives. Not only do we live in a religiously diverse nation, one that claims to uphold each individual’s right to choose their faith, we also live in a...
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In The Cultural Apologetic Box?
If you are anything like me, you never really fit into a box. People try to put you in a box, and you search for the box you should fit into. This is what we do in Western culture; we identify people...
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Why Apologetics is More Powerful Than You Think
I’ve recently been reading Mary Jo Sharp’s Defending The Faith: Apologetics in Women’s Ministry. For some reason this particular book has brought back long-lost memories of why I began studying...
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Vajrayana – Fast Track to Nirvana
Vajrayana Buddhism, also called “Thunderbolt Vehicle” or “Diamond Vehicle,” is considered by some to be the third vehicle in Buddhism, the other two being, Mahayana, and Theravada. It is widely...
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Do Apologists Employ the “Humpty Dumpty” Defense?
Clip art licensed from the Clip Art Gallery on DiscoverySchool.com When Alice meets Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking Glass, she finds that he uses words very creatively. In fact, a word means...
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Why Telling Your Story is NOT the Best Way to Share the Gospel
Anyone who’s ever taken a class on how to share their faith has heard some well-intentioned teacher say, “You don’t need to learn a lot of big words. Just tell them your story. Just tell them how Jesus...
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Students Love Answers More Than the Church Loves Answers
I had the opportunity to train approximately 150 high school students last week at Summit Worldview Academy in Manitou Springs, Colorado (it was my second trip to Summit this summer). They hold seven...
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