Those who sign up for my newsletter receive my “200-Word Resurrection Witness.” It’s 200 words because for years I taught on The Defense of the Resurrection of Jesus to the students in the Master of Arts in Christian apologetics program at Talbot School of Theology and told them they should always have a short version […]
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We know that countless people are depressed, and millions are addicted to alcohol or drugs, and millions take antidepressants. And I’m not surprised! Why? Because honest people—and by that I mean the people not living in denial, the people honest about the human condition—should be depressed! Very depressed. Consider a truth agreed upon by every
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Those who sign up for my news letter receive my “Two Hundred Word Resurrection Witness.” I wrote that 200 word witness because we need to always be able to give an intelligent but shorter argument for why we contend that Jesus was rasied from the dead. My “Two Hundred Word Resurrection Witness“ ends with this
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I mentioned two weeks ago that I would share my 200 word resurrection witness (it’s actually a little shorter). I use this constantly. Often someone will ask me what apologetics is (that happens a lot). And here’s my reply: In apologetics we provide argument and evidence for the truth of historic Christianity. For example, consider
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In 1993 I started working for Simon Greenleaf University (now Trinity Law School) which offered an M.A. in Christian apologetics (Craig Hazen was the director). Much of my job was to promote the school and although I had studied Christian apologetics since my sophomore year in high school, I decided I needed to see whether
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Last week I was asked by a reporter from the African-American newspaper, Our Weekly, to respond to the notion that Jesus wasn’t a historical person but really just a reheated myth based on religious myths that preceded it. What follows, with few changes, are the notes that I prepared for that interview. Extremely little of
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