My childhood was hard (Jean’s was actually harder). I had what doctors called “a heart murmur” and that worried my parents to the point that they didn’t let me play with the other kids in the third grade (I could be with the other kids, of course, but there was no football, baseball, or anything […]
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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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Can a Christian be possessed by demons? First, I need to explain what it means to be possessed.[1] I completely agree that Christians can be oppressed or harassed by demons, but by “possessed” I mean that the demon has actually taken up residence in the Christian. So, can a Christian be possessed by a demon?
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“How can I enjoy heaven knowing my loved ones are in hell?” Indeed, I’m often asked this question and the above meme was posted in a Facebook Christian apologetics group and as of this writing has 564 comments. To answer this question there are important things to consider. Many Christians today think that the reason
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I used to think that the demand for easy access to abortion was silly because, for the most part, it was driven by men and women having “meaningless sexual encounters.” I understand that sex is fun, but, really, is sexual pleasure so important that people need to be able to abort babies? But I now
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When the Mormons (also known as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) come to my door, I always ask them the same question because it’s a question Mormons can’t answer. I do this because this question is essential to their beliefs. Many years ago, I was going to teach on Mormonism
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Did killing the Canaanites traumatize the Israelites? Some authors write that it certainly would have done so. As two authors put it, the Lord killing the Canaanites “using human agents …incurs the psychological trauma foisted on Israelite warriors of taking human lives.”[1] Others, whom I’m not going to name, have written that the Israelites would
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There’s an unrelenting cause of teenage depression that doesn’t get enough attention and only Christianity can solve: a sudden revelation that one day they will die. Now, I don’t mean the prospect of their death troubles all teens. Many teens view their deaths as so far off as to be able to ignore. But for
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An active shooter has just killed nineteen children and two teachers at Robb elementary school in Uvalde Texas. This kind of horror has happened a lot lately and whenever these heartbreaks happen, people wonder what could possibly drive people to do such evil. While I don’t pretend to know all their motives, I do know
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In the last few years, I’ve heard many Christians say that all Christians need to be winsome at all times (there are even books saying that). Also, I’ve also heard apologists be so nice and so accepting when talking with those who have rejected the truths of Christianity that I feared that the non-Christian they
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