A Principle for Conversational Prayer

Many Christians struggle with prayer, but you can improve your prayer life if you learn to pray specifically, intelligibly, and persuasively. Greg Koukl

Be Obedient Even When You Don’t Understand the Command

Does Loving Our Neighbor Entail Facilitating Abortions?

#STRask: Did Jesus Ever Teach against Homosexuality?

When Is It Appropriate for Christians to Resist Those in Authority?

Is the Bible Immoral Fantasy?

#STRask: Should I Pretend to Have a Greater Degree of Conviction Than I Actually Have?

Is Science Incompatible with Faith in God?

Don’t Lose Sight of the Big Picture

#STRask: How Did Jews Attain Righteousness before Christ?

Is It Suspicious That Jesus Only Appeared to His Followers?

Here’s One Key Role You Play at Your Church

#STRask: How Can I Reveal and Defend My Belief in the Trinity and Leave My Oneness Church?

Humans Come in Only Two Sexes

Should a Christian Take up Arms to Defend Himself against Physical Persecution?

Articles

Be Obedient Even When You Don’t Understand the Command

If you are following Jesus, a time will inevitably come when you’ll have to choose whether or not to follow a moral command in Scripture that you don’t understand. Here’s why you should choose obedience.

Don’t Lose Sight of the Big Picture

How should Christian apologists, teachers, mentors, etc. address the cultural challenges we’re facing? Here's some advice from Carl Trueman and two things to keep in mind as you teach and make your case.

Everyone Is Guilty, but Anyone Can Be Pardoned

If a man murders another man, but they both end up in Hell because neither put their trust in Christ, how is that just? The answer gets right to the heart of the gospel.

Gay Idioms Don’t Time Travel

Here’s why you shouldn’t interpret phrases in ancient Scripture through the lens of modern English idioms.

Contend Earnestly for the Faith

As we face serious challenges on two broad fronts—trouble in the world and trouble in the church—we’re called to “contend earnestly for the faith once for all handed down to the saints,” but how do we do this? Here are Paul’s simple instructions.

Even after His Death, Jesus Fulfilled the Law

Jesus fulfilled all requirements of the Law—not only during his life, but also after his death, as this little-known historical fact shows.

Why Does Justice Matter?

Here are four reasons why we need to understand the biblical concept of justice.

Three Different Ways to Dismiss Divine Commands

It’s much easier to dismiss divine commands than to forgo our desires, so believers and non-believers alike have a propensity to skirt the Bible’s precepts, usually in one of these three ways.

Christ’s Crucifixion Isn’t Child Sacrifice

Some object to the idea that Jesus paid the penalty for our sins through his death on the cross, calling it “child sacrifice,” but here are three reasons why characterizing it as child sacrifice is inappropriate.

Look for Your Moral Blind Spots

What injustices of our generation are we unaware of? We need to remind ourselves that we’re all blind to certain issues and intentionally look for our moral blind spots.

Apply to Launch an STR Outpost at Your Church

We’re launching STR Outposts, apologetics groups in local churches that will equip Christians to be clear thinkers and good ambassadors for Christ.

Three Criteria for Using Prophecy in Apologetics

Fulfilled prophecy is evidence that God communicates and is involved in mankind’s history, but it’s often overlooked as an apologetic for Christianity. Here are three criteria for using specific fulfilled prophecies in your apologetic approach.

Videos

Christian Living

Here’s One Key Role You Play at Your Church

Other Worldviews

Atheist Gives Four Reasons He Doesn’t Believe in God

Sexuality and Gender

How to Explain to a Non-Christian Why You’re Waiting until Marriage

Tactics and Tools

Fight Ideas, Not People

Podcasts

#STRask: Did Jesus Ever Teach against Homosexuality?

Questions about how to respond to someone who claims Jesus never taught against homosexuality, who also doesn’t consider anything outside the Gospels to be authoritative, and advice for befriending a lesbian couple without appearing to condone their lifestyle.

When Is It Appropriate for Christians to Resist Those in Authority?

As a follow-up to a previous question, Greg talks about how some Christian thinkers in the past have resolved the question of when it’s appropriate for Christians to resist those in authority, then he answers a question about whether we should use the Big Bang theory if parts of it contradict Scripture.

#STRask: Should I Pretend to Have a Greater Degree of Conviction Than I Actually Have?

Questions about whether we should pretend to have a greater degree of conviction than we actually have in order to make our arguments more persuasive and whether the uptick in violence is a purely spiritual problem or is also related to other ideologies and practices in our society.

Is Science Incompatible with Faith in God?

Greg responds to the claim that science is incompatible with faith in God, answers a question about ideas for an apologetics topic for a school research project, then talks to a caller about why God allows evil to exist.

#STRask: How Did Jews Attain Righteousness before Christ?

Questions about how Jews attained righteousness before Christ and what Romans 9:32 means when it says the Jews “did not pursue [righteousness] by faith, but as though it were by works.”

Is It Suspicious That Jesus Only Appeared to His Followers?

Greg responds to the idea that we shouldn’t trust the testimony about Jesus rising from the dead since the testimony came from his followers, shares a listener’s thoughts on Christians defending themselves, then answers questions about James vs. Paul and praying to the Son and Holy Spirit.

#STRask: How Can I Reveal and Defend My Belief in the Trinity and Leave My Oneness Church?

Questions about how a teen can reveal and defend her belief in the Trinity and leave her Oneness church and whether church memberships that exclude people living a homosexual lifestyle create a two-class system contrary to Jesus’ strategy of hanging out with sinners.

Humans Come in Only Two Sexes

Many biologists, doctors, and scientists tell us today that sex is on a spectrum or that there are more than two sexes. Alan addresses this claim by looking at the evidence from both Scripture and general principles of science.

Should a Christian Take up Arms to Defend Himself against Physical Persecution?

Greg answers questions about whether it would be okay for a Christian to defend himself against physical persecution, how to determine if a child is ready to be baptized, responding to the claim that people are born gay, whether Adam and Eve would have faced more tests if they had passed the first one, and more.

#STRask: What Questions Should I Ask Pastors When Looking for a New Church?

Questions about what to ask pastors and other church leaders when looking for a new church.

What Greg Said to Law Students

Greg talks about the ideas he shared with some law students last week, then he answers questions about whether there will be different levels of punishment in Hell and whether the old prophet in 1 Kings 13:11–32 was always a false prophet.

#STRask: Will Christ’s Second Coming Be Unexpected?

Questions about how to reconcile the unexpectedness of Christ’s second coming with passages that advise believers to pay attention to the signs of the times, why Christ hasn’t yet returned after 2,000 years, and whether a person who has died experiences time as a disembodied spirit.

Solid Ground

Christian Living

Contend Earnestly for the Faith

As we face serious challenges on two broad fronts—trouble in the world and trouble in the church—we’re called to “contend earnestly for the faith once for all handed down to the saints,” but how do we do this? Here are Paul’s simple instructions.

Sexuality and Gender

Try Before You Buy?

Many Christians have rejected the idea that sex is only for marriage, buying into the culture’s notion that chastity is unrealistic. Here’s why this “try before you buy” mentality reflects mistaken ideas on the nature of human sexuality, creates serious practical problems, and runs afoul of both God’s wisdom and his commands.

The “Heathen” and the Unknown God – Part 2

What about those who have never heard the gospel? The only way to know what God wants from us for salvation is for him to tell us, so to answer this question, we must trade on biblical truths and not on what seems to make sense to us based on mere human reflection.

The “Heathen” and the Unknown God – Part 1

When it comes to salvation, God’s way has always been narrow. There is forgiveness available, but no one will be saved without the gospel of Jesus Christ. What does this mean for those who have never heard of him?