#STRask: How Do I Begin My Journey to Become an Apologist?

Questions about how to begin one’s journey to become an apologist and whether, in light of Jesus driving people who were buying and selling out of the temple in Matthew 21:12, it’s okay for speakers to sell their books in churches. Greg Koukl

Morally Velocitized by the Culture

Problems with Preferred Pronouns

A Christ-Honoring Way to Discuss the Gospel with Transgender Friends and Family

#STRask: How Can God Not Know What He’s Chosen Not to Know?

Quarantine Is Not a Good Option

No Need for Confusion—Faithfulness Is Not Theologically Complicated

Don’t Be Taken in by the Tolerance Trick

#STRask: How Would You Explain God’s Omnipresence to a Six-Year-Old?

Disagreement Is Not Oppression

What’s Good for the Silent Goose…

Does God Have a Big Ego?

#STRask: Why Would God Harden Pharaoh’s Heart against the Israelites?

Four Reasons We Can Be Confident the Gospel Accounts Are Eyewitness Accounts

#STRask: Would the Gospel Be Good News if Hell Didn’t Exist?

Articles

Quarantine Is Not a Good Option

As tempting as it might be to keep your children from ever encountering any evil, that strategy won’t work in the long run. Here’s a better option that we find demonstrated in Proverbs.

Don’t Be Taken in by the Tolerance Trick

In today’s relativistic, postmodern world, “tolerance” has come to mean the opposite of its classical definition. Here’s how you can recognize the “tolerance trick” and respond with confidence and grace.

What’s Good for the Silent Goose…

Those who argue we shouldn’t believe Jesus is God because he never said the exact words “I am God” are often cutting off the very branch they’re sitting on.

Four Encouraging Points to Remember When Struggling with Mental Health

Maybe you’re struggling with mental health issues. Maybe you have a friend who struggles. Whichever group you’re in, remembering these four encouraging points could help.

You Can’t Tear Down the Norm and Then Be Surprised by What Comes Next

Andrew Sullivan recognizes the destructive danger queer theory poses to societal norms, but it was the same-sex marriage movement that destroyed the basis for sexual norms in the first place, leaving him with no principled way to argue against queer theorists.

Did the Mosaic Law Require Jephthah to Keep His Vow or Break It?

After Jephthah made his foolish vow, did the Mosaic Law require him to keep his vow or break it? A principle found in the laws for vows can help answer this question not only for Jephthah’s vow, but also for another kind of vow the church will soon need to address.

Abortion to Prevent Premature Death

Was it wrong for Florida to deny a woman an abortion when physicians knew the baby wouldn’t survive long after delivery? Here’s how you can use the “Trot out the Toddler” tactic to help someone think through this question.

A Response to an Employer’s Request for Pronouns

This man’s response to his employer’s pronoun request graciously covers key points and could serve as an excellent outline for you as you plan how you will respond in future situations.

Did Jephthah Kill His Daughter to Fulfill a Vow to God?

In Judges 11, did Jephthah kill his daughter to fulfill a vow to God? There are three clues within the text that suggest something different happened with Jephthah’s daughter.

Faith Is Not Wishing

True biblical faith is essential for salvation. But faith—and its relation to evidence—is often deeply misunderstood in a way that hurts Christianity and harms Christians. Here’s what the Bible has to say about the true nature of faith.

Should You Accommodate an LGBT Person’s Requests?

It’s one thing to deny your preferences for the sake of others, but if accommodating another person’s requests requires you to violate your conscience, then it’s reasonable to decline.

Four Common (and Unhelpful) Responses to the Exclusivity of Christ

Many are offended by the idea that Jesus is the only way to God, and there are four common objections you’ll hear in response to this claim. Here’s why those objections miss the mark.

Videos

Does God Have a Big Ego?

Tactics and Tools

How to TRAIN Youth: Nurture the Wounds of Our Youth

Tactics and Tools

How to TRAIN Youth: Involve Youth in the Battlefield of Ideas

Tactics and Tools

How to TRAIN Youth: Arm Youth with the Truth

Podcasts

Morally Velocitized by the Culture

Greg talks about the the danger of letting the culture form us, then he answers questions about how to respond to a family member who says he’s transgender and how Christians should interpret studies that show humans and Neanderthals interbred.

#STRask: How Can God Not Know What He’s Chosen Not to Know?

Questions about whether the view that Jesus didn’t know the time of his return because he limited his omniscience is the same as Open Theism, when Jesus became aware he was the Son of God, and whether Jesus wants to be “served.”

No Need for Confusion—Faithfulness Is Not Theologically Complicated

Greg talks about five areas—salvation, abortion, gender, marriage, and sex—where Christians are drifting into falsehood because of pressure in the culture and not because of ambiguity in the text. Despite the confusion of many Christians on these topics, faithfulness is not theologically complicated.

#STRask: How Would You Explain God’s Omnipresence to a Six-Year-Old?

Questions about how to explain God’s omnipresence to a six-year-old, how it could make sense for God to identify as male if the definition of “male” is rooted in biology, why the thief’s statement to Jesus on the cross got him into the kingdom, and a program for teaching logic.

Disagreement Is Not Oppression

Greg talks about the relatively new idea that we can be oppressed through others’ ideology, then he answers questions about whether Christian fellowship is simply brainwashing, the need for epistemological certainty, whether the Bible requires 100% certainty, and why God isn’t as self-evident as 2+2=4.

#STRask: Why Would God Harden Pharaoh’s Heart against the Israelites?

Questions about why God would harden Pharaoh’s heart against the Israelites and how to reconcile what modern science says about human nature being inherently good with the Bible’s claim that we’re born inherently evil.

Four Reasons We Can Be Confident the Gospel Accounts Are Eyewitness Accounts

J. Warner Wallace gives four reasons we can be confident the Gospel accounts are eyewitness accounts, answers a question about family planning, discusses how Christian principles cause people to thrive, then talks to callers about the Old Testament prophets and why God created Satan.

#STRask: Would the Gospel Be Good News if Hell Didn’t Exist?

Questions about whether the gospel would be good news if Hell didn’t exist and what to say to someone who responds to evidence for Christianity by saying, “The Bible’s bad for society,” and doesn’t seem to be interested in the evidence.

A Training Model for Equipping Young People

J. Warner Wallace talks about a training model for equipping young people, then he talks to callers about a argument for the certainty of coming judgment that doesn’t refer to the Bible and how to share the gospel with family members who think they’re already Christians.

#STRask: What Questions Could I Ask Someone Who Doesn’t Seem to Have True, Saving Faith?

Questions about what questions to ask someone who claims to be a Christian but doesn’t seem to have true, saving faith and when to stop trying to convince someone who denies some essentials of the faith that he needs to be saved.

Objections to the Moral Argument for the Existence of God

Greg responds to objections to the moral argument in this interview from the Reasoned Hope podcast with Parks Edwards. They discuss cultural relativism and its inability to explain moral progress, the Euthyphro dilemma, moral Platonism, the evolutionary explanation for morality, and more.

#STRask: Is Genesis 1–11 Historical or Mytho-History?

Questions about whether Genesis 1–11 is historical or mytho-history, why Jesus referenced people “we know never existed” like Adam and Eve, Noah, and Moses, and whether there’s a method by which we can establish which things we can agree to disagree on.

Solid Ground

Faith Is Not Wishing

True biblical faith is essential for salvation. But faith—and its relation to evidence—is often deeply misunderstood in a way that hurts Christianity and harms Christians. Here’s what the Bible has to say about the true nature of faith.

Mélange – Part 2

How much sin can God forgive? Does it matter if we evolved? Why did God...? What role should Christianity play in our government? Greg addresses these topics and more in this issue of Solid Ground.

Mélange – Part 1

A mélange is a mixture, a medley, an array of miscellany combined together for a common purpose. That is what you’ll find here—a potpourri of thoughts and reflections addressing issues that will be relevant to you as an ambassador for Christ.

Tactics and Tools

Reading Less, More—and Twice as Fast

If you’re like a lot of people, you want to read more effectively, but you don’t know how and can’t find the time. Here’s a plan that will change that for you.