By: Jason|19 July, 2011|Categories: Evangelism|Tags: Evangelism . tracts . witnessing
Given the recent legal controversy over Christians passing out tracts at events, Christianity Today asks a group of pastors and evangelists if tracts, flyers, and street evangelism are still effective ways of bringing people to Christ. I found Bob Roberts’ answer to contain the most common sense: “Yes, if it isn’t distracting from the event. Yes, if it is done…
Read more »By: Bnonn|08 April, 2011|Categories: Culture . Practical Engagement|Tags: Apologetics . culture . Hell Pizza . responding to offense . secular attitudes to Christianity
Some thoughts on Hell Pizza’s recent ‘Hell Cross Bun’ ad campaign, and the general outrage being expressed by Christians.
Read more »By: Jason|26 May, 2010|Categories: Practical Engagement|Tags: apologetic methodology . Apologetics . arguments . C. S. Lewis . Chrisitan ethics . discourse . Evangelism . human flourishing . Immanuel Kant . presuppositionalism . sexual ethics . skeptics . Tim Keller . Wendell Berry
Author and pastor, Tim Keller discusses his apologetic approach in talking with skeptics. He argues that in order to gain a hearing for many of our Christian beliefs we should be able to be able to make arguments that appeal to baseline cultural beliefs, without invoking explicit religious sources of authority.
Read more »By: Jason|25 January, 2010|Categories: Evangelism|Tags: conversation . Evangelism . Holy Spirit . relational apologetics . witnessing
Pastor and author, J.D. Greear offers some practical advice on how to share Christ with others in everyday conversations.
Read more »By: Jason|09 December, 2009|Categories: Practical Engagement|Tags: Apologetics . Christianity Today . Evangelism . Lesslie Newbigin . missions
Christianity Today has a good article on Lesslie Newbigin, the Church of Scotland missionary who served in India before becoming an important writer on the subject of missions, evangelism, and cultural engagement.
Read more »By: Jason|11 November, 2009|Categories: Practical Engagement . Theology|Tags: culture . Enlightenment . Lesslie Newbigin . privatization . secularism
The separation of value from fact is reflected in the separation of private from public life that is one of the characteristics of our culture. And, as I shall argue, the response of the Christian churches – or at the least of the Protestant churches – to the challenge of the Enlightenment was to accept the dichotomy and withdraw into…
Read more »By: Jason|06 November, 2009|Categories: Practical Engagement|Tags: Civil Union . gay-rights . Homosexuality . Maine . Robert Gagnon
The U.S. national gay-rights movement suffered a crushing defeat at the ballot box in Maine on Tuesday (November 3) as voters decided to repeal the state’s new law allowing same-sex marriage. The referendum was held in conjunction with an array of gubernatorial and mayoral races in major American cities. Had the vote upheld the civil marriage bill, Maine would have…
Read more »By: Stuart|26 September, 2009|Categories: Practical Engagement|Tags: Apologetics . iphone . Practical engagment
Here is some good news from MDL Associates concerning technological advances in the availability of apologetics. On 10 September, 2009 “ApApp Christian Apologetics” was launched. If you ever been stumped when talking to your friends, it used to be you had to say “I don’t know. I’ll have to get back to you on that one…” No longer! Just pull…
Read more »By: Stuart|11 February, 2009|Categories: Apologetics . Evangelism|Tags: Apologetics . Evangelism . Healing . Miracles . Skepticism
I have long thought that a miracle can be an apologetic. It was one of the chief ways that God authenticated His word and His revelation. Today, with the resurgence of our awareness of miracles, it is important we think about how the testimony of miracles sounds to unbelievers, particularly those who are sceptical and philosophically opposed to Christianity and belief in God.
In order to develop an apologetic for God’s existence that reduces the opportunity for scepticism, based upon the testimony of miracles, I suggest that a miracle X meets the following criteria.
Read more »By: Stuart|11 February, 2009|Categories: Apologetics . Evangelism|Tags: Apologetics . Evangelism . Healing . Miricles
I am deeply concerned about a perceived attitude accompanying our rising awareness that miracles are a part of the normal Christian life. The danger in the resurgence of the miraculous, especially in so-called “healing-evangelism”, is an outlook that says all we need to prove God’s existence, and solve all our apologetic needs, is to believe, pray for a miracle, and let God do the rest.
Read more »Given that King David called for the destruction of his enemies, how should we then view the Islamic call for the destruction of its enemies? Is a call for destruction wrong per se?
Read more »By: Rob|06 January, 2009|Categories: Evangelism|Tags: africa . Christian Worldview . mission
Here is an interesting story from Times Online: “Missionaries, not aid money, are the solution to Africa’s biggest problem – the crushing passivity of the people’s mindset.“
Read more »By: Stuart|06 December, 2008|Categories: Book Reviews . Practical Engagement|Tags: Harry Potter
Almost everyone I talk to in Christian circles either shakes their head disapprovingly at the idea of reading Harry Potter, or mentions their concern about the questionable content. “What about the witchcraft?” “Isn’t it a doorway to the occult?” I have five major criticisms of this idea and footnote some great resources.
Read more »By: Rob|27 November, 2008|Categories: Practical Engagement|Tags: frank turek
Frank Turek, co-author of “I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist” with Normal Geisler has some interesting comments in his latest newsletter.
Read more »By: Rob|19 November, 2008|Categories: Practical Engagement . Websites|Tags: greg koukl . intolerance . tolerance
Here is an article written by Greg Koukl on “When Tolerance is Intolerant”. Enjoy!
Read more »Susan Wunderink, at Christianity Today, interviews popular evangelical author and speaker, Tim Keller (from Redeemer Presbyterian Church in NYC), about his ministry and the challenges involved in presenting Christianity (HT: Justin Taylor). It’s brief, but worth a read. Particularly useful is his discussion of relevancy and the importance of truth: C. S. Lewis says somewhere not to believe in Christianity…
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