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We’ve got to train our kids for war

An Excerpt from the 3rd Edition of Reasonable Faith by William Lane Craig: In high school and college Christian teenagers are intellectually assaulted with every manner of non-Christian worldview coupled with an over-whelming relativism. If parents are not intellectually engaged with their faith and do not have sound arguments for Christian theism and good answers to their children’s questions, then…

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Hell, Compassion, and Apologetics

— Douglas Groothius, Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for the Biblical Faith, page 661 (IVP. 2011). [HT: The Emerging Scholars Network]

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The Limits of Science

—Holmes Rolston (Genes, Genesis, and God, 1999).

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The Incompatibility of Anti-intellectualism and the Fullness of the Spirit

John R. W. Stott in “Biblical Expositions” (The Anglican Communion and Scripture), page 27. [Source: Joseph E. Gorra]

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The Centrality of Joy

–G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (page 138).  

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An Inconsequential God

–David Wells, God in the Wasteland: The Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams (page 30).

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Defending Christianity is Not Enough

For Christians, it is not only important to demonstrate why Christianity is true, but how it makes sense of everything else.

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Nicholas Wolterstorff on How to Think with a Christian Mind

In a 2007 address at the University of Tennessee, Nicholas Wolterstorff offered some thoughts on how to faithfully and effectively serve in the academic world as a Christian:

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The Gospel Paradox

Francis Schaeffer, The God Who Is There (InterVarsity Press, 1968).

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The Nature of Science

Max Planck, a leading physicist and one of the founders of quantum mechanics, discusses one of the foundational assumptions necessary for the discipline of science.

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The Unique Gift of Christmas

A quote from Tim Keller about how Christmas and the incarnation reveal God’s heart for both the physical and the spiritual.

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The Mystery that Makes Sense of Everything

As we count the days down to Christmas, here are some thoughts from J.I. Packer about the greatest mystery of the Christmas story: the Incarnation.

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Does God hate the sin but love the sinner?

Don Carson, Research Professor of the New Testament, discusses the popular claim that God hates the sin but loves the sinner.

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Moral Truth Matters

Sam Harris defends the importance of objective moral truth at his lecture at the Edge Conference.

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Faith Seeking Understanding

Gregory E. Ganssle explains what “Faith seeking understanding” means.

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Insufficient but not Unnecessary: The Importance of Arguments

J. Gresham Machen on the significance and place of arguments in the proclamation of the Gospel.

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