By: Rodney|17 January, 2012|Categories: Apologetics . Quotes|Tags: Apologetics . Reasonable Faith . william lane craig . Youth
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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…
Read more »By: Bnonn|21 October, 2011|Categories: Apologetics . Debates|Tags: Apologetics . character assassination . existence of God . new atheism . propaganda . pure garbage . richard dawkins . smear tactics . spin-doctoring . william lane craig . WLC
Are Dawkins’ reasons for refusing to debate William Lane Craig good enough?
Read more »By: Jason|30 September, 2011|Categories: Apologetics|Tags: Apologetics . Books . Douglas Groothius . interview
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Stan Guthrie talks to Philosophy Professor Douglas Groothius about his new book, Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith. Groothius also discusses cultural engagement, the impact of cyberspace on thinking, and the greatest challenges today in Christian apologetics.
Read more »By: Jason|16 September, 2011|Categories: Theology|Tags: Apologetics . doubt . youth ministry
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- Kara Powell, on a three-year study conducted by Fuller Theological Seminary’s Center for Youth and Family Ministry. [Via: Jay L. Wile]
Read more »By: Jason|02 September, 2011|Categories: History|Tags: Apologetics . christian community . church history . Historical Theology . the church . Theology
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James Detrich: 1. It helps us to provide a more reasonable account of what we believe. 2. It reminds us of the community of faith. 3. It helps us to understand which beliefs are central to our faith. 4. It assists us in interpreting the Bible. 5. It demonstrates that God is working through and among His people. You can…
Read more »By: Jason|19 August, 2011|Categories: Quotes|Tags: Apologetics . C. S. Lewis . culture . plausibility structures
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For Christians, it is not only important to demonstrate why Christianity is true, but how it makes sense of everything else.
Read more »By: Rodney|06 August, 2011|Categories: Events . News . Thinking Matters|Tags: Apologetics . Events . Tauranga . Thinking Matters Youth . Youth
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Thinking Matters Tauranga and Holy Trinity Tauranga have partnered together to produce a new fortnightly apologetics series for young people called “Thinking Matters in a Whatever World”. The series runs from August to December and is hosted at Holy Trinity, Cnr 3rd Ave and Cameron Rd, Tauranga (New Zealand). For more info see here. To be kept up to date…
Read more »By: Jason|27 July, 2011|Categories: Apologetics|Tags: apologetic method . Apologetics . arguments . conversation . dialogue . Evangelism . evidence . tactics . witnessing
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We often get questions about theology and apologetics sent to us by readers and we thought it would be helpful if we shared some of our answers to those questions on the blog. If you’ve got a question that you’d like us to address here, send it to thinknz@gmail.com along with your full name, city, and country. This week, one…
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|11 November, 2010|Categories: Apologetics|Tags: Apologetics . Belief . enagement . Evangelism . evidence . Faith . postmodernism . proclamation . Reality . relativism . thinking . Truth
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Anthony Horvath, a pro-life advocate and Executive Director of Athanatos Christian Ministries, has written a provocative post about the importance of apologetics for the witness of the church today.
Read more »By: Jason|17 June, 2010|Categories: Quotes|Tags: Apologetics . arguments . defense of the faith . Evangelism . fideism . Holy Spirit . J. Gresham Machen . reasoning . scholarship
J. Gresham Machen on the significance and place of arguments in the proclamation of the Gospel.
Read more »By: Jason|11 June, 2010|Categories: Video|Tags: Acts 17 . Apologetics . Athens . cultural-engagement . culture . Ed Stetzer . Evangelism . gospel . Gospel proclaimation . missional . Paul . preaching
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In this sermon at the Jubilee Church in London, Ed Stetzer discusses cultural-engagement and the task of proclaiming the Gospel.
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
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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|27 March, 2010|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Apologetics . Bill Craig . defending christianity . layman . small groups
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Christian philosopher and evangelical apologist, William Lane Craig, has published a new book for people who are looking for an approachable and non-technical introduction to the task of defending Christianity. Brian over at Apologetics 315 has written a short review of Craig’s book.
Read more »By: Jason|18 March, 2010|Categories: Quotes|Tags: Apologetics . critical thinking . doubt . Faith . Tim Keller
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Tim Keller discusses why it is important to take doubts and doubters seriously.
Read more »By: Jason|12 March, 2010|Categories: About|Tags: Apologetics . culture . Douglas Groothius . Lordship of Christ . postmodernism . Truth
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Three lectures by Douglas Groothius on the crisis of truth and how to understand the relationship between culture and Christianity.
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