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An evil ideology is at war with “family and nature,” White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said following the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. Miller warned that there is an ideology in America which has “steadily been growing in this country which hates everything that is good, righteous,…
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The resurrection of Christ is the center of my apologetics. While I incorporate multiple other areas into my apologetics (i.e., classical, evidential, cultural, ecclesial, expository apologetics; the reliability of the NT manuscripts, the problem of evil, ethics, transcendent arguments from beauty, morality, etc.), those are all peripheral issues that I…
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Apologetics has a necessary ministry both outside the church towards unbelievers and inside the church towards believers. Apologetics has two functions: (1) persuade skeptics (1 Pet 3:15) and (2) strengthen the church (2 Cor 10:5; Titus 1:9). Both ministries are essential. For unbelievers, the focus is on defense (apologia) of…
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I am fortunate to be a member of a large evangelical church with significant resources. We offer a multitude of ministry opportunities, operate a Christian school (grades 1-12), have an impressive recreation center and offer social activities galore. It is also heavily involved in worldwide missions. I’m grateful to be…
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A worldview represents one’s understanding of reality. This understanding can either correspond to reality or deny reality. False worldviews have an inevitable tendency to either collide (sometimes violently) with other worldviews, or implode. Some of the major conflicts in our culture represent worldviews in collision: i.e., between naturalism and supernaturalism,…
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While the gospel can be condensed to John 3:16, a good apologist must be able to defend the gospel in all of its glorious fullness. It is extremely difficult to execute theological triage and know when to fall on one’s sword if we hold only an abbreviated form of the…
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There are four areas of apologetic defense (tolerance, rationality, gospel and orthodoxy), two from general knowledge (general revelation) and two from special knowledge (special revelation). TO THE WORLD TO THE CHURCH FROM GENERAL REVELATION TOLERANCESeeking tolerance for the faith RATIONALITYPhilosophical arguments for Christian theism FROM SPECIAL REVELATION GOSPELDefense of Christian…
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Cultures will eventually begin to inevitably exhibit the logical consequences of their dominant worldview(s). Christian theism is in the minority in our culture today. The worldviews that reign today in our culture are deism (especially moralistic therapeutic deism which I will explain in a later blog post), naturalism, nihilism and…
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All 4 gospels are apologies.Matthew defends Jesus to Jews as fulfillment of the OT and the Jewish Messiah.Mark defends Jesus to Gentiles as the God-Man and suffering servant of Isa 53.Luke defends Jesus as the Son of Man (Dan 7:13) and Davidic son.John defends Jesus as the Son of God,…
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06 May 2025 What kind of man repeatedly says that he is coming back from the dead on the third day after his execution? In response, CS Lewis offered his famous trilemma: such a man must either be a (1) liar, a (2) lunatic . . . or (3) the…
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Christian Apologetics 