Tag: gospel
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Beauty is the most mysterious (and most misunderstood) of the transcendents, evoking another world. We experience beauty every day with all five of our senses: i.e., seeing a rainbow, hearing “Chevaliers de Sangreal” by Hans Zimmer, smelling “Neroli Savuage” by Creed, feeling fine silk and tasting dark chocolate. Groothuis reminds…
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Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He has a powerful essay at Touchstone entitled The Pagan Public Square. He argues, “Today little effort is made by secular liberals (or “progressives,” as many prefer to…
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[This is from the Introduction, authored by Timothy Paul Jones, to Understanding Christian Apologetics: Five Methods for Defending the Faith.] Jones identifies and defines four primary perspectives for doing apologetics: Classical Apologetics is defined as the “Two-step method that appeals to arguments from reason and nature to establish God’s existence…
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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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Christian Apologetics 