mid-week apologetics booster (7-6-2017)

Good morning friends,

Here are your weekly links:

1. Postmodernism and Secularism Influence Todays Christians – Summit Ministries: https://www.summit.org/resources/articles/research-barna-summit-postmodernism-secularism-influence-todays-christians/
2. Competing Worldviews Influence Todays Christians – Barna Group: https://www.barna.com/research/competing-worldviews-influence-todays-christians/
3. Are all sins equally bad? Or are there degrees of severity for different sins? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2017/07/01/are-all-sins-equally-bad-or-are-there-degrees-of-severity-for-different-sins-2/
4. If You Were Born in India: http://www.unitedchurchofsoro.org/if-you-were-born-in-india/
5. If God Created The Universe, Who Created God?: http://cerebralfaith.blogspot.com/2014/07/if-god-created-universe-who-created-god.html
6. The Prophecy of Isaiah was Clearly Fulfilled by Jesus Christ: http://thinkdivinely.com/the-prophecy-of-isaiah-was-clearly-fulfilled-by-jesus-christ/
7. Pope Francis’s Recent Comments Make the Faith Seem Implausible | The Stream: https://stream.org/pope-franciss-comments-make-the-faith-seem-implausible/
8. Christians are hypocrites and that makes Christianity false: http://www.newyorkapologetics.com/christians-are-hypocrites-whattaya-do/
9. Two Things to Remember When Discussing Creation with Other Christians | Stand to Reason: http://www.str.org/articles/two-things-to-remember-when-discussion-creation-with-other-christians#.WVnD1Xqp7qD
10. Refusing to Serve Individuals vs. Refusing to Participate in Events – Stand to Reason Blog: http://str.typepad.com/weblog/2015/04/refusing-to-serve-individuals-vs-refusing-to-participate-in-events.html
11. How Atheist Hate And Arrogance Led Richard Dawkins Fan To Christianity | Reasons for Jesus: http://reasonsforjesus.com/how-atheist-hate-and-arrogance-led-richard-dawkins-fan-to-christianity/
12. The Absurdity of Moral Relativism: A Student’s Perspective – Sean McDowell: http://seanmcdowell.org/blog/the-absurdity-of-moral-relativism-a-students-perpsective
13. A Biblical Case for Defending Religious Freedom: http://www.breakpoint.org/2017/06/breakpoint-a-biblical-case-for-defending-religious-freedom/

Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months and then returned home. When it was time for Elizabeth to have her baby, she gave birth to a son. Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they shared her joy. On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him after his father Zechariah, but his mother spoke up and said, “No! He is to be called John.” They said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who has that name.” Then they made signs to his father, to find out what he would like to name the child. He asked for a writing tablet, and to everyone’s astonishment he wrote, “His name is John.” Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue was loosed, and he began to speak, praising God. The neighbors were all filled with awe, and throughout the hill country of Judea people were talking about all these things. Everyone who heard this wondered about it, asking, “What then is this child going to be?” For the Lord’s hand was with him. His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied: “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come and has redeemed his people. He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David (as he said through his holy prophets of long ago), salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us– to show mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant, the oath he swore to our father Abraham: to rescue us from the hand of our enemies, and to enable us to serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all our days. And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him, to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven to shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.” And the child grew and became strong in spirit; and he lived in the desert until he appeared publicly to Israel. Luke 1:56-80

Blessings to you all