mid-week apologetics booster (6-1-2023)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2600) from Nuggets:

To say all sins are the same is to confuse the effect of sin with the heinousness of sin.  While all sins are equal in their effect (they separate us from God), they are not all equally heinous. – Michael Krueger

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. ‘Slaughtered Like Chicken’: The Muslim Persecution of Christians, April 2023: https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2023/05/22/slaughtered-like-chicken-the-muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2023/
2. Cave Formations | Answers in Genesis: https://answersingenesis.org/geology/caves/cave-formations/
3. What if Everyone Lived the Sexual Ethic of Jesus? | Sean McDowell: https://seanmcdowell.org/blog/what-if-everyone-lived-the-sexual-ethic-of-jesus
4. Professor of New Testament, Craig Keener, explains his journey from atheism to Christianity. – Bishop’s Encyclopedia of Religion, Society and Philosophy: https://jamesbishopblog.com/2015/06/12/professor-of-new-testament-craig-keener-explains-his-journey-from-atheism-to-christianity/
5. How Not Letting Your Children Ask a Question Leads Them to Atheism: https://crossexamined.org/how-not-letting-your-children-ask-a-question-leads-them-to-atheism/
6. If Christianity is True, Why Do So Many Kids Have Doubts Today?: https://crossexamined.org/if-christianity-is-true-why-do-so-many-kids-have-doubts-today/
7. Stream Let Us Reason | Listen to podcast episodes online for free on SoundCloud – Let Us Reason exists to reach Muslims for Christ by utilizing theology, apologetics, and evangelism while comparing and contrasting Christian and Muslim doctrines.: https://m.soundcloud.com/let-us-reason
8. Is Atheism Dead? | Eric Metaxas: https://daystar.tv/?video=5535343586001
9. How Can We Know That The Gospels Are Historically Reliable? – YouTube: https://youtu.be/QNJJiNhQCPY
10. My Goal in Every Conversation with Mormons – Stand to Reason Blog: https://str.typepad.com/weblog/2015/09/my-goal-in-every-conversation-with-mormons.html
11. Prominent Atheist Admits Intelligent Design Probability: https://logosherald.com/atheist-admits-intelligent-design-probability/
12. Ready for the Knock on Your Door: https://www.str.org/w/ready-for-the-knock-on-your-door#.WTqPFWgrKUl
13. If Human Eugenics Wouldn’t Work, Human Evolution Has a Big Problem | Evolution News: https://evolutionnews.org/2020/02/if-human-eugenics-wouldnt-work-human-evolution-has-a-big-problem/
14. Progressive Ideology and the Hijacking of the Christian Faith: https://crossexamined.org/progressive-ideology-and-the-hijacking-of-the-christian-faith/
15. What are the historical arguments for the empty tomb narrative? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2021/04/25/what-are-the-historical-arguments-for-the-empty-tomb-narrative-5/
16. The Biggest Hindrance to Your Kids’ Faith Isn’t Doubt. It’s Silence | Christianity Today: https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/february-web-only/doubt-parenting-biggest-hindrance-kids-faith-is-silence.html
17. New study: there is no gay gene that causes homosexuality | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2019/08/31/new-study-there-is-no-gay-gene-that-determines-homosexuality/
18. Atheists Want a World Without Christianity. Here’s How It Would Look – ChristianWeek: https://www.christianweek.org/atheists-want-a-world-without-christianity-heres-how-it-would-look/
19. What is the fine-tuning argument for God’s existence, and does the multiverse counter it? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2018/01/17/what-is-the-fine-tuning-argument-for-gods-existence-and-does-the-multiverse-counter-it/
20. Hidden truths behind Mormonism and the Church of the Latter Day Saints (James R White) – YouTube: https://youtu.be/a1BLR4rufYA
21. Evolutionary Relationships In Echolocation – An Obsession that Smothers Wonder | Evolution News: https://evolutionnews.org/2018/10/evolutionary-relationships-in-echolocation-an-obsession-that-smothers-wonder/
22. (2018) New Harvard Research Says U.S. Christianity Is Growing Stronger: https://thefederalist.com/2018/01/22/new-harvard-research-says-u-s-christianity-not-shrinking-growing-stronger/
23. In-N-Out Burger owner Lynsi Snyder on spiritual warfare, desire to be ‘plugged in’ to God’s plan | Living News: https://www.christianpost.com/news/in-n-out-billionaire-lynsi-snyder-on-spiritual-warfare-desire-to-be-plugged-in-to-gods-plan.html
24. If Jesus Is God, Why Was It a Secret? | Answers in Genesis: https://answersingenesis.org/jesus/jesus-is-god/if-jesus-is-god-why-was-it-a-secret/
25. Why Belief in God is a Rational Position – Straight Talk with Claudia K: https://straighttalkwithclaudiak.com/2016/05/20/why-belief-in-god-is-a-rational-position/
26. Many ways to present the message about Jesus | George’s Journal: https://georgesjournal.net/2018/11/07/many-ways-to-present-the-message-about-jesus/
27. Blake Long • The Gospel Is Offensive. Is That Okay? • The Majesty’s Men: https://themajestysmen.com/the-gospel-is-offensive/
28. Identifying Neandertal Man | The Institute for Creation Research – Bones were discovered in a cave in Germany’s Neander Valley in the middle 1800s. Since then, many more “Neandertal” remains have been uncovered. The story has been told that they wore no clothes, had a very primitive culture, and hunted animals with clubs as they evolved from an ape-like to a man-like creature. But is this an accurate picture?: https://www.icr.org/article/identifying-neandertal-man
29. Examining Islam: is it a reasonable faith to trust? – Think Divinely: https://thinkdivinely.com/examining-islam-is-it-a-reasonable-faith-to-trust/
30. What is the Best Evidence for Intelligent Design?… | Sean McDowell: https://seanmcdowell.org/blog/what-is-the-best-evidence-for-intelligent-design-interview-with-brian-johnson
31. Atheist Garage – Adam4d.com: https://adam4d.com/atheist-garage/
32. Understanding Worldview – Engaging the World Around Us – Impact 360 Institute: https://www.impact360institute.org/articles/understanding-worldview-engaging-the-world-around-us/
33. Polystrate Fossils — evidence against millions of years – YouTube: https://youtu.be/hqUtY23L4iQ
34. 5 Simple Steps for Connecting with Gen Zers | Sean McDowell: https://seanmcdowell.org/blog/5-simple-steps-for-connecting-with-gen-zers
35. Who Chose the Books of the Bible? (VIDEO) – Jonathan Morrow: https://www.jonathanmorrow.org/who-chose-the-books-of-the-bible-video/

Do not say, “I’ll pay you back for this wrong!” Wait for the LORD, and he will deliver you. –Proverbs 20:22

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (5-18-2023)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2600) from Nuggets:

It’s not the amount of your faith that saves you; it’s the object of your faith that saves you, – Greg Koukl

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. Southern Baptist Convention suffers largest decline in church membership | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/05/12/southern-baptist-convention-suffers-largest-decline-in-church-membership/
2. Top Scientific Problems with Evolution: Fossils | Evolution News: https://evolutionnews.org/2023/05/top-scientific-problems-with-evolution-fossils-2/
3. Dr. Walter Bradley lectures on scientific evidence the creation and design of the universe | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/05/13/dr-walter-bradley-lectures-on-scientific-evidence-the-creation-and-design-of-the-universe-5/
4. Peter Williams lectures on the historical reliability of the gospels. WK: I really enjoyed watching this lecture. He’s getting some of this material from Richard Bauckham’s awesome book “Jesus and the Eyewitnesses”, so if you aren’t familiar with it, you can get an idea of what’s in it. Peter Williams is a lot of fun to listen to – an excellent speaker.: https://winteryknight.com/2023/05/14/peter-williams-lectures-on-the-historical-reliability-of-the-gospels-4/
5. A Case for Creation 101: An Introduction – Truth, Faith and Reason – Christians often feel unequipped to answer when questions of human origin, or even the existence of God, come up. How should we respond? When we are part of a conversation that includes these kinds of questions, are we confident in answering or do we simply defer to others?: https://truthfaithandreason.com/a-case-for-creation-101-an-introduction/
6. The Most Compelling Argument For God’s Existence – YouTube – Ben Shapiro speaks with theologian and author William Lane Craig on the best proof of God and what is the most compelling argument for convincing people of His existence.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz0ocjMMeDc
7. 18 Reasons Christian Leaders Should Be Apologists | Saints and Sceptics: http://www.saintsandsceptics.org/18-reasons-why-evangelists-need-apologetics/
8. Abortion remains illegal in Mexico after widely watched Supreme Court decision – LifeSite: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/abortion-remains-illegal-in-mexico-after-widely-watched-supreme-court-decision/
9. (2017) Only 10% of Americans Biblical Worldview | Answers in Genesis – Despite the growing number of religiously unaffiliated people, over 70% of Americans still claim to be Christians.1 Yet only 46% of US adults would say they have a biblical worldview. But do almost half of Americans really possess a biblical framework through which they view the world?: https://answersingenesis.org/culture/study-shows-only-10-percent-americans-have-biblical-worldview/
10. Kennedy Classics – The Dumbing Down of America – YouTube – With summer vacation drawing to a close, millions of kids across America are returning to school. But what are they learning when they get there? The Dumbing Down of America is a bold and provocative message from the late Dr. D. James Kennedy revealing the threats to education in our nation. Scripture Reference: Hebrews 2:1-9, The Bible’s clear that “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” But God has largely been removed from public education. Educational leaders are pushing an agenda that’s turning our children from faith in God and His purpose for their lives. Let’s take a look at what that agenda is and the solutions put and to it.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V96cpOj3xk8
11. Christians Don’t View Jesus as a Means to an End – An atheist who called the podcast a few weeks ago wanted to reduce Christianity to the avoidance of Hell, saying it’s merely a “carrots and sticks” religion. There may be people out there who view their Christianity that way, but if there are, they’ve missed the point of Christianity.: https://www.str.org/w/christians-don-t-view-jesus-as-a-means-to-an-end
12. Frank Turek–Is The Bible Historically Reliable? Episode 473 – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmA6kOWwfWI
13. How Can Jesus Be God If He Was Born? | Reasons for Jesus – But was the birth of our Lord really the beginning of his existence? As it turns out, Jesus himself claimed to have existed long before he was born in the flesh.: https://reasonsforjesus.com/how-can-jesus-be-god-if-he-was-born/
14. The God Question(s): How Could a Loving God Condemn Good People to Hell? It is a common question that arises from people who have lost their faith, are losing their faith or never had faith to begin with. If Hell is such a terrible place, as Christians have always said, why would a loving God allow good people to be there? It just doesn’t make sense, does it? How can this be? A lot of the problem is in the question itself. What is a good person? Who is a good person? What is the standard for goodness?: http://askingthegodquestions.blogspot.com/2018/11/how-could-loving-god-condemn-good.html
15. The Left’s biggest lie of all is that conservatives are fascists or Nazis. In this fiery lecture at Yale, Dinesh D’Souza debunks this audacious lie and set the record straight about the REAL fascist threat in America. Students at Yale didn’t seem too happy that D’Souza came to expose the Left’s big lie-want to see how they react when he bring some cold, hard facts to campus? Not Christian Apologetics, but important, nonetheless.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crhgpbzV8sM
16. (2021) The War on Christianity Returns as the House Passes “The Equality Act” – Kingsjester’s Blog: https://kingsjestersblog.com/2021/03/07/the-war-on-christianity-returns-as-the-house-passes-the-equality-act/
17. Nazi child euthanasia and Hans Asperger – Charles Darwin published his ‘survival of the fittest’ theory in his Origin of Species in 1859, and applied it to human beings in his Descent of Man in 1871. His cousin, Francis Galton, expanded this in his Hereditary Genius of 1869 by proposing that the proportion of the ‘fittest’ in any population could and should be increased by arranged marriages of suitably gifted people. He coined the term ‘eugenics’ (from Greek εὐγενής eugenes ‘well-born’ from εὖ eu, ‘good, well’ and γένος genos, ‘race, stock, kin’) for this concept in 1883. Hitler adopted Darwin’s theory of evolution plus Galton’s eugenics, and applied these ideas to kill Germany’s ‘useless eaters’.: https://creation.com/asperger
18. “If You Were Born in India…” – Red Door Church – The common argument goes that if you were born in India, you would most likely be a Hindu. If you were born in Saudi Arabia, then you would most likely be a Muslim. If you were born in a Christian family, you would most likely be a Christian. From this, skeptics would conclude: your Christian beliefs are just the product of where you were born and not based on what is true. Some skeptics will even go so far as to say that therefore Christianity is not true.: https://www.unitedchurchofsoro.org/if-you-were-born-in-india/
19. Do we have the right Bible? | George’s Journal – The Bible is loaded with contradictions and translation errors. It wasn’t written by witnesses and includes words added by unknown scribes to inject Church orthodoxy (Eichenwald, 2014). That’s the opinion of Newsweek. And Humanists reject the claim that the Bible is the word of God (Sommer, 1997). They are convinced the book was written solely by humans in an ignorant, superstitious, and cruel age. They believe that because the writers of the Bible lived in an unenlightened era, the book contains many errors and harmful teachings. How reliable is the Bible? Is it trustworthy? Can it withstand objective scrutiny? This blogpost is based on a presentation by Tom Murphy titled, “Do we have the right Bible?”.: https://georgesjournal.net/2018/05/23/do-we-have-the-right-bible/
20. How Does Christianity Differ from Other Religions on Homosexuality? “Sorry if this is off topic,” the young woman stammered into the microphone, “but, um, I’ve searched for answers, and I can’t seem to find any, so I thought I’d come tonight and ask you guys. Where does Christianity, if it does at all, differ on homosexuality as opposed to other religions, and if so, how?” Her quivering lips and trembling hands revealed the magnitude of the struggle it had taken just to voice the question. The auditorium fell silent as all eyes turned to Abdu Murray, who had just taken part in a university open forum on major world religions. Abdu was silent for a moment. He could tell she was not just looking for another opinion. She needed an answer that would validate her as a human being. What could he say that would not compromise biblical sexuality yet would show her that God cares for her beyond measure?: https://christianapologeticsalliance.com/2018/05/15/how-does-christianity-differ-from-other-religions-on-homosexuality/
21. An Investigation: What Makes the Bible Unique? – Josh.org – The Bible’s unique features speak to its staying power. Have you read it yet? In this blog post we’ll look at the unique origin and nature of the Bible, the profound impact it has had on western civilization, and its responsibility for much of the progress of human history. What makes the Bible stand out from all other historical documents? So many things! Namely, its time span, geographical production, authorship, literary genres, languages, teachings, impact, and survival and resiliency.: https://www.josh.org/investigation-bible-unique/
22. Science Confirms Climate Change! | Answers in Genesis – Over the last few decades, there has been much debate over the topic of climate change. Is it real? What or who is causing it? Should we be concerned? There is evidence that climate change is indeed a real phenomenon. There was a period of global warming during the medieval days which dropped into a cooling trend known as the “Little Ice Age.” For the past 400 years, temperatures have been slowly climbing up from that chilly dip. But, while the evidence shows that there has been and still is change in the climate, the evidence does not speak for itself about what this change means. The data must be interpreted. How should Bible-believing Christians interpret this evidence?: https://answersingenesis.org/environmental-science/climate-change/science-confirms-climate-change/
23. Is There Any Evidence for Jesus Outside the Bible? | Cold Case Christianity – The reliable Gospel eyewitness accounts aren’t the only ancient description of Jesus. There are also non-Christian descriptions of Jesus from the late 1st to 5th Century. What do the non-Biblical accounts say about Jesus and how are we to assess them? It’s been my experience that two people can examine the same event (or even the same historical character) and disagree about what they have seen. Many years ago President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, and the entire event was captured on video tape. There were hundreds of eyewitnesses. The tapes were watched over and over again. Yet, in the midst of such a robust eyewitness record, people still argue to this day about what they saw and what actually happened. Was it a lone shooter or an elaborate conspiracy? Something very similar occurred when the World Trade Center was attacked by terrorists. Most of us either saw the attack live on television or watched the video for months afterward. But the event is still interpreted in a variety of ways. Was this the act of international terrorists or an elaborate governmental conspiracy? Two well documented historical events with a rich set of evidences. In spite of this, both events have been interpreted in a variety of ways. It shouldn’t surprise us then to find the historical records of Jesus Christ might also experience the same type of scrutiny and diverse interpretation. Did Jesus truly live, minister, died and rise from the grave as the Gospels record or was it an elaborate conspiracy?: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/is-there-any-evidence-for-jesus-outside-the-bible/
24. About Those Crusades… – Stand to Reason Blog – For starters, the Crusades to the East were in every way defensive wars. They were a direct response to Muslim aggression-an attempt to turn back or defend against Muslim conquests of Christian lands. Christians in the eleventh century were not paranoid fanatics. Muslims really were gunning for them…. When Mohammed was waging war against Mecca in the seventh century, Christianity was the dominant religion of power and wealth. As the faith of the Roman Empire, it spanned the entire Mediterranean, including the Middle East, where it was born. The Christian world, therefore, was a prime target for the earliest caliphs, and it would remain so for Muslim leaders for the next thousand years.: https://str.typepad.com/weblog/2015/02/about-those-crusades.html
25. 32% of People Killed in Assisted Suicides Were Actually Euthanized Against Their Will – LifeNews.com: https://www.lifenews.com/2017/05/30/32-of-people-killed-in-assisted-suicides-were-actually-euthanized-against-their-will/
26. The Problem of Canon – Ligonier Ministries – Opponents of Christianity raise challenging questions about the origins and reliability of the 27 books of the New Testament. When the authenticity of Scripture is questioned, so is the gospel. This week on Renewing Your Mind, Michael Kruger responds to these objections and helps give us confidence that the right books-and only the right books-are in the Bible.: https://subsplash.com/ligonier/media/mi/+kh5c453
27. How to Be a $1 Apologist (w/ J. Warner Wallace) – YouTube – What’s the key to being an effective apologist today? According to detective Wallace, we need more apologists in the church who can equip and reach people where they are at. That’s what he means by “$1 apologists.” In this LIVE discussion, I talk with J. Warner Wallace (author Cold Case Christianity) about the best strategies for defending the faith today.: https://www.youtube.com/live/4_7UVTkteXs?feature=share
28. Federal Courts Rule California Can’t Force Churches to Pay for Abortions – LifeNews.com: https://www.lifenews.com/2023/05/12/federal-court-rules-california-cant-force-churches-to-pay-for-abortions/
29. Dr. James Tour to debate evolutionist on the origin of life this Friday | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/05/15/dr-james-tour-to-debate-evolutionist-on-the-origin-of-life-this-friday/
30. Mormon blows whistle on church’s alleged “clandestine hedge fund” – One of the closest guarded secrets of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been its wealth. In this report, you will hear for the first time about its remarkable size from a former manager at the church’s investment firm. David Nielsen says that during his nine years managing money at the church firm, the value of its investments ballooned past $100 billion. That would make it the largest treasure held by any religious fund in America. But instead of spending that money to do good, David Nielsen alleges it was used in ways that bent the law … and broke his faith.: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mormon-whistleblower-ensign-peak-church-investment-fund-allegations-60-minutes-transcript-2023-05-14/
31. Presuppositional Apologetics and the Relevance of Creation | The Domain for Truth: https://veritasdomain.wordpress.com/2023/04/17/guest-post-because-i-deserve-it-2/
32. Intelligent Design Passes the Dawkins Test | Evolution News: https://evolutionnews.org/2023/05/intelligent-design-passes-the-dawkins-test/
33. 5 Misconceptions about Heaven and Hell (and 5 Truths) | Crossway Articles: https://www.crossway.org/articles/5-misconceptions-about-heaven-and-hell-and-5-truths/
34. Is it a problem that I’m not really religious (funny – Seinfeld). This is a VERY SHORT Facebook reel. Unmute the volume.: https://www.facebook.com/reel/940917230459857?sfnsn=mo&s=F5x8gs&fs=e&mibextid=6AJuK9
35. Are Mormon doctrines supported by philosophy, science and history? This post presents evidence against Mormonism/LDS in three main areas. The first is in the area of science. The second is in the area of philosophy. And the third is in the area of history.: https://winteryknight.com/2023/05/16/are-mormon-doctrines-supported-by-philosophy-science-and-history-6/
36. Cherry-Picked Age for Key Evolutionary Fossil. Homo naledi, the latest failed candidate for a missing link in human evolution, was deposited in the Rising Star cave system in South Africa. New fossil dating attempts reveal troubling difficulties with science’s attempt at answering historical questions. The answer to naledi’s timing carries some big implications. If the naledi fossils receive a date of three or so million years, then they could remain in the running for a possible missing link between ancient apes and modern humans. But researchers gave the remains a much more recent age, unseating naledi from any evolutionary hopes. How did they determine an age for the remains or the flowstones discovered around them? After all, it’s not like time is a substance that science can directly probe.: https://www.icr.org/article/10030
37. Does Science Rule Out a First Human Pair?… – Biologic Institute – One of the claims Venema makes in his book is that the effective population size of our last common ancestor with chimps has never been fewer than 10,000. In fact, he equates the certainty of that statement with our certainty about heliocentrism. That is an extreme claim that needs justification. Assuming no bottlenecks, this would exclude the possibility of an original human pair as the progenitors of the human race.: https://www.biologicinstitute.org/post/169254791759/does-science-rule-out-a-first-human-pair
38. Answering Smug Atheist Mocking Points – The Stream – The movement called New Atheism may be dying, as I wrote a few months ago, but smug atheism still survives. This smug atheism thinks it knows Christianity better than Christians do. It thinks it can deliver a knockout blow in just a couple of words. You find this happening mostly online. Your kids find it there, too, as well as in the classrooms and on the playing fields. But here’s the strange thing: These supposed death-blows to Christianity are really obscure. Like the command in Leviticus not to wear clothes of mixed fabrics. What atheist runs across that in his own reading of Leviticus?: https://stream.org/answering-smug-atheist-mocking-points/
39. Origin of Life’s Purple Unicorn: Protocells. On a new episode of ID the Future, host Eric Anderson sits down with Rob Stadler, co-author with Change Tan of The Stairway to Life: An Origin-of-Life Reality Check. The topic of discussion is protocells. Stadler notes that the simplest existing single-celled organisms are far too sophisticated to have emerged through a blind process of prebiotic evolution. He further notes that this is widely acknowledged in the origin-of-life community, but those committed to a purely materialistic origin of the first life have a fallback explanation: protocells. That is, early biological structures far simpler than anything we find today. An intriguing hypothesis, but the problems with it, according to Stadler, are legion. Listen in as Stadler and Anderson walk through several lines of evidence that appear to break against the much sought-after but ever-elusive protocell.: https://evolutionnews.org/2021/04/origin-of-lifes-purple-unicorn-protocells/
40. 14 Christians killed every day in Nigeria: Charity raises alarm as mob murder of Christian student leads to no arrests: https://premierchristian.news/en/news/article/14-christians-killed-every-day-in-nigeria-charity-raises-alarm-as-mob-murder-of-christian-student-leads-to-no-arrests
41. There are Roman Catholics in my family but I’m not one: why not? | WINTERY KNIGHT – In this post, I explain why I’m not Roman Catholic. And I also explain how Protestant Christians arrive at their beliefs. We’ll start with J. Warner Wallace on Purgatory, then I’ll go second.: https://winteryknight.com/2023/05/17/there-are-roman-catholics-in-my-family-but-im-not-one-why-not-3/

Come and see what God has done, how awesome his works in man’s behalf! He turned the sea into dry land, they passed through the waters on foot– come, let us rejoice in him. Psalms 66:5-6

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (5-11-2023)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2600) from Nuggets:

Love in its truest sense is not based on feelings, rather love determines the show thoughtful actions even when there seems to be no reward (Matt 5:46). – The Love Dare

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. Why are the 5 Sola’s important today? – Mike Gendron answers: https://www.facebook.com/reel/2463013167170110?sfnsn=mo&s=F5x8gs&fs=e&mibextid=6AJuK9
2. What Does It Mean When Politicians Literally Hide the Bible?: https://washingtonstand.com/commentary/what-does-it-mean-when-politicians-literally-hide-the-bible-
3. An awesome quote about how the conversion of Paul is one of the greatest Christian evidences we have | Is Jesus Alive?: https://isjesusalive.com/an-awesome-quote-about-how-the-conversion-of-paul-is-one-of-the-greatest-christian-evidences-we-have/
4. Examining Extra-biblical Sources for Jesus (w/ Gary Habermas) – YouTube: https://youtu.be/lXEAZw9Oz-s
5. What is Tolerance? As the golden rule asserts, we need to treat everyone as we would like to be treated. We, therefore, need to be tolerant of others. But what is tolerance? A well-known dictionary defines tolerance as, “a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, practices, race, religion, nationality, etc., differ from one’s own.”: https://www.cltruth.com/2017/what-is-tolerance/
6. Only the Appearance of Design? – There is perhaps no more famous atheist than Richard Dawkins. The evolutionary biologist has spent many years of his life pushing back against religious ideas. One of his better-known books, however, finds a sort of common ground between Christians and atheists. His book, The Blind Watchmaker (1986), describes how precisely fine-tuned our planet is for life. However, he refers to this as an illusion. It is only the appearance of design, and he spends most of the book explaining why it is only an appearance. Let’s stop there for a moment and consider the implications. The appearance of design begs many questions regarding our universe, planet, and God’s existence.: https://tentmakingchristianity.com/only-the-appearance-of-design/
7. How Should Young Earth & Old Earth Christians Interact? – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf2cJdBz0Rs
8. Mammoth DNA: The Oldest Ever Found? | The Institute for Creation Research – Scientists have sequenced small amounts of DNA from the teeth of two Siberian mammoths said to have lived more than a million years ago. The discovery has set an official record for the oldest DNA ever recovered, and it also raises a number of questions relevant to the creation-evolution controversy. Can DNA survive longer than a million years? Creationists have pointed out that original proteins found in dinosaur remains are a powerful argument for a young Earth, as experiments show that proteins cannot survive even a million years at the temperatures in situ dinosaur fossils are exposed to, let alone the 66 million years since dinosaurs supposedly went extinct.: https://www.icr.org/article/mammoth-dna-oldest-ever-found/
9. Ambassador at Work – Faith, Vocation, and Apologetics – Dr. Mikel Del Rosario | Apologetics Guy℠ – At the end of the day, our spiritual conversations are always heard in the context of our lives, including our lives at work. As Christian ambassadors, we need to see the value God sees in our work and the opportunities he’s has placed for us to represent him well in our places of employment. Take this week to intentionally build relationships with your coworkers, supervisors, customers and clients, genuinely loving them through your work. By God’s grace, these simple acts of kindness can help open the door to spiritual conversations and even break down emotional barriers to the Gospel.: https://apologeticsguy.com/2018/10/vocation/
10. Is Religious Freedom Addressed in Scripture? | Answers in Genesis – So how does all of this come together in Scripture in regard to religious freedom? Well we see several cases where Paul appealed to his Roman citizenship or his religious affiliations to avoid persecution or to hold people accountable when he was persecuted unjustly. : https://answersingenesis.org/religious-freedom/religious-freedom-addressed-scripture/
11. Why Every Christian Needs to Be A Sheepdog | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/why-every-christian-needs-to-be-a-sheepdog/
12. Rich Sam and the Trouble with Faith – Tactical Faith: https://tacticalfaith.com/defending-the-faith/rich-sam-and-the-trouble-with-faith/
13. The Importance of Hell | Core Christianity – The doctrine of hell is crucial-without it we can’t understand our complete dependence on God, the character and danger of even the smallest sins, and the true scope of the costly love of Jesus. Nevertheless, it is possible to stress the doctrine of hell in unwise ways. Many, for fear of doctrinal compromise, want to put all the emphasis on God’s active judgment, and none on the self-chosen character of hell. Ironically, as we have seen, this unBiblical imbalance often makes it less of a deterrent to non-believers rather than more of one. And some can preach hell in such a way that people reform their lives only out of a self-interested fear of avoiding consequences, not out of love and loyalty to [Christ]: https://corechristianity.com/resource-library/articles/the-importance-of-hell/
14. Creation Kids: Saguaros and Gila Woodpeckers | The Institute for Creation Research: https://www.icr.org/article/saguaros-woodpeckers/
15. Investigating Bart Ehrman’s Top Ten Troublesome Bible Verses | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/investigating-bart-ehrmans-top-ten-troublesome-bible-verses/
16. Deepak Chopra vs Christian Apologist Debate (Chopra Loses) – YouTube – The most prominent teacher of mysticism and New Age philosophy in the West Deepak Chopra goes toe to toe in a debate with Christian apologist Greg Koukl on Lee Strobel’s show “Faith under Fire”. This episode called “The Future of Faith” aired in 2005. Chopra, who has written two books on the topic of Jesus, seems to be at loss for words as the well-researched Koukl keeps correcting him on his false view of Jesus, his false doctrine, and the historicity of the Gospels. Chopra’s Eastern/secular interpretation of Jesus does not seem to hold water when confronted with someone who teaches apologetics and defends the faith for a living.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meYHmFz33NE
17. Why the Resurrection of Jesus Matters – THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM: https://chab123.wordpress.com/2019/02/21/why-the-resurrection-of-jesus-matters-3/
18. Was the Divinity of Jesus a Late Invention of the Council of Nicaea? – Canon Fodder: https://www.michaeljkruger.com/was-the-divinity-of-jesus-a-late-invention-of-the-council-of-nicea/
19. It is a popular view these days. Many people have the impression that the Bible is simply an outdated book of fairytales and contradictions. We are told that biblical stories are fine for children, and perhaps they even contain some moral value. “But, surely” says the critic, “such stories cannot be taken seriously in our modern age of science and technology.” After all, the Bible speaks of floating ax-heads, the sun apparently going backwards, a universe created in six days, an earth that has pillars and corners, people walking on water, light before the sun, a talking snake, a talking donkey, dragons, and a senior citizen taking two of every animal on a big boat! On the surface, these things may seem absurd, particularly to those unfamiliar with the Christian worldview. But to make matters even worse, it is alleged that the Bible contains contradictions. That is, the Bible seems to say one thing in one place, and then the opposite in another. Which are we to believe? Obviously, two contradictory statements cannot both be true. The claim of contradictions is a serious allegation against the Christian worldview, and we must be prepared to defend the Bible against such claims.: https://answersingenesis.org/answers/books/demolishing-supposed-bible-contradictions-1/introduction/
20. What about those who have never heard? – YouTube – Frank Turek on the problem of those who never heard the Gospel.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQISdCWQhRg
21. Chelsea Clinton’s Brand New Argument FOR Abortion Sparks Heated Debate – Faithwire: https://www.faithwire.com/2018/08/15/chelsea-clinton-stuns-the-abortion-of-60-million-babies-has-helped-boost-u-s-economy/
22. Contend for the Faith | Reformed Bible Studies & Devotionals at Ligonier.org – As we contend for the faith, let us always love those who disagree with us on negotiable matters (James 1:19–21; 1 Peter 1:22; 1 John 4:7–8). However, let us always love others in the truth and contend for the faith delivered to the saints as we serve the living God.: https://www.ligonier.org/learn/devotionals/contend-faith
23. Handling an Objection: “Jesus is Just One of Several Messianic Figures in the First Century” – THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM: https://chab123.wordpress.com/2019/02/25/handling-an-objection-jesus-is-just-one-of-several-messianic-figures-in-the-first-century-2/
24. The importance of having a narrative when confronting the assumption of naturalism | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/05/10/the-importance-of-having-a-narrative-when-confronting-the-assumption-of-naturalism-5/
25. 4 Historical Facts that Prove Jesus Really Did Rise from the Dead – YouTube: https://youtu.be/RmKg62GDqF4
26. Massive Genetic Study Purporting Human Evolution Debunked | The Institute for Creation Research: https://www.icr.org/article/10243/
27. How Can I Be Better Prepared for Evangelism? – Living Waters: https://livingwaters.com/how-can-i-be-better-prepared-for-evangelism/
28. A Case for the Bible 101: Manuscript Evidence Part 11 – Are there errors in the manuscripts? – Truth, Faith and Reason: https://truthfaithandreason.com/a-case-for-the-bible-101-manuscript-evidence-part-11-are-there-errors-in-the-manuscripts/
29. Why Do You Need a Fighting Faith? | Tim Challies: https://www.challies.com/sponsored/why-do-you-need-a-fighting-faith/
30. Why does God allow evil? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/God-allow-evil.html

You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others. 2 Timothy 2:1-2

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (5-4-2023)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2600) from Nuggets:

Imagine you were at a table about to eat dinner and you have two bowls of white powder in front of you. Do you put them on your food? After all, they look pretty similar. But what if I told you that one was ordinary table salt and the other was cyanide? The differences matter far more than the similarities! So it is with religion and its path for your eternal future. – Jonathan Morrow

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. Apathy, Atheism, and the Absurdity of Life Without God – Here is a statement that may seem controversial at first but upon reflection the truth of which becomes more apparent: If God does not exist and there is no life after death, then there is no ultimate meaning, value, or purpose in life.: https://crossexamined.org/apathy-atheism-and-the-absurdity-of-life-without-god/
2. The Flagellum’s Hook Connects to the Case for a Creator – Reasons to Believe: https://reasons.org/explore/blogs/the-cells-design/the-flagellum-s-hook-connects-to-the-case-for-a-creator
3. Frank Turek – Session 5 – Is the New Testament True? – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuV3Qv4whNY
4. The (Often) Missing Key In Passing Faith to the Next Generation – YouTube – What is the vital key we must do to raise up a generation that knows and follows the Lord? At a live conference, Sean offers a BRIEF response that parents, pastors, teachers, and other caring adults MUST take to heart for the sake of the next generation.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fMOgBrsFWs
5. Where Are All the Women in Apologetics? | Mary Jo Sharp – Over the last decade, I’ve been asked this question many times. Typically, the question arose because someone in the audience noticed that I was the only female speaker at that particular apologetics conference. I would assure the questioner that other women speakers existed in apologetics and I would begin to rattle off a list of names, including my colleagues at Houston Baptist University. I would then follow up with, “You’ll see, the women are there.”…: https://confidentchristianity.com/?p=1754
6. Darwin’s Abominable Mystery and the Genesis Flood | The Institute for Creation Research: https://www.icr.org/article/abominable-mystery-and-the-flood
7. Responding to a Claim that your Argument is “God of the Gaps” – Adherent Apologetics – God of the Gaps is an argument that states that when there is a gap in scientific knowledge, then people who believe in God place God as the answer to that gap of knowledge. Skeptics would say that arguments such as the origin of the universe, the fine-tuning of the universe, and the origin of life, are just “God of the Gaps” arguments but science will soon find an answer. Here are 3 Arguments for God that are not “God of the Gaps.”: https://adherentapologetics.com/2018/12/28/responding-to-a-claim-that-your-argument-is-god-of-the-gaps/
8. Examine Evidence for the Bible’s Reliability, This article has a good summary of how to evaluate the Bible’s reliability: https://faithphilosophy.com/en/bible-examine-evidence-for-the-bible-reliability.php
9. Hell Interrupted Part 1 – You may not have noticed, but Hell is not as popular as it used to be. Simply put, the doctrine of Hell has fallen on hard times. Jehovah’s Witnesses have long denied Hell, at least the everlasting punishment part at the heart of the classical view, along with Seventh Day Adventists, each teaching that, in the final judgment, the unrepentant wicked will be snuffed from existence – annihilated.: https://www.str.org/w/hell-interrupted-part-1
10. Mann’s Word: CAN WE TRUST THE TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT? How then do we square this teaching – “not a dot passing from the law” – with the fact that there are many thousands of textual variants, although many of them are simply misspellings?: https://mannsword.blogspot.com/2019/10/can-we-trust-text-of-new-testament.html
11. The Neo-Liberal Stealth Offensive : 9Marks – The gospel’s most dangerous earthly adversaries are not raving atheists who stand outside the door shouting threats and insults. They are church leaders who cultivate a gentle, friendly, pious demeanor but hack away at the foundations of faith under the guise of keeping in step with a changing world.: https://www.9marks.org/article/neo-liberal-stealth-offensive/
12. Richard Dawkins is releasing an atheist children’s book: https://creation.com/dawkins-childrens-book
13. Are There Any Good Reasons to Believe in God? – YouTube – Is it reasonable to believe in Jesus as the Messiah? Is it reasonable to believe in God in general? In this Q and A session, J. Warner begins to answer a question about Jewish believers and turns to a more significant issue related to Jesus and the existence of God.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY4jsNmDawU
14. 150 Pastors Arrested at Year-End Gathering – Police monitored China Gospel Fellowship and swooped in when all pastors were in one place. One had a heart attack, and all were threatened to sign “repentance.”: https://bitterwinter.org/150-pastors-arrested-at-year-end-gathering/
15. The earth’s magnetic field: evidence that the earth is young: https://creation.com/the-earths-magnetic-field-evidence-that-the-earth-is-young
16. Gracious Uncertainty | My Utmost For His Highest: https://utmost.org/gracious-uncertainty/
17. Fox’s ‘Family Guy’ Calls Religious Believers ‘Stupid People,’ ‘Idiots’ | Newsbusters: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/elise-ehrhard/2019/11/03/foxs-family-guy-calls-religious-believers-stupid-people
18. “I Believe in Science!” – Something No One Should Say – “I believe in science,” said Hillary Clinton. “We should not have people in office who do not believe in facts and truths and modern science,” said Leonardo DiCaprio. What these two have in common with the general public is their misunderstanding of the nature of science and the lack of appreciation of the number of philosophical presuppositions on which science depends – assumptions that must be taken at face value without any proofs of their own.: https://www.cltruth.com/2017/i-believe-in-science/
19. Quick Challenge Answer: Did Paul Hallucinate The Risen Jesus? There are many naturalistic theories that attempt to disprove the resurrection of Jesus. The problem is, there are so many evidences for the resurrection, that one explanation can’t discredit them all. Paul’s conversion to believe in the risen Jesus is cited as one of these evidences. Paul (previously named Saul) had been one of Christianity’s greatest enemies. He was active in the persecution of the early Church. That is, until he encountered Jesus for himself. Historians and theologians agree that Paul had a radical transformation in his personality. He went from an enemy of Christianity, to perhaps its greatest champion and hero. But what was this event that changed Paul so profoundly?: https://tentmakingchristianity.com/did-paul-hallucinate-the-risen-jesus-2/
20. 12 Ways To Preserve Christian Unity | Tim Challies – Satan hates God and therefore he hates God’s people, the church. His great plan for the church is to cause Christians–true believers who ought to be together in the gospel–to find ways of disagreeing among themselves, to divide, to be bitter and jealous, and ultimately to “bite and devour one another” (Gal. 5:15). Here are twelve ways that you can repulse Satan’s attacks.: https://www.challies.com/reading-classics-together/12-ways-to-preserve-christian-unity/
21. Scientist Confirms: An Unborn Baby is a Human Being From the Moment of Conception – LifeNews.com: https://www.lifenews.com/2017/02/09/scientist-confirms-an-unborn-baby-is-a-human-being-from-the-moment-of-conception/
22. Is the Oral Tradition Comparable to the Telephone Game? (Facebook 2 minute video with William Lane Craig answering this question): https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=271130120428729
23. How Could Noah Care for the Animals? | Answers in Genesis – Even if Noah could build a wooden Ark strong enough to survive a yearlong Flood, how could he house and feed all those animals? Imagine the challenges of space, food storage, waste removal, ventilation, and fresh water. It sounds too fantastic to believe! Or is it?: https://answersingenesis.org/noahs-ark/fantastic-voyage-how-could-noah-care-animals/
24. 8 Predictions about the Future of Sex, Gender, and Marriage in America: https://crossexamined.org/8-predictions-future-sex-gender-marriage-america/
25. Preaching & Apologetics (Optional Session) by Steven Lawson from Defending the Faith: 2018 West Coast Conference – In this session, Dr. Steven Lawson emphasizes the necessity of preaching and defending the truth when addressing both believers and unbelievers.: https://www.ligonier.org/learn/conferences/defending-the-faith-2018-west-coast-conference/preaching-and-apologetics
26. Does God Know & Not Know Simultaneously? | Free Thinking Ministries: https://freethinkingministries.com/does-god-know-not-know-simultaneously/
27. The Most Destructive Idea w/ Dr. J.P. Moreland | Cross Examined Official Podcast – YouTube – Rigid adherence to scientism as opposed to a healthy respect for science is all too prevalent in our world today. Rather than leading to a deeper understanding of our universe, this worldview actually undermines real science and marginalizes morality and religion. In this interview, celebrated philosopher J. P. Moreland exposes the self-defeating nature of scientism and equips us to recognize scientism’s harmful presence in different aspects of culture, emboldening our witness to biblical Christianity and arming us with strategies for the integration of faith and science the only feasible path to genuine knowledge.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB4cUoOUyto
28. Why is Hell Eternal? Evangelical Christians have spent a lot of time talking about the doctrine of hell. One question weighs particularly heavily: Why, if there is a hell, is it forever? The idea of eternal hell weighs heavily on the heart, as we think of those we know and love apart from Christ. Sometimes a devilish desire to condemn (“You will not surely die”) is behind a denial of future judgment, but sometimes the human motive is just the unbearable gravity of it all. Why would God sentence an everlasting punishment for crimes committed in what God himself describes as a life so quick that it’s like a vapor of mist (James 4:14; Psalm 39:5; Psalm 144:4)?: https://www.christianity.com/wiki/heaven-and-hell/why-is-hell-eternal.html
29. Competing Worldviews Influence Today’s Christians – Barna Group – We live in a world of competing ideas and worldviews. In an increasingly globalized and interconnected world, Christians are more aware of (and influenced by) disparate views than ever. But just how much have other worldviews crept into Christians’ perspectives? Barna’s research shows that only 17 percent of Christians who consider their faith important and attend church regularly actually have a biblical worldview. So, if Christians are open to nonbiblical perspectives, what are they believing?: https://www.barna.com/research/competing-worldviews-influence-todays-christians/
30. A Practical Plan to Equip the Next Generation – I grew up in a Christian home. I came to Christ at five and was baptized at six. My family was committed to the local church. My dad faithfully taught Sunday school, led small groups, and was even an elder. My mom was always involved in ministry as well. I grew up attending Sunday school, Royal Ambassadors, and Awana. As a teenager, I was the model youth group kid, a student leader in high school, and a ministry intern as a senior, even committing my life to full-time vocational ministry before I graduated. Then I met Dr. David Lane. It was my freshman year in college and the course was Philosophy 101. Dr. Lane systematically dismantled the Christianity I grew up with. In class. In front of everyone. And I was not ready. But why not? I had spent the first eighteen years of my life in the church. Wasn’t that enough time to prepare me to engage the world for Christ? Sadly, the majority of our Christian students aren’t ready either. They’re not prepared for the serious intellectual challenges awaiting them, let alone the barrage of moral challenges from an increasingly secular culture. It’s a huge reason why we continue to hemorrhage youth from our churches. Thank God I discovered apologetics amidst Professor Lane’s intellectual assault on my Christianity. Apologetics helped rebuild my faith in Christ, and I became convinced of its absolute necessity for student discipleship. That’s right, I said necessity. Apologetics is not optional in a post-Christian culture.: https://www.str.org/w/a-practical-plan-to-equip-the-next-generation
31. Why Should Christians Study Rhetoric? – by Jacob Allee – Rhetoric is the crown of the verbal arts. The trivium is composed of three language related disciplines, namely, Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric. Grammar focuses on the composition of various kinds of sentences, understanding their various parts and relations, so as to equip students to clearly understand and communicate ideas expressed through language. Logic builds upon grammar by teaching students how to arrange sets of statements (sentences which make truth claims) in order to form arguments in favor of, or in opposition to, an idea. Rhetoric takes command of both the Grammatical and Logical arts and adds to it the art of persuasion. The goal of a rhetorician is to use words so as to move their audience to either take some action or change their convictions about an issue. If Christians will not teach and study rhetoric then we leave ourselves and our neighbors open to be manipulated while being helpless to do anything about it. Just as we shouldn’t let only criminals have guns, nor should we allow it to be that only the wicked may make use of the tools of persuasion. We must learn the art of rhetoric so that the enemies of justice and truth can never say to us, “I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see that you are unarmed.”: https://stgb.substack.com/p/why-should-christians-study-rhetoric
32. Faith Is Not Wishing – Some think that having a level of certainty about the truth of Christianity makes “belief” unnecessary or irrelevant. That kind of knowledge undermines genuine faith and offends God. The reasoning goes something like this. We all know God wants us to have faith. In fact, without faith, it’s impossible to please him (Hebrews 11:6). However, gathering evidence for God and Christianity leaves little room for faith. After all, how can one have faith in something he knows is true? Faith, then, is opposed to knowledge. Therefore, apologetics undermines the faith project and thus displeases the Lord. On this view, faith is believing the unbelievable, clinging to your convictions when all the evidence is against you. Faith is a “leap”, a blind, desperate lunge in the darkness. When doubts or troubles beset us, we’re told to “just have faith,” as if we could squeeze out spiritual hope by intense acts of sheer will. This view of faith reduces Christian conviction to religious wishful thinking. We can hope, but we can never know.: https://www.str.org/w/faith-is-not-wishing
33. Persuasive Apologetics Principle 7: Bonus Tips: https://www.jaymedenwaldt.com/2019/02/effective-apologetics-bonus-tips.html
34. When we let the doubts win – More people de-converting than converting? Even today that depends on where in the world you are. Christianity is flourishing in Asia, South America, the Middle East, and Africa. And still, who cares? It’s not hard to see why Christianity is losing ground in the West; ‘science’ is falsely proffered as a panacea for understanding the world, and Christian morality is being actively undermined. But these factors have no real intellectual teeth to them. Science can’t explain everything, e.g. morality, nature itself, and the philosophy of science. Moral objections to Christianity are very parochial and have no ontological foundation. Just because it feels right doesn’t mean it is; there has to be some reason for why something is right or wrong.: https://creation.com/when-we-let-the-doubts-win
35. Origin of Life: You Can’t Trust Everything You Hear (Long Story Short, Episode 9) – YouTube – Can you trust everything you hear about the origin of life? The short answer is “No.” Many popular science expositors overstate the evidence for the natural, chemical origin of life and promote gross misinformation to the public on this topic. This video reviews popular claims made about the origin of life and shows why they are contradicted by the evidence, misleading, or flat out false.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E501YvJgNdA
36. Not Radical Enough: A Conversation with David Platt | Sean McDowell – What is the “American Gospel”? And what does it mean to leave it behind and follow Jesus today? Sean talks with pastor and author David Platt about his latest book Don’t Hold Back. They discuss David’s season of discouragement and what clarity came out of it for his life and ministry today.: https://seanmcdowell.org/blog/not-radical-enough-a-conversation-with-david-platt
37. Guest post: Christians should oppose Black Lives Matter | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/05/03/guest-post-christians-should-oppose-black-lives-matter-2/
38. A Guy Says He Had a Heart Attack and Went to Hell in 2016. Here’s What He Saw. – certainly not a Christian article, nor about apologetics, but it is certainly an interesting topic to ponder and could lead to productive spiritual conversations: https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/recaps/a-guy-says-he-had-a-heart-attack-and-went-to-hell-in-2016-here-s-what-he-saw/ar-AA16zN7R
39. Deseret alphabet – Wikipedia – another weird and interesting fact about the history of Mormonism. The Deseret alphabet is a phonemic English-language spelling reform developed between 1847 and 1854 by the board of regents of the University of Deseret under the leadership of Brigham Young, the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)… The Deseret alphabet was a project of the Mormon pioneers, a group of early followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) which had set about building a new, unique theocracy in the Utah desert, which was then still part of Mexico, after the death of the church’s founder, Joseph Smith. In March of 1859, they declared “a free and independent government” designated the State of Deseret: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_alphabet

Listen to my prayer, O God, do not ignore my plea; hear me and answer me. My thoughts trouble me and I am distraught at the voice of the enemy, at the stares of the wicked; for they bring down suffering upon me and revile me in their anger. Psalms 55:1-3

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (4-20-2023)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2600) from Nuggets:

Natural Selection may explain the survival of the species, but it does not explain the arrival of the species. – Dr. Jason Lisle

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. ‘Christian Nationalism’ Allie Beth Stuckey interviews guest Dr. Voddie Baucham – YouTube – Dr. Voddie Baucham is dean of theology at African Christian University in Zambia. He and Allie Beth Stuckey discuss the current state of the country and the topics of public schools, race, diversity, and Christian nationalism. We look at how Christians can come to terms with where we’ve found ourselves as a nation in the midst of drag queen story hours and corporate CRT policies. They talk about the depravity of public school curriculum and the popular philosophy of sending kids to public school as “missionaries.” They break down how CRT and race politics are merely about power and how the secularists only want diversity if it’s ethnic diversity. Then, they dive into how “Christian nationalism” has become a trigger phrase for secularists and what it actually means: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otGF0e05QVk
2. Why Doesn’t God Make Himself More Obvious? – The Stream: https://stream.org/god-himself-obvious/
3. Apathy, Atheism, and the Absurdity of Life Without God: https://crossexamined.org/apathy-atheism-and-the-absurdity-of-life-without-god/
4. How Do We Know the Bible is True? – Focus on the Family: https://www.focusonthefamily.com/faith/how-do-we-know-the-bible-is-true-2/
5. American Minute With Bill Federer: – Jefferson’s words are a forceful and explicit warning that to remove God from this country will destroy it: https://www.fggam.org/2019/11/american-minute-with-bill-federer-jeffersons-words-are-a-forceful-and-explicit-warning-that-to-remove-god-from-this-country-will-destroy-it/
6. J. Warner Wallace: I am not a Christian because it works for me | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2018/04/13/j-warner-wallace-i-am-not-a-christian-because-it-works-for-me-6/
7. Forensic Faith 101: Do you have an accidental or evidential faith? Truth, Faith and Reason: https://truthfaithandreason.com/forensic-faith-101-do-you-have-an-accidental-or-evidential-faith/
8. New Report Examines Scientific Studies on Sexuality and Gender: https://www.str.org/w/new-report-examines-scientific-studies-on-sexuality-and-gender
9. 7 eye-opening facts we learn about early Christianity from a Roman Historian who hated Christians | Is Jesus Alive?: http://isjesusalive.com/7-eye-opening-facts-we-learn-about-early-christianity-from-a-roman-historian-who-hated-christians/
10. The universe of the lone brain: https://creation.com/universe-of-the-lone-brain
11. Answering Objections to the Fine-Tuning Argument with Dr. Robin Collins and Dr. Josh Rasmussen – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/k6Yi2vR7ps4?feature=share
12. Following Jesus’ Example? Its Biblical: https://mintools.com/blog/following-jesus-example.htm
13. Is the Bible from God? – Dr. Mikel Del Rosario | Apologetics Guy: https://apologeticsguy.com/2011/07/is-the-bible-from-god/
14. A Curious Clue About the Origins of the New Testament Canon – Canon Fodder: https://www.michaeljkruger.com/a-curious-clue-about-the-origins-of-the-new-testament-canon/
15. Preaching God’s Love in Acts? What was the emphasis in the evangelistic preaching of the Apostles as recorded in the book of Acts? Does the record of Acts support the notion that the central focus of Christianity is ones love relationship with God and personal life enhancement? Or did these disciples of Christ focus on something else? The list below includes every instance of evangelistic preaching in the book of Acts, a summary of content, and an analysis of emphasis.: https://www.str.org/w/preaching-god-s-love-in-acts-
16. May Christians Mock? Perhaps our dismissal of ridicule as a lawful form of expression for a Christian represents a concession to our culture’s apathy and indifference to right and wrong, and deference to a kind of social equanimity, so visibly manifested in what is called “Minnesota Nice” in that cheerful and chilly State. Courtesy, aversion to argumentativeness or conflict, quiet and modest disagreement, and a generous opinion of all others is seen as “niceness,” and of course, Christians are supposed to lead the pack in niceness. | G3 Ministries: https://g3min.org/may-christians-mock/
17. ‘Remove Your Church’: The Persecution of Christians, March 2023 :: Gatestone Institute: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19583/persecution-of-christians-march
18. 5 Statistics Reveal Christianity Is Good for the World – There’s a massive gap between the perception of Christianity in the world and on social media, and the reality of who Christians are and what they do: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/christianity-not-bad/
19. Disgraced Former Pastor James MacDonald Charged With Attacking a 59-Year-Old Woman After Fender-Bender: https://churchleaders.com/news/448845-disgraced-former-pastor-james-macdonald-charged-with-attacking-a-59-year-old-woman-after-fender-bender.html
20. Mecca hit by plague of locusts during Ramadan rainfall: https://www.israel365news.com/369556/mecca-hit-by-plague-of-locusts-during-ramadan-rainfall/
21. Secular left feminist Sarah Stankorb explains why women leave Christianity | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/04/15/secular-left-feminist-sarah-stankorb-explains-why-women-leave-christianity-2/
22. Wayne Grudem explains what the Bible says about parents and schools | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/04/16/wayne-grudem-explains-what-the-bible-says-about-parents-and-schools-6/
23. What About Those Who’ve Never Heard About Jesus? – YouTube – Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason answers the question, “Isn’t it unfair to condemn people who have never heard the Gospel?” : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIXs5wOSVk4
24. Common Objections to Christianity from Skeptics by Steve Hays: https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/qa_steve_hays.html
25. Biblical Faith VS. Blind Faith | Crossexamined.org: https://crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/
26. What is Faith ? – YouTube. Animation defining what faith is, and explains what our problem is if we lack faith?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLzBOnlvN4w
27. J Warner Wallace: Developing a Forensic Faith – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_lyyw-x2Kk
28. 8 Ways you’re Doing Apologetics Wrong: https://grounds4faith.org/2019/02/20/8-ways-youre-doing-apologetics-wrong/
29. How to Become a Better Apologetics Communicator | Sean McDowell: https://seanmcdowell.org/blog/how-to-become-a-better-apologetics-communicator
30. How Chinese Christians Worship in the Face of Persecution: https://bitterwinter.org/how-chinese-christians-worship-in-the-face-of-persecution/
31. Does God do miracles today? – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj9RQIUcur8
32. The Other Side of the Good News: Hell – Think Divinely: https://thinkdivinely.com/hell/
33. Are Biblical Manuscripts Reliable? Amy Orr-Ewing: It may well come as a shock to some that the manuscript tradition of the Old and New Testaments stands up to rigorous scrutiny. There is a widespread belief that much of the Bible was written centuries after the events it records and that it has been changed and tampered with on the whim of different scribes or interested parties. The breadth and age of the existing ancient manuscripts tell a very different story. However, the next question is invariably: “Just because the manuscripts are reliable, that doesn’t make the content of them true.”: https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/resources/are-biblical-manuscripts-reliable/
34. The Deity of Jesus is Not a Late Legend | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/the-deity-of-jesus-is-not-a-late-legend/
35. Is it rational to believe in God? An interview with John Lennox – YouTube – Professor John Carson Lennox is an Irish mathematician, philosopher of science, Christian apologist and – last, but not least – Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College, Oxford University as well as Pastoral Advisor of Green Templeton College and Fellow of Wycliffe Hall. Professor Lennox is known of being a leading voice defending the notion of the relationship between science and religion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6bgoiVPXy0
36. Do Christians Hate Homosexuals? – bethinking.org – Christians must be prepared to tolerate other views, but this does not mean they have to agree with them: https://www.bethinking.org/morality/do-christians-hate-homosexuals
37. Sean McDowell on Instagram: Have you ever been stumped by someone’s argument against Christianity or the Bible? Has anyone ever made fun of you because the Bible sounds like a fairy tale? Here’s some ways to respond to that question. I think the evidence is compelling enough that it is certainly reasonable to reach this conclusion.: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cq8mISSttgb/
38. How to spot a deceived person – short snippet by John MacArthur: https://www.facebook.com/reel/591115562891575?sfnsn=mo&s=F5x8gs&fs=e&mibextid=6AJuK9
39. 7 Important Social Benefits Kids Develop From Homeschooling: https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/17/7-important-social-benefits-kids-develop-from-homeschooling/
40. The Art of One-Anothering: How the Church Loves Like Christ | Desiring God: https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-art-of-one-anothering

One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.” But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ” So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?” The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there. Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.” The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews persecuted him. John 5:5-16

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (4-6-2023)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2600) from Nuggets:

Willing to appear openly to those who seek him with all their heart, and to be hidden from those who flee from him with all their heart, God so regulates the knowledge of himself that he has given indications of himself, which are visible to those who seek him and not to those who do not seek him. There is enough light for those to see who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition. – Blaise Pascal

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. If Jesus’ Resurrection Were A Hoax (The Babylon Bee – 5 minute video, great and hilarious!!!) – In an alternate universe, Peter, James, John, and the rest of the disciples get together to pull off the greatest hoax of all time. But does the plan have a flaw?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23UNLLbOS3w
2. 3 More Logical Fallacies to Avoid (and How to Tell When Someone Else is Committing Them) Apologetics for the Church: https://apolotheo.wordpress.com/2018/09/24/3-more-logical-fallacies-to-avoid/
3. Internal Telomere-like Sequences Are Abundant and Functional | The Institute for Creation Research: https://www.icr.org/article/internal-telomere-like-sequences-are
4. 4 Reasons Why Christianity is True – Discover the Compelling Evidence – The reason why Christianity is true is because the answer to these 4 questions is, Yes.: https://notashamedofthegospel.com/apologetics/4-reasons-christianity-true/
5. Letters to a Mormon Elder (full book online), by Dr. James R. White. Nearly everyone likes to read someone else’s mail. James White allows us to look over his shoulder as he writes a series of friendly and penetrating letters addressed to a Mormon elder who might be any one of the many he has met. He draws upon hundreds of hours of discussions with Mormon missionaries and dedicated members of the Mormon Church encountered through his work with Alpha and Omega Ministries. We urge you to peek over James’ shoulder and follow the vital truths he presents.: http://www.novus2.com/alphamin/LETTERS/MAINPAGE.htm
6. Is God an Exalted Man? When I was meeting with Mormon missionaries, it was their view of God that was particularly grieving to me. I wanted them to know the God who is, was, and always would be God, who is not of the same species we are, who isn’t limited by a physical body, and who was always perfect, never sinned, and isn’t getting better (because such a thing wouldn’t be possible). But in this video by Aaron Shafovaloff, some Mormons explain why the very same LDS ideas about God that horrify me are actually encouraging to them. How can this be? The answer goes to the heart of the difference between the Mormon and Christian gospels.: https://www.str.org/w/is-god-an-exalted-man-#.W7Nmu2hKiUn
7. EPIC Debate on Sola Scriptura w/ Patrick Madrid & James White – YouTube: https://youtu.be/LlLlzDBHhhA
8. The False Doctrines of Bill Johnson Revisited Reasoned Cases For Christ: https://bcooper.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/the-false-doctrines-of-bill-johnson-revisited/
9. Which day is the Sabbath REALLY… Saturday or Sunday? – YouTube – Q&A with Frank Turek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaXQEKYOncM
10. Bringing Laughter to Everyday Life – Tim Hawkins – YouTube – this was VERY funny!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kng_FHPoTCo
11. Kirk Cameron: Hollywood Icon and a Child of God | Kirk Cameron on TBN – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k24uM-oJ3AA
12. How Can I Better Study a Bible Passage? Explanation of “Arcing” | Desiring God: https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/how-can-i-better-study-a-bible-passage
13. From the Movie God’s Not Dead… You got to see this explanation of the problem of Evil…: https://www.facebook.com/JJLEWIS01/videos/778899332122963/
14. Spirituality vs. Christianity – Creation Today – Are Religion, Christianity, and Spirituality all basically the same? If not, what’s the difference? Is there a pure form of Spirituality that can bring together all the religions of the world despite their differences? Or does the claim by Jesus Christ, I Am the Way make all other ways, including Spirituality, insufficient? Join Eric Hovind and a prior-devoted Hindu mystic and New Age philosopher, Atticus Carr for a thought-provoking discussion about the truth behind Spirituality and Christianity.: https://creationtoday.org/on-demand-classes/spirituality-vs-christianity/
15. What Does Gospel Really Mean? | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/what-does-gospel-really-mean/
16. How to Receive Critical Feedback: https://www.str.org/w/how-to-receive-critical-feedback
17. Was religion invented to control people? | carm.org: https://carm.org/questions/was-religion-invented-to-control-people/
18. On the Origin of the Cosmos – An Interview with Dr. Michael Strauss – YouTube: https://youtu.be/I-5uyGaLYJM
19. Politics is becoming our new religion. God help us.: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/12/22/politics-becoming-our-new-religion-god-help-us-column/3926804001/
20. Should Christians Use the Argument from Martyrdom? A Reply to Bart Ehrman: https://crossexamined.org/should-christians-use-the-argument-from-martyrdom-a-reply-to-bart-ehrman/
21. Are Christian High School Students Really Ready for College?: https://crossexamined.org/are-christian-high-school-seniors-really-ready-for-college/
22. What does it mean to be transformed by the renewing of the mind? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/renewing-the-mind.html
23. Did Jesus appeal to evidence when reaching out to skeptics? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2018/09/23/did-jesus-appeal-to-evidence-when-reaching-out-to-skeptics-2/
24. How Should The Church Engage Those With Same-Sex Attraction Or Gender Dysphoria? | Cross Examined Official Podcast: https://crossexamined.org/how-should-the-church-engage-those-with-same-sex-attraction-or-gender-dysphoria/
25. How are we to live our lives in light of Christs return? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/live-lives-Christ-return.html
26. Atheism Doubles Among Generation Z – Barna Group: https://www.barna.com/research/atheism-doubles-among-generation-z/
27. That’s a Fact – The Fossil Record on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/290548930
28. From Reliable to Divine: Fulfilled Prophecy in the Old Testament | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/from-reliable-to-divine-fulfilled-prophecy-in-the-old-testament/
29. Should Christians Get Involved With Politics Or Stay Out Of It? Straight Talk with Claudia K: https://straighttalkwithclaudiak.com/2018/10/23/should-christians-be-involved-with-politics-or-mind-our-own-business/
30. If a person’s best efforts to believe the Bible fail, do they still deserve to burn in hell?: http://www.provethebible.net/T2-Objec/G5-002.htm
31. Apologetics: An Alternative for the Next Generation – The Stream: https://stream.org/apologetics-alternative-next-generation/
32. Christians Face 2 Years in Prison for Evangelism in 8th India State to Pass ‘Anti-Conversion’ Law | World News: https://www.christianpost.com/news/8th-state-india-anti-conversion-law-christians-face-2-years-prison-for-evangelism-223463/
33. Let’s Stop Pretending Sex Is Merely A Private Act | Sean McDowell: https://seanmcdowell.org/blog/lets-stop-pretending-sex-is-merely-a-private-act
34. Why is Christianity true over and above all other religions? 1 Peter 4:12-16: https://wp.me/p4WCk1-kV
35. 4 Historical Facts that Prove Jesus Really Did Rise from the Dead – YouTube: https://youtu.be/RmKg62GDqF4
36. How Christian Case Making Impacts the Convinced, the Opposed, and the Undecided: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/how-christian-case-making-impacts-the-convinced-the-opposed-and-the-undecided/
37. Christian Nationalism and Christian Hope – Breakpoint: https://breakpoint.org/christian-nationalism-and-christian-hope/
38. Jesus Christ: Our Prophet, Priest, and King: https://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/jesus-christ-our-prophet-priest-and-king
39. Don’t All Religions Basically Say the Same Thing? – YouTube: https://youtu.be/bO_tmWPNf3w
40. I went on a date with a Christian woman who couldn’t defend the pro-life view | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2021/09/30/i-went-on-a-date-with-a-christian-woman-who-couldnt-defend-the-pro-life-view/
41. WLC Reacts! to Ricky Gervais on Why He Trusts Science – YouTube: https://youtu.be/R-j9FF3IbUQ
42. John Lennox Busts a Myth About Religion, Faith and Science Solas: https://www.solas-cpc.org/john-lennox-busts-a-myth-about-religion-faith-and-science/
43. Horrifying New Sex Ed Standards Mean You Need to Get Your Kids Out of Public School Now: https://www.westernjournal.com/horrifying-new-sex-ed-standards-mean-need-get-kids-public-school-now/
44. 3 Startling Truths about the Early Church from the Pre-New Testament Texts: https://crossexamined.org/3-startling-truths-early-church-pre-new-testament-texts/
45. Take Every Thought Captive – What 1 Corinthians 10:5 Means & How to Do It: https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/prayer/take-your-thoughts-captive-509888.html
46. Largest Canyons Were Formed by the Receding Flood | The Institute for Creation Research: https://www.icr.org/article/largest-canyons-were-formed-by-the-receding-flood/
47. Renewing Your Mind | Law of Causality | Mar 12, 2022: https://renewingyourmind.org/2022/03/12/law-of-causality

If you falter in times of trouble, how small is your strength! Proverbs 24:10

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (3-30-2023)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2600) from Nuggets:

I converted from atheism to theism (specifically Christianity) because God sent two apologists and an evangelist into my life. Each one of the three men had different gifts and talents and used different apologetic methods, but they all had one important thing in common: they were responding to the Lord’s command to make disciples. – Mark McGee

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. Kennedy Classics: The Spiritual Pulse of America – Dr. D. James Kennedy – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7ZxnjoHOXk
2. Christian Historian Bill Federer (Part 1) Faith of Founding Fathers – 8-18-14 – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1hOyDdM7yU
3. Does The Punishment Fit The Crime When It Comes To Hell? – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-zvdKF1kFU
4. When Making a Case for Christianity is Futile | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/when-making-a-case-for-christianity-is-futile/
5. Why Would Richard Dawkins Say That Aliens Created Life? – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDvaPzg32W8
6. Good Works Don’t Save. – YouTube – Ray Comfort shares with Jamie the claims of Jesus Christ. She turns out to be very open to the things of God.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7G2-FW-1C0
7. Dr. D. James Kennedy Sermons: Jesus Christ Myth or Messiah – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_z-taVoIlw
8. Case-Making 101: Christianity and Islam? Reasoned Cases For Christ: https://bcooper.wordpress.com/2017/09/02/case-making-101-christianity-and-islam/
9. Can Christians claim to have the One, True God?: https://crossexamined.org/can-christians-claim-to-have-the-one-true-god-2/
10. 7th Grader Argues The Case for Christianity – Blows the Doors Off Jesus Skeptics: https://faithit.com/7th-grader-makes-case-christianity/
11. Racism Is Incompatible With Christianity | Reasons for Jesus: https://reasonsforjesus.com/racism-is-incompatible-with-christianity/
12. The Debate on Apologetic Methodology Part 1 – Reasonable Faith – Dr. Craig listens to excerpts from a debate between a Classical and a Presuppositional apologist.: https://subsplash.com/reasonablefaith/media/mi/+fsrszlo
13. Why did the people in Genesis live such long lives? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/Genesis-long-lives.html
14. The Quran, the Bible, and the Islamic Dilemma (David Wood) – YouTube – The Quran affirms the inspiration, preservation, and authority of the Christian scriptures (including the Torah and the Gospel). Yet the Quran contradicts the Christian scriptures on fundamental doctrines (e.g., Jesus’ death, resurrection, and deity). By affirming scriptures that contradict Islam, the Quran self-destructs. In this short video, David Wood (Acts 17 Apologetics) explains “The Islamic Dilemma.”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNAS0aaViM4
15. [J Warner Wallace] Getting to the Original Message through Multiple Copies with Errors – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNfp6M8kMDc
16. You MUST understand this…or else. Trinity with Lutheran Satire – St. Patrick’s Bad Analogies for the Trinity – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dADpSJan3Qc
17. The Dating of the New Testament – bethinking.org – When the New Testament was written is a significant issue, as one assembles the overall argument for Christianity. Confidence in the historical accuracy of these documents depends partly on whether they were written by eyewitnesses and contemporaries to the events described, as the Bible claims. Negative critical scholars strengthen their own views as they separate the actual events from the writings by as much time as possible.: https://www.bethinking.org/bible/the-dating-of-the-new-testament
18. Gospel Dates and Reliability – If we saw the text of a novel set in New York, and it straightforwardly mentioned the Twin Towers dominating the skyline, with no hint of their destruction by terrorists, it would be good evidence that it was written before 11 September 2001.: https://creation.com/gospel-dates-and-reliability
19. Why Parents Need to Become Good Christian Case Makers – YouTube – J. Warner Wallace speaks to Green Bay Community Church about the challenges facing young Christians when they enter college and how parents can help their students meet these challenges. Now is he time for parents to step up and prepare themselves so they can help their kids.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qxFlTY-2Pc
20. Racism countered by biblical creation: https://creation.com/racism-vs-biblical-creation
21. What do scientific studies show about the long-term effects of gender-affirming care? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/03/24/what-do-scientific-studies-show-about-the-long-term-effects-of-gender-affirming-care/
22. Why Are the Books of the Bible in the Order They’re In? | Crossway Articles: https://www.crossway.org/articles/why-are-the-books-of-the-bible-in-the-order-theyre-in/
23. High school football coach fired for praying with players rehired, awarded nearly $2 million – LifeSite: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/high-school-football-coach-fired-for-praying-with-players-rehired-awarded-nearly-2-million/
24. What a Biblical Worldview Looks Like: https://probe.org/what-a-biblical-worldview-looks-like/
25. Why Everyone Should Believe that the Gospels are Reliable – Capturing Christianity: https://capturingchristianity.com/why-everyone-should-believe-that-the-gospels-are-reliable/
26. What got me started on apologetics? William Lane Craig debate transcripts | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/03/26/what-got-me-started-on-apologetics-william-lane-craig-debate-transcripts-5/
27. Paper: Neo-Darwinism Must Mutate to Survive | Evolution News: https://evolutionnews.org/2023/03/peer-reviewed-paper-neo-darwinism-must-mutate-to-survive/
28. Answering Difficult Questions Non-Believers Ask – YouTube – message by Greg Laurie: https://youtu.be/GCwuOJt5gnM
29. Predestination: Do we have a choice? | Ep 132 – YouTube – Allie Beth Stuckey – look at the comments thread, great discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTU0yP3EH24
30. Evangelical Christian college fires professor for taking Biblical position on homosexuality | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/03/27/evangelical-christian-college-fires-professor-for-talking-biblical-position-on-homosexuality/
31. Scott Klusendorf discusses right to life, assisted reproduction, and end of life | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/03/29/scott-klusendorf-discusses-right-to-life-assisted-reproduction-and-end-of-life/
32. Explain the Gospel with simple preparation: https://www.evangelismcoach.org/you-want-me-to-explain-the-gospel/
33. What is the cost of discipleship? | Outline Notes on the Cost of Discipleship: https://carm.org/christianity/what-is-the-cost-of-discipleship/
34. How Apologetics Builds a Tougher Faith | A Well-Designed Faith: http://welldesignedfaith.net/2017/12/05/how-apologetics-builds-a-tougher-faith/
35. Movies – Award-winning. Inspiring. Convicting. Free. | Living Waters: https://livingwaters.com/movies/
36. Why Claiming Belief is a Psychological Crutch Backfires: https://apologetics-notes.comereason.org/2015/09/why-claiming-belief-is-psychological.html
37. A Beginners Guide to the Argument from Rationality: https://www.solas-cpc.org/a-beginners-guide-to-the-argument-from-rationality/
38. Mormonism Disproved – Book of Abraham: http://www.mormonismdisproved.org/book_abraham.html
39. How Can Jesus Be the Only Way? – YouTube: https://youtu.be/RRyq6RwzlEM

Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always try to be kind to each other and to everyone else. 1 Thessalonians 5:15

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (3-23-2023)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2500) from Nuggets:

I read that Pope Francis has announced that a general absolution of sin can be obtained by confessing directly to God, instead of to a priest, during the COVID-19 crisis. My recommendation: stay with it after the crisis too! – Dr. Michael Brown

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. People Do Not Come to Faith by Arguments! 4 Objections to Apologetics Answered – Bellator Christi: https://bellatorchristi.com/2016/08/30/people-do-not-come-to-faith-from-arguments-4-objections-to-apologetics/
2. Are You a Wise Apologist (or Just a Wise Guy)? – Cross Examined: https://subspla.sh/z7c6fq5
3. Is the King James Version of the Bible the most accurate translation? – YouTube: https://youtu.be/FjfvtvmgT3s
4. What are the historical arguments for the post-mortem appearances of Jesus? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/03/18/what-are-the-historical-arguments-for-the-post-mortem-appearances-of-jesus-4/
5. Does a person have to attend church to be saved?: https://www.compellingtruth.org/church-saved.html
6. Is it wrong for a Christian to be depressed? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/Christian-depressed.html
7. Why You Can Trust the Old Testament (2 BIG Questions) | Sean McDowell: https://seanmcdowell.org/blog/why-you-can-trust-the-old-testament-2-big
8. RNA Virus Genome Decay Confirms Creation | The Institute for Creation Research: https://www.icr.org/article/rna-virus-genome-decay-confirms-creation/
9. A biblical and scientific approach to climate change: https://creation.com/climate-change
10. Can we trust our Bibles? | George’s Journal: https://georgesjournal.net/2012/03/29/can-we-trust-our-bibles/
11. William Lane Craig lectures on naturalism at the University of St. Andrews | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2021/01/30/william-lane-craig-lectures-on-naturalism-at-the-university-of-st-andrews-3/
12. Atheist-Turned-Youth Minister Starts High School Bible Clubs Across California – The Stream: https://stream.org/atheist-turned-youth-minister-starts-high-school-bible-clubs-across-california/
13. To Be Sure….God Loves Us: IS JESUS’ DEATH AS A PUNISHMENT FOR SINS CENTRAL TO CHRISTIANITY…OR COSMIC CHILD ABUSE?: http://2besure.blogspot.com/2019/05/someone-in-one-of-online-groups-i-am.html
14. Dark Energy, Dark Matter, and the Bible: https://www.blogos.org/scienceandtechnology/dark-energy-matter.php
15. Robert Gagnon debates gay activist Jayne Ozanne on Bible vs homosexuality | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2020/04/26/robert-gagnon-debates-gay-activist-jayne-ozanne-on-bible-vs-homosexuality-6/
16. Solid Answers on Soft Tissue | Answers in Genesis: https://answersingenesis.org/dinosaurs/when-did-dinosaurs-live/solid-answers-soft-tissue/
17. How Do We Know Who Wrote the Gospels in the New Testament?: https://www.timothypauljones.com/apologetics-how-do-we-know-who-wrote-the-gospels-2/
18. Believers Forced to Choose Between Faith or Survival: https://bitterwinter.org/believers-forced-to-choose-between-faith-or-survival/
19. Would You Trade Eternal Life For A Ferrari? The False Gospel of Prosperity Theology – AlbertMohler.com: https://albertmohler.com/2019/05/03/would-you-trade-eternal-life-for-a-ferrari-the-false-gospel-of-prosperity-theology
20. Nine Points about Biblical Slavery and Skeptics Condemnation of the Bible Christian Apologist: https://christian-apologist.com/2017/11/15/nine-points-about-biblical-slavery-and-skeptics-condemnation-of-the-bible/
21. Why the Information in Our DNA Points to the Existence of God | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/why-the-information-in-our-dna-points-to-the-existence-of-god
22. Which Came First?  The Chicken or the Egg? | Answers in Genesis: https://answersingenesis.org/days-of-creation/which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg/
23. Does Islam teach salvation by our works? | carm.org: https://carm.org/islam/does-islam-teach-salvation-by-works/
24. What to say to Mormons – 2. The Bible is Reliable – bethinking.org: https://www.bethinking.org/mormons/what-to-say-to-mormons/3-the-bible-is-reliable
25. Should Christians Get Involved With Politics Or Stay Out Of It? Straight Talk with Claudia K: https://straighttalkwithclaudiak.com/2018/10/23/should-christians-be-involved-with-politics-or-mind-our-own-business/
26. Is There Any Evidence for Jesus Outside the Bible? | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/is-there-any-evidence-for-jesus-outside-the-bible/
27. When Someone says the Bible can’t be Trusted. – New York Apologetics: http://www.newyorkapologetics.com/when-someone-says-the-bible-cant-be-trusted/
28. Are Christians the New Extremists? Yes, and That’s Okay.: https://natashacrain.com/are-christians-the-new-extremists-yes-and-thats-okay/
29. Ten Reasons We Fail to Share Our Faith (Free Bible Insert) | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/ten-reasons-we-fail-to-share-our-faith-free-bible-insert/
30. How to Have a Conversation: When Under Pressure – YouTube: https://youtu.be/NhyMclem04A

The violence of the wicked will drag them away, for they refuse to do what is right. Proverbs 21:7

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (3-16-2023)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2500) from Nuggets:

Why does hell have to last forever? Biblical teaching does not allow for the two responses of annihilationism and universalism, which both run into conceptual difficulties. So if hell is forever (as Jesus taught), then why? How can someone sinning in a finite lifetime earn an eternity in hell? The punishment doesn’t seem to fit the crime. Two reasonable explanations have been offered. First, people continue to sin in hell. Their rebellion has not ceased; they still don’t want God and thus incur further punishment. Or second, their rebellion against an infinite God warrants an eternal debt to be paid. – Is God Just a Human Invention and 17 Other Questions Raised by the New Atheists

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. American Church History in 5 Movements | Ligonier Ministries: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts/5-minutes-in-church-history-with-stephen-nichols/american-church-history-in-5-movements
2. What Should I Say to Someone Who Claims to Be a Christian but Doesn’t Live Like It? – Stand to Reason: https://subsplash.com/standtoreason/media/mi/+twycvs4
3. Study Finds 61% Of Christians Believe New Age Ideas | Reasons for Jesus: https://reasonsforjesus.com/study-finds-61-of-christians-believe-new-age-ideas/
4. Grounds for Belief in Biblical Inspiration | Reasonable Faith: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/question-answer/grounds-for-belief-in-biblical-inspiration
5. Reasoned Musings: Animal Rights, Veganism & Abortion (Considering Abortion From The Perspective Of Veganism And Animal Rights): http://rajkumarrichard.blogspot.com/2019/02/animal-rights-veganism-abortion.html
6. The Dangers of “Jesus Calling” with Doreen Virtue – YouTube – On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Doreen consider Sarah Young’s Jesus calling, how it contradicts the Bible, and the dangerous teaching in it, along with discussing the dangers of self-love and self-help books, the difference between false judgment and judging rightly according to Scripture, and why Christians need to be on guard against false teaching, What you’ll hear in this episode How Jesus Calling contradicts the Bible. The dangers of automatic writing. Why we as Christians need to be on guard against false teaching. The difference between false judgment and judging rightly according to Scripture. The danger of lawless living. The nature and purpose of putting our sin to death. The work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Christian. The danger of self-love and self-help.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Whije9sbjg
7. Biblical worldview ‘much closer to extinction’ after Covid-19 lockdowns – survey: https://www.christiantoday.com/article/biblical.worldview.much.closer.to.extinction.after.covid.19.lockdowns.survey/139919.htm
8. Chinese worshipers must register online for prayer meetings – UCA News: https://www.ucanews.com/news/chinese-worshipers-must-register-online-for-prayer-meetings/100588
9. 4 Things to Tell Parents of LGBTQ Kids – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzF2Xju-s4Y
10. John MacArthur on the Asbury Revival! | Shepherd’s Conference 2023 – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA95hM0mlo0
11. Stephen C. Meyer lectures on intelligent design and the origin of life | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2022/04/23/stephen-c-meyer-lectures-on-intelligent-design-and-the-origin-of-life-11/
12. Book Review: Human Freedom, Divine Knowledge, and Mere Molinism by Timothy Stratton Apologetics315: https://apologetics315.com/2021/04/book-review-human-freedom-divine-knowledge-and-mere-molinism-by-timothy-stratton/
13. Why Christians Must Continue to Guard the Truth of the Gospel | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/why-christians-must-continue-to-guard-the-truth-of-the-gospel/
14. What Is the Role of Apologetics In Evangelism? – YouTube: https://youtu.be/7umMcyW1R2I
15. Am I unloving for not affirming same sex behavior? – YouTube: https://youtu.be/438wl_11aJ0
16. Is Your Modern Translation Corrupt? – Christian Research Institute: https://www.equip.org/articles/is-your-modern-translation-corrupt/
17. The Challenge of Complex Adaptation for Evolution – YouTube: https://youtu.be/6_OTy4fYSwY
18. Is getting drunk a sin? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/is-getting-drunk-a-sin.html
19. Dennis Prager on Evolution: Stephen Meyer Turned Me Around | Evolution News: https://evolutionnews.org/2018/10/dennis-prager-on-evolution-stephen-meyer-turned-me-around/
20. Reasonable Answers for Honest Skeptics: I Don’t Believe in the Bible – YouTube: https://youtu.be/JEjO_rmZN00
21. A Proof of God from Reason: http://mannsword.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-proof-of-god-from-reason.html?m=1
22. Why Jesus? Part 1 – Greg Koukl focuses on Gods Rescuer – who He was and what He came to do – and answer the question, Why Jesus?: https://www.str.org/w/why-jesus-part-1
23. Has the Bible been corrupted, altered, edited, revised, or tampered with? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-corrupted.html
24. Witnessing to Hindus – what is the key? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/witnessing-Hindus.html
25. Michael Egnor: The Evidence against Materialism – Science Uprising Expert Interviews – YouTube: https://youtu.be/BqHrpBPdtSI
26. Transubstantiation: What Catholicism Teaches About the Supper | Desiring God: https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/transubstantiation
27. Isn’t the Christian View of Sexuality Dangerous and Harmful?: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/isnt-the-christian-view-of-sexuality-dangerous-and-harmful/
28. The Top 3 Apologetics Books Christian Philosophers Say You Should Read – Capturing Christianity: https://capturingchristianity.com/top-3-apologetics-books-christian-philosophers-say-read/
29. Apologetics Leads to a Resilient Faith | A Well-Designed Faith: http://welldesignedfaith.net/2019/05/21/apologetics-leads-to-a-resilient-faith/
30. Taking Jesus to Work – Christian Research Institute. – challenges to effective evangelism reflect the realities of the world in which we live – a world that is descending rapidly into a post-Christian morass. The earliest evangelists interacted with people who believed in the supernatural, who were all conscious of divine judgment, and who believed that the world had once been better than it now is. In 1946, C. S. Lewis observed that those whom we aim to evangelize share none of these predispositions.3 Today the situation is more pronounced. Many believe that only progress can make a better world and that the problems we have now can be rightfully attributed to religion in general, or Christianity in particular. That is the bad news. The good news is that the gospel reflects ultimate reality and promises a different ending.: https://www.equip.org/articles/taking-jesus-work/
31. California county used cell phone tracking, stakeouts to monitor churchgoers during COVID lockdown: report: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/california-county-used-cell-phone-tracking-stakeouts-to-monitor-churchgoers-during-covid-lockdown-report/
32. Court rules against NY worker fired for refusing LGBTQ training: https://nypost.com/2023/03/15/court-rules-against-worker-who-was-fired-for-refusing-lgbtq-training/
33. (Video) Why I (Jillian) Quit Kundalini Yoga and Gave My Life to Jesus PatriotandLiberty: https://patriotandliberty.com/video-why-i-jillian-quit-kundalini-yoga-and-gave-my-life-to-jesus/

Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes. Psalms 37:7

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (3-9-2023)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2500) from Nuggets:

Give me a holy avarice to redeem the time, to awake at every call to charity and piety, so that I may feed the hungry, clothe the naked, instruct the ignorant, reclaim the vicious, forgive the offender, diffuse the gospel, show neighbourly love to all. – Valley of Vision

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. A skeptic writes in about Just your version of Christianity? Shaun Doyle responds – Of course, your whole assertion is that we can’t know who’s using the Bible well and who’s using it badly because disagreement exists on what it says. But that doesn’t make any sense. It assumes, at a minimum, that we should reject a knowledge claim if experts don’t all agree on it. But experts in the epistemology of disagreement themselves disagree about whether we should reject a knowledge claim if experts disagree on it. So, the claim on which your argument rests (i.e. we should reject a knowledge claim if experts disagree) doesn’t satisfy its own criterion of acceptability, and thus refutes itself. So, its necessarily false that we need agreement among experts to believe a knowledge claim – including a knowledge claim about what the Bible means.: https://creation.com/versions-of-christianity
2. 13 Important Questions for the Christian Science Worldview | Cold Case Christianity – Every worldview has to be both internally and externally consistent. The challenge for Christian Science appears to exist at both levels. There are a number of philosophical questions (and Biblical Questions for that matter) exposing the internal contradictions of the worldview. In addition, it would be difficult (if not impossible) to measure whether or not Christian Science is externally consistent if we can’t trust our observations in the material world in the first place. For these reasons, the Church of Christ, Scientist (Christian Science) worldview does not pass the test of internal and external examination.: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/13-important-questions-for-the-christian-science-worldview/
3. School board member blasts contract with Arizona Christian University : https://nypost.com/2023/03/03/school-board-member-blasts-contract-with-christian-college/
4. Pastor is assaulted and arrested for opposing drag shows where children are present | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/03/03/pastor-is-assaulted-and-arrested-for-opposing-drag-shows-where-children-are-present/
5. Identical Twin Studies Prove Homosexuality is Not Genetic – OrthodoxNetwork Blog In Defense of Truth and Righteousness: https://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2013/06/identical-twin-studies-prove-homosexuality-is-not-genetic/
6. New study: there is no gay gene that causes homosexuality | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/03/04/new-study-there-is-no-gay-gene-that-causes-homosexuality-4/
7. Additional Judges Needed for the Camelback Classic – We have over 150 Community Judges signed up so far. Our goal is to have 400. This is in addition to the 103 parents who will be working to put on the tournament and also judging. If you have not yet signed up, there is still time and WE NEED YOU! Please consider signing up at Camelback Classic (homeschooldebate.net). If you know of another adult who would be interested, please feel free to pass on this invitation to others as well. It will be a blessing to both the students and I am certain to you as well. Please feel free to contact us with any questions at: mhsdaz@gmail.com: https://mailchi.mp/701e10b9c14c/additional-judges-needed?e=06f15ab4db
8. Marine Fossils on Mount Everest – YouTube – What do marine fossils on the top of Mount Everest tell us about the Biblical Flood? Well, we find fossils of marine creatures in limestone near the summit, which means that this area must have been under the sea in the past. Everyone agrees that the top of Everest was once under the sea. However, many people do not associate these rocks and fossils with Noah’s Flood because they think there is not enough water to cover the highest mountains. However, they are not considering how the Flood changed the earth’s topography. The mountain ranges formed at the end of the Flood. With vertical earth movements towards the end of the flood, the mountains rose and the water flowed off the continents into the newly formed oceans basins. Indeed, such mountains must have formed quickly and recently, otherwise they would have eroded as quickly as they formed. That’s why we have marine fossils at the tops of high mountains. To find out more from Creation Ministries International visit our website Creation.com.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dxotQINycE
9. Bible study: the importance of truth in religion | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/03/05/bible-study-the-importance-of-truth-in-religion-8/
10. Gnosis: The Main Expression of Paganized Christianity in the New Age: https://patriotandliberty.com/gnosis-the-main-expression-of-paganized-christianity-in-the-new-age/
11. What is Progressive Christianity? One of the benefits of studying church history is that you realize that Solomon was right: There is nothing new under the sun (Eccl 1:9). This proverb has certainly been proven true when it comes to different versions of Christianity that have popped up throughout the life of the church. In every generation it seems there’s a new group that comes along insisting that their new and improved Christianity beats all predecessors hands down. But, upon closer examination, it becomes clear that this new version isn’t new at all. It’s simply a microwaved version of some other alternate brand of Christianity that the church has faced (and rejected) before.: https://www.michaeljkruger.com/what-is-progressive-christianity/
12. Are You an Evangelist? | ChristianCourier.com – You may not be able to fulfill the role of a preacher, or teacher, or elder, or deacon. But in the general sense, you can be an evangelist. Here’s how: https://christiancourier.com/articles/are-you-an-evangelist
13. Quick Challenge Answer: You Shouldn’t Push Your Views On Me: https://tentmakingchristianity.com/you-shouldnt-push-your-views-on-me/
14. Genetic entropy: The silent killer. Simply put, genetic entropy means that the information content in the genome (all of our genes) is progressively declining, due to the accumulation of mutations, generation after generation. In short, if the world were even several hundred thousand years old, genetic entropy means that we would have long since become extinct: https://creation.com/genetic-entropy-vs-evolution
15. Why we all need to be trained in Christian Apologetics Take the test (7 common questions/objections) Truth, Faith and Reason: https://truthfaithandreason.com/defending-your-faith-101-why-we-all-need-to-be-trained-in-christian-apologetics-take-the-test/
16. Timeline of the Apostle Paul’s ministry: http://christianityinview.com/paulstimeline.html
17. Why Do Two People See the Same Evidence Differently? | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/why-do-two-people-see-the-same-evidence-differently/
18. 8 False Assumptions about Christianity | Cccdiscover: https://cccdiscover.com/8-false-assumptions-about-christianity/
19. Is the God of the Old Testament the Same God of the New Testament? – One Minute Apologist: https://oneminuteapologist.com/is-the-god-of-the-old-testament-the-same-god-of-the-new-testament/
20. Distant Starlight Unlikely Solutions Part 2: ASC – Questions for Dr. Lisle Rational Faith – Lisle’s ASC theory. I initially thought it provided the best solution to the distant starlight problem. But after much study on the matter I came to the conclusion that not only does Lisle’s theory fall to Occam’s razor, if a key required stipulation is not true concerning light, it doesn’t even qualify to explain a 6,000 year old creation. I was thus forced to conclude Danny Faulkner’s Dasha theory (essentially God did it somehow we don’t know how) is the best answer. But I wanted to return to Lisle’s ASC and look more closely at what I consider the failings of the theory that I thought when I started the previous series would be the preferred solution to the distant starlight problem.: https://rationalfaith.com/2021/03/distant-starlight-unlikely-solutions-part-2-asc-questions-for-dr-lisle/
21. Is Mormon Salvation Possible? | Cold Case Christianity – One of the most important questions any monotheistic system can answer is simply this: How is one saved; how can one have eternal life? Every monotheistic faith system provides some mechanism by which we can be united to God, be in His Presence, or attain the ultimate life in eternity. As Christians, we believe Salvation is eternal life. For us, there is no difference. We believe there is one level of heaven, one opportunity for salvation, and this is called eternal (or everlasting) life: John 3:15-16 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For Mormons, however, general Salvation comes to everyone on the planet, and is provided by the death of Jesus on the cross. It is simply the opportunity to be resurrected into one of the lower levels of heaven. But this is not the ambition of faithful Mormons; it is not what they hope for: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/is-mormon-salvation-possible/
22. Why Your Children DO Need Apologetics: Correcting Misconceptions – Mama Bear Apologetics – This weekend, a blog was released titled Why Your Children do NOT Need Apologetics. In it, apologetics was characterized as a fear-based recitation of doctrines which denies the realities of human experience. I suspect that it was written in response to the blog and podcast that Rebekah and I did the last week critiquing their Easter article. The article we critiqued was written by a children’s pastor, and it discouraged teaching children about the literal death and resurrection of Jesus, or the concept of original sin. (You can see our podcast response with extensive summary notes here.) We definitely didn’t mince words in the podcast, but neither did we throw any punches. Upon seeing this new blog, explicitly aimed at discouraging teaching apologetics to kids, I did what I think we should all do on a regular basis: I listened to their critique and tried to evaluate their message with a spirit of humility and self-reflection. I truly believe that we can learn from anyone. We all have blind spots. Are there things that we as an apologetics community could do better?: https://mamabearapologetics.com/children-do-need-apologetics/
23. Were The Gospels Written By The Disciples Originally In Greek? – YouTube – The questioner can’t name the scholars and just started looking at the topic in question but he’s absolutely sure that the evidence falsifies what Frank is saying…: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOvl0SYh6Tw
24. Am I a Christian Simply Because I Was Raised in a Christian Culture? | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/am-i-a-christian-simply-because-i-was-raised-in-a-christian-culture/
25. Is the definition of atheism a lack of belief in God? | WINTERY KNIGHT – First, let’s see check with the Stanford University Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Atheism means the negation of theism, the denial of the existence of God. Stanford University is one of the top 5 universities in the United States, so that’s a solid definition. To be an atheist is to be a person who makes the claim that, as a matter of FACT, there is no intelligent agent who created the universe. Atheists think that there is no God, and theists think that there is a God. Both claims are objective claims about the way the world is out there, and so both sides must furnish forth arguments and evidence as to how they are able to know what they are each claiming.: https://winteryknight.com/2021/05/12/is-the-definition-of-atheism-a-lack-of-belief-in-god-13/
26. Why are Christians allowed to eat shellfish but not allowed to have sex before marriage? | WINTERY KNIGHT – The challenge: An argument frequently advanced by those attempting to defend homosexual practice is that Christians cherry pick the commands in the Bible that is, they chose to emphasize some commands while ignoring others. The Old Testament may forbid homosexual acts (Leviticus 18:2; 20:13) but it also forbids eating seafood without fins and scales (Leviticus 11:9-12; Deuteronomy 14:9, 10). So how can Christians then justify upholding laws on sexual morality whilst at the same time ignoring the food laws from the very same books of the Bible? Why may they eat shellfish but not be allowed to have sex outside marriage? Isn’t this inconsistent and hypocritical? The solution is that God enters into covenants with his people, and the terms of those covenants change.: https://winteryknight.com/2018/07/06/why-are-christians-allowed-to-eat-shellfish-but-not-allowed-to-have-sex-before-marriage-4/
27. The Holiness of God – Wrath & Grace Kids (A. W. Pink) – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGK-Oq4qUQc
28. Four Ways to Come Alongside Your Kids to Strengthen Their Faith | Cold Case Christianity – Summit Worldview Conference is also an important resource for parents. As a member of the faculty there, I’ve seen what happens in this intensive two-week worldview training experience. It is nothing short of life changing. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Look for opportunities, prioritize your calendar, and encourage your kids to engage in a short-term, high intensity adventure. Come alongside your kids to help them have a pivotal moment.: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/four-ways-to-come-alongside-your-kids-to-strengthen-their-faith/
29. The Top Ten Questions to Ask Skeptical Friends – Cross Examined – How do you get a spiritual conversation started? Can you do it without appearing awkward? Should your goal be to bring someone to the foot of the cross in every conversation you have? Join Frank as he reveals the Top Ten questions that will help you have effective evangelism conversations with friends and even people you meet for the first time. As you’ll see, your goal should not be to bring everyone to the foot of the cross in every conversation. Just moving people closer to Christ incrementally should be your goal in most instances. This takes the pressure off of you by acknowledging that other people and the Holy Spirit have roles in the process too, which will mean you’ll be more apt to evangelize. Your job is to be faithful and to leave the results to God. Franks Ten Questions will help you be faithful and move people closer to Jesus. Don’t miss this very practical show!: https://subsplash.com/crossexamined/media/mi/+fmnc59y
30. Why does God require faith? Why doesn’t God “prove” Himself to us?: https://www.gotquestions.org/God-require-faith.html
31. 3 Times Jesus Responded to Doubt – With Evidence. A Few Takeaways on Doubts First, every believer will have doubts at some point. Doubts are not necessarily good in and of themselves, but they are to be expected. How we respond to them is the more important part, and can be a good opportunity to strengthen our convictions. If John and Thomas, who walked with the guy and saw his miracles live, had doubts, don’t be surprised when you do. You are not a weak Christian just because you have questions. Second, take your doubts before God. Don’t be passive and just let them sit and grow. Pray that he shows you what you need. This may come through witness of the holy spirit, reading his word in scripture, or maybe an article online with other insights. However, he may not answer every question, and simply ask that you be still and know that he is God. If that happens, I would recommend meditating on Peters words. Either way, I do not think that if we truly ask God to help us with our unbelief he will say no.: https://tentmakingchristianity.com/3-times-jesus-responded-to-doubt/
32. How the Ontological Argument Proves the Existence of God: https://crossexamined.org/how-the-ontological-argument-proves-the-existence-of-god/
33. What’s the Best Way to Talk to Mormon Missionaries about Their View of Baptism? – Stand to Reason: https://subspla.sh/zrdm8zb
34. Extraordinary Claims and Extraordinary Evidence | Evolution News: https://evolutionnews.org/2023/03/yes-extraordinary-claims-require-extraordinary-evidence-lets-hear-some-for-darwinian-evolution/

The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth he has given to man. Psalms 115:16

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (3-2-2023)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2500) from Nuggets:

Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony. – John Stott

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. Where wolves wander – Regular readers of creation materials will know that domestic dogs, coyotes, jackals, and many others are part of the same created kind. The ancestors of this kind are a pair of wolf-like animals that came off Noah’s ark.: https://creation.com/wandering-wolves
2. Beijing Shouwang Church: The House Church That Refuses to Die: https://bitterwinter.org/beijing-shouwang-house-church-refuses-to-die/
3. 7 PROBLEMS WITH THE HE GETS US CAMPAIGN | The Battle Cry: https://thebattlecry49.com/2022/12/19/7-problems-with-the-he-gets-us-campaign/
4. 3 Overlooked Ways to Do Pre-Evangelism: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/3-overlooked-ways-pre-evangelism/
5. How Do We Know That the Apostles Really Died As Martyrs? | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/how-do-we-know-that-the-apostles-really-died-as-martyrs/
6. What is the Difference Between Evangelism and Apologetics? – Stephen J Bedard: http://www.stephenjbedard.com/2017/02/28/difference-evangelism-apologetics/
7. Adam: Five things you may not know about him. Adam is one of the best-known people in the Bible. Despite this, most people only know a few basic facts about him. His connection to every person on the planet, and therefore our need for the Gospel, is outlined below, as are five things about Adam you may not have known before. 1. Adam is grounded in Hebrew, 2. Dust of the ground, 3. Men and women: same number of ribs, 4. Y-chromosome Adam, 5. A man of firsts: https://creation.com/five-things-about-adam
8. Scientific Proof Creation Moments – if the latter (Creationists) say something like, But evolution is only a theory. They will wax lyrical on how a scientific theory is something designed to fit all the available facts and evidences. Yet evolutionary theory fails to do that. It is indeed true that a theory cannot be proved. It can, of course, be disproved, and large amounts of evidence can be accumulated to support a theory. But the theory fails if just one piece of evidence is found which contradicts the theory.: https://creationmoments.com/sermons/scientific-proof-2/
9. Peter J. Williams debates Bart Ehrman on his book Misquoting Jesus | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/02/26/peter-j-williams-debates-bart-ehrman-on-his-book-misquoting-jesus-4/
10. The lies of Lynchburg – How U.S. evolutionists taught the Nazis. Beginning in the 1920s, many thousands of people in the United States were sterilized against their will and without their consent, to prevent undesirable breeding. Over 8,000 of these procedures took place at a major centre to which such undesirables were sent, in Lynchburg, Virginia.: https://creation.com/the-lies-of-lynchburg
11. PDF Transcript of a conversation with Dr. John Dickson about his book Bullies and Saints (church history): https://crossexamined.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/BulliesAndSaints-IDHEFTBAAPodcast11.18.21.pdf
12. I Came to Faith Through Apologetics | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/i-came-to-faith-through-apologetics/
13. The Difference Between Believing the Gospels and Trusting the Gospel | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/the-difference-between-believing-the-gospels-and-trusting-the-gospel/
14. The Use and Abuse of Christian Apologetics – Lifeway Research: https://research.lifeway.com/2019/11/06/the-use-and-abuse-of-christian-apologetics/
15. Why A Classical Historian Changed His Mind About Christianity | Blog | Think Theology: https://thinktheology.co.uk/blog/article/why_a_classical_historian_changed_his_mind_about_christianity
16. Origins | CornerStone Television Network – Discover how Science confirms the Genesis account of Creation! : https://ctvn.org/shows/origins/
17. TOP Atheists BEST Arguments Against God. How Bad Are They? – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c159bJUL0t0
18. How Developing A Forensic Faith Increases Your Christian Confidence – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0-Z_EecKGU
19. Evolutions Failed Predictions and Unfalsifiability | Penses – The history of modern biological studies is filled with surprising and unexpected findings that were not at all predicted by evolutionary theory, in fact, in some cases, quite the opposite was predicted. And yet, unlike other theories that face counter-intuitive evidence, this theory continues to remain fundamentally unquestioned as a matter of scientific orthodoxy.: https://pspruett.wordpress.com/2022/07/05/evolutions-failed-predictions-and-unfalsifiability/
20. Erwin Lutzer lays out 5 false gospels within evangelical churches | Church & Ministries News: https://www.christianpost.com/news/erwin-lutzer-lays-out-5-false-gospels-within-evangelical-churches.html
21. When Someone says the Bible can’t be Trusted. – New York Apologetics: http://www.newyorkapologetics.com/when-someone-says-the-bible-cant-be-trusted/
22. Stop Using the Term Fetus | Cold Case Christianity – I have been trying to eliminate the term, fetus from my vocabulary for many of the same reasons that Hazzard suggested we eliminate the three aforementioned terms. I think the word fetus is a dehumanizing expression that allows people to objectify the unborn.: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/stop-using-the-term-fetus/
23. Is Jesus God? – Good News – This is the third Google high frequency search question we are considering. While the evangelists and apostles are clear that Jesus is God (several citations will be given at the end of the article), it is best to consider the question through the means that Jesus himself used to introduce his divinity to his disciples: he displayed his sovereignty over the Sea of Galilee. We will attempt to display Jesus divinity through the same sequence we see him using in the Gospels.: https://www.goodnewsfl.org/is-jesus-god/
24. This Theologian Has An Answer To Claims That Evil Disproves God: https://thefederalist.com/2018/01/03/theologian-answer-new-atheists-claims-existence-evil-disproves-gods/
25. The Origin of the Sexes (OB3) | Answers in Genesis – How is it then possible that such different and complex organs, which fit one another in every morphological and physiological detail, could have evolved suddenly?: https://answersingenesis.org/human-evolution/origins/23-the-origin-of-the-sexes-ob3/
26. Christian Leaders, Please Speak the Truth About Homosexuality Plainly and With Love – The Stream: https://stream.org/christian-leaders-please-speak-truth-homosexuality-plainly-love/
27. 5 Reasons Why It’s Unreasonable to Ask Who Created God: https://www.cltruth.com/2017/who-created-god-reasons-why-its-unreasonable/
28. Plant Diversity and Computer Programming | Evolution News: https://evolutionnews.org/2021/01/plant-diversity-and-computer-programming/
29. 7 Essential Questions to Ask When You Study the Bible | Josh Daffern: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/newwineskins/7-essential-questions-to-ask-when-you-study-the-bible/
30. What is Bethel Church, Redding CA? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/Bethel-Church-Redding.html
31. 2084 with Dr. John Lennox – Cross Examined – “Summoning a Demon” is how Tesla CEO Elon Musk referred to Artificial Intelligence. Is he right? Artificial Intelligence is here, and more is coming. Will it bring us utopia or dystopia? Should we be enthralled or afraid? What are the ethics of AI? Will AI machines ever become conscious? What does the Bible have to say about AI? Could AI actually be predicted by the book of Revelation?: https://subsplash.com/crossexamined/media/mi/+pp966r3
32. The Best Question to Ask When Starting a Conversation About God | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/the-best-question-to-ask-when-starting-a-conversation-about-god/
33. Did John Really Write John? – The Gospel according to John has received more scrutiny than the other Gospels put together. Case in point, dating back to the 1920s, critical scholars have argued that the apostle John could not have written the Gospel. Rather, they’ve suggested a whole slew of other possibilities (anonymous, John the Elder, Lazarus, John Mark, the rich young ruler, etc.) But is there any evidence to back up their contentions? Should we reject the traditional position which the church has subscribed to for almost two thousand years?: https://crossexamined.org/did-john-really-write-john/
34. What are the consequences of sin? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/consequences-of-sin.html
35. How radiometric dating works – Media Center – A layman’s explanation on how radiometric dating works, and where potential inaccuracies originate. Watch the full episode at: https://creation.com/cml7-15: https://creation.com/media-center/youtube/how-radiometric-dating-works
36. The Reliability of the Bible: 4 Quick Thoughts | ReasonableTheology.org: https://reasonabletheology.org/reliability-bible-4-quick-thoughts/
37. Jesus Is A Myth, Just Like President Kennedy | Cold Case Christianity – I was born in ‘61, so I was too young to recall the national tragedy that my mother remembered with such shock and dismay. She talked often of presidential assassination that occurred in ‘63, and it was clear that it impacted her deeply. You probably already know the president to whom I am referring: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/jesus-is-a-myth-just-like-president-kennedy/
38. The Most Important Thing to Tell Your Child When They Doubt Their Faith – The Benefit of the Doubt: https://www.travisdickinson.com/the-most-important-thing-to-tell-your-child-when-they-doubt-their-faith/
39. The Book of Revelation: How Difficult Was Its Journey into the Canon? – Canon Fodder: https://www.michaeljkruger.com/the-book-of-revelation-how-difficult-was-its-journey-into-the-canon/
40. Has the dark matter mystery been solved: https://creation.com/has-the-dark-matter-mystery-been-solved
41. What Is the General Theory of Evolution Unable to Explain? – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpuog3h_tb0
42. Free Apologetics E-Book Library – this is a great list of free resources!!: http://truthbomb.blogspot.com/2009/07/free-apologetics-e-book-library.html

Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin — because anyone who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Romans 6:3-11

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (2-23-2023)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2500) from Nuggets:

The poverty of the Apostles goes far to prove the divine origin of Christianity. These very men who toiled all night in a boat, dragging about a cold wet net, and taking nothing–these very men who found it necessary to work hard in order that they might eat–these very men were some of the first founders of the mighty Church of Christ, which has now overspread one-third of the globe. These were they who went forth from an obscure corner of the earth, and turned the world upside down. These were the unlearned and ignorant men, who boldly confronted the subtle systems of ancient philosophy, and silenced its advocates by the preaching of the cross. – J.C. Ryle

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. Apologetics in the gospel of John | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/02/15/apologetics-in-the-gospel-of-john-4/
2. Jordan Peterson Discovers the God Hypothesis | Evolution News: https://evolutionnews.org/2021/08/jordan-peterson-discovers-the-god-hypothesis/
3. Do the Damned Receive their Just Desert? | William Lane Craig – Reasonable Faith – there’s a world of difference between punishments being indefinitely postponed, and punishments being indefinitely prolonged. In the first case, the wicked are never punished, whereas in the second case they are punished forever.: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/question-answer/do-the-damned-receive-their-just-desert
4. More or less information? How do we define information in biology? One of the most powerful creationist arguments concerns information. Understanding this issue can enable us to deflect the common anti-creationist equivocation of calling any change evolution. Creationists do not deny that living things change, and even speciate, but nearly all the changes acclaimed as evolution do not actually involve the increase in information content required for microbes-to-man evolution, but rather go in the opposite direction. For an illustration of this see: How information is lost when creatures adapt to their environment.: https://creation.com/more-or-less-information-has-a-recent-experiment-proved-creation
5. WLC Reacts! to Ricky Gervais on Why He Trusts Science – YouTube: https://youtu.be/R-j9FF3IbUQ
6. Merchant Marine Academy covers Jesus painting after anti-Christian activist demands its removal – LifeSite: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/merchant-marine-academy-covers-jesus-painting-after-anti-christian-activist-demands-its-removal/
7. Sunday Morning Thoughts: There is a Revival in The Land! Kingsjester’s Blog: https://kingsjestersblog.com/2023/02/19/sunday-morning-thoughts-there-is-a-revival-in-the-land/
8. Do you need to believe young earth creation to be saved? – There are many important doctrines that new believers may not believe, or have even heard of. Consider the thief on the cross who may have known very few important doctrines, yet he was saved. As Christians grow spiritually they will gain a fuller picture of salvation and weed out ideas contrary to Scripture.: https://creation.com/media-center/youtube/do-you-need-to-believe-young-earth-creation-to-be-saved
9. Who is the one true God? | George’s Journal: https://georgesjournal.net/2023/02/20/who-is-the-one-true-god/
10. THE DAY OF JUDGMENT by Archibald Alexander: https://gracegems.org/26/day_of_judgment.htm
11. Moral Relativism is One of the Defining Characteristics of Gen Z – Impact 360 Institute: https://www.impact360institute.org/articles/moral-relativism-one-defining-characteristics-gen-z/
12. Johns Hopkins professor on child transgender trend: Many will regret this | The College Fix: https://www.thecollegefix.com/johns-hopkins-professor-on-child-transgender-trend-many-will-regret-this/
13. Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people? | GotQuestions.org. My favorite answer to this question was from Dr. R.C. Sproul, who said, “That only happened once, and He volunteered for it”: https://www.gotquestions.org/bad-things-good-people.html
14. Problem 6: Molecular Biology Has Failed to Yield a Grand Tree of Life | Evolution News: https://evolutionnews.org/2015/02/problem_6_molec/
15. Can Science Explain Everything? – YouTube – J. Warner Wallace is interviewed by Impact 360 and describes the limits of science in explaining the universe in which we live. Can physics and chemistry explain everything we see in the universe? If it can’t, are we reasonable in looking to God as an explanation?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXepVUttfdA
16. Why the New Definition of Tolerance Is Dangerous – Stand to Reason Blog: https://str.typepad.com/weblog/2016/03/why-the-new-definition-of-tolerance-is-dangerous.html
17. Arches National Park: Sculptures from the Flood | The Institute for Creation Research – Recent research makes up the second key observation. Scientists weighted the top of a block of sand that was wet enough to hold together but not cemented into stone.3 They raised the water level around the sand block. As sand fell away under different setups, pillars, alcoves, and arches formed fast. These experiments refute the park books statement that if these dissolution processes create a hole through the rock fin, an arch is formed.1 It happened in minutes when the sand was partly submerged, not over eons of rain. The researchers discovered that sand grains lock together when under pressure. They visited Landscape Arch after their experiments and noticed that the rubble completely disintegrated after it fell. Without pressure from overlying rock, the once-hard sandstone rapidly turned to sand. No cement, no rain, and no eons.: https://www.icr.org/article/arches-national-park-sculptures-from-the-flood/
18. Christian Apologetics: Who Needs It? | Reasonable Faith – Dr. Craig describes what Christian apologetics is and three ways the discipline serves a vital role in the body of Christin its ability to shape culture, its capacity to strengthen believers, and its necessity when evangelizing unbelievers.: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/popular-writings/apologetics/christian-apologetics-who-needs-it
19. Greg Koukl: The Intolerance of Tolerance – YouTube (55 minute lecture at the 10th Annual EPS Apologetics Conference): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG_R9e60Wp4
20. Are Jews Who Believe in Jesus Still Jews? – The Stream – If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times, from both Jews and Christians: If you believe in Jesus, you’re no longer Jewish. You were Jewish. You’re not Jewish anymore.: https://stream.org/jews-believe-jesus-still-jews/
21. Does The Bible Need Defending? Sometimes when someone witnesses to an unbeliever by appealing to arguments and evidence that point to the truth of Christianity, some believers will tell the Christian that The Bible does not need them to defend it. The Truth does not need to be defended. It is like a lion. All you need to do is let it out of its cage they will say. A Lion can defend itself. It is ferocious; it has sharp, powerful jaws and razor-sharp claws. Its roar strikes fear into its prey. Its roar carries authority. Why would you need to defend such an animal? You don’t. So these Christians will say that The Bible is the same way. This is supposed to be an argument that Christian Apologetics is a pointless exercise.: https://crossexamined.org/does-the-bible-need-defending/
22. Are Young People Really Leaving Christianity? | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/are-young-people-really-leaving-christianity/
23. Mann’s Word: DO THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES PREACH THE SAME SALVATION AS THE NT?: http://mannsword.blogspot.com/2018/02/do-hebrew-scriptures-preach-same.html
24. ONE SOLITARY LIFE -JESUS CHRIST He was born in an obscure village…: https://spreadjesus.org/1221-one-solitary-life-jesus-christ.html
25. The Culpability of Unbelief | Reasonable Faith – The real question you need to ask, Jon, is whether Jesus claim that his teaching is from God is credible and true. If we have good reason to think that Jesus was who he claimed to be, then we have good reason to accept his teaching that unbelief is culpable. Now there are two ways to go about finding an answer to that question…: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/question-answer/the-culpability-of-unbelief
26. Defending the Bible with Internal Evidence | by Aaron Shamp | Medium: https://medium.com/@aaronmshamp/defending-the-bible-with-internal-evidence-5f3453890298
27. Rapid Response: The Gospels Are Unreliable | Cold Case Christianity – In our Rapid Response series, we tackle common concerns about (and objections to) the Christian worldview by providing short, conversational responses. These posts are designed to model what our answers might look like in a one-on-one setting, while talking to a friend or family member. Imagine if someone made the following claim: Even if the events recorded in the Gospels came from eyewitness accounts, why should we trust what eyewitnesses tell us? Even modern-day witnesses are notoriously unreliable and are often wrong about what they claim to have seen. Why should we trust ancient eyewitness accounts? How would you respond to such an objection?: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/rapid-response-the-gospels-are-unreliable/
28. Hell and the Gospel – Hell is an offensive idea to a lot of people. Eternal punishment seems harsh to both believers and unbelievers. It could even be a stumbling block. Consequently, some pastors are revising what the Bible teaches and what the church has taught since Jesus.: https://www.str.org/w/hell-and-the-gospel
29. 10 Biblical Reasons God Allows Suffering | Sean McDowell: https://seanmcdowell.org/blog/10-biblical-reasons-god-allows-suffering
30. Quick Shot: Truth cannot be known with any certainty | Cold Case Christianity – Response #1: Are you sure? Are you confident about that statement related to truth? It sounds like you have certainty. But if truth cannot be known with any certainty, then you can’t have certainty that truth can’t be known with certainty. Do you see the problem? As it turns out, all of us are certain about something, even if it’s just that you can’t be certain. But that claim, in and of itself, is self-refuting.: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/quick-shot-truth-cannot-be-known-with-any-certainty/
31. Rapid Response: How Can You Believe in Christianity with So Little Evidence? | Cold Case Christianity – Imagine yourself being questioned by a friend or family member in the following way: Isn’t faith, by definition, believing something without evidence? Is it possible to become a Christian because of the evidence rather than in spite of the evidence?: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/how-to-respond-to-how-can-you-believe-in-christianity-with-so-little-evidence/
32. When Buddhism Goes Bad – Dan Lawton – though this article is definitely not Christian apologetics, it exposes critical truths about the mindfulness movement and the dangers of it.: https://danlawton.substack.com/p/when-buddhism-goes-bad
33. Asbury University ends 24/7 revival meeting after 50K flock to Kentucky town over 13 days | Fox News: https://www.foxnews.com/us/asbury-university-ends-24-7-revival-meeting-50k-flock-kentucky-town-13-days
34. Mormon church fined $5 million for scheme to hide $32 billion investment portfolio – CBS News: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mormon-church-fined-5-million-fine-sec/
35. Southern Baptists boot Saddleback Church for having a female pastor: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/southern-baptists-boot-saddleback-church-woman-pastor-rcna71714
36. Now they’ve done it: Conservative Anglicans want a divorce from Canterbury HotAir – Ten days ago, at their bishops General Synod, the Church of England voted to bless same-sex unions.: https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/02/21/now-theyve-done-it-conservative-anglicans-want-a-divorce-from-canterbury-n532089
37. LATEST from Asbury: Something Unbelievable JUST Happened… – YouTube: https://youtu.be/mCgN87m54Ug
38. Think the Bible Isn’t Scientific? This Video Will Change Your Mind! – YouTube: https://youtu.be/Fhe_V4_NoNE
39. Challenge to Origin of Life: Replication (Long Story Short, Ep. 8) – YouTube: https://youtu.be/zK3jQtzIHLI

The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if John might possibly be the Christ. John answered them all, “I baptize you with water. But one more powerful than I will come, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” Luke 3:15-17

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (2-16-2023)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2500) from Nuggets:

Of course it is self-defeating for Ehrman at once to say we do not have the original words, and then to claim that the copies we have are incorrect or ridden with errors. How does he know any copies are incorrect if he doesn’t have the original by which to make a comparison? In fact, the only way he could judge that any copies were copied incorrectly, is if he assumes that the original is preserved in the copies, which he then uses as a standard of measure by which to measure specific instances of variation. – Thomas A. Howe, Ph.D., Professor of Bible and Biblical Languages, Southern Evangelical Seminary, 2006

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. Voddie Baucham addresses the question Jesus never addressed homosexuality in the Bible. – nails it: https://twitter.com/i/status/1623375167207641088
2. Leading gender dysphoria expert says 80% of children grow out of gender confusion | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/02/09/leading-gender-dysphoria-expert-says-80-of-children-grow-out-of-gender-confusion/
3. New Testament Gods word – The NT authors understood that they were passing on the authoritative apostolic tradition.: https://creation.com/new-testament-gods-word
4. Tim Keller – We are pleased to announce the launch of a major new TGC initiative: The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics. Inspired by the legacy of TGC co-founder Timothy Keller, The Keller Center will raise up and support a new generation of bold evangelists and effective apologists who will communicate the unchanging gospel for a changing world.: https://www.facebook.com/reel/751633359975347
5. Threat Alert: ISIS Calls for Muslims to Attack Christians Around the World, Especially in Europe PatriotandLiberty: https://patriotandliberty.com/threat-alert-isis-calls-for-muslims-to-attack-christians-around-the-world-especially-in-europe/
6. The long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope – Will the new space telescope find ET life?: https://creation.com/space-telescope-et
7. Only 28% of Gen Z attends church at least once a month: survey | U.S. News: https://www.christianpost.com/news/only-28-of-gen-z-attends-church-at-least-once-a-month-survey.html
8. What are Falun Gong and Shen Yun? Of course, we also oppose both atheism and belief in molecules-to-man evolution. But there is a wide gulf between the beliefs of this revived Eastern religion, and Christianity, which we should be aware of. If you have the opportunity and desire to see Shen Yun, then be cautious and mindful that you will be exposed to the carefully-organised promotion of a non-Christian Eastern mystical religion.: https://creation.com/falun-gong-shen-yun
9. Most Americans think cohabitation leads to a stable marriage, but what does the data say? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/02/13/most-americans-think-cohabitation-leads-to-a-stable-marriage-but-what-does-the-data-say-3/

Blessed is he who has regard for the weak; the LORD delivers him in times of trouble. Psalms 41:1

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (2-9-2023)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2500) from Nuggets:

Men do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself, but because it contradicts them. – E. Paul Hovey

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. Privileged Species featuring Dr. Michael Denton – YouTube – Privileged Species is a 33-minute documentary by Discovery Institute that explores growing evidence from physics, chemistry, biology, and related fields that our universe was designed for large multi-cellular beings like ourselves. Featuring geneticist and author Michael Denton, the documentary investigates the special properties of carbon, water, and oxygen that make human life and the life of other organisms possible, and it explores some of the unique features of humans that make us a truly privileged species.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoI2ms5UHWg
2. Book review of Frank Turek’s Stealing from God | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/02/04/book-review-of-frank-tureks-stealing-from-god-2/
3. Old-Earth Creationism on Trial by Tim Chaffey, Jason Lisle – Audiobook – Audible.com – I would recommend you listen to this book with an open mind.  It addresses the debate of Old Earth vs. Young Earth in the same way that a court trial is handled with prosecution, defense and cross-examination, which I think is a fair way to handle it.  Here is the book summary from the publisher:  As the modern church struggles to find a place of relevancy for a new generation that already has massive demands on its time and attention, more and more young people raised in the church are leaving it – failing to find the answers to their questions of faith and life, beset with doubts raised by issues that the church chooses not to address. Opting to skirt the controversy of Genesis as literal history, the biblical authority of the Holy Word is called into question and reduced to a collection of mere stories. More popularly considered an issue for schools or in the public realm, the conflicting views on the age of the earth also remain a pivotal issue within the church – as it has for over two centuries. Was the Creation week literally six days? Does science really point to an old earth? Does the issue really matter for Christians? Should this issue even be discussed within the church? Join authors Dr. Jason Lisle and Tim Chaffey as they put forth a case against an old-earth interpretation of Scripture. A comprehensive biblical, theological, and scientific critique of old-earth creationism, the book presents its compelling testimony in layman’s terms to create a powerful debate that leads to unquestionable truth.: https://www.audible.com/pd/1982696982?source_code=ASSOR150021921000R
4. Frank Turek lectures on the case against same-sex marriage | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/02/05/frank-turek-lectures-on-the-case-against-same-sex-marriage-7/
5. Faithful synod member reported by bishop for ‘hate crime’ for expressing a biblical view of sexuality – Christian Concern: https://christianconcern.com/news/faithful-synod-member-reported-by-bishop-for-hate-crime/
6. Bats have an innate knowledge of the speed of sound. I love the experiment that was done (raising bats in an environment with gases that make the speed of sound faster) to give evidence that the speed of sound is “built-in” to the bat: https://creation.com/bats-speed-of-sound
7. Review of Avatar The Way of Water, director James Cameron – There is a fundamental difference between the pantheistic worldview portrayed in this film, and that of biblical Christianity. Christian believers come to know and worship God as Father, the one who is the Creator and Sustainer of all things.: https://creation.com/avatar-2-movie-review
8. New DNA Discovery Reveals That All Humans are Descendants of an Adam and Eve – Christ News Today: https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/christnewstoday/2018/12/new-dna-discovery-reveals-humans-descendants-adam-eve.html
9. Physicist: Multiverse Is Religion, Not Science | Evolution News: https://evolutionnews.org/2019/07/physicist-multiverse-is-religion-not-science/
10. Antibiotic Resistance & Bacterial Evolution: What’s the Real Story? (Long Story Short, Ep. 3) – YouTube: https://youtu.be/jlmgFFBBopM
11. Is the Bible a Fairy Tale? The Bible does not qualify as a fairy tale. What remains is the underlying question, can it really be what it claims to be? It is only in the Bible that the answer becomes crystal clear not as a fictional work, but as Gods Word.: https://www.christianity.com/wiki/bible/is-the-bible-a-fairy-tale.html
12. Don’t Forget Why We Do What We Do: https://www.str.org/w/don-t-forget-why-we-do-what-we-do
13. On Worldviews by James Anderson – Ligonier Ministries : https://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/worldviews
14. Apologetics Isnt Argumentative: https://www.str.org/w/apologetics-isn-t-argumentative
15. Were Cavemen Real? | Answers in Genesis: https://answersingenesis.org/human-evolution/cavemen/who-were-cavemen/
16. What is the significance of the Roman Empire in biblical history? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/Roman-empire.html
17. Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus Misleads Readers from its Inception Christian Apologist: https://christian-apologist.com/2019/02/09/ehrmans-misquoting-jesus-misleads-readers-from-its-inception/
18. Responding to Pride Month with Genuine Love: https://www.str.org/w/responding-to-pride-month-with-genuine-love
19. A Trillion First Responders | Answers in Genesis: https://answersingenesis.org/human-body/trillion-first-responders/
20. Former Johns Hopkins head psychiatrist: transgender surgery isn’t the solution – LifeSite: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/former-johns-hopkins-head-psychiatrist-transgender-surgery-isnt-the-solutio/
21. You Can Forgive Your Parents | Desiring God: https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/you-can-forgive-your-parents
22. Dr. Brandon van der Ventel Interview. Nuclear scientist Dr. Brandon van der Ventel shares his creationist faith with Dr. Jonathan Sarfati: https://creation.com/brandon-vd-interview
23. The persecution and betrayal of the pro-life cause – Voice of the Family %: https://voiceofthefamily.com/the-persecution-and-betrayal-of-the-pro-life-cause/
24. That’s a Fact – The Fossil Record on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/290548930
25. Should We Expose Students to Arguments Against | Sean McDowell: https://seanmcdowell.org/blog/should-students-be-exposed-to-evidence-against-christianity
26. Credo The Story Of Reality – YouTube: https://youtu.be/wm4Z8A2Co3A
27. 40 Influential Christian Books | Living News: https://www.christianpost.com/news/40-influential-christian-books-217650/
28. A Memorial for a Melted Glacier? | Answers in Genesis: https://answersingenesis.org/environmental-science/climate-change/memorial-melted-glacier/
29. 5 Reasons the Resurrection of Jesus is NOT a Copy of Ancient Pagan Myths: https://www.alisachildersblog.com/blog/5-reasons-the-resurrection-of-jesus-is-not-a-copy-of-ancient-pagan-myths
30. Nurturing Christian Students As They Engage the Challenges of Atheism | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/nurturing-christian-students-as-they-engage-the-challenges-of-atheism/

Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare. Proverbs 20:13

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (2-2-2023)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2500) from Nuggets:

The taking up of the cross is not going to be something heroic or dramatic or enviable. It’s going to be a daily practice of acceptance of small duties which you don’t really like. – Elisabeth Elliot

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. Mountains and molehills. A reply to Ben Stanhope on Jobs behemoth. As I see it, there is far too little engagement between young- and old-earth Christians as it is, so by all means I will count this dialogue as a good development. Any time we can take steps to break through the internet’s echo chamber, I suggest we should do so.: https://creation.com/ben-stanhope-reply-on-behemoth
2. The Sign of Jonah Creation Moments – By referring this matter to Himself, Jesus was also validating the truthfulness of the account of Jonah and the big fish in Jonah chapter 1. Yet many people prefer to think of the account of Jonah and the big fish as a fairy tale…Jonah was taken by the creature to Ninevah a gentile town, which repented for that time. It is fitting that Jonah was used as a type of the death and resurrection of Christ because it is by Christs death and resurrection that all peoples of the world are able to be reconciled to God.: https://creationmoments.com/sermons/the-sign-of-jonah-2/
3. Observations from the Bible Belt (Podcast) | Cold Case Christianity – this section of the podcast starts about 1/2 the way through: https://coldcasechristianity.com/podcasts/observations-from-the-bible-belt-podcast/
4. This is what happens when you don’t know the Bible – YouTube: https://youtu.be/e5GTo6PKL8w
5. Alexander Vilenkin: All the evidence we have says that the universe had a beginning | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/01/25/alexander-vilenkin-all-the-evidence-we-have-says-that-the-universe-had-a-beginning-10/
6. Why the Appearance of Design in Biology Is a Problem for Atheistic Naturalism | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/why-the-appearance-of-design-in-biology-is-a-problem-for-atheistic-naturalism/
7. Ryan Visconti: On Sept. 19, 2019, I was invited to a private dinner with about 15 pastors at a local church in Gilbert, AZ to participate in a Q&A with @AndyStanley after he finished speaking at a conference. The subject of homosexuality came up and over the next 1.5 hours Andy shared overtly heretical views that clearly contradict what the Word of God says. I was shocked to find myself arguing with *Andy Stanley* along with the other pastors despite our respect for him.: https://twitter.com/ryanvisconti/status/1618415547611492356
8. What are the New Heavens and the New Earth? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/new-heavens-earth.html
9. How Proverbs Changed How I See Everything – YouTube: https://youtu.be/38VG0nHAhFY
10. Roman Catholicism: Contending for the Faith – YouTube: https://youtu.be/7ZVHHmCOjOg
11. Christianity Is Objectively True | Answers in Genesis – Responding to Todd Woods claim of purely subjective faith. Most people who go to church grow up mainly hearing the Bible on Sundays, learning Bible stories in Sunday school, and hearing preaching from the pulpit. But then many of them go to schools where the education is purely secular and at least sometimes may be overtly hostile to the Bible. This leads to the impression that religion is subjective, emotional, and personal, while the real world belongs to the secularists.: https://answersingenesis.org/young-earth-evolution/christianity-objectively-true/
12. Water vapour: a more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2 – Media Center – Forget CO2. To stop global warming we need to reduce water vapour. For details watch the entire episode here: https://creation.com/cml9-01b: https://creation.com/media-center/youtube/water-vapour-a-more-powerful-greenhouse-gas-than-co2
13. Why Is It a Mortal Sin to Miss Mass? | Catholic Answers – disclaimer: I’m not a Roman Catholic, nor am I advocating for Roman Catholicism, but this article has some interesting historical details about the persecution of Christians from the first 300 years of the church: https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/why-is-it-a-mortal-sin-to-miss-mass
14. William Lane Craig explains the doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/01/29/william-lane-craig-explains-the-doctrine-of-penal-substitutionary-atonement-9/
15. The Relationship Between Jesus and Lucifer in a Mormon Context Mormonism Research Ministry: https://www.mrm.org/lucifers-brother
16. The Name of God: Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Name of God – Christian Research Institute: https://www.equip.org/perspectives/the-name-of-god-jehovahs-witnesses-and-the-name-of-god/
17. What to say to Jehovah’s Witnesses – 1. About the Jehovah’s Witnesses – bethinking.org: https://www.bethinking.org/jehovahs-witnesses/what-to-say-to-jehovahs-witnesses/2-about-jws
18. A Challenge to the Modern Church: Invest in Christian Education! – American Thinker: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/06/a_challenge_to_the_modern_church_invest_in_christian_education.html
19. Pain – A consequence of the curse, not from evolutionary processes: https://creation.com/pain
20. Gods DNA-detangling motors – The topoisomerase enzymes. All living creatures contain incredible machines, as well as the instruction manual to build them. This manual comprises sequences of chemical letters (nucleotides) in the famous deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecule, just as information in a book is written in letters on a page. Furthermore, these instructions are copied to the next generation. You didn’t really get your mothers eyes and fathers ears; rather, it was the instructions to re-manufacture your mothers eyes and fathers ears that were copied to your DNA. DNAs physical dimensions pose many problems that would need to be solved before even the simplest life could function. : https://creation.com/dna-detangling-motors-topoisomerase
21. If you get canceled, like paleontologist Gunter Bechly, where do you go? As a colleague pointed out yesterday, American life is taking on new aspects with an increasingly underground feel. It’s become suffocating on the surface, so truth seeks shelter. People monitor what they permit themselves to say in public, and often in private, too. Social media are watching what you post. A lot of people have learned what it feels like to have your Facebook or Twitter account suspended as a punishment for saying something politically disfavored. As Discovery Institutes Chris Rufo has extensively reported, your employer, in the public or private sphere, may decide it’s time for you to be reprogrammed in line with woke racial ideology. The experience of being canceled or expelled is no longer limited to controversial speakers on college campuses, who make students feel unsafe. It’s not limited to intelligent design advocates either.: https://evolutionnews.org/2020/12/gunter-bechly-welcome-to-the-underground/
22. Scientists Conclude: Human Origins Research Is a Big Mess | Evolution News – human origins research is in a ridiculous state of constant major rewritings and refutations of allegedly indisputable textbook wisdom. This is mainly due to surprising new discoveries of hominin fossils. The situation goes far beyond the healthy normal progress of science. Instead, it suggests that something is wrong with the general narrative, which needs not just some rewriting here and there, but a major rethinking and paradigm change: https://evolutionnews.org/2021/05/scientists-conclude-human-origins-research-is-a-big-mess/
23. In this 13 min 49 second TED-style talk, Tim Barnett tackles the question, “So Many Religions – What Do We Do?” This talk took place at the youth event, Big Deal Questions. – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSb2ae_mPaE
24. Breakpoint: Talking Worldview at Thanksgiving – Here are six questions I’ve found extremely helpful in any conversation: https://colsoncenter.libsyn.com/talking-worldview-at-thanksgiving
25. Bible Contradiction? Did Jesus baptize anyone? | The Domain for Truth – There is no Bible contradiction here. Not only do we see the author of the Skeptic Annotated Bible failed with claiming there is a Bible contradiction in this example but one must also keep in mind that the author also have a Self-Defeating Worldview that undermine the intelligibility and meaningfulness of his project of attacking the Bible in the first place: https://veritasdomain.wordpress.com/2018/08/14/bible-contradiction-did-jesus-baptize-anyone/
26. Did John Really Write John? The Gospel according to John has received more scrutiny than the other Gospels put together.: https://crossexamined.org/did-john-really-write-john/
27. Interview with computer scientist Ed Knorr. Asked about scientific/mathematical evidence on origins, Ed referred to the work of creationist genetic-engineering pioneer Dr. John Sanford: I learned there are at least 100 new mutations per person born, and almost none of these are advantageous. Furthermore, DNA is poly-constrained and poly-functional: any mutation in a single letter of DNA could affect multiple genes. Thus, the likelihood of harmful effects adding up over time is high. Given the low probability of advantageous mutations, multiplying low probabilities over long stretches of time implies the probabilities become statistically zero for the formation of any significant new functionality in an organism. Things are heading downhill; the notion of perfect design right from the start, with variability encoded in the DNA, makes much more scientific sense.: https://creation.com/ed-knorr-interview
28. Here Are 5 Tips for Conversations in Our Tense Cultural Moment – Canon Fodder: https://www.michaeljkruger.com/here-are-5-tips-for-conversations-in-our-tense-cultural-moment/
29. Four Reasons the New Testament Gospels Are Reliable (Free Bible Insert) | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/four-reasons-the-new-testament-gospels-are-reliable/
30. Contend for the Faith | Ligonier.org – Unless we are well-grounded in our faith, we will not be able to recognize false doctrine and help rescue those who have fallen prey to it Jude reminds us that believers must contend for the faith once delivered to the saints because of the goats who set themselves up as teachers of the sheep (vv. 34). Yet this call to fight actively for the faith is not limited to Jude alone; it is one theme uniting all of the General Epistles.: https://www.ligonier.org/learn/devotionals/contend-faith
31. Bible Word of God – How can we be sure we have the Word of God? How accurate are our copies of the Bible?: https://creation.com/bible-word-of-god
32. An Atheist Explains the True Reason Religion Terrifies Him – Intellectual Takeout: https://intellectualtakeout.org/2018/06/an-atheist-explains-the-true-reason-religion-terrifies-him/
33. A Case for Creation 101: Made in His Image or evolved over time? Truth, Faith and Reason – includes several embedded YouTube videos and a list of Twelve questions Darwinian evolutionary theory cannot answer: https://truthfaithandreason.com/a-case-for-creation-101-made-in-his-image-or-evolved-over-time/
34. Aliens, the Multiverse, or God? (Stephen C. Meyer) Science and God – YouTube – Even staunch Darwinists have acknowledged that life in the universe displays an appearance of design, rather than being created out of random chance. If that’s true, where did that design come from? In other words, does a design require a designer?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VQy0B_sY0U
35. What should parents think about Disney’s position on grooming children for sex? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/02/01/what-should-parents-think-about-disneys-position-on-grooming-children-for-sex-2/

but I will not take my love from him, nor will I ever betray my faithfulness. I will not violate my covenant or alter what my lips have uttered. Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness– and I will not lie to David– that his line will continue forever and his throne endure before me like the sun; it will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.” “Selah” Psalms 89:33-37

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (1-19-2023)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2500) from Nuggets:

When the servant of God is in the will of God, he is immortal until his work is done. – Warren Wiersbe

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. Why Don’t Christians Have a Biblical Worldview? THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM: https://chab123.wordpress.com/2023/01/12/why-dont-christians-have-a-worldview/
2. The Third Characteristic of a Healthy Church: A Decision to Live in Awe | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/the-third-characteristic-of-a-healthy-church-a-decision-to-live-in-awe/
3. Doubts about design and the resurrection… Creation Ministries responds to this sincere doubter: I used to have no problem believing Genesis but have started to disbelieve after looking into evolution, first there was a video I watched of Dawkins. The dilemma I have is that I can’t reconcile Genesis saying we didn’t evolve when you see photos of our ancestors like Homo erectus and of Neanderthals as to me they seem to be so subhuman. This article has so many links in it that explain the creationist answer to the objections being raised: https://creation.com/doubts-about-design-and-the-empty-tomb
4. The big problem with adding millions of years to the Bible – Death before sin: https://creation.com/media-center/youtube/the-big-problem-with-adding-millions-of-years-to-the-bible
5. What does it mean that a biblical passage is descriptive rather than prescriptive? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/descriptive-vs-prescriptive.html
6. What is the Difference Between Mormonism and Christianity? – Summit Ministries: https://www.summit.org/resources/videos/difference-mormonism-christianity/
7. Does Science Support Miracles? New Study Documents a Blind Woman’s Healing – The Stream: https://stream.org/does-science-support-miracles-new-study-documents-a-blind-womans-healing/
8. Did Josephus Write About Jesus, Or Was It Entirely A Forgery?: https://thereforegodexists.com/did-josephus-write-about-jesus-or-was-it-entirely-a-forgery/
9. Three Simple Strategies to Help You Become A Better Christian Case Maker | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/three-simple-strategies-to-help-you-become-a-better-christian-case-maker/
10. Why It’s Important to Inoculate (Rather Than Isolate) Our Young People | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/why-its-important-to-inoculate-rather-than-isolate-our-young-people/
11. The Founders As Christians – WallBuilders: https://wallbuilders.com/the-founders-as-christians/
12. The Real Murderers: Atheism or Christianity?: https://www.str.org/w/the-real-murderers-atheism-or-christianity-#.WmSJ4KinGUk
13. Gold deposits formed by the global Flood – A saying harking back to Americas gold rush days, and made famous by cartoon character Yosemite Sam, is, There’s gold in them thar hills! Yes, but how did it get there, when, and how quickly? Research in recent decades has increasingly suggested that the term gold rush applies as much to the fast formation of gold deposits as it does to treasure seekers hastily staking their claim.1 The evidence implies that Noah’s Flood, not millions of years, was responsible for forming some of the richest veins known.: https://creation.com/gold-deposits-formed-by-the-global-flood
14. Wild Dogs of Australia Creation Moments – Most mammals in Australia are marsupials. That is one of the things that makes Australia so special to those of us elsewhere in the world who may never have been there. Think of Australia, and most of us think of kangaroos, koalas, and wombats. Placentals, like rats and rabbits, are normally pests, introduced in colonial times. Yet, there is one placental mammal that is associated with Australia, as a typical wild animal. That is the wild dog known as the dingo.: https://creationmoments.com/sermons/wild-dogs-of-australia/
15. How To Navigate Doubt – The Return: https://thereturn.org/2023/01/16/day-607-how-to-navigate-doubt/
16. BREAKING: Catholic Priest Burned to Death in Nigeria| National Catholic Register: https://www.ncregister.com/cna/breaking-catholic-priest-burned-to-death-in-nigeria
17. WOKE Mall Cop Tries To KICKS OUT Man For Wearing ‘Jesus Saves’ Shirt Because It Offended People!: https://rumble.com/v25uua2-woke-mall-cop-tries-to-kicks-out-man-for-wearing-jesus-saves-shirt-because-.html
18. 11 Reasons Most Biologists Accept Evolutionary Theory in Spite of the Evidence | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/01/17/11-reasons-most-biologists-accept-evolutionary-theory-in-spite-of-the-evidence/
19. Creation astronomy from a rocket scientist – Everything about our spacecraft is designed for life. Our moon, our atmosphere, our magnetic field-all these features, and many more described in Spacecraft Earth, make complex life on Earth possible and point to the intentional work of a Designer, the God of the Bible.: https://creation.com/creation-astronomy-henry-richter
20. The Juvenilization of American Christianity – Christian Research Institute: https://www.equip.org/articles/juvenilization-american-christianity/
21. Take a Tip from Lt. Columbo: https://www.str.org/w/take-a-tip-from-lt.-columbo-
22. Doubting Evolution Is like Believing the Earth Is Flat. | Answers in Genesis: https://answersingenesis.org/evidence-against-evolution/doubting-evolution-is-like-believing-the-earth-is-flat/
23. Afraid to Die? You’re Probably Not a Christian | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/afraid-to-die-youre-probably-not-a-christian/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
24. Beyond Adaptation: The Human Brain Is Something New | Evolution News: https://evolutionnews.org/2018/09/beyond-adapation-the-human-brain-is-something-new/
25. What Is Presuppositional Apologetics? | Zondervan Academic: https://zondervanacademic.com/blog/presuppositional-apologetics
26. Book Review: God’s Crime Scene: https://lukenixblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/book-review-gods-crime-scene.html?m=1
27. WHAT KIND OF EVANGELISM IS GEN Z LOOKING FOR? | Leader Treks Youth Ministry Blog: https://www.leadertreks.org/evangelism-is-gen-z-looking-for/
28. John Lennox Busts a Myth About Religion, Faith and Science: https://www.solas-cpc.org/john-lennox-busts-a-myth-about-religion-faith-and-science/
29. What do Jehovah’s Witnesses believe? – Mama Bear Apologetics: https://mamabearapologetics.com/what-jehovahs-witnesses-believe/
30. A Ten Minute Witness – bethinking.org: https://www.bethinking.org/apologetics/a-ten-minute-witness
31. Genesis and the Question of Entropy | The Institute for Creation Research: https://www.icr.org/article/genesis-question-entropy
32. Understanding Natural Selection | Answers in Genesis: https://answersingenesis.org/natural-selection/understanding-natural-selection/

When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. “Where have you laid him?” he asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they replied. Jesus wept. Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?” Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. “Take away the stone,” he said. “But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.” Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?” So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.” When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.” Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, put their faith in him. John 11:32-45

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (12-29-2022)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2400) from Nuggets:

We could put it this way: The shadows prove the sunshine. There can be sunshine without shadows, but there can’t be shadows without sunshine. In other words, there can be good without evil, but there can’t be evil without good; and there can’t be objective good without God. So evil may show there’s a devil out there, but it can’t disprove God. Evil actually boomerangs back to show that God exists.  – Frank Turek

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. A Parent’s Guide to the 5 Skeptics Who Want to Shame Your Kids for Being Christian: https://www.str.org/w/a-parent-s-guide-to-the-5-skeptics-who-want-to-shame-your-kids-for-being-christian
2. Rubber Crutches – Everyone has a crutch.  Will yours hold you up?  When people ask me, “Isn’t Christ just a crutch?” I have a simple reply.  I tell them, “You’re right.  Christ is a crutch.  But you’ve asked the wrong question.”  No one makes fun of a lame person who uses a crutch.  So the real question is, “Am I lame; am I crippled?” because crippled people need crutches.  The fact is, everybody leans on something.  As a Christian I lean on Jesus, because He’s a crutch that can hold me.  What about you?: https://www.str.org/w/rubber-crutches
3. Dr. Stephen C. Meyer explains intelligent design for Prager University | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2022/12/28/2022-the-year-in-review-for-evolution-vs-intelligent-design/
4. Tract: Are Roman Catholics Christians? This is a 23 page tract that examines Roman Catholic beliefs in light of Scripture: https://chick.com/products/tract?stk=71&ue=d
5. Is it wrong to have pictures of Jesus? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/pictures-of-Jesus.html
6. St. Augustine Was a Young-Earth Creationist | Answers in Genesis: https://answersingenesis.org/blogs/calvin-smith/2021/07/12/st-augustine-young-earth-creationist/
7. Stephen C. Meyer and Marcus Ross lecture on the Cambrian explosion | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2022/12/23/stephen-c-meyer-and-marcus-ross-lecture-on-the-cambrian-explosion-9/
8. Nigeria has before it a crucial opportunity to step out as an international leader by abolishing once and for all its Sharia blasphemy law – in spite of clear-cut evidence of mass human rights atrocities, the U.S. government remains silent, failing to designate Nigeria as a country of particular concern. Between January 2021 and March 2022, more than 6,000 Christians were targeted and killed in Nigeria. In May of this year, Christian student Deborah Yakubu was stoned to death and her body burned in Sokoto State, Nigeria, after classmates deemed her WhatsApp messages blasphemous.: https://thefederalist.com/2022/12/23/as-christians-face-death-sentences-nigerian-court-can-and-should-overturn-its-dangerous-blasphemy-law/
9. How to T.R.A.I.N. Christian Students (Rather than Teach Them) | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/how-to-t-r-a-i-n-christian-students-rather-than-teach-them/
10. How are Christians treated in communist, atheist China? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2021/04/13/how-are-christians-treated-in-communist-atheist-china/
11. Should Christians Ever Offend Anyone? | Answers in Genesis: https://answersingenesis.org/bible-questions/christians-should-never-offend-anyone/
12. The Three Ds of Tolerance | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/the-three-ds-of-tolerance/
13. Jehovah: Was the name removed from the New Testament? | Carm.org: https://carm.org/jehovahs-witnesses/was-the-name-jehovah-removed-from-the-new-testament-does-it-matter/
14. Robert Gagnon debates gay activist Jayne Ozanne on Bible vs homosexuality | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2020/04/26/robert-gagnon-debates-gay-activist-jayne-ozanne-on-bible-vs-homosexuality-6/
15. Apologetics Resources for Alabama Baptist – Tactical Faith: https://tacticalfaith.com/apologetics/apologetics-resources-for-alabama-baptist/
16. Who Was Athanasius?: https://www.ligonier.org/posts/who-was-athanasius
17. Why the Bible is Reliable Think Divinely: https://thinkdivinely.com/why-the-bible-is-reliable/
18. How I Got into Apologetics (And How You Can Too!): https://crossexamined.org/how-i-got-into-apologetics-and-how-you-can-too/
19. Jesus Created The Universe: The Deity Of Christ | Reasons for Jesus: https://reasonsforjesus.com/jesus-created-the-universe-the-deity-of-christ/
20. Did Jesus Rise From The Dead? – Stand to Reason: https://subsplash.com/standtoreason/media/mi/+mzeycxu
21. There are a lot of charges brought up against the God of the Bible; perhaps one of the most common is, “If God is supposed to be loving, how could He send people to Hell just because they didn’t worship Him?” It’s implied that it’s deeply unjust for God to judge sin at all, and even worse to do so by sending the sinners to a place of eternal punishment. However, these critics often profess they don’t believe in the God they are accusing, and also deny any objective standard of right and wrong anyway. Sometimes believers also struggle with this question, wondering how God could condemn someone who never heard of Jesus and so never had a chance to believe in Him, for example.  The question of Hell is not an appealing one even for people who affirm its existence. No one likes the idea of many people suffering judgment in the life to come. But the ‘Good News’ of the Gospel requires that there be ‘Bad News’—salvation in Jesus Christ would not bring glory to God if there were actually nothing to be saved from. So it’s important to be able to give an answer, even in the case of a subject that no one particularly likes contemplating.: https://creation.com/hell
22. Teaching Apologetics to the Next Generation | Christian Research Institute: https://www.equip.org/articles/teaching-apologetics-next-generation/
23. Diagnose before You Treat – Stand to Reason – What should you say to your non-Christian friend who rejects Christianity? In this episode, Alan explains an important principle to help him navigate this situation: https://subsplash.com/standtoreason/media/mi/+8wzpswd
24. What Are the Top Ten Problems with Darwinian Evolution? THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM: https://wp.me/pCHEG-2pX
25. Is Marks Gospel an Early Memoir of the Apostle Peter? | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/is-marks-gospel-an-early-memoir-of-the-apostle-peter/
26. Ready to Answer – sometimes Christians, armed with all the information they can get, assault unbelievers with what they know and effectively blow them out of the water. They have won the argument but lost the soul, and that is not the objective. Even though we may know a great deal, we should present the information with love and humility.: https://harvest.org/resources/devotion/ready-to-answer/
27. Is The Bible Full Of Contradictions? 6 Quick Responses | Reasons for Jesus: https://reasonsforjesus.com/is-the-bible-full-of-contradictions-6-quick-responses/
28. Evolutionists Sense Life’s Design and Deify Nature | The Institute for Creation Research: https://www.icr.org/article/evolutionists-sense-design-deify-nature
29. Rapid Response: The Gospels Are Unreliable | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/rapid-response-the-gospels-are-unreliable/
30. Come Reason’s Apologetics Notes: Why You Can Be Confident We Have the Original Bible Texts: https://apologetics-notes.comereason.org/2015/01/why-you-can-be-confident-we-have.html?m=1
31. What Does the Bible Say about Masturbation?: https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/spiritual-life/what-does-the-bible-say-about-masturbation.html
32. Problem 9: Neo-Darwinism Struggles to Explain the Biogeographical Distribution of Many Species | Evolution News: https://evolutionnews.org/2015/02/problem_9_neo-d/

By the word of the LORD were the heavens made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth. He gathers the waters of the sea into jars; he puts the deep into storehouses. Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the people of the world revere him. For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm. Psalms 33:6-9

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (12-15-2022)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2400) from Nuggets:

If Christians could be trained to provide solid evidence for what they believe and good answers to unbelievers’ questions and objections, then the perception of Christians would slowly change. Christians would be seen as thoughtful people to be taken seriously rather than as emotional fanatics or buffoons. The gospel would be a real alternative for people to embrace. – William Lane Craig

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. I Won’t Lie To My Kids About Santa Claus – The effort I would spend trying to sell Santa to my kids is much better spent on teaching them about the true reason for the season.: https://thefederalist.com/2022/12/08/i-wont-lie-to-my-kids-about-santa-claus/
2. Way Of The Master – Latter Day Saints, Mormon Church – YouTube: https://youtu.be/MdIcWvyixZU
3. Does God Whisper? Part 1: https://www.str.org/w/does-god-whisper-part-1
4. Does God Whisper? Part 2: https://www.str.org/w/does-god-whisper-part-2
5. Does God Whisper? Part 3: https://www.str.org/w/does-god-whisper-part-3
6. N.T. Wright: what is the best explanation for the early belief in a bodily resurrection? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2022/12/11/n-t-wright-what-is-the-best-explanation-for-the-early-belief-in-a-bodily-resurrection-2/
7. Dominion mandate: https://creation.com/dominion-mandate
8. Are You a Christian? – JA Show Articles: https://jashow.org/articles/are-you-a-christian/
9. Is Jesus God? | Answers in Genesis: https://answersingenesis.org/jesus/jesus-is-god/is-jesus-god/
10. Are There Transitional Intermediates in the Fossil Record? – Reasons to Believe: https://reasons.org/explore/publications/articles/q-a-are-there-transitional-intermediates-in-the-fossil-record
11. If we can’t see God, how can we know He exists? | Christian Research Institute: https://www.equip.org/bible_answers/if-we-cant-see-god-how-can-we-know-he-exists-/
12. Your Challenge Does Not Apply- The Strawman: https://lukenixblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/your-challenge-does-not-apply-strawman.html
13. Is apologetics relevant to today’s Church?: https://www.christianweek.org/apologetics-relevant-todays-church/
14. Gary Habermas and James Crossley discuss the minimal facts case for the resurrection | WINTERY KNIGHT (video not available, listen to MP3 instead): https://winteryknight.com/2017/01/05/gary-habermas-and-james-crossley-discuss-the-minimal-facts-case-for-the-resurrection-3/
15. The New Face of Atheism (And It’s Not Dawkins!) | Sean McDowell: https://seanmcdowell.org/blog/the-new-face-of-atheism-and-its-not-dawkins
16. Atheists Who Convert: A Case Study, What Do They Have In Common? – HubPages: https://discover.hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/Atheists-Who-Convert-A-Case-Study
17. Dawkins’s Dilemma: Misrepresent the Mechanism or Face the Math | Evolution News: https://evolutionnews.org/2016/03/about_a_bike_lo/
18. Properly Understanding Properly Basic Beliefs | Reasonable Faith: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/question-answer/properly-understanding-properly-basic-beliefs
19. Twelve Points That Show Christianity Is True – Stand to Reason Blog: https://str.typepad.com/weblog/2015/10/twelve-points-that-show-christianity-is-true.html
20. Only the Trinity Fits All of the Scriptural Data – Stand to Reason Blog: https://str.typepad.com/weblog/2015/11/only-the-trinity-fits-all-of-the-scriptural-data.html
21. Mormonism: Same Language, Different Meanings – Stand to Reason: https://subsplash.com/standtoreason/media/mi/+df9d078
22. Lila Rose: Why Should a Child Conceived in Rape Pay for the Crimes of Her Father? – LifeNews.com: https://www.lifenews.com/2015/11/06/lila-rose-why-should-a-child-conceived-in-rape-pay-for-the-crimes-of-her-father/
23. Mark Mittelberg | My Reason for Faith – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEpRA5G8g84
24. Are gays born that way? Most Americans now say yes, but science says no – LifeSite: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/for-the-first-time-a-majority-of-americans-believe-homosexuals-are-born-tha/
25. J. Warner Wallace: practical advice on becoming an effective one-dollar apologist | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2015/06/01/j-warner-wallace-practical-advice-on-becoming-an-effective-one-dollar-apologist-3/
26. A Jewish take on Jesus – Jesus was smack in the middle of the Jewish tradition of his time. Remembering that can make you a better Christian, says this Jewish scholar of the New Testament: https://uscatholic.org/articles/201209/a-jewish-take-on-jesus-amy-jill-levine-talks-the-gospels/
27. Does God expect us to have blind faith? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/blind-faith.html
28. Hasn’t Life Been Created in the Laboratory? | The Institute for Creation Research: https://www.icr.org/article/571/387
29. 7 Questions Skeptics Ask About the Validity of Christianity: https://probe.org/7-questions-skeptics-ask/
30. DNA: The Tiny Code That’s Toppling Evolution: https://www.ucg.org/the-good-news/dna-the-tiny-code-thats-toppling-evolution
31. How should Christians stand up for their faith in such an anti-Christian world? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/anti-Christian.html

“Right then three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea stopped at the house where I was staying. The Spirit told me to have no hesitation about going with them. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house. He told us how he had seen an angel appear in his house and say, ‘Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter. He will bring you a message through which you and all your household will be saved.’ “As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came on them as he had come on us at the beginning. Then I remembered what the Lord had said: ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ So if God gave them the same gift as he gave us, who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to think that I could oppose God?” Acts 11:11-17

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (12-1-2022)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2300) from Nuggets:

The “problem of evil” is irrefutable evidence that the people who raise the problem of evil deeply believe in objective morality. – Greg Koukl

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes


Now, here are your weekly links:

1. Was the Virgin Conception Borrowed from Prior Mythologies? | Cold Case Christianity: http://coldcasechristianity.com/2018/was-the-virgin-conception-borrowed-from-prior-mythologies/
2. 4 Myths About Teaching Apologetics in Youth Ministry: https://churchleaders.com/youth/youth-leaders-articles/160290-benjer_mcveigh_4_myths_about_teaching_apologetics_in_youth_ministry.html
3. Three Reasons the Story of Jesus Was Not Borrowed From Pagan Mystery Religions – Jonathan Morrow: http://www.jonathanmorrow.org/three-reasons-story-jesus-not-borrowed-pagan-mystery-religions/
4. Design Without a Designer | Answers in Genesis: https://answersingenesis.org/charles-darwin/design-without-designer/
5. Answering an Objection to Apologetics: Doesn’t Faith Come from Hearing the Word of God? THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM: https://chab123.wordpress.com/2019/05/25/answering-an-objection-to-apologetics-doesnt-faith-come-from-hearing-the-word-of-god-3/
6. Has God Given Enough Evidence for a Rational Faith? | The Stream: https://stream.org/evidence-rational-faith/
7. Chances of a functional protein by chance – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5p4T8MD7aA
8. The Heresy of Orthodoxy: When Was the Earliest Complete List of New Testament Books? Canon Fodder: https://www.michaeljkruger.com/the-heresy-of-orthodoxy-when-was-the-earliest-complete-list-of-new-testament-books/
9. 7 Differences Between the Bible and the Qur’an – Hope’s Reason: http://www.stephenjbedard.com/2016/11/30/7-differences-bible-quran/#.WiAQ6EqnGUk
10. Why Did God Create People if He Knew So Many Would Go to Hell? | Stand to Reason: https://www.str.org/blog/why-did-god-create-people-if-he-knew-so-many-would-go-hell
11. The Importance of Defining Terms: https://crossexamined.org/importance-defining-terms/
12. The Circular Reasoning of Atheists: https://reasonsforgod.org/the-circular-reasoning-of-atheists/
13. 3 Reasons Why Christians Should Be Evidential Investigators Instead of Experience Junkies – Alisa Childers: https://www.alisachilders.com/blog/3-reasons-why-christians-should-be-evidential-investigators-instead-of-experience-junkies
14. Saved by Faith or Works? by Living Waters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwR7zT9NtZM
15. God, Unicorns, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster – God Evidence Does God Exist?: http://godevidence.com/2018/12/god-and-modern-science/
16. Who was Rahab in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/life-Rahab.html
17. William Lane Craig answers: how can the four gospels be independent sources? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2022/11/28/william-lane-craig-answers-how-can-the-four-gospels-be-independent-sources-3/
18. Confronting Homosexuality in a Culture of Identity (Part 4): https://crossexamined.org/confronting-homosexuality-in-a-culture-of-identity-part-4/
19. How did Judas die? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/Judas-die.html
20. Christian woman finds a way to discuss her faith with non-Christians | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2022/11/30/christian-woman-finds-a-way-to-discuss-her-faith-with-non-christians-5/
21. David French wants Christians who accept Jesus definition of marriage to be persecuted | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2022/11/29/david-french-wants-christians-who-accept-jesus-definition-of-marriage-to-be-persecuted/

“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.” Isaiah 57:21

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (11-3-2022)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2300) from Nuggets:

So many young Christians are ill prepared to face the moral, intellectual, relational, and spiritual challenges that confront them daily. They don’t have an anchor to help ground them amid the cultural chaos, and as a result, many find their faith shipwrecked on the shores of our increasingly secular culture. Here is a stark reality: if we do not consciously equip young Christians with a biblical worldview, they will unconsciously absorb the ideas of today’s culture.  – Sean McDowell  and J. Warner Wallace (from book “So the Next Generation Will Know”)

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. Maggie DeJong | Alliance Defending Freedom – In the United States, colleges and universities have traditionally been bastions of free speech. People with diverse religious, political, and philosophical beliefs have been able to come together for a free and robust debate in the marketplace of ideas in university classrooms, lecture halls, quads, and dorms. But universities such as Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) have grown more hostile toward religious, political, and philosophical beliefs that university officials or students disfavor. Such is the case with Maggie DeJong.: https://adflegal.org/article/southern-illinois-university-silenced-student-maggie-dejong-her-harmful-beliefs
2. Breaking Down the Importance of Apologetics Welcome to Rob Lundberg.org: https://roblundberg.org/2022/10/30/breaking-down-the-importance-of-apologetics/
3. Search for Habitable Planets as Design Detection | Evolution News: https://evolutionnews.org/2022/11/search-for-habitable-planets-is-a-design-detection-exercise/
4. Why I Know the Story of Jesus Wasn’t Changed Over Time | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/why-i-know-the-story-of-jesus-wasnt-changed-over-time/
5. How to Perfectly Know the Existence of God : Strange Notions: https://strangenotions.com/how-to-perfectly-know-the-existence-of-god/
6. Answering the Galileo Myth: https://www.str.org/w/answering-the-galileo-myth
7. Why Apologetics Has a Bad Name | Sean McDowell: https://seanmcdowell.org/blog/why-apologetics-has-a-bad-name
8. Don’t Be Harvey Weinstein. Or Tim Murphy. Or Karl Barth – The Stream: https://stream.org/dont-harvey-weinstein/
9. 50 Alleged Bible Contradictions Refuted | The Domain for Truth: https://veritasdomain.wordpress.com/2017/10/16/50-alleged-bible-contradiction-refuted/
10. Starting God-Conversations: Take the Class-Photo Approach: https://apologetics-notes.comereason.org/2016/11/starting-god-conversations-take-class.html
11. Developing An Apologetic That Works Faith & Self Defense: https://faithandselfdefense.com/2017/11/21/developing-an-apologetic-that-works/
12. Can death be abolished?: https://creation.com/can-death-be-abolished
13. The Jesus Blog: The Five Most Common Fallacies about the Life of Jesus: http://historicaljesusresearch.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-five-most-common-fallacies-about.html
14. What Really Happened At The Council Of Nicaea | Reasons for Jesus: https://reasonsforjesus.com/what-really-happened-at-the-council-of-nicea/
15. The Intellectual Persecution of the Church Credo House Ministries: https://credohouse.org/blog/the-intellectual-persecution-of-the-church
16. Handling an Objection: We Can’t Trust Eyewitness Testimony! THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM: https://chab123.wordpress.com/2018/05/13/handling-an-objection-we-cant-trust-eyewitness-testimony-4/
17. Why talking to strangers can make us smarter – BBC Future – though this is not apologetics related, it discusses subjects that are relevant to apologetics and evangelism. Here is a snippet: What I learned was this: we miss a lot by being afraid of strangers. Talking to strangers under the right conditions is good for us, good for our neighborhoods, our towns and cities, our nations, and our world. Talking to strangers can teach you things, deepen you, make you a better citizen, a better thinker, and a better person. It’s a good way to live.: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221026-why-talking-to-strangers-can-make-us-happier
18. The worst mistake you can make when defending the Christian worldview | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2022/11/02/the-worst-mistake-you-can-make-when-defending-the-christian-worldview-6/
19. Why did God command Abraham to sacrifice Isaac? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/Abraham-Isaac.html

After this, Jesus went around in Galilee, purposely staying away from Judea because the Jews there were waiting to take his life. But when the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near, Jesus’ brothers said to him, “You ought to leave here and go to Judea, so that your disciples may see the miracles you do. No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” For even his own brothers did not believe in him. Therefore Jesus told them, “The right time for me has not yet come; for you any time is right. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that what it does is evil. You go to the Feast. I am not yet going up to this Feast, because for me the right time has not yet come.” Having said this, he stayed in Galilee.  – John 7:1-9

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (10-6-2022)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2300) from Nuggets:

When someone asks if you’re going to heaven, saying “I hope so” isn’t humble, it’s arrogantly believing that your salvation is resting on your works. But if you respond, “Yes, I’m certain,” isn’t arrogance, it’s humble assurance because you’re resting on the works of Christ. – Burk Parsons

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. What does it mean to be transformed by the renewing of the mind? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/renewing-the-mind.html
2. An Open Letter (from John MacArthur) to Governor Gavin Newsom | Grace Community Church: https://www.gracechurch.org/news/posts/3592
3. Was Queen Elizabeth II a true Christian? | George’s Journal: https://georgesjournal.net/2022/10/01/was-queen-elizabeth-ii-a-true-christian/
4. Why did Dan Barker leave Christianity for atheism? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2020/06/23/why-did-dan-barker-leave-christianity-for-atheism-2/
5. Chinas religion problem: Why the Chinese Communist Party views religious belief as a threat Asia Dialogue: https://theasiadialogue.com/2019/10/17/chinas-religion-problem-why-the-chinese-communist-party-views-religious-belief-as-a-threat/
6. The Fossil Record on Vimeo – Do fossils really show that creatures gradually evolved from simple to complex? The late fossil expert and evolution-defender Stephen Gould recognized they didn’t. He said the fossil record shows two clear features 1) Sudden appearance, and 2) Stasis.: https://vimeo.com/290548930
7. Is Hell Real? | Crossway Articles – Ortlund – Scripture teaches us these five truths and more about hell: https://www.crossway.org/articles/is-hell-real/
8. 7 Things We Know about Jesus and His Followers from Non-Biblical Sources | Cloud of Witnesses: https://greatcloud.wordpress.com/2013/06/30/7-things-we-know-about-jesus-and-his-followers-from-non-biblical-sources/
9. Ancient Dinosaur Depictions | Genesis Park – The purpose of Genesis Park is to showcase the evidence that dinosaurs and man were created together and have co-existed throughout history (there is a lot of archeological evidence listed on this page): https://www.genesispark.com/exhibits/evidence/historical/ancient/dinosaur/
10. The shocking Beliefs of John Calvin: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/frankviola/shockingbeliefsofjohncalvin/
11. There’s No Good Reason to Deny the Early Dating of the Gospels | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/theres-no-good-reason-to-deny-the-early-dating-of-the-gospels/
12. Why believe in Christianity over all other religions? | carm.org: https://carm.org/atheism/why-believe-in-christianity-over-all-other-religions/
13. William Murray, Son of the Founder of American Atheists, Converts to Christianity | Reasons for Jesus: https://reasonsforjesus.com/william-murray-son-of-the-founder-of-american-atheists-converts-to-christianity/
14. Evidence For Resurrection Turns Josh McDowell From Skeptic To Christian Apologist | Reasons for Jesus: https://reasonsforjesus.com/evidence-for-resurrection-turns-josh-mcdowell-from-skeptic-to-christian-apologist/
15. Dr. Gary R. Habermas (free on-line book) – The Uniqueness of Jesus Christ Among the Major World Religions – Jesus claimed to be Deity, but does this make him unique? Dig into this easy-to-read examination of this serious topic with Dr. Gary Habermas to see just how unusual this claim really is. Then realize that there’s even more to consider than this! Jesus said that he was the path to salvation. Very early sources tell us that he performed supernatural miracles. Jesus and his followers said that his death served the purpose of saving others, dying in their place. Jesus’ death affirms and explains the reality of suffering and death in the world. And finally, and perhaps most importantly, Jesus is unique in rising from the dead bodily. When these ideas are all combined, especially the powerful combination of the Resurrection and the Gospel, Jesus stands dramatically apart as unique in a way that surpasses all others!: http://www.garyhabermas.com/Evidence2/
16. If we can’t see God, how can we know he exists? | Christian Research Institute: https://www.equip.org/bible_answers/if-we-cant-see-god-how-can-we-know-he-exists-/
17. Why Are There So Many Atheists on College Campuses? THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM: https://chab123.wordpress.com/2017/01/24/why-are-there-so-many-atheists-on-college-campuses-3/
18. A Christians Rebuttal to Why I Am Not A Christian By Bertrand Russell Christian Apologist: https://christian-apologist.com/2017/04/13/a-christians-rebuttal-to-why-i-am-not-a-christian-by-bertrand-russell/
19. When Someone You Love Says, I’m Gay – As homosexuality becomes more broadly accepted within the culture, it’s no surprise that more Christian families are hearing a loved one say, I’m gay; I’ve accepted it; I intend to live it out. Aside from the obvious emotions raised, a number of questions come up as well: Can I say anything to change his mind? How do I handle it if she gets into a relationship with another woman? What about my gay teen? What if he marries another man? These concerns spring from a real-life crisis many Christian homes are facing today. Two primary questions arise as well: What about us? and What about God? Both questions are relevant to the discussion families will have when addressing the issue, and believers need to frame them wisely. When responding to a family member coming out, a Christian should first clarify his own feelings in response, then stress the importance of the relationship and clarify mutual expectations as well. A broader discussion about worldview, the claims of Christ, and what created intent there may be for the human sexual experience should follow. While we cannot override someone else’s free will, we can and should seek to engage them, thereby being part of the work God is seeking to do in their lives.: https://www.equip.org/articles/someone-love-says-im-gay/
20. 5 Ways Christian Parents Fail to Prepare Their Kids to Engage with Questions of Faith and Science: https://natashacrain.com/5-ways-christian-parents-fail-to-prepare-their-kids-to-engage-with-questions-of-faith-and-science/
21. The Book of Mormon problems with reliability and consistency | carm.org: https://carm.org/mormonism/problems-with-the-book-of-mormon/
22. 7 Tips For Apologetics Judo Intelligent Christian Faith – Apologetics can be modeled after any number of other helpful analogies, for example (1) Cultivating an Intellectual Garden, (2) Worldview Surgery, (3) Theological Housecleaning, or (4) Ideological Homebuilding, etc. etc.: https://intelligentchristianfaith.com/2015/06/14/philosophical-judo-apologetics-as-a-martial-art/
23. How Geographic Separation Affirms the Reliability of the New Testament | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/how-geographic-separation-affirms-the-reliability-of-the-new-testament/
24. Should We Expose Students to Arguments Against | Sean McDowell – Sheltering students from beliefs contrary to Christianity is a big mistake. Let me say it again, to be sure it sinks in: Sheltering students from arguments for other religions, or against Christianity, is a bad strategy for developing them as disciples in the faith.: https://seanmcdowell.org/blog/should-students-be-exposed-to-evidence-against-christianity
25. The Ambassador Model – Here’s the model we use at Stand to Reason to help us fulfill Paul’s admonition to be ambassadors for Christ: https://www.str.org/w/the-ambassador-model
26. 5 Things Christian Parents Must Do to Raise Godly Children in a Secular World: https://crossexamined.org/5-things-christian-parents-must-do-to-raise-godly-children-in-a-secular-world/
27. The Relationship Between Arguments and Persuasion THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM: https://chab123.wordpress.com/2021/05/12/the-relationship-between-arguments-and-persuasion/
28. Why Would Scholars Leave Mormonism? Interview with | Sean McDowell: https://seanmcdowell.org/blog/why-would-scholars-leave-mormonism-interview-with-author-corey-miller
29. The Story of Reality – YouTube – Every religion, every worldview is telling a story. They’re trying to take the things we know about the world and fit them together into a big picture. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxU0UNlnnOA
30. Is The Bible Relevant Today? | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/is-the-bible-relevant-today/
31. If God knew that Satan would rebel, why did He create him? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/if-God-knew.html
32. Should we trust the Bible? – creation.com – How should we answer those who claim that it’s been re-written so many times that we no longer have the original? And even if we do, was it written long after the events it claimed to report? Also, does archaeology disprove the Bible? Finally, even if it is true, what’s the point? https://creation.com/trust-the-bible
33. A RESPONSE TO BART D. EHRMANS MISQUOTING JESUS – this is a 60 page PDF containing a point by point response to Ehrman’s book: http://www.isca-apologetics.org/sites/default/files/papers/Jared%20Martinez/Howe-AResponseToBartEhrman.pdf
34. Where are the Kantian Agnostics? | Tough Questions Answered: https://www.toughquestionsanswered.org/2011/11/07/where-are-the-kantian-agnostics/
35. Who was J. C. Ryle? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/J-C-Ryle.html
36. Eve and the definition of a woman – creation.com: https://creation.com/eve-defining-woman

Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks. Acts 18:4

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (9-8-2022)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2300) from Nuggets:

Sorrow and sickness, and poverty, and persecution, can never touch them (servants of Christ in every age), unless God sees fit. They may boldly say to every cross—”You could have no power against me, except it were given you from above.”  – J.C. Ryle

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. Satanists’ Prayer Stunt Is To Shush Christians, Not Speak Freely: https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/01/satanists-prayer-stunt-isnt-about-free-speech-its-about-silencing-christians/
2. Islam Advances by the Sword (Hank Unplugged Short) | Christian Research Institute: https://www.equip.org/hank-unplugged-shorts/islam-advances-by-the-sword-hank-unplugged-short/
3. Do moral dilemmas undermine objective moral absolutes? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2022/09/01/do-moral-dilemmas-undermine-objective-moral-absolutes-4/
4. Mormon Jesus vs Bible Jesus – Jeff Durbin – YouTube: https://youtu.be/39EO83sbWWk
5. Who created God? | John Lennox at UCLA – YouTube: https://youtu.be/UIknACeeS0g
6. Tips for Memorizing a Book of the Bible: https://www.str.org/w/tips-for-memorizing-a-book-of-the-bible
7. 5 Apologetics Questions Every Christian Should Learn How to Answer – Blog – Eternal Perspective Ministries: https://www.epm.org/blog/2021/Aug/9/five-apologetics-questions
8. In This Day and Age, Evangelism Is Spelled: A-P-O-L-O-G-E-T-I-C-S | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/in-this-day-and-age-evangelism-is-spelled-a-p-o-l-o-g-e-t-i-c-s/
9. Exclusivity Claims of Major World Religions – Christian Apologetics Alliance: http://christianapologeticsalliance.com/2017/08/02/exclusivity-claims-major-world-religions/
10. Jesus Calling: Channeling A False Christ | Reasons for Jesus – Jesus Calling by Sarah Young, and other similar books by her, have multiplied themselves into a publishing empire with offerings of Jesus Calling books for teens and for children, calendars, special editions, accompanying journals, a Jesus Calling Bible Storybook, and even a Jesus Calling Devotional Bible. This is not a conventional review of the book or her story, nor is the purpose to analyze the whole content. Although several troubling areas are addressed, this paper is a response primarily to two issues: 1) The claims made by Young regarding what she wrote and the alleged words spoken to her by Jesus; and 2) Young’s admission that a primary influence on her was the book, God Calling, by Two Listeners. Due to Young’s admiration for and admitted inspiration from this latter book, it will also be examined.: https://reasonsforjesus.com/jesus-calling-channeling-a-false-christ/
11. Why Apologetics Has a Bad Name | Sean McDowell: https://seanmcdowell.org/blog/why-apologetics-has-a-bad-name
12. The Shack Movie Review Heresy, Universalism, & False Gospel | Reasons for Jesus: https://reasonsforjesus.com/the-shack-movie-review-heresy-universalism-false-gospel/
13. Free Apologetics E-Book Library: http://truthbomb.blogspot.com/2009/07/free-apologetics-e-book-library.html
14. What to say to Mormons – 2. The Bible is Reliable – bethinking.org: https://www.bethinking.org/mormons/what-to-say-to-mormons/3-the-bible-is-reliable
15. The Potters Hands A very handy thing to have – creation.com: https://creation.com/potters-hands
16. 50 Alleged Bible Contradictions Refuted | The Domain for Truth: https://veritasdomain.wordpress.com/2017/10/16/50-alleged-bible-contradiction-refuted/
17. Why Did Jesus Have To Die? Couldn’t God Just Forgive Sins?: https://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/why-did-jesus-have-to-die-couldnt-god-just-forgive-sins/
18. How Does the Old Testament Law Apply to Christians Today?: https://www.str.org/w/how-does-the-old-testament-law-apply-to-christians-today-#.WkD-aN-nGUk
19. Lobster eye design – New design innovations from biomimetics – creation.com – The exquisite designs of the organisms on Earth have served as inspiration to countless engineers and scientists. Important inventions, such as Velcro or the airplane, owe their inceptions to those who first observed these qualities in Gods handiwork and then sought to mimic these abilities.: https://creation.com/lobster-eye-design
20. The Kalaam Cosmological Argument: Short, Sweet, and Stout Pastor Brian Chilton: https://pastorbrianchilton.wordpress.com/2013/09/27/the-kalaam-cosmological-argument-short-sweet-and-stout/
21. American Atheists Hide Behind the Fairy Tale of Evolution – The American Vision: https://americanvision.org/11504/american-atheists-hide-behind-fairy-tale-evolution/
22. The Right and Wrong Reasons to Pursue Apologetics THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM: https://chab123.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/the-right-and-wrong-reasons-to-pursue-apologetics/
23. The Three Ds of Tolerance | Cold Case Christianity – Of the many self-refuting statements offered on college campuses across America, perhaps the most dangerous for Christians is the new definition of tolerance.: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/the-three-ds-of-tolerance/
24. What does it mean to say Christianity is true? THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM: https://chab123.wordpress.com/2018/03/05/what-does-it-mean-to-say-christianity-is-true-3/
25. Who Decided What Books to Include in the Bible? 5 Principles – The Stream: https://stream.org/decided-books-include-bible-5-principles/
26. 10 Reasons to Accept the Resurrection of Jesus as an Historical Fact: https://crossexamined.org/10-reasons-accept-resurrection-jesus-historical-fact/
27. 3 Startling Truths about the Early Church from the Pre-New Testament Texts: https://crossexamined.org/3-startling-truths-early-church-pre-new-testament-texts/
28. Responding to the objection by Christians who say I don’t need any evidence for my faith! THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM: https://chab123.wordpress.com/2018/04/02/responding-to-the-objection-by-christians-who-say-i-dont-need-any-evidence-for-my-faith-4/
29. Dr. Walter Bradley lectures on scientific evidence the creation and design of the universe | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2018/04/27/dr-walter-bradley-lectures-on-scientific-evidence-the-creation-and-design-of-the-universe/
30. Undesigned Coincidences and the Reliability of Scripture: https://thedailyapologist.com/blog/undesigned-coincidences-and-the-reliability-of-scripture
31. Five Steps to Help Your Child Remain a Christian Into Adulthood | Beyond Teachable Moments: https://beyondtm.wordpress.com/2014/11/24/five-steps-to-help-your-child-remain-a-christian-into-adulthood/
32. Does the church do a good job of equipping Christians to talk to non-Christians? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2014/10/19/does-the-church-do-a-good-job-of-equipping-christians-to-talk-to-non-christians-2/
33. Do faith in God and science contradict? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/science-God.html
34. Minimal Facts Argument for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ | Worldview of Jesus: https://worldviewofjesus.com/2013/02/03/minimal-facts-argument-for-the-resurrection-of-jesus-christ/
35. A Stone in His Shoe – In some circles there’s pressure for Christian ambassadors to close the sale as soon as possible. When pressed for time, get right to the meat of the message. Get to the Gospel. If the person doesn’t respond, you’ve still done your part. Shake the dust off your feet and move on. A wise ambassador, though, seasons his words. He weighs his opportunities and adopts an appropriate strategy for each occasion. Sometimes, the simple truth of the cross is all that’s needed. The fruit is ripe for harvesting. Bump it and it falls into your basket. Usually, though, the fruit is not ripe; the nonbeliever is simply not ready. He may not even have begun to think about Christianity in the right way.: https://www.str.org/w/a-stone-in-his-shoe
36. Apologists are Fighting the Wrong Battle – Capturing Christianity: https://capturingchristianity.com/apologists-are-fighting-the-wrong-battle/
37. 5 Terrible Reasons Your Kids May Think They Can Outgrow Christianity: https://natashacrain.com/5-terrible-reasons-your-kids-may-think-they-can-outgrow-christianity/
38. Why Aren’t More Women Interested in Apologetics?: https://www.str.org/w/why-aren-t-more-women-interested-in-apologetics-
39. Should Christians Ever Offend Anyone? | Answers in Genesis – Clearing Up Misconceptions – Do Christians need to avoid offending anyone? What does Paul mean when he says to give no offense in anything? Jeremy Ham, AiGUS, explains.: https://answersingenesis.org/bible-questions/christians-should-never-offend-anyone/
40. 4 Reasons It is Critical to Believe the Bible Is God’s Word | Sean McDowell: https://seanmcdowell.org/blog/4-reasons-it-is-critical-to-believe-the-bible-is-gods-word
41. 3 Logical Fallacies to Avoid (and How to Tell When Someone Else is Committing Them) Apologetics for the Church: https://apolotheo.wordpress.com/2018/09/21/3-logical-fallacies-to-avoid-and-how-to-tell-when-someone-else-is-committing-them/
42. Ricochet Evangelism When we are sharing the Gospel or defending the reason for our hope, we may not be sharing it with the person we are sharing it with.: https://mrpatvincent.com/2018/09/25/ricochet-evangelism/
43. Jesus Specifically Said, I am God | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/jesus-specifically-said-i-am-god/

And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”  –Isaiah 6:3

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (9-1-2022)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2300) from Nuggets:

The thought of delight in religion is so strange to most men, that no two words in their language stand further apart than “holiness” and “delight.” But believers who know Christ, understand that delight and faith are so blessedly united, that the gates of hell cannot prevail to separate them. – Charles Spurgeon

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. Contend Earnestly for the Faith (Greg Koukl – Solid Ground): https://www.str.org/w/contend-earnestly-for-the-faith
2. The Crucifixion and Old Testament Prophecy: https://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/crucifixion-and-old-testament-prophecy
3. 47 Old Testament Prophecies About Jesus: https://www.learnreligions.com/prophecies-of-jesus-fulfilled-700159
4. God, the universe, tolerance and suffering – creation.com: https://creation.com/god-the-universe-tolerance-and-suffering
5. What are historical facts of Jesus and crucifixion- Nabeel Qureshi – YouTube: https://youtu.be/9JNbdt2mZ5E
6. Claim Being Made that Biden Student Loan Payoff is Christ-like, Is This Correct? Kingsjester’s Blog: https://kingsjestersblog.com/2022/08/28/dems-claim-biden-student-loan-payoff-is-christ-like-are-you-kidding-me/
7. Are We Really Full of Junk DNA? | The Creation Podcast: Episode 30 – YouTube – Is it really true that less than 2% of genes are functional? Is the other 98% just “junk?” In episode 30 of The Creation Podcast, host Lauren Pennington and ICR geneticist Dr. Jeff Tomkins debunk misconceptions about the usefulness of genes. This episode will reveal some surprising facts about RNA production, regulatory functions of genes, and more!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0dPntyyCpU
8. I’m Sorry! But the Church Needs Apologetics Faith Beyond Belief: https://www.faithbeyondbelief.ca/blog/2015/09/03/im-sorry-but-the-church-needs-apologetics
9. Is the Christian Faith Evidentially Reasonable? | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/is-the-christian-faith-evidentially-reasonable/
10. I don’t see God. Therefore, God doesn’t exist: https://think-well.org/2015/09/05/i-dont-see-god-therefore-god-doesnt-exist/
11. Vital Function Found for Whale ‘Leg’ Bones | The Institute for Creation Research: https://www.icr.org/article/vital-function-found-for-whale-leg/
12. A Concise Summary of the Corporate View of Election and Predestination: http://evangelicalarminians.org/a-concise-summary-of-the-corporate-view-of-election-and-predestination/
13. I Came to Faith Through Apologetics | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/i-came-to-faith-through-apologetics/
14. If God Created The Universe, Who Created God?: https://crossexamined.org/if-god-created-the-universe-who-created-god/
15. Why Claiming Belief is a Psychological Crutch Backfires | Come Reason’s Apologetics Notes: https://apologetics-notes.comereason.org/2015/09/why-claiming-belief-is-psychological.html
16. Portrait of a Fanatic – A top physicists embarrassing tirade – Professor Lawrence M. Krauss (Atheist professor at Arizona State University) | National Review: https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/09/lawrence-krauss-physicist-fanatic/
17. What Ought We Make of the Word Proof? | Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D.: https://douglasgroothuis.com/2015/04/02/what-ought-we-make-of-the-word-proof/
18. Cleverly designed camel – creation.com – The camel – a drought-defying marvel of design. A wonderful water-conserving mammal: https://creation.com/cleverly-designed-camel
19. Think the Church’s Precarious Cultural Situation is Unique? Think Again – Canon Fodder: https://www.michaeljkruger.com/think-the-churchs-precarious-cultural-situation-is-unique-think-again/
20. Following Kitzmiller v. Dover, an Excellent Decade for Intelligent Design | Evolution News: https://evolutionnews.org/2015/09/following_dover/
21. Apologetics and Your Kids (4) Inculcating the Right Worldview DR. RELUCTANT: https://drreluctant.wordpress.com/2015/04/07/apologetics-and-your-kids-4-inculcating-the-right-worldview/
22. I Just Want To Know The Truth: The Absurdity Of Life Without God: https://blogabouttruth.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-absurdity-of-life-without-god.html
23. Isn’t the Bible Full of Contradictions? | Answers in Genesis – For many people, the belief that the Bible contains contradictions and inaccuracies is an excuse for not believing.: https://answersingenesis.org/contradictions-in-the-bible/isnt-the-bible-full-of-contradictions/
24. Nine Tips for Public Speaking | Sean McDowell: https://seanmcdowell.org/blog/tips-for-public-speaking
25. When Someone says the Bible can’t be Trusted. – New York Apologetics: http://www.newyorkapologetics.com/when-someone-says-the-bible-cant-be-trusted/
26. Eight Steps to Investigating the Case for Christianity | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/eight-steps-to-investigating-the-case-for-christianity/
27. The Tree of Life as a Challenge to Darwinism Denton on the Distinctness of Types | Evolution News: https://evolutionnews.org/2016/03/the_tree_of_lif/
28. Why Is It Wrong to Have Surgery to Alter Your Sex? – Stand to Reason (#STRAsk podcast): https://subspla.sh/g9czztd
29. Families Don’t Need Disney Anymore. Does Disney Need Them?: https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/31/faith-centered-families-dont-need-disney-anymore-but-does-disney-need-them/
30. Rhetoric: This is a full text-book (not a Christian book, but useful to anyone trying to persuade by speaking or writing), designed for use in schools and colleges, and for private study : Haven, E. O. (Erastus Otis), 1820-1881 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/rhetorictextbook00haverich/page/vi/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater

because the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son. Hebrews 12:6

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (8-25-2022)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2300) from Nuggets:

I believe that a man of God—under trial and difficulty and affliction, bearing up, and patiently submitting with holy acquiescence and still rejoicing in God—is a real preacher of the Gospel, preaching with an eloquence which is mightier than words can ever be, and which will find its secret and silent way into the hearts of those who might have resisted other arguments! – Charles Spurgeon  

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. Knight and Rose Show Episode 19: The Historical Reliability of the Gospels | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2022/08/20/knight-and-rose-show-episode-19-the-historical-reliability-of-the-gospels/
2. Book Review: 40 Questions About Heaven and Hell (40 Questions Series) by Alan Gomes THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM: https://chab123.wordpress.com/2022/08/20/40-questions-about-heaven-and-hell-40-questions-series-by-alan-gomes/
3. The seven fatal flaws of moral relativism | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2022/08/22/the-seven-fatal-flaws-of-moral-relativism-8/
4. Texas Fire Dept. Chaplain Axed for Biblical View of Gender: https://washingtonstand.com/news/texas-fire-chaplain-axed-for-biblical-view-of-gender
5. First life arrival – creation.com – In this BBC-Discovery TV program Sir David Attenborough tells us his purpose is to look at the origin of life and for the very first living creature that appeared on Earth. As he presents the evolutionist worldview, we shall examine what he says and compare it with the biblical worldview.: https://creation.com/first-life-arrival
6. The Reliability of the Bible: 4 Quick Thoughts | ReasonableTheology.org: https://reasonabletheology.org/reliability-bible-4-quick-thoughts/
7. Designed by the Watchmaker – creation.com – William Paley (17431805) was an English archdeacon and theologian known mainly for a book he wrote. The book is Natural Theology: or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity Collected from the Appearance of Nature (he is less well known for his fervent opposition to slave trade and denunciation of slavery in an earlier book). It was very influential in the first half of the nineteenth century. In this book, Paley draws proof for the existence of a Creator from the design apparent in natural phenomena, and particularly in the human body.: https://creation.com/designed-by-the-watchmaker
8. Should Christians Use Evidence and Logic to Proclaim the Gospel?: http://askingthegodquestions.blogspot.com/2013/08/should-christians-use-evidence-and.html
9. The Perilous Pitfalls Facing Tent-Making Christian Case Makers | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/the-perilous-pitfalls-facing-tent-making-christian-case-makers/
10. Should We Go to Our Gay Neighbors’ Wedding?: https://probe.org/should-we-go-to-our-gay-neighbors-wedding/
11. How the presence and quality of fathers affects belief in God | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2015/10/04/how-the-presence-and-quality-of-fathers-affects-belief-in-god-3/
12. How Do You Best Handle Challenges to Your Faith? | Sean McDowell: https://seanmcdowell.org/blog/how-do-you-best-handle-challenges-to-your-faith
13. 5 Reasons Why the Church Should Care About Apologetics – Christian Week: https://www.christianweek.org/5-reasons-church-care-apologetics/
14. Tactics: the worst mistake a Christian can make when doing apologetics | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2016/01/29/tactics-the-worst-mistake-a-christian-can-make-when-doing-apologetics-2/
15. How Is Apologetics Bringing Christians Together? | Tough Questions Answered: https://www.toughquestionsanswered.org/2014/02/10/how-is-apologetics-bringing-christians-together/
16. 4 Key Points Christian Kids Need to Understand About Evolution: https://crossexamined.org/4-key-points-christian-kids-need-to-understand-about-evolution/
17. How other religions began vs. how Christianity began (1 minute video) – There is a huge difference between Christianity and other religions. Watch the video to find out how.: https://www.facebook.com/27769441696/videos/10153373385331697/
18. Answering the Skeptic: Is the Bible a Myth? – Come Reason Ministries: http://www.comereason.org/skeptic-bible.asp
19. Skateboarding and Darwinism | The Institute for Creation Research: https://www.icr.org/article/9292
20. 4 Pieces of Wisdom from a Street Level Apologist: https://crossexamined.org/4-pieces-of-wisdom-from-a-street-level-apologist/
21. So, You Just Became a Christian? – YouTube: https://youtu.be/idDoRftSuRU
22. What Made Paul Washer’s “Shocking Message” So Very Shocking? – YouTube: https://youtu.be/PH0mnIO9K7I
23. Are You Really A Christian? | Paul Washer – YouTube: https://youtu.be/6N7f8hvUMxg
24. The J.C. Ryle Archive – Since J.C. Ryle died in 1900, his writing are public domain and not copyrighted. So, you are able to use any of the materials on this site with no expressed permission. May the writings of J.C. Ryle help you become a more committed follower of Jesus Christ and compel you to good works. : https://www.jcryle.info/

since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities–his eternal power and divine nature–have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. Romans 1:19-20

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (8-11-2022)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2300) from Nuggets:

Unlike national Israel, God’s people, the new and true Israel, are an “inter-ethnic” church with a heavenly citizenship. – Paul Copan

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. 17 Year-Old British Podcast Host Interviews Dr. William Lane Craig (I didn’t notice until about ½ way through that the interviewer was not a Christian, but he’s very respectful and it was a good interview) – YouTube: https://youtu.be/Swk2eTmGHCE
2. How Mainstream Media Gaslights Christians (and Everyone Else Who Disagrees with Them): https://natashacrain.com/how-mainstream-media-gaslights-christians-and-everyone-else-who-disagrees-with-them/
3. Were penguins designed for freezing cold environments? – creation.com: https://creation.com/hot-and-cold-penguins
4. Climate totalitarianism | George’s Journal – your worldview greatly affects your view of the fate of the earth’s climate. Belief in a Creator and Sustainer changes your view of these things. As it says in the Bible, Genesis 8:22 “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”: https://georgesjournal.net/2022/08/09/climate-totalitarianism/
5. 10 Answers Every Creationist Should Know adamlickey.com: https://adamlickey.com/2012/10/02/10-answers-every-creationist-should-know/
6. Programming of Life – YouTube – An exploration of microbiology, information science, and the origin of life.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00vBqYDBW5s
7. Prof. John Lennox on His New Book Seven Days That Divide the World – On this episode of ID The Future, Jay Richards talks with Professor and author John Lennox about one of his latest books, Seven Days that Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis and Science. In his book, Lennox delves into controversial issues surrounding science and faith, answering common questions regarding apparent tensions between scripture and scientific evidence. Tune in as Professor Lennox demonstrates that science and faith are indeed compatible.: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/intelligentdesign/episodes/2013-02-25T16_29_26-08_00
8. Soul Searching : The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers … – Christian Smith Dr. William R Kenan Jr Professor of Sociology University of Notre Dame, Candidate University of North Carolina Melina Lundquist Denton Ph.D, Chapel Hill USA – Google Books (see snippet from pg. 89): https://books.google.com/books?id=AN85V20yRmQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=soul+searching+lundquist&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HE5wUffRLK264APGnYGIAw#v=onepage&q=intellectual&f=false
9. Christian Apologetics UK: Six short Pro-life responses to Six popular Pro-choice slogans – Part 1: https://apologeticsuk.blogspot.com/2013/07/six-short-pro-life-responses-to-six.html
10. I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist – Google Books (short book snippet regarding the quote “Please consider this question to see if you are open to acceptance [of Christianity]: If someone could provide reasonable answers to the most significant questions and objections you have about Christianity reasonable to the point that Christianity seems true beyond a reasonable doubt would you then become a Christian? Think about that for a moment. If your honest answer is no, then your resistance to Christianity is emotional or volitional, not merely intellectual. No amount of evidence will convince you because evidence is not what’s in your way you are. In the end, only you know if you are truly open to the evidence for Christianity.”): https://books.google.com/books?id=FPmV30uX1_4C&lpg=PA30&ots=d8nw3cVf5J&dq=Please+consider+this+question+to+see+if+you+are+open+to+acceptance+%5Bof+Christianity%5D:+If+someone+could+provide+reasonable+answers+to+the+most+significant+questions+and+objections+you+have+about+Christianity+%E2%80%93+reasonable+to+the+point+that+Christianity+seems+true+beyond+a+reasonable+doubt+%E2%80%93+would+you+then+become+a+Christian%3F++Think+about+that+for+a+moment.++If+your+honest+answer+is+no,+then+your+resistance+to+Christianity+is+emotional+or+volitional,+not+merely+intellectual.++No+amount+of+evidence+will+convince+you+because+evidence+is+not+what%E2%80%99s+in+your+way+%E2%80%93+you+are.++In+the+end,+only+you+know+if+you+are+truly+open+to+the+evidence+for+Christianity.&pg=PA30&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
11. Twenty good arguments for Christianity: http://pjsaunders.blogspot.com/2013/01/twenty-good-arguments-for-christianity.html
12. America’s Godly Heritage 1 – David Barton.flv – YouTube – Historian, Founder and President David Barton Wallbuilders, talks about Americas Godly Heritage – bulletproof George Washington and so so many inspiring lost American facts. This is just an introduction to the unbelievable forgotten information about our country. He restores your faith and hope in this great land.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pme3o0WimkU&list=PL9A8002C80FA935C5&index=1
13. I’m At Home With Evidentialism Because the Evidence Brought Me Home | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/im-at-home-with-evidentialism-because-the-evidence-brought-me-home/
14. Why 66? | Answers in Genesis – How can we be sure that we have the correct 66 books in our Bible? The Bible is a unique volume. It is composed of 66 books by 40 different writers over 1,500 years. But what makes it unique is that it has one consistent storyline running all the way through, and it has just one ultimate author – God. The story is about Gods plan to rescue men and women from the devastating results of the Fall, a plan that was conceived in eternity, revealed through the prophets, and carried out by the Son of God, Jesus Christ.: https://answersingenesis.org/the-word-of-god/why-66-books/
15. You want me to keep my what to myself? – Adam4d.com: https://adam4d.com/you-want-me-to-keep-my-what-to-myself/
16. Is the Church A Cruise Ship Or A Rescue Boat? | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/is-the-church-a-cruise-ship-or-a-rescue-boat/
17. If God Exists, Why Does He Allow Evil? | Watermark Community Church: https://www.watermark.org/message/2231-if-god-exists-why-does-he-allow-evil?autoplay=video
18. Top 10 Reasons the Church Is Losing Our Youth: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin-taylor/top-10-reasons-the-church-is-losing-our-youth/
19. Answering the Skeptic: Is the Bible a Myth? – Come Reason Ministries: http://www.comereason.org/skeptic-bible.asp
20. The Rosetta Stone, SETI, and the Existence of God | Come Reason’s Apologetics Notes: https://apologetics-notes.comereason.org/2014/10/the-rosetta-stone-seti-and-existence-of.html
21. Do We Really Need to Teach Our Kids Apologetics When God is in Control Anyway?: https://natashacrain.com/do-we-really-need-to-teach-our-kids-apologetics-when-god-is-in-control-anyway/
22. Biblical Insights into Todays Violent Mob Mentality | The Institute for Creation Research: https://www.icr.org/article/biblical-insights-todays-vmmentality/
23. One Question I Ask My Atheist Friends – Melissa Cain Travis: https://melissacaintravis.com/2013/12/11/the-one-question-i-ask-my-atheist-friends/
24. How Do I Share What I Believe? The Relationship Between Respect and Reach | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/how-do-i-share-what-i-believe-the-relationship-between-respect-and-reach/
25. How Certain Can We Be That Jesus Actually Died and Rose Again From the Dead? | Beyond Teachable Moments: https://beyondtm.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/how-certain-can-we-be-that-jesus-actually-died-and-rose-again-from-the-dead/
26. Ultimate Proof for Creation/God’s Existence | Presuppositional Apologetics | Dr. Jason Lisle – YouTube – In this teaching video, Dr. Jason Lisle talks about the ULTIMATE PROOF for God’s Existence, Creation and Creationism- Presuppositional Apologetics. The facts are that without the God of the Bible, we couldn’t:-Know Anything-Say Anything is Right or Wrong-Couldn’t Trust Our 5 Senses-Couldn’t Engage in Scientific Experimentation-Couldn’t Engage in Logical Discourse – In this teaching video, Dr. Jason Lisle talks about the ULTIMATE PROOF for God’s Existence, Creation and Creationism- Presuppositional Apologetics. The facts are that without the God of the Bible, we couldn’t: -Know Anything -Say Anything is Right or Wrong -Couldn’t Trust Our 5 Senses -Couldn’t Engage in Scientific Experimentation -Couldn’t Engage in Logical Discourse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j9-cyRbFcs
27. To Witness Like Jesus, Use Logic and Reason | Come Reason’s Apologetics Notes: https://apologetics-notes.comereason.org/2014/12/to-witness-like-jesus-use-logic-and.html
28. 10 Reasons Kids Leave the Church | Jim Daly: https://jimdaly.focusonthefamily.com/ten-reasons-kids-leave-the-church/
29. Why You Can Be Confident We Have the Original Bible Texts | Come Reason’s Apologetics Notes: https://apologetics-notes.comereason.org/2015/01/why-you-can-be-confident-we-have.html
30. Galapagos adaptation – creation.com – Surtsey: https://creation.com/galapagos-adaptation
31. Bone building: perfect protein (Osteocalcin) – creation.com: https://creation.com/bone-building-perfect-protein-osteocalcin
32. New study: women who have fewer premarital sex partners have lower risk of divorce | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2022/08/09/new-study-women-who-have-fewer-premarital-sex-partners-have-lower-risk-of-divorce-4/
33. The Legend of the Social Justice Jesus: https://www.str.org/w/the-legend-of-the-social-justice-jesus
34. How Could Adam Have Named All the Animals in a Single Day? | Answers in Genesis: https://answersingenesis.org/adam-and-eve/how-could-adam-have-named-all-the-animals-in-a-single-day/
35. The difference between proof and persuasion | with Jon Steingard – YouTube: https://youtu.be/AHiwu8DKC-4
36. Absolute Truth, Greg Laurie, from his worldview series – YouTube: https://youtu.be/5nYz6rNMdCw
37. Evolution’s fatal problem of non-standard genetic codes: https://creation.com/non-standard-genetic-codes

But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” Jude 1:9

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (6-16-2022)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2200) from Nuggets:

O Lord, I am astonished at the difference between my receivings and my deservings, between the state I am now in and my past gracelessness, between the heaven I am bound for and the hell I merit. – Valley of Vision

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. Three Realities Chance Can’t Explain That ID Can | Evolution News: https://evolutionnews.org/2022/06/three-realities-chance-cant-explain-that-intelligent-design-can/
2. Why The Bible Is Reliable – Dr. Frank Turek – YouTube: https://youtu.be/3f5Flb6LY4I
3. The Jehovah’s Witnesses Religion Quickly Explained and Refuted – YouTube: https://youtu.be/Kox1QCcaAsc
4. Science Confirms Biblical Creation – Dr. Jason Lisle – YouTube: https://youtu.be/Av3GycE9rms
5. William Lane Craig and James White debate Calvinism vs Molinism | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2022/06/11/william-lane-craig-and-james-white-debate-calvinism-vs-molinism-2/
6. New Discoveries on Shroud of Turin Directly Contradict 1988 Carbon Dating, Put It Roughly Around Judea Some 2,000 Years Ago: https://www.westernjournal.com/new-discoveries-shroud-turin-directly-contradict-1988-carbon-dating-puts-roughly-around-judea-2000-years-ago/
7. In the Morally Relevant Sense, it is Not a Woman’s Body – The Good Book Blog – Biola University: https://www.biola.edu/blogs/good-book-blog/2022/in-the-morally-relevant-sense-it-is-not-a-woman-s-body
8. Prepare to Stand – In October 2016, pastor Andrew Brunson was falsely accused of terrorism and held for two years in Turkish prisons. Following a worldwide prayer movement and significant political pressure from the U.S. government, he was released in October 2018. Since then, Andrew has felt an urgency for Christians in the West to prepare for a coming wave of hostility.: https://frc.org/preparetostand
9. A Christian Reacts to the Nupur Sharma Controversy – Former BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) spokesperson Nupur Sharma was suspended for saying (during a televised debate) that Muhammad married a young girl (Aisha). As protestors demand Sharma’s arrest or execution, and her defenders insist that she did nothing wrong, the controversy is escalating rapidly. What does an American Christian think about the Nupur Sharma controversy? David Wood discusses the issue.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6hDxPKyIYY
10. Smart slime – creation.com – the headaches it causes evolutionary scientists are less well publicized. Existing at the crossroads between the kingdoms of animals, plants and fungi,1 it has long defied evolutionists attempts to categorize it and the other slime moulds. In some ways its life cycle resembles that of a fungus, but partially also that of certain bacteria. Adding to the complication, Physarum makes its own cellulose, like plants do. Mostly, though, Physarum lives and feeds like a one-celled animal.: https://creation.com/smart-slime

Then they asked him, “Where is your father?” “You do not know me or my Father,” Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also.” John 8:19

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (6-9-2022)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2200) from Nuggets:

Christian, beware how thou thinkest lightly of sin. Take heed lest thou fall by little and little. Sin, a little thing? Is it not a poison? Who knows its deadliness? Sin, a little thing? Do not the little foxes spoil the grapes? Doth not the tiny coral insect build a rock which wrecks a navy? Do not little strokes fell lofty oaks? Will not continual droppings wear away stones? Sin, a little thing? It girded the Redeemer’s head with thorns, and pierced His heart! It made Him suffer anguish, bitterness, and woe. Could you weigh the least sin in the scales of eternity, you would fly from it as from a serpent, and abhor the least appearance of evil. Look upon all sin as that which crucified the Saviour, and you will see it to be “exceeding sinful”. – Charles Spurgeon

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. Tips for Discussing Abortion Online: https://www.str.org/w/tips-for-discussing-abortion-online
2. Clarks woodpecker – Amazing birds help trees with staggering feats of remembering: https://creation.com/clarks-woodpecker
3. Questions on Universal Salvation, Molinism, and the Burial of Jesus – Reasonable Faith App: https://subspla.sh/rs4mksb
4. Aren’t Some Unbelievers Sincerely Seeking Truth? – Stand to Reason: https://subspla.sh/gq6spcf
5. Since God Values Humility, Is He Against Certainty? – Stand to Reason: https://subspla.sh/pgrk69q
6. The Top 20 Discoveries About Jesus Outside the Bible – Cross Examined: https://subspla.sh/mvjpsm9
7. Christian Student Files Federal Lawsuit after Illinois University Punishes Her for Sharing Her Beliefs with Classmates – Milton Quintanilla: https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/milton-quintanilla/christian-student-files-federal-lawsuit-after-illinois-university-punishes-her-for-sharing-her-beliefs-with-classmates.html
8. Three Realities Chance Can’t Explain That Intelligent Design Can: https://evolutionnews.org/2022/06/three-realities-chance-cant-explain-that-intelligent-design-can/

The LORD works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed. Psalms 103:6

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (5-26-2022)

Good morning friends,

Here is are 2 random quotes (of over 2200) from Nuggets:

1. But the works of our Saviour were always present, for they were genuine: those that were healed, and those that were raised from the dead, who were seen not only when they were healed and when they were raised, but were also always present; and not merely while the Saviour was on earth, but also after his death, they were alive for quite a while, so that some of them lived even to our day. – Quadatrus of Athens in 125 AD (early extrabiblical apologetics writing)

2. Heart murmurs are abnormal flow patterns due to faulty heart valves. Heart valves act as doors to prevent the backward flow of blood into the heart. Spiritual heart murmurs occur when believers engage in complaining, gossip, disputes, and contention. Believers are instructed many times to avoid grumbling, murmuring, and complaining (Exodus 16:3; John 6:43; Philippians 2:14). By engaging in these activities, believers shift their focus away from the plans, purposes, and past blessings of God to the things of the world. God sees this as a lack of faith, and without faith, it is impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6). Instead, Christians are instructed to strive for contentment in all things, trusting in God to provide what is needed in His good time (Hebrews 13:5).  – Got Questions (from the article “What does it mean to guard your heart?”)

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. Eternally Miserable in Heaven — really? Think Divinely: https://thinkdivinely.com/eternally-miserable-in-heaven-really/
2. Take Every Thought Captive – What 1 Corinthians 10:5 Means & How to Do It: https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/prayer/take-your-thoughts-captive-509888.html
3. The Argument from Reason to God | Paul Gould Paul Gould: http://www.paul-gould.com/2015/04/08/the-argument-from-reason-to-god/
4. Evidence for design in living systems is changing the way scientists work | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2022/05/21/evidence-for-design-in-living-systems-is-changing-the-way-scientists-work/
5. Fine-Tuning Parameters | Evolution News: https://evolutionnews.org/i/fine-tuning-parameters/
6. (Eph. 2:8) Is faith the gift of God or is grace the gift of God? | Evidence Unseen: https://www.evidenceunseen.com/bible-difficulties-2/nt-difficulties/1-2-thessalonians/eph-28-is-faith-the-gift-of-god-or-is-grace-the-gift-of-god/
7. We Can Guess What Denomination You Are By How You Pray | The Babylon Bee: https://babylonbee.com/news/how-you-say-grace-and-what-that-says-about-your-theology
8. Distant starlight and the biblical timeframe | George’s Journal: https://georgesjournal.net/2022/05/23/distant-starlight-and-the-biblical-timeframe/
9. Patriarchs teeth – creation.com: https://creation.com/patriarchs-teeth
10. Genesis Apologetics – Did Dinosaurs Walk With Man? – YouTube: https://youtu.be/tdC4Jub9oNM
11. This Is About God! (Tucker Carlson) | WRETCHED RADIO – YouTube: https://youtu.be/StC8azGBa_c

The wise in heart accept commands, but a chattering fool comes to ruin. Proverbs 10:8

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (4-7-2022)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2200) from Nuggets:

Pastors will need to play a role in shoring up those they are called to shepherd. But there is another group that can help take some of the weight off our already overly burdened ministers: lay apologists. Lay apologists are Christians not already in full-time or paid ministry, but have the interest and equipping to carry out the task of apologetics. As a former lay apologist myself, I know how capable they are of carrying out this task. Unfortunately, too many of them are wasting their talents in endless debates with internet-based atheists. If you’re a lay apologist, I hope you’ll heed this call: This church needs your skills and training. – Joe Carter (from, New Age Beliefs Are Common in America and in Our Churches)

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. Jesus Is the Only Cure – People will go to hell not because they merely had a theological point wrong, but because they had a real disease (sin) and never got the only effective cure.: https://www.str.org/w/jesus-is-the-only-cure
2. Jesus: The Antidote – Jesus is an antidote to a deadly disease. Some people have the symptoms of the disease more obviously or in a greater manner than others. But everybody is sick.: https://www.str.org/w/jesus-the-antidote
3. Are You Telling Me I’m Going to Hell Because I Don’t Believe in Jesus? | Thinking to Believe: https://thinkingtobelieve.com/2006/04/12/are-you-telling-me-im-going-to-hell-because-i-dont-believe-in-jesus/
4. A Ten Minute Witness – bethinking.org – I had a conversation today that I wish you could have eavesdropped on. It was that precious. I was preparing for the show about an hour ago at my home and I heard a knock at the door.: https://www.bethinking.org/apologetics/a-ten-minute-witness
5. Persuasion the Centre Piece of Effective Evangelism – bethinking.org – Persuasion is a pivotal word in understanding evangelism, but it has for a long time been overlooked. I have been to countless training sessions and read numerous books on evangelism, where neither the word nor even the idea have been mentioned at all. Even a Dictionary of Apologetics and an Encyclopedia of Apologetics on my shelves do not have entries under the P word. Yet, if you take persuasion out of evangelism, you are left with unpersuasive evangelism.: https://www.bethinking.org/apologetics/persuasion-the-centre-piece-of-effective-evangelism
6. New video series on intelligent design starts off discussing the Cambrian explosion | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2022/03/31/new-video-series-on-intelligent-design-starts-off-discussing-the-cambrian-explosion/
7. What if your science class contradicts the Bible? – YouTube – What if something you learn in science class seems to totally contradict something you read in the Bible? Does that mean either your professor or pastor can’t be trusted? Or is it better to separate the scientific data from our Biblical beliefs? So many questions! In this video, Frank breaks it all down and explains how we can believe both science and the Bible to be true.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjcQeBYmbhY
8. How Free Grace Theology Diminishes the Gospel – We can’t preach the full gospel without preaching repentance.: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/free-grace-theology/
9. What is the difference between a Christian and a disciple? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/Christian-disciple.html
10. Disney Executives Admit: Of Course We’re Grooming Your Children: https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/30/disney-executives-admit-of-course-were-grooming-your-children/
11. What should parents think about Disney’s position on grooming children for sex? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2022/04/03/what-should-parents-think-about-disneys-position-on-grooming-children-for-sex/
12. What does it mean to take up your cross daily? Luke 9:23 commentary: https://activechristianity.org/what-does-it-mean-to-take-up-your-cross-daily
13. When Debating Biblical Inspiration, Let God Do the Heavy Lifting. A woman I once spoke with expressed frustration with a friend who had dismissed the Bible as only written by men. Her insistence that the words were inspired by God was no help. Instead, it led to a fruitless cycle: The Bible is God’s Word.  But it was just written by men. But God inspired those men. But men make mistakes. Round and round they went, going nowhere. Maybe you’ve encountered this problem, too. Here’s one way you might respond: Give specific reasons why it’s reasonable to believe the Bible is a supernatural book of divine authorship and not merely the musings of men.: https://www.str.org/w/when-debating-biblical-inspiration-let-god-do-the-heavy-lifting
14. Can We Trust the Bible? Brett Kunkle – Classically, Christians have defended their view of God not with mere appeals to subjective experience but from what they take to be Gods voice recorded in the Bible. Do Christians have good reason to think God has spoken through the Bible? Yes. Not only do we have overwhelming evidence the Bible has been reliably passed down for almost 2,000 years, but there is good reason to think it is covered with divine fingerprints.: https://www.str.org/w/can-we-trust-the-bible-
15. Can a Person Be Saved through General Revelation? Greg and Amy consider examples of salvation from the Old Testament next to what Paul writes about general revelation and salvation in Romans. (clip from the #STRAsk podcast – 12 min): https://www.str.org/w/can-a-person-be-saved-through-general-revelation-1
16. Has God Spoken? Evidence For The Bible pt1 – (Bible Thinker) – How could you prove that God has communicated to us? What would be a reasonable way to show that God has spoken? This video answers that question and deals with false prophecies in preparation for the next video in this series, where we will begin to look at fulfilled prophecy in the Bible as proof that God has spoken.: https://biblethinker.org/has-god-spoken-evidence-for-the-bible-pt1/
17. Building A Solid Christian Worldview – Focus on the Family – Greg Koukl helps listeners discover, develop, and nurture a Christian worldview by examining the story of the Bible. Based on his book The Story of Reality , Greg Koukl offers believers a glimpse of the bigger picture, along with their role in the overarching Christian Story.: https://www.focusonthefamily.com/episodes/broadcast/building-a-solid-christian-worldview/
18. Sing a Little Louder – Pro-life Version on Vimeo – This well-done, 10-minute video makes a powerful pro-life point.: https://vimeo.com/144427221?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=45362802&fbclid=IwAR3H83oV8Dgfb0LNairYM-m6iVx989oo1Aw6tbfzuvkFLwtus7OOZgDaOzA
19. Kirk Cameron is joined by Greg Koukl and Allie Beth Stuckey to discuss the importance of discerning truth.: https://watch.tbn.org/videos/hd-kct0017?fbclid=IwAR10A5UVDgdThbMYp-UkCsO295nEIj9xKYxLxdUtlrZNulXSZIK1PeV2Xu4
20. How to Have a Conversation: Engaging Controversial Topics – YouTube – You’re in a conversation with a coworker and they’re pretty vocal about a controversial topic. You want to say something, but you’re having a hard time gathering the confidence to respond. What would you say? Questions are a risk-free way to engage in a conversation, giving you latitude, liberty and effectiveness, without assuming too much responsibility. They can be used to engage a close friend or a complete stranger. The next time you’re in a conversation and don’t know how to proceed. Here are three things to remember: First, don’t immediately try to answer the challenge or run from it. Second, gather Intel about the challenge. Third, always ask for clarification with some form of this question: What do you mean by that?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJSG6BOWiEI
21. How to Have a Conversation: Difficult Circumstances – YouTube – You’re in a conversation and someone keeps interrupting you or you’re in a conversation and someone complains it’s bigoted to think that Jesus is the only way to God or you’re in a conversation, and someone says, You’re a Christian because you live in America. If you lived in Iran, you’d be a Muslim. What would you say? Here’s some other tips to help you handle difficult circumstances you may run into as a follower of Christ. Number one: When someone keeps interrupting you, stop them gently and ask for equal time. Number two: When someone raises an issue that Jesus himself has spoken about, enlist him as your ally. Number three: When someone challenges Christianity based on something about you, ask So what? : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64dZhJGmBgg
22. Does Science Argue for or against God? – YouTube – Why are we here? Literally. The latest science says we shouldn’t be. It says that the chance life exists at all is less than zero. So, is science the greatest threat to the idea of Intelligent Design or is science its greatest advocate? Best-selling author and lecturer, Eric Metaxas, poses this intriguing question and comes up with a very unexpected and challenging answer.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjGPHF5A6Po
23. Does God Exist? 4 New Arguments – YouTube – Science tells us that the universe came into being via The Big Bang. But how do you get from energy and matter to a self-aware human being? That takes three additional Big Bangs that science can’t explain. Noted theologian, Frank Pastore, unravels this compelling mystery and, in the process, poses the ultimate question that every thinking person must face.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIorXcloIac
24. God and Suffering – YouTube – Isn’t human suffering proof that a just, all-powerful God must not exist? On the contrary, says Boston College Professor of Philosophy Peter Kreeft. How can “suffering” exist without an objective standard against which to judge it? Absent a standard, there is no justice. If there is no justice, there is no injustice. And if there is no injustice, there is no suffering. On the other hand, if justice exists, God exists. In five minutes, learn more.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNtz5wgnopQ
25. Suffering and Evil: The Logical Problem – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k64YJYBUFLM
26. Why does God let people suffer? Why is there so much evil in the world? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2022/04/05/why-does-god-let-people-suffer-why-is-there-so-much-evil-in-the-world-7/
27. How To Raise Kids When Leaving Public Schools Is Not An Easy Option: https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/06/how-to-raise-sane-kids-when-leaving-public-schools-is-not-an-easy-option/
28. Cambrian Explosion: More Woes and Dodges | Evolution News: https://evolutionnews.org/2022/03/cambrian-explosion-more-woes-and-dodges/
29. Monthly Report April 2022 – William Lane Craig: https://pages.e2ma.net/pages/1787618/34807?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=READ%20MORE&utm_campaign=April%20MR%20-%202022

For we are taking pains to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord but also in the eyes of men. 2 Corinthians 8:21

Blessings to you all

mid-week apologetics booster (3-17-2022)

Good morning friends,

Here is a random quote (of over 2200) from Nuggets:

While I hope for pardon through the blood of the cross, I pray to be clothed with humility, to be quickened in thy way, to be more devoted to thee, to keep the end of my life in view, to be cured of the folly of delay and indecision, to know how frail I am, to number my days and apply my heart unto wisdom. – Valley of Vision

To view more of these quotes, visit:

http://www.ps11911.com/bible-app/browseQuotes

Now, here are your weekly links:

1. Saint Patrick & the times he live in — How he “…found Ireland all heathen and left it all Christian!” – American Minute with Bill Federer: https://americanminute.com/blogs/todays-american-minute/saint-patrick-found-ireland-all-heathen-and-left-it-all-christian-american-minute-with-bill-federer
2. Who was St. Patrick? Christian History Made Easy – Did St. Patrick really drive all the snakes out of Ireland? Was he even a saint? : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Ahgnpf3G4
3. Did thousands of women die in back alley abortions before Roe v. Wade? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2022/03/11/did-thousands-of-women-die-in-back-alley-abortions-before-roe-v-wade-4/
4. IRAQ Maria, 20, killed in Erbil by relatives for converting to Christianity: https://www.asianews.it/news-en/Maria,-20,-killed-in-Erbil-by-relatives-for-converting-to-Christianity-55319.html
5. ‘Where Did God Come From’ by Dr. Kent Hovind – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3kWO3qeKKs
6. Are Christians the New Extremists? Yes, and That’s Okay. – God is the ultimate guess: https://natashacrain.com/are-christians-the-new-extremists-yes-and-thats-okay/
7. Renewing Your Mind | Law of Causality | Mar 12, 2022: http://www.ligonier.org/rym/broadcasts/audio/law-of-causality-march-2022/
8. Should Christians stockpile food/supplies in preparation for a possible future disaster? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/Christian-stockpiling.html
9. The De-conversion of American “Christians”: https://godcangodcares.com/the-deconversion-of-american-christians-2/
10. Common Objections to Christianity from Skeptics by Steve Hays: https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/qa_steve_hays.html
11. Primacy of Peter – Wikipedia – not that I agree with everything in this article, but it does present the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant views: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primacy_of_Peter

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power. 1 Corinthians 4:20

Blessings to you all