It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.
If life can emerge just from naturalistic circumstances, then God is out of a job.
Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.
I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.
Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.
Nobody is beyond the reach of the Gospel.
The Internet has helped atheists and agnostics coalesce as never before.
Learning about the intellectual basis for Christianity bolsters the faith of Christians-espe cially those who may be experiencing doubts-and prepares them to share Christ with others.
Acrid bitterness inevitably seeps into the lives of people who harbor grudges and suppress anger, and bitterness is always a poison. It keeps your pain alive instead of letting you deal with it and get beyond it. Bitterness sentences you to relive the hurt over and over.
I think it’s very healthy to use journalistic and legal techniques to investigate the evidence for and against Christianity and other faith systems.
Faith is only as good as the one in whom it’s invested.
All we needed when we first came to Jesus was his grace, and grace is all we need to grow in Christ. Grace liberates us. Our tendency toward performance imprisons us.
God didn’t let Job suffer because he lacked love, but because he did love, in order to bring Job to the point of encountering God face to face, which is humanity’s supreme happiness. Job’s suffering hollowed out a big space in him so that God and joy could fill it.
Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose? Sir John Templeton.
The Jews proposed the ridiculous story that the guards had fallen asleep. Obviously, they were grasping at straws. But the point is this: they started with the assumption that the tomb was vacant! Why? Because they knew it was!
These are his people, this congregation of misfits, crack addicts, and drunks, the unshaven, unwashed, unemployed, and unwanted.
It’s hard to think seriously about grace until you understand that you’ve failed morally and will someday stand accountable before a holy God.
Wishful thinking doesn’t change reality.
Satan greets people in hell by saying: “You’ll find that there’s no right or wrong here – just what works for you.
Paul himself says that he was converted to a follower of Jesus because he had personally encountered the resurrected Jesus.12 So we have Jesus’ resurrection attested by friend and foe alike, which is very significant.