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Mark is the Gospel for outsiders
Carson Weitnauer lists Six Easy Ways to Add Apologetics to Your Sermons, fleshed out on his blog, Reasons for God: 1. Explain the historical context of the passage. 2. Compare and contrast Christianity...
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The true meaning of Christmas
Source: Nativity Story movie http://www.warnerbros.com Christmas, whatever its true date, is when God became one of us, so that when the time came, he could demonstrate, by dying for us, that he loves...
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Luke’s orderly birth narrative for the healthy skeptic
Below is my summary of the sermon, He Came to Us: Knowing we are skeptics, preached by Jim Applegate out of Luke 1. It is the third part in a four part series of the significance of Christmas in each...
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A Christmas Carol versus the gospel
The first three parts of the Christmas sermon series, “He Came to Us: Four Gospels – Four Perspectives,” preached by Redeemer’s lead elder, Jim Applegate, are subtitled, “Matthew: In our brokenness,”...
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Poll: What grounds objective moral truth?
Choose one option from this poll: The good is a construct of God, man or nature. God wills the good in accordance with his loving nature. Nothing, there are only constructs which do not obligate. In...
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Community Apologetics: Starting with your family
Before you venture out on your voyage to becoming a community apologist, it’s time for a status check. Fellow CAA blogger, Austin Gravley, points out that becoming a community apologist ripples out...
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A Different Argument from Morality
The Moral Argument I don’t like the traditional version of this argument that argues from the moral law to a moral law-giver: Traditional Argument from Morality Premise 1: There is an objective moral...
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If God is good and all-powerful, why does he not prevent evil, suffering and...
The problem: If God is good and all-powerful, why would he allow evil and suffering, and send people to hell? Here are 3 things to consider. 1. Unconditional love is impossible if suffering and evil...
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Did the concept of monotheism socially evolve?
This post gives a glimpse of “Eternity in Their Hearts” by Don Richardson, who is recognized for his anthropological and linguistic work among the Sawi people of Irian Jaya. Edward B. Tyler’s theory...
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Is #Gosnell #INHUMAN?
Happening now is the #INHUMAN TweetFest, from 8am-8pm in whatever timezone you happen to inhabit. The goal of this event is to raise awareness about late-term abortion. A legitimate question was raised...
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Defining the good: The Golden Rule
http://www.pflaum.com A major argument for God’s existence is that, if there is no God, there is no “true” good, because truth is that which corresponds to reality, to real being. A common...
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Does the evidence matter, or is it mere distraction?
What miraculous event would remove all doubt that God exists? I spent some time as an atheist in my early-to-mid twenties. I knew there was no convincing evidence for God’s existence. I didn’t buy the...
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Poem: Does God allow evil and suffering?
Does God allow evil and suffering?Yes. Can you look me level in the eyes and tell me what some people do to hurt little kids is not evil?No. Evil is real, but how can someone who doesn’t exist allow...
View ArticleWho needs answers when nobody’s askin’?
By Maryann Spikes. This is written to those of you who consider yourselves Christians but think you don’t need answers to tough questions because you don’t ask them and nobody asks them of you. I am...
View ArticleApologetics youth leader Q&A: What works?!
I asked members of the CAA and subgroups: “If you lead a youth group that successfully incorporates apologetics, I need to know as soon as possible. I want to brag about your success to other youth...
View ArticleInitial Thoughts: Copan & Litwak’s “The Gospel in the Marketplace of Ideas”
The CAA is participating in Apologetics 315’s weekly Read Along program. We are reading “The Gospel in the Marketplace of Ideas: Paul’s Mars Hill Experience for Our Pluralistic World” by Paul Copan and...
View ArticleDoes The Moral Argument Reify Subjective Morality?
Matthew Lawrence wrote in this question and gave permission to blog it and my answer below: Hello Christian Apologetics Alliance. I would like to first off say thank you for the resources that you’ve...
View ArticleThe Gospel in the Marketplace of Ideas
The CAA read The Gospel in the Marketplace of Ideas: Paul’s Mars Hill Experience for Our Pluralistic World by Paul Copan and Kenneth D. Litwak, as part of Apologetics 315’s weekly Read Along program....
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