Is the Bible from God?
Is the Bible really from God? I just did a workshop on this very topic for about sixty 5th and 6th graders at Bayside Church in Granite Bay, CA. I wanted to help Christian kids talk about this stuff with their friends. But I knew it had to be simple to get and easy to […]
Smooth Stones by Joe Coffey
Smooth Stones Here's my review of a quick read that packs a punch. It's called, Smooth Stones: Bringing Down the Giant Questions of Apologetics by Joe Coffey. This book covers key ideas you'd expect to find in an intro to apologetics--but without a lot of the jargon we've become so accustom to. Especially if you've […]
Review: Generation Ex-Christian
Let's talk about Drew Dyck's book, Generation Ex-Christian: Why Young Adults are Leaving the Faith... And How to Bring them Back. As a former youth pastor, I heard the stat over and over again: "70% of young people leave the church by the time they're 22." But why? This book sheds some light on this […]
Science and Christianity: Not Oil and Water
Today, I’m pleased to feature an exclusive guest post by my friend, Melissa C. Travis---a graduate student in the Science and Religion program at Biola University. She's also a fellow apologetics blogger. Melissa blogs at http://www.hard-corechristianity.com. Hot Topic: Science and Religion Mature Christians have an insatiable desire for knowledge of God. We study Scripture to […]
Worldviews Shaping Culture: Can You Name America's Top 3?
You've got a worldview. Everyone does. What's a worldview? It's everything you believe about what's real and what really matters in life. Ronald Nash defines it like this in his book, Worldviews In Conflict: A worldview is a set of presuppositions (or assumptions) which we hold (either consciously or subconsciously) about the basic makeup of […]