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Review: “O” God – A Dialogue on Truth and Oprah’s Spirituality

Review: “O” God – A Dialogue on Truth and Oprah’s Spirituality

Summer is here! If you’re looking for some light reading that helps you understand where a lot of people are coming from when they think about spirituality, check out the book by Josh McDowell and Dave Sterret that’s been getting a lot of press recently: “O” God: A Dialogue on Truth and Oprah’s Spirituality. Even [...]

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No Room in the Inn? Why the Traditional Christmas Story is Wrong

No Room in the Inn? Why the Traditional Christmas Story is Wrong

Why History Matters I once heard a well-meaning Christian say something like, “Why study all this history stuff? The Bible says it. I believe, it. That’s the end of it!” But what about this? Reading what “the Bible says” is one thing. Getting “what the Bible means” is another. Case in point: Most people summarize [...]

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Youth Lesson: Truth Is Not Ice Cream

Youth Lesson: Truth Is Not Ice Cream

Talking About Objective Truth This semester, I had the opportunity to facilitate the very first apologetics series at Mosaic Christian Academy—a ministry that offers homeschooling students a classroom environment a couple of times a week. We celebrated with an ice cream social of sorts on the last day of school. I had the teens split [...]

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Missing Ending Exposed

Ever heard the parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant? While teaching Religion at University of Phoenix, I discovered this story in our textbook: “A famous story illustrates the relativity of truth. Several blind men touch the same elephant but experience it quite differently. The first man touches the ear and says it is a [...]

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William Lane Craig on Speaking the Truth in Love

William Lane Craig on Speaking the Truth in Love

William Lane Craig was my teacher This was while I was doing my graduate work at Biola University. In this post, I’ll share an important lesson I learned from William Lane Craig about speaking the truth in love. I remember how he began our “Philosophical Issues for Apologists” course by saying he often signs his books [...]

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