Preaching (as well as teaching) can be difficult, and it’s a skill that must be cultivated. Transitions in public speaking can make the difference between losing your audience and engaging them. Here are 8 great tips.
Church attendance is down because governments are restricting the size of public gatherings. COVID-19 is today’s pandemic, but the principles involved in whether churches obey or disobey such restrictions are timeless.
The argument from martyrdom suggests that Jesus’ disciples could have escaped death by recanting their testimony about Jesus, but chose not to… leading us to conclude that they really believed He has risen from the dead. Is this a good argument?
Popular culture often tells us that sex is really important, but who you have sex with is irrelevant. Culture also tells us that sex is only a physical act, and that relationship commitments are largely irrelevant. How does that work out in real life?
It’s important to separate fact from fiction, and tradition from Scripture. Christmas is a holiday filled with tradition, which some confuse with information from the Bible. Quiz yourself!
Critics of Christianity often claim that efforts toward sexual purity are futile… that fulfilling our sexual desires are paramount to our humanity. Can one be both same-sex attracted and a faithful follower of Jesus?
Virtually everyone agrees that human life has value. Christians believe that we are valuable because we are valued by God, and created in His image. If God doesn’t exist, we can’t show that we have value.
David Hume (born 1711) was a scholar and skeptic who argued that miracles aren’t possible. Despite the weakness of this argument, his influence over modern atheist thought can’t be overstated. Nathan Liddell offers a quick response.
Watch a man-on-the-street conversation between two Christians and several Mormons. The main topic is the difference between what the LDS teach about salvation and the biblical explanation of what saves us.
The pandemic has given us many reasons to stress and contemplate the future. Dr. Thom Rainer and Mark Clifton discuss the other side of the coin and give us five reasons pastors should have hope as we look to the post-pandemic era.
We all consume all kinds of things, all day, all the time. This Got Questions article isn't a condemnation of liking and having things, but a description of some of the consequences of focusing too directly on them.
A worldview is simply the way we see the world: where we come from, why we're here, and so on. Jesus contrasted the Kingdom of God with the way the rest of the world works, and taught that they were very different systems. Alan Shlemon of Stand to Reason explains that witnessing to others may include not only sharing the gospel, but explaining the differences between worldviews.
