“Paul’s word about being all things to all men and our Lord’s eating with publicans and sinners have been worked overtime to justify unwise sociability.”1 How true! Anyone who is concerned at all about worldliness in the church has had to listen to the proposition that Jesus was accepted and loved by sinners and they […]
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Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologet...
I am simply reporting on this 1999, 841 page reference book. I am not claiming to have read every entry! I have always enjoyed Geisler and appreciated his many contributions to philosophy, theology and apologetics. I also find myself reading in the field of apologetics because the ministry is very much a defense of what […]
Engaging the Closed Mind
I was not acquainted with Dan Story but I was personally involved in defending my faith when I found and read this book. It was one of the most helpful things I read at that time. The sub-title of the book is “Presenting your faith to the confirmed unbeliever.” Story draws on much experience at […]
Five Views on Apologetics
If you are interested in knowing whether you are Classical, Evidential, Cumulative, Presuppositional or Reformed in your apologetical approach to evangelism, you might try this book. This is one of the Counterpoints series edited by Stanley Gundry. Can you appeal to a lost man’s ability to reason spiritual things? Your answer to that question might […]
The Case for Faith
After having thoroughly enjoyed Stobel’s first book, The Case For Christ, I was eager to tackle this second one. These are apologetically laced with arguments for the validity of the Biblical record. I enjoy the interview style with some great American thinkers. The disappointment in the book is the interview with J.P. Moreland in which […]
Truth, Evangelism & the Postmodern Mind
This is a 3-tape series of messages presented at Trinity International University’s May 1998 conference “Telling the Truth: Evangelizing Postmoderns.” These messages are going to be part of a book coming out this year. You can buy the tapes through the Ravi Zacharias Ministries. Two tapes are by Zacharias and one is by Carson. Both […]
Christianity In The Dock
Do you really believe the masses will be Christian again? Nonsense! Never again. That tale is finished. No one will listen to it again. But we can hasten matters. The parsons will dig their own graves. They will betray their God to us. They will betray anything for the sake of their miserable jobs and […]
Redefinition Evangelism
The gospel partakes of what has been called the “scandal of particularity.” This particularity is sometimes embarrassing to Christians who want to be sophisticated and tolerant, but the specificity is essential to the gospel. Christianity is not a vague cosmic optimism, a utopian vision of everyone loving one another, a formula for success and happiness, […]
Ashamed of the Gospel
Ashamed Of The Gospel What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear, in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man. Albert Camus1 The above quote from a well-known unbeliever is an amazing admission of […]
Christmas Missions
Hail the heav’n-born Prince of Peace! Hail the Sun of Righteousness Light and life to all He brings, Ris’n with healing in His wings. Mild He lays His glory by, Born that man no more may die; Born to raise the sons of earth, Born to give them second birth. Hark! the herald angels sing, […]