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April 25, 2017
I like to visit cemeteries because they remind me that I’m mortal and life is very short. Seeing the graves of people also focuses my attention upon eternal issues like what will await me after death. I like to think that reflecting upon my death will help me live a more authentic and focused life.
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April 18, 2017
It is hard to exaggerate the importance of Jesus’s resurrection to Christianity, for Christ’s resurrection truly stands at the very center of the Christian faith. It serves both as a crucial Christian doctrine and as the faith’s most potent argument:
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Resurrection
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Jesus Christ
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April 11, 2017
Does every historic movement emerge from a specific cause? If so, what caused the Christian religion to come into being? According to the original followers of Jesus of Nazareth, the church sprang into existence and was deeply shaped because of the truth of the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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Resurrection
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Jesus Christ
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April 4, 2017
Some people have had dramatic religious conversions. In fact, my three favorite Christian thinkers outside of the biblical authors—St. Augustine, Blaise Pascal, and C. S. Lewis—all experienced amazing life-changing conversions to Christianity. But there is one person whose conversion to the Christian faith changed the world forever.
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Resurrection
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Jesus Christ
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March 28, 2017
Today’s skeptics of Jesus’s resurrection sometimes state that religious people are too quick to accept reports about miracles. Those who doubt the miraculous often insist that miracle claims aren’t usually sufficiently questioned. But was this the case among Jesus’s apostles concerning the resurrection?
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Resurrection
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Faith & Reason
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Faith
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Bible
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March 21, 2017
Christian apologist Walter Martin used to say that the real death rate is one per person, meaning that each person’s death is a matter of when, not if. Therefore, because we are mortal creatures and thus stalked by death, if Jesus Christ actually conquered death through his resurrection, then this is the most important news for all human beings to hear and to reflectively consider.
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Resurrection
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Jesus Christ
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Faith & Reason
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Faith
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Bible
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March 15, 2017
Jesus’s resurrection is at the very heart of historic Christianity. In fact, the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ is both a central doctrinal belief of the faith and the primary evidence for the truth of the religion itself. Given the importance of Easter for Christians, it is appropriate for us to consider 12 evidences for the resurrection of Jesus.
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Resurrection
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Apologetics
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March 7, 2017
This blog series on Reflections is intended to encourage Christians to read more vigorously by providing a beginner’s guide to some of the Christian classics in such fields as theology, philosophy, and apologetics. Hopefully, a very brief introduction to these important Christian texts will motivate today’s believers, as St. Augustine was called to in his dramatic conversion to Christianity, to “take up and read” (Latin: Tolle lege) these classic books.
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Book Reviews
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Reading
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Christian Literature
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February 28, 2017
The doctrine of creation is an essential Christian teaching that reveals much about the nature and purposes of God. Creation is not only addressed in the book of Genesis but throughout the various parts of Scripture. And the very first article of the Apostles’ Creed speaks of God’s act in creation:
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February 21, 2017
This week’s book, Cur Deus Homo (Latin for “Why the God-Man?”), by St. Anselm is considered one of the most important works of philosophical theology in Christian church history.
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Christian Literature
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Reading
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February 14, 2017
An essential skill to develop—particularly if you intend to discuss the truth of your faith with others—is how to understand, evaluate, and present a logical argument. Though it might seem complex and rather intimidating, an argument in logic is really a very simple thing.
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February 7, 2017
This blog series on Reflections is intended to encourage Christians to read more vigorously by providing a beginner’s guide to some of the Christian classics in such fields as theology, philosophy, and apologetics.
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Reading
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Christian Literature
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Book Reviews
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Books
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January 31, 2017
As the nonscientist on RTB’s five-person staff scholar team, I sometimes feel like the odd man out. Because I’m a philosopher, I often look at things and think about things very differently than my science colleagues. The questions that I tend to ask, even about science, usually inquire about things from a very different perspective.
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January 24, 2017
This week's book Pensées is by Blaise Pascal and is considered both a theological and philosophical masterwork. It was intended to be Pascal's apologetics magnum opus until illness prevented him from finishing it.
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January 17, 2017
Over the last several months I have been praying for a number of my friends who are either battling life-threatening illnesses themselves or have close family members who are undergoing great suffering. It is often in times of such trial that we actively seek spiritual wisdom and direction that can hopefully help us to rely more upon God and rest in his immeasurable grace and comfort.
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January 10, 2017
This week’s book, Confessions, is by St. Augustine and is considered one of the most important and influential texts in the Western world. If you take a course on the great books, this work will rank high on the list.
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Reading
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Christian Literature
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Books
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