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Greg’s note: I’m often asked what books I would recommend for someone just starting out in learning apologetics, and although my list would be somewhat longer, five of the top books I would recommend are on sale right now at rock bottom prices for a limited time. My own journey into apologetics began with former atheist and Chicago Tribune investigative reporter, Lee Strobel’s The Case for Christ and The Case for Faith, and continued with the other books in the series as they came out (Strobel’s latest, The Case for Grace, has just been released). In Cold-Case Christianity, another former atheist J Warner Wallace, a nationally renowned cold-case homicide detective, builds a case for the reliability of the Gospels using the same techniques he learned and used to solve cold-case homicides. Once you’ve started learning the basic arguments in these books, Greg Koukl’s Tactics will show you practical ways to put those arguments to use in any situation and everyday conversations. I would recommend these five books for any apologist at any level, but for those just starting out, they are indispensible!
| The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus by Lee $2.52 Is there credible evidence that Jesus of Nazareth really is the Son of God? Retracing his own spiritual journey from atheism to faith, Lee Strobel, former legal editor of the Chicago Tribune, cross-examines a dozen experts with doctorates from schools like Cambridge, Princeton, and Brandies who are recognized authorities in their fields. Strobel challenges them with questions like How reliable is the New Testament? Does evidence exist for Jesus outside the Bible? Is there any reason to believe the resurrection was an actual event? Strobel's tough, point-blank questions make this remarkable book read like a captivating, fast-paced novel. But it's not fiction. It's a riveting quest for the truth about history's most compelling figure. What will your verdict be in The Case for Christ? ORDER YOUR COPY NOW >>> The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus only | |
| The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity by Lee Strobel $2.99 In his #1 best-seller The Case for Christ, legally trained investigative reporter Lee Strobel examined the claims of Christ, reaching the hard-won verdict that Jesus is God's unique son. But despite the compelling historical evidence that Strobel presented, many people grapple with serious concerns about faith in God. As in a court of law, they want to shout, "Objection!" They say, "If God is love, then what about all the suffering in our world?" Or, "If Jesus is the door to heaven, then what about the millions who have never heard of him?" Or, "If God cares for everyone, then why does he eternally torture some in hell?" In The Case for Faith, Strobel turns his tenacious investigative skills to the most persistent emotional objections to belief--the eight "heart" barriers to faith. The Case for Faith is for those who may be feeling attracted to Jesus but who are faced with formidable intellectual barriers standing squarely in their path. For Christians, it will deepen their convictions and give them fresh confidence in discussing Christianity with even their most skeptical friends. ORDER YOUR COPY NOW >>> The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity only $2.99! | |
| The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God During his academic years, Lee Strobel became convinced that God was outmoded. Science had made the idea of a Creator irrelevant—or so Strobel thought. But today science is pointing in a different direction. In recent years, a diverse and impressive body of research has increasingly supported the conclusion that the universe was intelligently designed. At the same time, Darwinism has faltered in the face of concrete facts and hard reason. Has science discovered God? At the very least, it’s giving faith an immense boost as new findings emerge about the incredible complexity of our universe. Join Strobel as he reexamines the theories that once led him away from God. Through his compelling and highly readable account, you’ll encounter the mind-stretching discoveries from cosmology, cellular biology, DNA research, astronomy, physics, and human consciousness that present astonishing evidence in The Case for a Creator. ORDER YOUR COPY NOW >>> The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God | |
| Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels by J Warner Wallace $3.99 Written by an L. A. County homicide detective and former atheist, Cold-Case Christianity examines the claims of the New Testament using the skills and strategies of a hard-to-convince criminal investigator. Christianity could be defined as a “cold case”: it makes a claim about an event from the distant past for which there is little forensic evidence. InCold-Case Christianity, J. Warner Wallace uses his nationally recognized skills as a homicide detective to look at the evidence and eyewitnesses behind Christian beliefs. Including gripping stories from his career and the visual techniques he developed in the courtroom, Wallace uses illustration to examine the powerful evidence that validates the claims of Christianity. A unique apologetic that speaks to readers’ intense interest in detective stories, Cold-Case Christianityinspires readers to have confidence in Christ as it prepares them to articulate the case for Christianity. ORDER YOUR COPY NOW >>> Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels only $3.99! | |
| Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions by Gregory Koukl $1.99 In a world increasingly indifferent to Christian truth, followers of Christ need to be equipped to communicate with those who do not speak their language or accept their source of authority. Gregory Koukl demonstrates how to get in the driver’s seat, keeping any conversation moving with thoughtful, artful diplomacy. You’ll learn how to maneuver comfortably and graciously through the minefields, stop challengers in their tracks, turn the tables and—most importantly—get people thinking about Jesus. Soon, your conversations will look more like diplomacy than D-Day. Drawing on extensive experience defending Christianity in the public square, Koukl shows you how to: Initiate conversations effortlessly; Present the truth clearly, cleverly, and persuasively; Graciously and effectively expose faulty thinking; Skillfully manage the details of dialogue; and Maintain an engaging, disarming style even under attack. Tactics provides the game plan for communicating the compelling truth about Christianity with confidence and grace. ORDER YOUR COPY NOW >>> Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions only $1.99! |
Scientists haven't proven God doesn't exist; they've merely assumed it…They've foisted this truism on the public, and then operated from that point of view. They act as if they've really said something profound, when all they've done is given you an unjustified opinion. —Greg Koukl (from, What Science Can't Prove)
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Greg’s Note: If you’re serious about not just learning apologetics but how to apply it as well, Greg Koukl’s Tactics is a must have for the apologist at any level. It’s one thing to know the arguments for the truth claims of Christianity, but most of us are sadly lacking when it comes to actually applying those arguments when evangelizing or even in everyday conversation. Tactics is the solution to the problem. I wish that every Christian, regardless of their interest level in apologetics, would read this book—and right now there’s no excuse not to as it’s on sale for a limited time for only $1.99!
| Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions by Gregory Koukl $1.99 In a world increasingly indifferent to Christian truth, followers of Christ need to be equipped to communicate with those who do not speak their language or accept their source of authority. Gregory Koukl demonstrates how to get in the driver’s seat, keeping any conversation moving with thoughtful, artful diplomacy. You’ll learn how to maneuver comfortably and graciously through the minefields, stop challengers in their tracks, turn the tables and—most importantly—get people thinking about Jesus. Soon, your conversations will look more like diplomacy than D-Day. Drawing on extensive experience defending Christianity in the public square, Koukl shows you how to: Tactics provides the game plan for communicating the compelling truth about Christianity with confidence and grace. ORDER YOUR COPY NOW >>> Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions only $1.99! |
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| Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions by Gregory Koukl $1.99 In a world increasingly indifferent to Christian truth, followers of Christ need to be equipped to communicate with those who do not speak their language or accept their source of authority. Gregory Koukl demonstrates how to get in the driver’s seat, keeping any conversation moving with thoughtful, artful diplomacy. You’ll learn how to maneuver comfortably and graciously through the minefields, stop challengers in their tracks, turn the tables and—most importantly—get people thinking about Jesus. Soon, your conversations will look more like diplomacy than D-Day. Drawing on extensive experience defending Christianity in the public square, Koukl shows you how to: Initiate conversations effortlessly; Present the truth clearly, cleverly, and persuasively; Graciously and effectively expose faulty thinking; Skillfully manage the details of dialogue; and Maintain an engaging, disarming style even under attack. Tactics provides the game plan for communicating the compelling truth about Christianity with confidence and grace. ORDER YOUR COPY NOW >>> Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions only $1.99! | |
| Evidence That Demands a Verdict Vol. I: Historical Evidences for the Christian Faith by Josh McDowell $3.99 Among important books in the defense of Christianity, this one has few equals. Evidence That Demands a Verdict is an easy-to-read, front-line defense for Christians facing the tough questions of critics and skeptics. Using secular evidences and other historical sources, Josh McDowell's faith-building book is a "must read" for every Christian! ORDER YOUR COPY NOW >>> Evidence That Demands a Verdict Vol. I: Historical Evidences for the Christian Faith only $3.99! | |
| Crushed: A Physician Analyzes the Agony of Jesus by J. Shan Young, M.D. $3.99 A physician analyzes each step of the Passion of the Christ, explaining the impact of each from a medical perspective on the body of Christ. By doing so, He reveals how the process of the Passion was ordained to inflict maximum pain upon Christ's body - a reflection of God's wrath on the sin Jesus assumed on mankind's behalf - and the unique fulfillment of prophecy that occurred along the way ("...crushed for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities..."). ORDER YOUR COPY NOW >>> Crushed: A Physician Analyzes the Agony of Jesus only $3.99! | |
| Knowing Christ Today: Why We Can Trust Spiritual Knowledge by Dallas Willard $1.99 Addressing the central question facing the church today-Is the Gospel true?-Dallas Willard offers an impassioned argument that Christian spiritual ideals are a reliable source of wisdom that should be granted the same authority as other intellectual disciplines such as science or philosophy. He shows how faith and reason are complementary and confronts the difficult issues of Christian pluralism (the challenge of other faiths) and how we can know God exists. ORDER YOUR COPY NOW >>> Knowing Christ Today: Why We Can Trust Spiritual Knowledge only $1.99! | |
| Imagination Redeemed: Glorifying God with a Neglected Part of Your Mind by Gene Edward Veith Jr. $2.99 Contrary to popular perception, the imagination isn't just for kids, artists, or fans of science fiction. Rather, it's what bridges our thinking and feeling, allowing us to do everything from planning a weekend getaway to remembering what we ate for breakfast. In Imagination Redeemed, Gene Veith and Matthew Ristuccia uncover the imagination’s importance for Christians, helping us understand who God is, what his Word teaches, and how we should live in the world today. Here is a call to embrace this forgotten part of the mind as a gift from God designed to bolster faith, hope, and love in his people. ORDER YOUR COPY NOW >>> Imagination Redeemed: Glorifying God with a Neglected Part of Your Mind only $2.99! | |
| The Stories We Tell: How TV and Movies Long for and Echo the Truth by Mike Cosper $1.99 Simply put, we’re entertainment junkies. But can we learn something from our insatiable addiction to stories? Mike Cosper thinks so. From horror flicks to rom-coms, the tales we tell and the myths we weave inevitably echo the narrative underlying all of history: the story of humanity’s tragic sin and God’s triumphant salvation. This entertaining book connects the dots between the stories we tell and the one great Story—helping us better understand the longings of the human heart and thoughtfully engage with the movies and TV shows that capture our imaginations. ORDER YOUR COPY NOW >>> The Stories We Tell: How TV and Movies Long for and Echo the Truth only $1.99! | |
| Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels by J Warner Wallace $3.99 Written by an L. A. County homicide detective and former atheist, Cold-Case Christianity examines the claims of the New Testament using the skills and strategies of a hard-to-convince criminal investigator. Christianity could be defined as a “cold case”: it makes a claim about an event from the distant past for which there is little forensic evidence. InCold-Case Christianity, J. Warner Wallace uses his nationally recognized skills as a homicide detective to look at the evidence and eyewitnesses behind Christian beliefs. Including gripping stories from his career and the visual techniques he developed in the courtroom, Wallace uses illustration to examine the powerful evidence that validates the claims of Christianity. A unique apologetic that speaks to readers’ intense interest in detective stories, Cold-Case Christianityinspires readers to have confidence in Christ as it prepares them to articulate the case for Christianity. ORDER YOUR COPY NOW >>> Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels only $3.99! | |
| How We Got the Bible by Neil R. Lightfoot $1.99 How old are the earliest Biblical manuscripts? How has the Bible been preserved and transmitted to us? Why do we have so many different translations of the Bible? How did early Christians decide which writings to include in the Bible? ORDER YOUR COPY NOW >>> How We Got the Bible only $1.99! | |
| Christ-Centered Apologetics: Sharing the Gospel with Evidence by Joel Furches $2.99 In recent years, Apologetics has drifted away from the mission of the Church: sharing Christ's salvation with a needy world. This book meets a desperate need in the market of Christian resources, marrying both Christian Apologetics and Evangelism. In Christ-Centered Apologetics Joel Furches demonstrates a thorough understanding of the main apologetic issues the Christian case maker faces today. Not only does Joel succeed in making a persuasive case for the reliability of the Bible, but he also humbly and persuasively addresses many of the modern objections aimed at the scriptures today. ORDER YOUR COPY NOW >>> Christ-Centered Apologetics: Sharing the Gospel with Evidence only $2.99! | |
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If science can't even disprove the existence of unicorns, how can it disprove the existence of God?
I often hear the comment, "Science has proved there is no God." Don't ever be bullied by such a statement. Science is completely incapable of proving such a thing.
I'm not saying that because I don't like science, but rather because I know a little about how science works. Science operates on induction. The inductive method entails searching out things in the world and drawing generalized conclusions about those things based on observation. Scientists can only draw conclusions on what they find, not on what they can't find.
Science, by its very nature, is never capable of proving the non-existence of anything.
For example, can science prove there are no unicorns? Absolutely not. How could science ever prove that unicorns don't exist? All science can do is say that scientists may have been looking for unicorns for a long time and never found any. They might therefore conclude that no one is justified in believing that unicorns exist. They might show how certain facts considered to be evidence for unicorns in the past can be explained adequately by other things. They may invoke Occam's Razor to favor a simpler explanation for the facts than that unicorns exist. But scientists can never prove unicorns themselves don't exist.
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Since science, by its very nature, is never capable of proving the non-existence of anything, one can never accurately claim that science has proven God doesn't exist. That's a misuse of the discipline. Such a claim would require omniscience. The only way one can say a thing does not exist is not by using the inductive method, but by using a deductive method, by showing that there's something about the concept itself that is contradictory.
I can confidently say for sure that no square circles exist. Why? Not because I've searched the entire universe to make sure that there aren't any square circles hiding behind a star somewhere. No, I don't need to search the world to answer that question.
The concept of square circles entails a contradictory notion, and therefore can't be real. A thing cannot be a square and be circular (i.e., not a square) at the same time. A thing cannot be a circle and squared (i.e., not a circle) at the same time. Therefore, square circles cannot exist. The laws of rationality (specifically, the law of non-contradiction) exclude the possibility of their existence.
This means, by the way, that all inductive knowledge is contingent. One cannot know anything inductively with absolute certainty. The inductive method gives us knowledge that is only probably true. Science, therefore, cannot be certain about anything in an absolute sense. It can provide a high degree of confidence based on evidence that strongly justifies scientific conclusions, but its method never allows certainty.
If you want to know something for certain, with no possibility of error--what's called apodictic certainty in philosophy--you must employ the deductive method…
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When Christians avoid principled conflict on things that matter because of fear of disunity and division, they cripple the church in three ways. First, Scripture commands that we guard the truth within our ranks; where arguments are few, error abounds. Second, believers are denied the opportunity to learn how to argue among themselves in a fair, reasonable, and gracious way. Third, the outcome for fight-phobic churches is not genuine oneness, but a contrived unanimity, a shallow and artificial peace. —Greg Koukl (from, Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions)
Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect. |
I urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints. Jude 3 |
You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me. John 18:37 |
For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 |
For we did not follow cleverly contrived myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; instead, we were eyewitnesses of His majesty. 2 Peter 1:16 |
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