Stories tagged with: apologetics

• Tennessee pastor takes apologetics outside the church

  by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Wednesday, July 22, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

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  SPRINGFIELD, Tenn. (BP) -- The greatest apologetics any Christian can proclaim is the way they live their lives, according to David Evans, pastor of Springfield Baptist Church in Springfield, Tenn.

  "It's not the argument; it's not the debate," Evans said. "... If we shrink back in [our life], we have no apologetic." Read More

• NOBTS president reflects on first year, looks ahead

  by Joshua Owens/The TEXAN, posted Friday, June 05, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

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  When Jamie Dew and his family arrived last summer in New Orleans to lead the Southern Baptist seminary there, people told them, "If you love the city it will love you back." Following a busy first year full of both successes and challenges, Dew said that's true not only of his adopted city but the seminary as well. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: What Ravi Zacharias taught me about faith

  by Joshua Wester, posted Wednesday, May 20, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  Joshua Wester recounts the influence Ravi Zacharias had on his own faith, allowing him to "explore the questions I was struggling with from a position of faith instead of doubt." Read More

• Ravi Zacharias, renowned apologist, dies at 74

  by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Tuesday, May 19, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

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  ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) -- Ravi Zacharias, the renowned Christian apologist, evangelist and author, died Tuesday (May 19) after a brief battle with cancer. He was 74.

  His death, which came days after his family announced treatment for a rare and aggressive form of cancer had been suspended, was announced by Sarah Davis, his daughter and CEO of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, in a message posted at the ministry's website. Read More

• Joshua Harris' 'falling away' stirs doctrine reaction

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, August 02, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  VANCOUVER, British Columbia (BP) -- Former megachurch pastor Joshua Harris' departure from Christianity has spurred dialogue about apologetics, legalism and the doctrine of salvation.

  Harris, former pastor of the mega Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Md., announced in July he and his wife Shannon are divorcing, that he no longer considers himself a Christian, and that he regrets having taught that marriage is a union only between a man and a woman. Read More

• SBC DIGEST (Updated): Mo. Baptists release book on the Trinity; emeritus missionaries Broadus and Margaret Hale die

  by The Pathway & IMB Staff, posted Wednesday, July 31, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

  In today's SBC Digest: The Missouri Baptist Convention releases 'What Every Christian Should Know About the Trinity'; emeritus missionaries Broadus & Margaret Hale die. Read More

• Norman Geisler, defender of Christian faith, dies

  by Art Toalston, posted Tuesday, July 02, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (BP) -- Norman Geisler, one of the foremost defenders of the Christian faith in the discipline known as apologetics, died Monday (July 1). He was 86.

  Tributes to Geisler soon appeared in Religion News Service, Christianity Today and WORLD Magazine, among others. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: My response

  by Barry E. Fields, posted Wednesday, May 29, 2019 (4 years ago)

  Barry Fields recounts to an online skeptic that "there's more proof for the reliability, accuracy and veracity of the Bible than the works of Plato, Herodotus and Aristotle combined." Read More

• Apologetics conf. speakers underscore 'truth in love'

  by Marilyn Stewart, posted Friday, January 18, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  NEW ORLEANS (BP) -– Apologetics experts from across the nation took the stage at Defend '19, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary's weeklong apologetics conference, Jan. 7-11.

  "Christians have always needed to be able to state what they believe clearly and to defend their faith when asked to give a reason for the hope that they have in Christ," said Robert Stewart, Defend director. "But today in our postmodern, post-Christian, post-truth culture it is especially important that we be winsome ambassadors for Christ who share the truth in love in the power of God's Spirit." Read More

• Filipino president's comments on God rebuked

  by David Roach, posted Monday, July 09, 2018 (5 years ago)

  

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  DAVAO CITY, Philippines (BP) -- The Filipino president's offer to resign if anyone can prove the God of the Bible exists has drawn reactions from Christians across the globe.

  Dan Santiago, president of the Filipino Southern Baptist Fellowship of North America, said Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte lacks "solid biblical knowledge of the Judeo-Christian God." Meanwhile, Filipino Catholic leaders -- who have feuded publicly with Duterte -- called today (July 9) for "God's mercy and justice" on blasphemers, according to The Wall Street Journal. Read More