Featured Resource: Essential Apologetics Powerpoint Series

Brian Auten of Apologetics315 has teamed up with The Powerpoint Apologist and they are offering 12 free powerpoint presentations that will be released monthly.

Permission is granted to download, modify and use these for you own apologetics presentations.  They do ask that you retain the final two slides that feature the Powerpoint Apologist and Apologetics315.

The first 3 powerpoint presentations in the series are as follows:

• Why Apologetics?  Download here.
• Why Believe Anything?  Download here.
• Why God?  Download here.

For more powerpoint presentations from the Powerpoint Apologist, see here.  I cannot recommend these excellent presentations enough!

For more from Apologetics315, go here.

Courage and Godspeed,

Chad

Articles on Jesus by Mike Licona

Author, historian and debater Mike Licona writes on Jesus and His identity in the following brief articles:

• Jesus- Son of Man
• Jesus- Son of God
• Jesus-God

For more of Licona's work, see here.

Courage and Godspeed,

Chad

Article: Why Apologetics Has a Bad Name by Sean McDowell

In this featured article, apologist Sean McDowell gives an honest assessment of what the "problem" with apologetics is.

An outline of the article is as follows:

How Apologists Give Apologetics a Bad Name

• Apologists often overstate their case
• Apologists often do not speak with gentleness, love and respect
• Apologists are often not emotionally healthy
• Apologetics is often done in a cold, mechanical and rationalistic manner
• Apologists are often intellectually elitists  

How People's Understanding of Christianity and Culture Gives Apologetics a Bad Name

• Apologetics is about the mind, but faith is considered about the heart
• Apologetics is considered irrelevant in our Postmodern Culture

What Needs to Happen Next

This is a great article that should give the reflective apologist pause.

You can find it here.

Courage and Godspeed,

Chad

Video: The Leibnizian Cosmological Argument featuring Dr. William Lane Craig

The Leibnizian Cosmological Argument is as follows:

1. Everything that exists has an explanation of its existence.

2. If the universe has an explanation of its existence, that explanation is God.

3. The universe exists.

4. The universe has an explanation of its existence.

5. Therefore, the explanation of the universe's existence is God.

William Lane Craig unpacks this argument in the following short videos:

For more of Dr. Craig's work, go here.

For more videos featuring Dr. Craig, see here.

Courage and Godspeed,
Chad

Sunday Worship: O Praise Him by David Crowder Band

"Praise the Lord!  Praise the Lord, O my soul!  I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being."  - Psalm 146:1-2

Courage and Godspeed,
Chad

Featured Blog: Tough Questions Answered

Tough Questions Answered is a blog maintained by Bill Pratt.  This resource is an excellent place to get clear, concise answers to questions about Christianity and how it interacts with science, philosophy, history and ethics and the articles take no more than 5 minutes to read!

Check out Tough Questions Answered here.

Courage and Godspeed,
Chad

Video: Separation of Church and State featuring Professor of Law John Eastman

In this short video (4:51), Professor of Law John Eastman explains where the idea of the "separation of church and state" originated and the effects this view has had in the United States.

Courage and Godspeed,
Chad 

Free E-book and Audio Book: Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

Truth according to Scripture has made available an online E-book and audio book of C.S. Lewis's classic work Mere Christianity.

You can find them both here.

Also, we have added Mere Christianity to our Free Apologetics E-book Library which can be found here.

Courage and Godspeed,
Chad

Video: Selling Apologetics to Your Pastor featuring William Lane Craig

For more videos featuring Dr. Craig, go here.

For more of Dr. Craig's work, go here.

Courage and Godspeed,
Chad

Article: Is There Any Evidence for the Soul? by J. Warner Wallace

In this featured article, author and speaker J. Warner Wallace defends the existence of the soul.

He writes:

"This concept of dualism, the recognition of two co-existent realms and realities, is critical to our faith as Christians. If dualism is NOT true (the opposite view is often called ‘monism’ or ‘physicalism’) then there is no realm in which God exists, we have no souls designed for salvation and life with God, and there is no life beyond this one. That’s why the examination of the TRUTH of dualism is so important."

In this article, Wallace addresses some of the following topics:

• Can we prove it (the soul) with science?
• Evidence from the Law of Identity
• The differences between the brain and the mind
• The differences between the body and soul
• Evidence for an immaterial, unseen reality

Check out the entire article here.

To checkout more of Wallace's work, go here.

Courage and Godspeed,
Chad