Apologetics Study Bible

Watch the video here.

• General Editor: Ted Cabal
• Associate Editors: Chad Owen Brand, E. Ray Clendenen, Paul Copan, and J. P. Moreland
• Contributors: Charles Colson, John Frame, Norman L. Geisler, Al Mohler, Ravi Zacharias, and dozens more
• Broadman & Holman Publishing Group | 1999, 2007

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11

Human beings are the only creatures who ask questions. Major questions.

• Can I know that God exists?
• Am I the product of a blind evolutionary process or was I created by God?
• How strong is the evidence for Jesus’ resurrection?
• Is the Bible reliable and true?
• Do I have a destiny beyond my life on earth?
• Can evil be reconciled with belief in God who is both all-powerful and all-loving?

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ARN - Real Science-4-Kids

What is Kogs-4-Kids?

Kogs-4-Kids is a workbook set that has just been released that supports the Real Science-4-Kids curriculum. This workbook set helps students make cognitive connections between the scientific discipline they are studying (chemistry, biology, physics, and earth and space) and other disciplines such as critical thinking, language, technology, the arts, philosophy, and history. Kogs-4-Kids plus Real Science-4-Kids work together to create not only a foundation for scientific knowledge but also a framework for scientific literacy.

Order the complete Chemistry 1A Bundle today or the individual workbooks of interest (recommended for grades 3-5).  You can also download sample chapters for each topic.  Find out why kids are going krazy for kogs.

A Massive compilation of materials

www.apollos.ws

Five Sacred Crossings: A Novel Approach to Reasonable Faith

Dr. Craig Hazen has written this novel as an apologetics work, and it is really cool (well, I’m half way thru right now).

You can grab a free chapter download here:

http://www.conversantlife.com/files/resource_downloads/FiveCrossing.pdf

Lots of reviews of the book here:

http://www.conversantlife.com/five-sacred-crossings-novel-approach-reasonable-faith

Video interviews for you to watch at the same link.

Oh, and i t is quite a short book — 169 pages ad a really enjoyable and exciting read. Perhaps a first for an apologetics book?

J.P. Moreland on "Kingdom Triangle" at NPC 2007

Letter to a Maladjusted Misotheist (Sam Harris)

Published by permission (http://www.tektonics.org/gk/harrisletter.html)

November 2, 2006

Dear Mr. Harris,

Greetings to you. I am writing to you because I am in possession of your latest work, Letter to a Christian Nation, and I have been asked to deliver a detailed response to it, which I intend to do over the next few days. Before I begin writing you letters in earnest, however, I thought I ought to let you know when the first time was I ever heard of you: I saw your appearance in Brian Flemming’s film, The God Who Wasn’t There.

Now if you know this, you will understand why, quite frankly, I consider you a non-starter as an ideological opponent, rather than any sort of informed, worthwhile threat. For you see, it is my policy as a defender of the Christian faith to ignore those who show little or no interest in presenting a fair, accurate, and above all informed critique of Christianity.

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RZIM: Ravi Zacharias Foundations Apologetics Course

The RZIM Foundations curriculum is here! Designed to introduce a comprehensive range of apologetic arguments and strategies, it features lectures by RZIM’s team of apologists including Ravi Zacharias, Michael Ramsden, Alister McGrath, Amy Orr Ewing, John Lennox, Stuart McAllister, and L.T. Jeyachandran. Students of this rigorous curriculum will become adept at recognizing the many worldviews influencing our culture and equipped to challenge the assumptions of these worldviews. With compelling topics such as The Existence of God, Establishing a Worldview, The Trustworthiness of the Scriptures, and God, Evil, and Suffering, each study is available individually allowing you to craft your own experience according to your needs and interests. Complete with an in-depth workbook, you will find the studies foster not only knowledge but also cultivate the skills to communicate that knowledge in a way that is winsome and effective. This is one of the inaugural volumes of what will eventually be a 12-part series.

Can we really know anything for certain? If so, then how? Stuart tackles what we mean by truth and how we go about evaluating truth claims.

http://shop3.gospelcom.net/epages/rzim.storefront/EN/Product/DVDAP02

Christmas present: Letter from a Christian Citizen: A response to Sam Harris

You can get this book at an introductory price or at the heavily discounted price of 5 for $25 making them inexpensive enough for you to share with sceptical friends and even the media. We are also including a FREE DVD with every book. This DVD is of a ‘hard hitting’ video clip showing the irrationality of the claims of Dawkins and Harris. Also included are PDFs of related CMI articles and some video clips featuring CMI scientist Dr Jonathan Sarfati.

Get Letter from a Christian Citizen and the DVD Imagine … there’s no God here.

New book: The Design of Life

http://www.thedesignoflife.net

Excerpts from the book…

“Most of origin-of-life research is as relevant to the real problem of life’s origin as rubber-band powered propeller model planes are to the military’s most sophisticated stealth aircraft.” (Ch.8)

“The origin of information is not a problem of chemistry. Chemistry can be a carrier of information, but it cannot be its source.” (Ch.8)

“Chemists typically do not concern themselves with the problem of the origin of information because their work presupposes a smart chemist ready to provide it!” (Ch.8)

“The claim that natural laws are sufficient to account for the origin of life is far-fetched. Natural laws work against the origin of life. Natural laws describe material processes that consume the raw materials of life, turning them into tars, melanoids, and other nonbiological substances that thereafter are completely useless to life.” (Ch.8)

“For Clarence Darrow, evolution justified a biological determinism that turned humans into puppets of their evolutionary past.” (Ch.9)

“Darwinists have traditionally hidden behind the complexities of biological systems to shelter their theory from critical scrutiny. Choose a biological system that is too complex, and one can’t even begin to calculate the probabilities associated with its evolution. Consider the eye. A widely held myth in the biological community is that Darwin’s theory has explained the evolution of the vertebrate eye. In fact, the theory hasn’t done anything of the sort.” (Ch.7)

New Apologetics Study Bible

The Apologetics Study Bible will help today’s Christian better understand, defend and proclaim their beliefs in this age of increasing moral and spiritual relativism.

More than 100 hundred key articles are placed throughout the volume relating the truth of the Bible to disciplines such as science, history, and philosophy.

This dynamic feature prompts a rewarding experience at every reading.

Highlights of this new thinking person’s edition of God’s Word include the full text of the Holman CSB® translation, an introduction focusing on relevant apologetics issues, and profiles of historic Christian apologists from Justin Martyr to C.S. Lewis.

Also featured are valuable contributions from a who’s-who of modern apologists such as Chuck Colson, Norm Geisler, Hank Hanegraaff, Josh McDowell, William Lane Craig, JP Moreland, Ravi Zacharias, and 80+ more. Plus a special lead article from best-selling author Lee Strobel on “How Apologetics changed my life” (books by Lee include The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith, The Case for a Creator, and many more).

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Lee Strobel — a really interesting read

Where have I been?

by Lee Strobel, 10.18.2007

San Francisco, New York City, Charlotte, Milwaukee, Chicago, Houston - whew! I’ve been bouncing around the country the last couple of weeks to talk about the faith-impacting issues in my new book, The Case for the Real Jesus. But I wanted to pause, catch my breath, and introduce you to the new format for my newsletter.

I’ve decided to adopt a more personal and conversational approach to keeping in contact with you. Consider it a letter from a friend! I’ll keep you abreast of new developments, share some stories, offer a few observations, and alert you to exciting opportunities on the horizon.

New Developments?

Well, I’ve been blown away by the enthusiastic reception to The Case for the Real Jesus, in which I interview experts about the current objections to Christianity that are circulating in popular culture. I think Christians are especially thirsty for answers to the tough challenges that are being promoted by skeptics in best-selling books, in college classrooms, on news programs, and on the Internet. As one physician wrote to encourage me: “This book has answered the exact questions that my skeptical friends have been asking me.” What’s especially exciting is that 206 seekers prayed to receive Christ as their forgiver and leader when I spoke on the topic of the book recently at Saddleback Church in California. (By the way, thanks to Rick Warren for saying to the congregation: “This is Lee’s best book ever!”)

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From Darwin to Hitler

New book by Discovery Institute
Fellow shows influence of
Darwinian principles on
Hitler’s Nazi regime

Discovery Institute is pleased to announce the publication of the provocative intellectual history, “From Darwin to Hitler, Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany” (Palgrave MacMillan), by Richard Weikart.

In this compelling and painstakingly researched work of intellectual history, Weikart convincingly makes the argument that Hitler built his view of ethics on Darwinian principles.

“Richard Weikart’s outstanding book shows in sober and convincing detail how Darwinist thinkers in Germany had developed an amoral attitude to human society,” says Dr. Richard Evans, Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge, and author of “The Coming of the Third Reich.” “This provided Hitler and the Nazis with a scientific justification for the policies they pursued once they came to power.”

More here.

http://www.alibris.com books

Don’t you just love it when you try to buy some books from overseas, and you have to fill in a myriad of details before they tell you the shipping costs.

Here is a truly great example from http://www.alibris.com where 9 second hand books are not really worth buying.

Perhaps they are all coming from different suppliers or perhaps they are flying them over here on the space shuttle?

Update: I see they do have a shipping page. In hindsight I should have looked at it first — but wouldn’t something a bit smarter be a good thing, like on-the-fly updating of shipping costs? I guess the technology is not quite there yet. Never mind; Alibris looks pretty good apart from shipping.

Dr. Ken Boa

Dr. Ken Boa is not terribly well known in the apologetics community, perhaps because he is more involved in evangelism than pure apologetics. He does have a very slick website with daily bible readings and more via RSS feeds and a FREE full-text apologetics book available here.

From the preface:

In this introductory textbook on Christian apologetics—the study of the defense of the faith—you will be inducted into this two-millennia-long discussion. You will overhear the greatest apologists of all time responding to the intellectual attacks on the Bible in their day. You will take a guided tour of the four major approaches to apologetics that have emerged in the past couple of centuries. Along the way you will pick up insightful answers to such questions as:

• Why is belief in God rational despite the prevalence of evil in the world?
• What facts support the church’s testimony that Jesus rose from the dead?
• Can we be certain Christianity is true?
• How can our faith in Christ be based on something more secure than our own
  understanding without descending into an irrational emotionalism?

Book Review: Letter to a Christian Nation #1

A Challenge to Faith

By Sam Harris
Foreword by Richard Dawkins
New York Times Bestseller

Being rather busy at present, I thought this book would be good for a review, and a rebuttal, since it is a mere 91 pages (and small pages at that). I expect that I will require at least a dozen posts to cover the entire book which has but one large chapter and numerous sections therein, a foreword and a Note to the Reader.

As I work through this book, I will be responding to it primarily using a presuppositional apologetic. That is, I will be presupposing the Bible to be the true word of God and presupposing the Christian worldview to be true. These things can and have been debated; you are welcome to use our forum for these purposes should you choose to.

I should point out that all people have presuppositions, otherwise known as axioms, which cannot be proven. These axioms are taken on faith, and can be thought of as pegs, driven into the ground, upon which all your subsequent truth-claims are tied. To discover your axioms, take a belief you have and ask how you know it is true. Then ask how you know that, and so on. Eventually you will arrive at an axiom.

This book is not the first time I have come across Sam Harris; previously I watched him on some videos from an atheist conference where I thought he came came across as articulate, dogmatic and at least in part, wrong. However, we will come to that in due course.

Further, I should say that I appreciate these atheists (Harris and Dawkins et al.) to some degree, having the guts to put their beliefs plainly on the table. Unlike many people in the churches I have attended over the years, these guys have determination and conviction, and they are prepared to stand up and be counted. That is not to say I am going to agree with them; it is to say that many Christians are effectively useless in this arena because they a too busy being entertained by the world Jesus told them not to be ensnared with, rather than pouring over books and studying and getting an education.

Ok, so let’s get into the book.

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The Da Vinci Code

The movie is coming and we have the resources under the Massey Library Books link.

See also this excellent website: http://www.jesusanddavinci.com/