Tag: Apologetics in Teaching

(Hear more of the story at the Thinking Christian podcast.) Apologists need to connect with pastors, and vice versa. We need each other. Pastors need the best possible understanding of changes in our culture, which apologists are uniquely equipped to offer. Apologists need to learn practical ministry from pastors,...

(Related Blog Post: Apologists and Pastors Connecting for Ministry: Stories of How You Can Do It) Okay, now what? Now that you know the secret word, the one key word I spoke of in episode 8, the one that answers the question, How can we have greater ministry in...

Christian apologists wonder why pastors won't open doors wider for us to minister in their churches. Here's what pastors know we're missing....

Have I shared the heart behind this book here yet? My prayers for it follow the three main parts of the book, plus two important additional sections near the end....

I’ve just finished the second of eleven sessions in my new online apologetics course at the Spiritual Readiness project. Called (for now at least) the Stand Strong Apologetics Course, it’s completely self-contained and fully available online, and designed for easy use in any small group environment. You can go through...

A Facebook friend raised this tough question: We now have a veritable Apologetics Industrial Complex. A nerd like William Lane Craig (no insult intended–I am a certified nerd myself) can be a kind of superstar. We have more quality seminaries churning out more Evangelical DMins and PhDs than ever...

The Spiritual Readiness Project is asking apologetics-interested lay people, students, professors, writers and speakers to join in our Apologetics Interest survey. If you haven’t filled it out already, please do so as soon as possible. But you might wonder why, and where this is heading. It’s a good question;...

I’ve been writing on how to bring apologetics into your teaching without scaring people away. (The series got interrupted by a string of unexpected events here. All is well, just a lot busier than I’d planned on.) There’s a fine line between challenging people and scaring them. Of course...

What will it take to bring apologetics into the local church? I must have heard that question asked hundreds of times over the past ten years. Of course, I run in circles where people are likely to wonder. They know: Christianity is under unprecedented pressure. Most young people raised...