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mid-week apologetics booster (3-21-2024)

Good morning friends, Quote of the wek: Christianity isn’t always going to feel good. Just ask the apostle Paul who was kidnapped, beaten, whipped, imprisoned, ridiculed, shipwrecked, and stoned-all before he was finally beheaded. Christianity isn’t always going to feel like it’s “working.” – Alisa Childers Now, here are your weekly links:

Talking to Jehovah’s Witnesses? Start Here. This contains links to other articles about specific topics. The topics are categorized into these areas: Common Beliefs of Jehovah’s Witnesses Refuted, Common Challenges to the Deity of Jesus Refuted, Common Challenges to the Personhood of the Holy Spirit Refuted, Tools for Better Conversations with Jehovah’s Witnesses: https://www.str.org/w/talking-to-jehovah-s-witnesses-start-here
Being Tactical with Jehovah’s Witnesses: https://www.str.org/w/being-tactical-with-jehovah-s-witnesses
If Jesus Is God, Why Does He Call the Father “My God?”: https://www.str.org/w/if-jesus-is-god-why-does-he-call-the-father-my-god-
A Brief Overview of the Jehovah’s Witness Worldview | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/a-brief-overview-of-the-jehovahs-witness-worldview/
Ten Easy Ways to Start Meaningful Dialogue: https://www.str.org/w/ten-easy-ways-to-start-meaningful-dialogue
Why should you believe the Bible? It’s an important question, not only for those who don’t believe, but also for those who already do. It’s an important question because our culture is increasingly rejecting the Bible as the measure of truth and morality. As a result, our freedoms are eroding day by day.: https://caldronpool.com/why-should-you-believe-the-bible/
How Do We Know that the Bible Is True? | Answers in Genesis: https://answersingenesis.org/is-the-bible-true/how-do-we-know-that-the-bible-is-true/
The Bible Manuscript Evidence Part 1, A Few Important Facts – Truth, Faith and Reason: https://truthfaithandreason.com/a-case-for-the-bible-101-manuscript-evidence-part-1-a-few-important-facts/
The Bible: Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus – an analysis – bethinking.org: https://www.bethinking.org/is-the-bible-reliable/bart-ehrmans-misquoting-jesus-an-analysis
Thoughts On Why The Holy Bible Is Worth Reading | Thinking Matters: https://www.thinkingmatters.org.nz/2018/06/thoughts-on-why-the-holy-bible-is-worth-reading/
William Lane Craig debates Austin Dacey: Does God Exist? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2024/03/17/william-lane-craig-debates-austin-dacey-does-god-exist-15/
Oneness Pentecostal Doctrine: What do they teach? | Carm.org: https://carm.org/oneness-pentecostal/what-does-oneness-pentecostal-teach/
How to Turn the Tables on Four Pro-Choice Arguments – LifeNews.com: https://www.lifenews.com/2017/08/18/how-to-turn-the-tables-on-four-pro-choice-arguments/
Abortion and the Mother’s Mental Health – Creation Moments: https://creationmoments.com/sermons/abortion-and-the-mothers-mental-health/
Our Nation Desperately Needs Christian Values Right Now – LifeNews.com: https://www.lifenews.com/2024/03/12/quit-trashing-christians-our-nation-desperately-needs-christian-values-right-now/
How the Irish Got Saved – Think Divinely – Patrick was a 5th century British missionary, but he didn’t start out that way. At the age of 16, he was captured by Irish raiders and forced into slavery (c. 430 AD). These Celts, or known back then as “Galatians” by the Greeks, were famous for their brutal, militaristic ways. The Romans spent a lot of money and men trying to repel their incessant attacks, and eventually won. So, the Celts retreated to the “end of civilization,” as it was referred to back then; areas we now call England, Scotland and Ireland. Patrick was taken from his homeland and forced to work for his slave-owner, tending pig herds on the hills of Ireland. He often lived like an animal himself, going months without human contact. Memories of the British missionaries who converted him to Christ got him through those long, lonely days. On those green, grassy knolls, he turned to God for comfort during those hard years of slavery.: https://thinkdivinely.com/how-the-irish-got-saved/
Jesus Loves Me – history of this beloved hymn – Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Loves_Me
The Three Most Important “Trajectory Decisions” Every University Student Must Make | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/the-three-most-important-trajectory-decisions-every-university-student-must-make/
Neanderthal Man and the Bible: https://aliveapologetics.blogspot.com/2012/03/neanderthal-man-and-bible.html
Speech, music-and Neanderthals – it’s interesting to hear of recent research showing that there is one area, to do with hearing, in which humans excel above any mammal.: https://creation.com/speech-music-and-neandertals
The Importance of Prayer in Apologetics – Truth, Faith and Reason: https://truthfaithandreason.com/a-case-for-christianity-the-importance-of-prayer-in-apologetics/
Why Did Paul Quote Pagan Philosophers?: https://rajkumarrichard.blogspot.com/2019/10/why-did-paul-quote-pagan-philosophers.html
4 Good Things That Go Bad When They Are Idolized – Mama Bear Apologetics: https://mamabearapologetics.com/joshua-harris-and-idol-making/
Ben Shapiro on the impossibility of the incarnation of the Messiah within Jewish thought – THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM: https://chab123.wordpress.com/2022/07/17/ben-shapiro-on-the-impossibility-of-the-incarnation-of-the-messiah-within-jewish-thought/
Renewing Your Mind | Why Apologetics? | Mar 9, 2019 Edition – A Broadcast with R.C. Sproul: https://renewingyourmind.org/2019/03/09/why-apologetics
If you get canceled, like paleontologist Gunter Bechly, where do you go? | Uncommon Descent: https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/if-you-get-canceled-like-paleontologist-gunter-bechly-where-do-you-go/
Modern Science refutes the Evolutionary theory: 60,000 generations of bacteria – But evolution has not been observed: https://sciencerefutesevolution.blogspot.com/2017/10/60000-generations-of-bacteria-but.html
Uprooting a “Bad Design” Argument – Reasons to Believe: https://reasons.org/explore/publications/articles/uprooting-a-bad-design-argument
Darwin’s God: Evolutionists Are Now Embracing Determinism and Denying Free Will: https://darwins-god.blogspot.com/2014/06/evolutionists-are-now-embracing.html
Designed for life – The fact that System Earth has these (and more!) design elements essential for life suggests it is a systems engineering marvel, one that shows all the hallmarks of incredible intelligence.: https://creation.com/earth-designed
An Overview of the Body’s Amazing, Designed and Irreducibly Complex Systems | Evolution News: https://evolutionnews.org/2016/09/in_conclusion_a/
The Designed Body | Evolution News – A Series of Articles on the Irreducible Complexity of the Human Body : https://evolutionnews.org/tag/the-designed-body/

All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. Hebrews 11:13 Blessings to you all