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mid-week apologetics booster (3-12-2026)

Good morning friends,

Quotes (2) of the week:

As one of my colleagues once said, “I don’t know if this is the last generation. But it is our last generation.” – Michael Brown

(one of 4 types of people who leave Christianity) They want to be loved by people, not by God. This type of person thinks that Christianity is a tool that they can use to become popular. When they first try to articulate the gospel in public, they find that people don’t like them as much, and they feel bad about offending people with exclusive truth claims that they cannot back up using logic and evidence. So, they water down Christianity to get along with non-Christians. Finally, they jettison Christianity completely. This happens to a lot of young Christians the moment they hit college / university.

– Wintery Knight (from article Why did Dan Barker leave Christianity for atheism? – https://winteryknight.com/2020/06/23/why-did-dan-barker-leave-christianity-for-atheism-2/)

Now, here are your weekly links:

Apatheism: Who Cares If God Exists (Hank Unplugged Podcast Episode126) – YouTube – Atheists don’t believe in God. Agnostics don’t know if God exists. Theists believe in God. What do Apatheists believe? In short, they simply do not care to answer the question of God’s existence. How can you share the gospel with someone who doesn’t care? As Western culture becomes increasingly indifferent to questions of faith, diverted by secularism, comfort, and distraction, Christians today encounter many people who don’t so much doubt the existence of a God, but are more or less apathetic about God. For maybe the first time in human history, many apatheistic individuals today are too busy to bother with pondering the existence of God. Kyle Beshears joins Hank Hanegraaff to discuss his book Apatheism: How We Share When They Don’t Care, the origins of apatheism, how it has grown to epidemic levels in society today and most importantly, how Christians might impact the indifference of apatheists and impact them with gospel truth: https://youtu.be/LrNA68Qxo7Y?si=RtLecNNmVd33zhif
Oxygen Stuns Atheists and Evolution – YouTube: https://youtu.be/k-gZdqtKNaM?si=BxbbeRqDHSmoGcRg
Clement of Rome’s New Testament – While it is true that the 27 books of our New Testament were not formally recognized as ‘the New Testament’ until near the end of the fourth century, and our earliest canon list containing the exact 27 books in our New Testament today didn’t appear until A.D. 367, the choice of which books made the final ‘cut’ was not at all arbitrary. It was based on the books which earlier Christian writers and theologians had regarded as authoritative in their time. One such writer was Clement, bishop (or overseer) of the church at Rome towards the end of the first century. In his Letter to the Corinthians (or 1 Clement), dating from around A.D. 97 – Clement had personally known at least one of the apostles (Paul), and we see him quoting or referring to around thirteen of the 27 books that are in our New Testament today. Hence when we ask the question, “What was Clement’s New Testament?” we are able to detect between ten and thirteen of our 27 books of the New Testament, referred to by Clement. From this evidence alone, we can see that it simply isn’t the case that the books of the New Testament were decided “arbitrarily” at the end of the fourth century. The eventual decision about which books were in and which out was always based on what earlier Christian writers such as Clement had regarded as their “New Testament.”: https://etimasthe.com/2018/02/14/clement-of-romes-new-testament/
John Lennox HUMBLY answers a skeptic “Where is the EVIDENCE for GOD?” – YouTube: https://youtu.be/cZ58En4TKHo?si=MlzlwDUrD94H7GWK
What No One Ever Told You About the History of Iran with @BillFederer – YouTube: https://youtu.be/TshWSxBEBNE?si=2XmcTEpaj2sjZl1J
Why A Post-Tribulation Rapture Directly Contradicts The Words Of Scripture – Harbinger’s Daily: https://harbingersdaily.com/why-a-post-tribulation-rapture-directly-contradicts-the-words-of-scripture/
Ezekiel 4:4-5: How could someone realistically lie on one side for 390 days without serious health complications or interruptions? This article gives some possible solutions to this seemly impossible command given to the prophet.: https://biblehub.com/q/ezekiel_4_4-5__lie_390_days_safely.htm
No.1 Christianity Expert: The Truth About Christianity! The Case For Jesus (Historian’s Proof) – YouTube: https://youtu.be/nrwNSSyKuD4?si=hxmo8FSC0uDeafYN
What is the Matthew Bible? | GotQuestions.org – The Matthew Bible, also known as Matthew’s Bible and Matthew’s Version, was an early compilation of English translations of the books of the Bible. It was first published in 1537 by an Englishman named John Rogers, who used the name Thomas Matthew in an attempt to protect his identity and conceal William Tyndale’s involvement in the project. At that time, it was illegal in England to translate the Bible into English… In 1553, Mary Tudor became the queen of England. She was a Catholic and determined to return England to Catholicism. Queen Mary had John Rogers arrested and imprisoned in Newgate Prison. On February 4, 1555, Rogers was led out of prison and past his wife and children (including their infant child whom Rogers had never seen) on his way to the stake (and ultimately burned at the stake).: https://www.gotquestions.org/Matthew-Bible.html
Alien Shock: Would First Century Christians Even Recognize Our Churches? (Podcast) – Cold Case Christianity – Would first‑century Christians even recognize what we call “church” today? In this episode, J. Warner Wallace uses a simple “alien thought experiment” to examine how closely (or how poorly) our modern church models resemble the church described in the book of Acts. Drawing from his own journey—from walking into a megachurch as a 35‑year‑old skeptic, to serving in a mid‑sized church, to planting a home church—Jim explores where we may have drifted from the New Testament pattern and how we can realign our communities with the biblical design for gathering, mission, and discipleship. This conversation will challenge how you think about Sunday services, church size, programs, and what it really means to live as the people of God in the world today: https://coldcasechristianity.com/podcasts/podcasts-about-faith-and-belief/alien-shock-would-first-century-christians-even-recognize-our-churches-podcast/
The Spurgeon Library | Kept from Iniquity – “I kept myself from mine iniquity.” Psalms 18:23. Well now, here is, first, A PERSONAL DANGER: “mine iniquity.” This is a dreadful possession to have in the house; a man had better have a cage of cobras than have an iniquity, yet we have each of us to deal at home with some special form of sin. It is said that there is a skeleton in every house. I do not know whether that is true; but I do know that there is something very much allied to a skeleton, that is, the body of this death with which we all have to deal; and it takes a special shape in each good man. There is some particular sin which he may call “mine iniquity.” Not only is there the general iniquity which affects the whole race, but each man has his own particular form of it: “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way.” There is a general sin, but there is a particularity in it, too; each man has his own way of sinning, so that he can speak of “mine iniquity.”: https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/kept-from-iniquity/#flipbook/
How to Deal With Sin in Your Heart | Paul Washer – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LO9JU3A0Q34
The Blessings of Doing Campus Evangelism and Apologetics – THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM: https://chab123.wordpress.com/2023/11/22/the-blessings-of-doing-campus-evangelism-and-apologetics/
Designed by the Watchmaker | Creation.com – William Paley’s famous argument from design. Long before Darwin, William Paley outlined the evidence for Divine design in living things, the natural world and the universe.: https://creation.com/en/articles/designed-by-the-watchmaker
Dr Michael G Strauss: An Introduction to the Anthropic Principle and Fine Tuning: https://www.michaelgstrauss.com/2017/04/an-introduction-to-anthropic-principle.html
Ten Reasons We Fail to Share Our Faith – Cold Case Christianity – many of us are concerned about our shrinking religious freedom even though we seldom exercise this freedom by sharing the gospel on a regular basis. I listed ten obstacles we must overcome if we hope to be better Christian Case Makers: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/ten-reasons-we-fail-to-share-our-faith/
What Are the Most Powerful Arguments for the Existence of God?: https://www.str.org/w/what-are-the-most-powerful-arguments-for-the-existence-of-god-

Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage –with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 2 Timothy 4:2-4

Blessings to you all