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mid-week apologetics booster (7-30-2026)

Good morning friends,

Quote of the week:

I fail to understand why church leaders deny the obvious, that under the guise of piety we are failing to teach the next generation to think critically. We build the walls of our churches thicker, put more locks on the door, then send our young out as lambs before wolves, and they are being destroyed before our eyes. I fail to see how our leaders could have missed the clear commands of scripture to put our minds in gear and defend the faith. – Glenn Smith (from, Why Learn Apologetics?) link

Now, here are your weekly links:

“Prove to me that God exists!” – YouTube – Dr. Andy Bannister answers the challenge “Prove to me that God exists!”. Want to read more widely on this subject? Check out Gregory Ganssle’s book, “A Reasonable God”. This video is episode 8 of the “Short Answers to Big Questions” series, in which we take 50 of the most common questions and objections about Christianity and attempt to give short, succinct answers to each of them. In such short videos, we realize we can only often scratch the surface–nevertheless, we hope to give you lots of food for thought.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3DZdOpAX00
Ex-Muslim Explains What Christians Get Wrong About Evangelism – YouTube – Former devout Muslim turned well-known Christian apologist Abdu Murray shares what Christians often tragically miss when evangelizing Muslims. In the brand-new episode of the CBN program @Radical-Revelations, he explains more.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIMONHlTcFM
‘Return Of The God Hypothesis’ Explains Why Science Can No Longer Ignore Intelligent Design. Science Can No Longer Ignore These 3 Discoveries That Point To God: https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/02/return-of-the-god-hypothesis-explains-why-science-can-no-longer-ignore-intelligent-design/
Were The Gospels Written By The Disciples Originally In Greek? – YouTube – The questioner can’t name the scholars and just started looking at the topic in question but he’s absolutely sure that the evidence falsifies what Frank is saying… : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOvl0SYh6Tw
What does it mean that God is spirit? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/God-is-spirit.html
Central Command: The Brain’s Role in Maintaining Balance | Science and Culture Today: https://scienceandculture.com/2016/09/central_command/
Can There Be One Right Religion? | Sean McDowell – If Jesus rose from the dead, then Christianity is the one right religion. If Jesus did not rise, then Christianity is false, and possibly some other religion is true (see 1 Cor. 15:14-17).: https://seanmcdowell.org/blog/can-there-be-one-right-religion
Renewing Your Mind | The Date of the Canon | Nov 12, 2020 Edition (Michael Kruger) – Critical scholars claim that the New Testament was not recognized as Scripture until long after it was written. But what does the historical evidence say? Today, Michael Kruger takes us to the sources to discover when Christians first relied on the New Testament books as God’s Word.: https://www.renewingyourmind.org/2020/11/12/the-date-of-the-canon
The 34 Wives of Joseph Smith (And Their 11 Husbands), by Chip Thompson & Doris Hanson – YouTube – Talk given on March 13, 2010 at the Capstone Conference held at Calvary Chapel Salt Lake City. See http://www.wivesofjosephsmith.org/: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfqNenhKdls
Self-Discipline Is the Gateway to Christian Maturity – Redeeming Productivity – If you want to grow as a Christian, you must learn discipline. Because self-discipline is the gateway to Christian maturity.: https://redeemingproductivity.com/self-discipline-is-the-gateway-to-christian-maturity/
Countering emotional attacks on creation · Creation.com – when you hear these emotional attacks on biblical creation, take a breath, think calmly, get informed, and help us spread the good news together.: https://creation.com/en/articles/countering-emotional-attacks
Evaluating William Lane Craig’s views on Genesis, Adam and Eve | WINTERY KNIGHT – Wintery Knight writes: I found a wonderful series of articles by someone I really trust on origins issues: Dr. Casey Luskin. He has a long history with the intelligent design movement, starting from when he was a college student. He has a BS and MS in Earth Sciences from the University of California, San Diego, a PhD in Geology from the University of Johannesburg, and a JD from the University of San Diego. He has a series of articles up at Evolution News, about Dr. William Lane Craig’s new book “In Quest of the Historical Adam”. I’m not sure if he is done with the series, but I thought that it was a good time to look over what he’s already written.: https://winteryknight.com/2021/11/28/evaluating-william-lane-craigs-views-on-genesis-adam-and-eve/
“But Paul Never Met Jesus” And Other Bad Arguments About Paul On The Internet – THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM: https://chab123.wordpress.com/2019/05/10/but-paul-never-met-jesusand-other-bad-arguments-about-paul-on-the-internet-3/
Does 1 Corinthians 2:4 mean Christians are wrong to use apologetics in their evangelism?: https://apologeticsuk.blogspot.com/2014/06/does-1-corinthians-24-mean-christians.html
‘Impossible’ Hybrid Suggests Non-Darwinian Change: https://crev.info/2020/07/impossible-hybrid-fish/
Responding to the Mormon Missionary Message | Christian Research Institute: https://www.equip.org/articles/responding-to-the-mormon-missionary-message/
Pilgrims in a Post-Christian Culture by Voddie Baucham: https://learn.ligonier.org/articles/pilgrims-in-a-post-christian-culture
DNA Battles | Creation.com – Jim Bendewald is the founder and director of Evidence Press. His ministry focuses on film production on the topic of creation versus evolution for evangelistic purposes. He also enjoys using creation as a bridge to the Gospel while talking to students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Jim was raised in a liberal Christian environment. He was presented with the Gospel at a Josh McDowell event in 1976 and came to Christ later that year. After reading McDowell’s classic book, Evidence that Demands a Verdict, he was powerfully impacted by the evidence presented, both theologically and historically. The changes in Jim’s life were dramatic and he became involved in apologetics. At that time, he underwent discipleship training through Campus Crusade for Christ and later with the Navigators ministry. He also received an M.Div. from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary to get better equipped, and discovered that the issue of creation, evolution, and the age of the Earth often arose during interactions in door-to-door evangelistic encounters. This led him to write articles and develop resources focusing on creation. His latest documentary project is called DNA Battles: Were Adam and Eve Historical? and features specialist scientists from the Institute for Creation Research, Answers in Genesis and also Drs Robert Carter and Jonathan Sarfati from Creation Ministries International.: https://creation.com/en/articles/dna-battles
The Grand Canyon’s walls hold a mystery most geologists don’t want to talk about. Dr. Tim Clarey walks the canyon rim to show what the layers actually reveal, and it’s not what most people are taught to expect. – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRIKtfzVLpc
Renewing Your Mind | Faulty Logic and Sense Perception | Nov 14, 2014 Edition – In the previous lecture, Dr. Sproul stated four reasons why intelligent people come to differing conclusions about major issues such as the existence of God. In this message, Dr. Sproul discusses why we are prone to making errors in reasoning, or formal errors of logic, and the errors made in our empirical sensory perception.: https://www.renewingyourmind.org/2014/11/14/faulty-logic-and-sense-perception
Religious Faith Is Not Inherently Blind – Bread & Fish – Everyone everywhere ultimately has faith in something. The pantheistic East has faith that everything is spiritual, and that reason is largely useless. The secular West has faith that everything is physical, and that spirituality is largely pointless. Yet both sides only see half of reality. The gospel of Christ is powerful enough to break through that which blinds both sides and to fulfill that which both sides lack. We ought to embrace our faith and take it to the world. If we don’t want people to think we have blind faith, we ought to show them the way to our faith.: https://breadnfish.com/2021/06/22/no-blind-faith-here/
Science Doesn’t Say Anything- Scientists Do – CrossExamined – Scientists look for causes, and logically, there are only two possible types of causes – intelligent causes or non-intelligent causes (i.e. natural causes). : https://crossexamined.org/science-doesnt-say-anything-scientists-do/
Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age – this is a book review of a book written in 2023 by Rosaria Butterfield who also authored the Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: https://zeteo316.com/five-lies-of-our-anti-christian-age/
Was Jesus a Jew? – YouTube – Dinesh debunks the theory that Jesus was not Jewish. I thought this was pretty good, not flawless. Somewhere early in the video he said something like “the Bible was put together in the 2nd century”. I’m not sure what he means by that. I wish he’d clarified that the Bible was WRITTEN in the 1st century! But overall, he makes some very good points in here.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ-4kPy2KIE
Stuff Atheists Say: You’re Almost an Atheist – This “argument” goes like this: “You believe in one god and deny thousands of other gods. I just go one god further and deny the existence of all of them. So you’re almost an atheist.” Or you may hear it worded like this: “You’re an atheist towards thousands of other gods; I’m an atheist towards all of them.” The first thing you need to notice is that this is not an argument against the existence of God. It offers no evidence and puts forth no objection. This statement is about you. What you think and believe, how you label yourself. But it is not about God and whether or not He actually exists.: https://crossexamined.org/stuff-atheists-say-youre-almost-an-atheist/

For a man’s ways are in full view of the LORD, and he examines all his paths. Proverbs 5:21

Blessings to you all