Truth is discovered, not invented or created. Gravity existed before Newton and deliberately taking an innocent life was wrong before America passed a law against it. Truth is simply the way things are…reality as it is and whether that is morality, economics, theology, or science–there is a way the world is and responsible human beings seek to conform their lives to as much truth as they can get their hands on.
Category Archives: Truth Matters
Truth and Ice Cream
My friend Brett Kunkle (Student Impact Director at Stand to Reason) just launched a new site that will help you think clearly about Christianity. Check it out
Is Christianity true? for everyone? Here is Brett’s helpful way to begin thinking about truth. Enjoy!
Apologetics Study Bible for Students Now Available with contributions by Jonathan Morrow
I am so excited to tell you about the release of the Apologetic Study Bible for Students edited by Sean McDowell. I had the privileged of contributing five articles to it (doubt, hiddenness of God, how we know the Bible includes the right books, what about missing / lost Gospels, and Tolerance) .
It is an outstanding resource that needs to finds its way into the hands of every young person you know. 32% of students walk away from the faith because of Intellectual Skepticism. It doesn’t have to–nor should it be–this way.
Check out this video:
Here are some of the specifics:
Product Description
Like the acclaimed Apologetics Study Bible that has sold 115,000+ copies, the Apologetics Study Bible for Students will anchor younger Christians in the truths of Scripture by equipping them with thoughtful and practical responses for whenever the core issues of their faith and life are challenged. Multiple research studies have shown that spiritual focus often weakens among teenagers as they head into the attention-dividing realm of young adulthood. Up to 66% of them leave church altogether. The Apologetics Study Bible for Students works against that trend by helping this audience begin to better articulate its beliefs.
In addition to the complete HCSB text and dozens of articles collected from today’s most popular youth leaders, including general editor Sean McDowell, this new study Bible also includes:• Two-color design-intensive layout on every page for the visual generation• Sixty “Twisted Scriptures” explanations• Fifty “Bones & Dirt” entries (archaeology meets apologetics)• Fifty “Notable Quotes”• Twenty-five “Tactics” against common anti-Christian arguments• Twenty “Personal Stories” of how God has worked in real lives • Twenty “Top Five” lists to help remember key apologetics topics
A great compliment to this for graduation gifts would be my Welcome to College: A Christ-follower’s guide for the Journey
“But set apart Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to give a defense for the hope within, yet with gentleness and respect.”-1 Peter 3:15
Quote of the Day by Dinesh D’Souza
“Instead of engaging…[the] secular world, most Christians have taken the easy way out. They have retreated into a Christian subculture where they engage Christian concerns. Then they step back into secular society, where their Christianity is kept out of sight until the next church service. Without realizing it Christians have become postmodernists of a sort: they live by the gospel of the two truths. There is religious truth reserved for Sundays and days of worship, and there is secular truth, which applies the rest of time.”—Dinesh D’Souza
where sin leads…
“Establish my footsteps in Your word, and do not let any iniquity have dominion over me.”–Psalm 119:133
Habits of righteousness lead to life…but sin always enslaves us, subtly and incrementally, but always. That is the nature of sin; it turns us inward on ourselves. And before we know it we move from satisfaction of a particular desire or an unwise decision to dominion that removes our ability to see things clearly and thus to act in accordance with God’s will.
The follower of Christ needs daily to be established in the reality of God’s presence, power, and truth.