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I don’t need Jesus, I’m a good person

David was a Buddhist man I met during an open-air meeting recently, who swore blind that he had lived a perfect moral life for the past twenty years! As I tried to pinpoint areas of his [...]

Is the Bible unreliable?

A friend of mine who runs a youth group in a rough area told me that he often finds that one of his eight-year-old kids knows absolutely nothing about the Bible … and yet feels quite [...]

Enjoying life without God?

I can honestly say there were many things I enjoyed in my non-Christian life. My ethic was ‘work hard and play hard’. Sure, there were times when I was disappointed or angry with life, but on [...]

Defending the indefensible: The uniqueness of Christ in a pluralistic world

How do we begin to persuade atheists, agnostics and pluralists of the uniqueness of Jesus Christ? In the face of overwhelming criticism, there remain some responses which do us little good. The first could be called [...]

What’s true for you isn’t necessarily true for me

‘Who are you to judge? There are many roads to God. It doesn’t matter what you believe as long as you are sincere.’ How do we share God’s truth in the face of such questions? Behind [...]

Hasn’t the new atheism disproved God?

Atheism was already around 3,000 years ago when David wrote ‘The fool had said in his heart, “There is no God”’ (Ps. 14:1). However, periodically throughout history, it has become resurgent, as Alister McGrath recounts in [...]

Why doesn’t God stop the trouble?

Something is wrong with our world. Disease and death come as uninvited guests to wreck our comfort zones and leave us questioning. We have grown tired of false hopes and promises, whether made by politicians, doctors, [...]

Barriers to belief

What prevents a person from coming to faith in Christ? The prime reason given in Scripture is that ‘the god of this age’, that is Satan, has blinded people’s minds so that they cannot believe (2 [...]

So what would convince you?

Our church Christianity Explored group had been very productive. The study leaders were able to address many of the questions which were being raised. We genuinely believed our guests were being helped in their search for [...]