Ladies… don’t make Mary Jo Sharp beg.

I first came across Mary Jo’s Confident Christianity ministry last July when she was interviewed on Stand to Reason. She earned her MA in Christian Apologetics from Biola University, and she’s also a Certified Apologetics Instructor with the Southern Baptists’ North American Mission Board (NAMB). She deserves your attention!

You can find her on Facebook here.

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This is a question recently submitted for Grace Talk:

How can Mark or any of the gospel writers so accurately record what Jesus said? Was someone writing it down as Jesus said it?

Of course, they wrote in the Queen’s English (or should I say King’s?) Just joking…that blog will be for another day. To answer this question, we must look at the evidence.

Today, there are almost five thousand ancient Greek manuscripts of the New Testament! Consider this, fifteen hundred years after Herodotus wrote his history there was only one copy in the entire world. Twelve hundred years after Plato wrote his classic, there was only one manuscript of it left. Today, there exists but a few …

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Have you ever been told that those who struggle with homosexuality cannot change, it’s just the way they were born. Therefore, it is not a choice, but a genetic disposition that we must accept (and not even question) or we are guilty of being bigoted or even prejudice. Functionally, this argument has even been used to begin to distinguish homosexuals as a type of people-group that should have all the rights as any other people-group (e.g. the right to marry and be accepted legally with the same standing and rights as a heterosexual couple). Well, new research indicates that homosexuality, like any other behavior that is harmful to a person or society in general, should not …

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I am sure you have heard or seen advertisements for the movie, Angels and Demons. Angels and Demons took-in 48 million in its opening weekend ejecting Star-Trek to second place. I won’t spoil the premise of the movie for you, but suffice it to say that it involves a spiritual component that followers of Christ need to be aware of in order to not be shaken in their faith and to point people to Jesus.

It is to this end that Westminster Theological Seminary has sponsored a website outlining the claims made in the movie. The website is a fantastic tool and we encourage you to use it to equip your family and engage people in your …

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On Sunday (05.10.09) I did not have time to cite all of the resources related to James 1:14:

“What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?”

The point that I was undertaking was this: Has the Church always viewed a person’s profession of faith as a personal act between them and God or is this a modern phenomenon? Is it possible for a person to have true faith and yet never had a sustained and distinct desire to please God with their whole life? The following is evidence that helps us better realize how far the modern church has leaned away from evaluating genuine faith …

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Chelsea Schilling of WorldNetDaily is reporting that a certain Hindu extremist groups are seeking to blot out Christianity from the state of Orissa in India. The extremist groups are offering money, food and alcohol to anyone who murders Christians and destroys their homes. Faiz Rahman, chairman of Good News India, said Hindu militants are targeting Christian leaders and “The going price to kill a pastor is $250.”

Questions
How do you approach this as a Christian living thousands of miles away? Do you feel good that you don’t have to face treatment like this? Do you wonder why God would allow this? Do you get angry?

In I Peter 3:9-16 we find help in sorting through …

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C.A. sent me a link to a story about the American Humanist Association spending $40,000 on an ad campaign asking: “Why believe in a god?” I was especially intrigued by this because our Gospel Conversations class is paying a lot of attention to the sort of questions people ask, and here’s a big one gift-wrapped and served up on a plate.

Rather than serve up some pat answers here, I’d rather hear from you, Grace Fellowship (especially you Gospel Conversationalists out there)… Why believe in a god?

(P.S. Please do a better job than the American Family Association’s representative, who said, “It’s a stupid ad.” He said some other things after that, but by then I wasn’t

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The story of how the Book of Mormon came to be is a long one…

Mormon was an ancient prophet born in 310 AD Central America. He spent his life observing and participating in warfare. His people, the Nephites, defended themselves against the Lamanites. In 385 AD, the Lamanites annihilated the Nephites in one great, last battle.

In addition to leading men into battle, Mormon, as instructed by the Lord, made a historical compilation of His people, mainly of the house of Israel, whom He had led out of Jerusalem to inhabit the regions in and around Central America. By referring to many volumes of records, which were engraved upon thin gold or brass plates, Mormon engraved his own narrative style history …

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An Interview with Scott Klusendorf, President of Life Training Institute.

Read the entire interview by Justin Taylor
Scott’s forthcoming book, The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage Culture, will be published by Crossway in March 2009.

JT: Just how bad was this election for pro-lifers? Give us the big picture.

SK: There’s no doubt we’ve experienced a crushing defeat in the current political cycle. The executive and legislative branches of the federal government are now firmly in the hands of those deeply committed to the proposition that an entire class of human beings can be set aside to be killed simply because they are in the way of something we want. In the weeks ahead, even before the …

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Here’s the situation: you’re in a conversation with someone about the Gospel. The person you’re talking with says, “Let me ask you a question.” You feel a pit forming in your stomach because there are some questions you really, really don’t want to be asked.

I want to build up an inventory of those questions, so let me have ‘em. Please use the mail form to send in your questions—I’ve turned off the comments because I don’t want anybody to be afraid of asking questions “in public.” (Note: if you’d actually like a question answered, please indicate

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