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Dan Kimball of Vintage Faith
On May 27, 2007, I met with Dan Kimball of the Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz, California (vintagechurch.org).[fn]At the time of this article, Dan has authored two books: The Emerging Church and They Like Jesus but Not the Church: Insights from Emerging...
Musings about the Emerging Church
Unfortunately, my journey through research and writing about the Emerging Church has taken a long time, perhaps, longer than any project I've undertaken with CARM. The delays have been mostly due to traveling, a little burnout, and CARM maintenance -- not to mention...
About CARM’s section on the emerging church
There are good and bad things in the emerging church movement. Not all emerging church pastors are the same. In fact, some of them contradict each other on a variety of issues. You might have one emerging church pastor say you don't need to believe in the...
Please read this first about the Emerging Church
The Emerging Church movement is controversial, and CARM does not approve or disapprove of it as a whole. There is so much diversity within it that it cannot be labeled as all good or all bad. There is no official, single doctrinal statement from "The Emerging Church"...
Karen Ward of the Church of the Apostles, Seattle, WA
On June 9th, 2007, Saturday, a friend of mine, Ryan, and I attended the Church of the Apostles in Seattle, Washington. The pastor of that church, a woman named Karen Ward, had been in email contact with me for a week or two. I told her I was doing research, planned...
Bible Chronology of the New Testament
The following chronological list is adapted from The Chronological Bible. Its purpose is to help you develop an overall understanding of the order of the major people and events of the Bible. The dates are disputed here and there, but overall they can give you a...
Bible Chronology of the Old Testament
The following chronological list is adapted from The Chronological Bible. Its purpose is to help you develop an overall understanding of the order of the major people and events of the Bible. The dates are disputed here and there, but generally, they can give you a...
The Teleological Argument
The Teleological Argument is also known as the "argument from design." Quite simply, it states that a designer must exist since the universe and living things exhibit marks of design in their order, consistency, unity, and pattern. A common analogy of this is the...
Presuppositional Apologetics
This form of Christian apologetics deals with presuppositions. A presuppohttps://carm.org/2009/10/15/christian-2/sition is an assumption that is taken for granted. A presuppositionalist presupposes God's existence and argues from that perspective to show the validity...
Prayer in Apologetics
One of the dangers of the apologist is falling into the trap of relying on his own intellectual abilities to try to wrestle someone into the kingdom of God. I am sad to say that I have been guilty of this. Pride hides itself in the heart, so it cannot be seen. When...
Evidential Apologetics
Evidential Apologetics is the style of Christian defense that stresses the miracles found in the Bible particularly Christ's resurrection as evidence for the existence of God and the validity of Christ and His words. It also uses historical evidence to support the...
Are there Guidelines for doing Apologetics?
Almost every discipline has a set of rules and guidelines that help a person perform better. In fact, guidelines could be produced for nearly any endeavor. Why should apologetics be any different? Following are some things I have found that are very helpful in...
Classical Apologetics
Classical Apologetics is the style of Christian defense that stresses rational arguments for the existence of God and uses evidence to substantiate biblical claims and miracles. It is quite similar to evidential apologetics and appeals to human reason and evidence. ...
An illustration of what apologetics really is
Apologetics is somewhat of a lonely endeavor. It is possible for a person to give a great deal of effort to apologetic work, to defend God’s word, to answering questions, to reasoning with people, and have it all seem as though it was worthless and bears little fruit....
Are you an apologist?
Are you an apologist? If you are a Christian, you are because you give answers about Jesus when you tell people about him (1 Pet. 3:15). Sometimes, when I do seminars after I introduce myself, I give a very brief history of what got me started in apologetics and what...