Category: APOLOGETICS

Tongues Don’t Make Your Prayers More Effective

Tongues Don’t Make Your Prayers More Effective

A commonly held view in much of the Church is that God is more inclined or more able to assist you if you pray in tongues. Is this true?

Tongues Can’t Make You into a More Spiritual Christian.

Tongues Can’t Make You into a More Spiritual Christian.

I've heard people declare that if your church doesn't have people speaking in tongues and being slain in the spirit, you should find a different church, because the Holy Spirit isn't there. Jesus Christ's answer to that one is this:  "For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them" (Matthew 18:20).

Israel and Iran

Israel and Iran

With events in the Middle East these days, who knows what's going to transpire in the near future? The answer is that while a lot of self-professed experts in the faith and out of it really don't, God does.

Six Things the Gift of Tongues Can’t Do, Part 1: Tongues Can’t Make You Speak In Heavenly Languages.

Six Things the Gift of Tongues Can’t Do, Part 1: Tongues Can’t Make You Speak In Heavenly Languages.

The gift of speaking in tongues is often described as the ability to speak in heavenly languages: the languages of angels or of the Holy Spirit Himself. Does this belief stand up to close Biblical scrutiny?

Do Christians Worship a God of the Gaps?

Do Christians Worship a God of the Gaps?

Christians have been accused, most notably by Richard Dawkins, of worshipping and believing in a "God of the gaps". That is, whatever science doesn't yet understand is where we Christians claim God is. Is this true? Has science backed our God into a corner, so that most of our world can be observed, and the part where our God is gets smaller and smaller as knowledge increases?