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Year End Blessings - 12.11.09
>> Saturday, December 12, 2009
Get AMPed!
Dear Apologia Supporter,
We are very excited about the amount of ministry opportunities God is providing for us! Since launching Apologia on October 1, 2008, we have had the opportunity to teach at many different churches across several states, minister to thousands of Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews, and Atheists, and have seen God spread our ministry worldwide via the internet. We literally receive opportunities to evangelize the lost and equip the body from around the world every day! Because of this, and through much prayer, we feel that God is leading us to make the next step; to take the ministry to the next level. We have more than enough ministry opportunities, and could very easily create many more, to make Apologia our full-time ministry and occupation, we simply lack the needed funding.
We are seeking believers and churches to join what we are calling our A.M.P. Team, or Apologia Monthly Partnership Team. We are asking for Two Year Commitments on a monthly basis to help support our ministry costs. We ask that you please prayerfully consider supporting us. Those who make a two year commitment of $25 or more a month will receive some really cool perks, such as:
A free Apologia T-shirt
We are very excited about the amount of ministry opportunities God is providing for us! Since launching Apologia on October 1, 2008, we have had the opportunity to teach at many different churches across several states, minister to thousands of Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews, and Atheists, and have seen God spread our ministry worldwide via the internet. We literally receive opportunities to evangelize the lost and equip the body from around the world every day! Because of this, and through much prayer, we feel that God is leading us to make the next step; to take the ministry to the next level. We have more than enough ministry opportunities, and could very easily create many more, to make Apologia our full-time ministry and occupation, we simply lack the needed funding.
We are seeking believers and churches to join what we are calling our A.M.P. Team, or Apologia Monthly Partnership Team. We are asking for Two Year Commitments on a monthly basis to help support our ministry costs. We ask that you please prayerfully consider supporting us. Those who make a two year commitment of $25 or more a month will receive some really cool perks, such as:
A free Apologia T-shirt
A free copy of Jeff’s upcoming book, “Reaching Mormons,” before it is made available to the public
An AMP Team Certificate
Exclusive Messages by Jeff and Evangelism Videos
A 25% Discount off anything we sell, including, but not limited to, Books and Apologia Supplies
Other AMP team exclusives, TBD
If you feel that God is leading you to make a financial commitment to us, please let us know. We would be privileged to partner with you. You can simply fill out the following form and return it to us. You can mail it back, or scan and email it to Luke Pierson at luke@defendthefaith.org. If you have any questions, please let us know. I can be reached on my cell at (480) 251-5376 and Luke can be reached on his at (219) 746-1746. Thanks and God Bless!
If you feel that God is leading you to make a financial commitment to us, please let us know. We would be privileged to partner with you. You can simply fill out the following form and return it to us. You can mail it back, or scan and email it to Luke Pierson at luke@defendthefaith.org. If you have any questions, please let us know. I can be reached on my cell at (480) 251-5376 and Luke can be reached on his at (219) 746-1746. Thanks and God Bless!
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Classic example of the foolishness of unbelief.
>> Thursday, November 12, 2009
One of the most popular debates held between a Christian and an Atheist in the last 25-years was between Dr. Greg Bahnsen and Dr. Gordon Stein held in California. This clip is a classic portion of the debate. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.
This is just one more example and encouragement that the unbelieving worldview inevitably leads to irrationality and inconsistency. The Christian position is intellectually rigorous and easily engages the atheistic worldview. To reject the existence of God is to abandon our intellect, the foundations of scientific method, morality, etc. My prayer is that Christians will stand-up and reach the neo-atheists of our day with the love of Christ and the Gospel.
Atheist proselytizer Richard Dawkins is on a campaign to have atheists "come out of the closet" and begin winning people to the fundamentalist atheist movement (ASU gammage, 2008). This creates a wonderful opportunity to engage and reason with people who need the Gospel. May God open the eyes of those we reach to the Gospel of God's love and grace to sinners. :]
Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
1 Corinthians 1:20
Jeff Durbin
President
Apologia
Atheism examined and found wanting...
>> Saturday, October 17, 2009
I gave a lecture a few nights ago. During the lecture someone began to challenge me and debate me on the Bible and the existence of God. Here is some of the audio and what followed. I hope you are blessed by it and you are encouraged to be bold in your faith!
Ultimately, what you should discover is that all the while this young man was attacking the Christian God he was showing evidence of "knowing" Him despite His denials. He lives practically as though he believed in God (at a minimal level) and yet denies God by his profession. As Christians, we need to "dig-in" and show the atheist that he does know God--but, something is wrong. Although the Atheist knows God (and evidences that fact at every turn of his life) he suppresses the truth about Him. After we have demonstrated that this is the case we can then be in a position to call him to repentance and faith to receive the Lord Jesus as Savior and Lord and the gift of eternal life!
Romans 1:18
Jeff Durbin
President
Apologia
Bishop McKay Jones agreed to the possibility of a public discussion.
>> Monday, August 24, 2009
Last evening the LDS church held a public lecture on "Are Mormons Christian?" We are tremendously grateful for the opportunity presented for a public discussion and dialogue between Bishop Jones of the LDS church and myself. Mr. Jones seems like a gracious and very nice guy and I have tremendous respect for his willingness to engage in such a discussion. We still need to connect with all the parties involved and iron out details that would make both of us comfortable. We will announce more details as they become available. Please pray for us as we begin the process.
One of the greatest challenges presenting itself to Mormons and Christians alike is misunderstanding. Misunderstanding creates confusion and erects walls between us. Walls that exist between us only serve to create further divides and destroy any possibility of us having ANY effective dialogue or having any meaningful relationships. This should not be. God has presented an opportunity for us to begin an honest, loving, respectful and effective dialogue. When we held our public event in April, we allowed the audience to come up to the microphone and ask questions publicly and challenge what we were saying. Yet, the complaint from the LDS in attendance was that they would like to see the LDS church represented by an apologist. We agreed that that would be most effective. Last evening the complaint from the audience was that it was not truly an "open forum" event as the audience was not allowed to "ask" (verbally) questions or dialogue. The questions had to be written on cards. The complaint was that the LDS were allowed to go unchallenged and were simply pontificating. With an event like this, we can put both of those charges to rest.
Jeff Durbin
President
Apologia
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