Trading Glory
I spent the morning talking to a skeptic. A friend and I answered question after question and presented layer upon layer...
Doubt & Questions
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Not Their Call
"Titus 3:10. No reply needed." When I read her email, I gasped. I knew how to decode this message from an important lead...
Native Language
My cross-country teammate leaned back in his chair and said, "I'll believe in God if he reveals himself to me." We we...
Outsmarted
"How do you know my name?" my professor asked. As a young philosopher, I wanted an impressive answer. What is the eviden...
Going to Jesus
We were sitting at Flour in Boston because I couldn't resist their croissants. As I caught up with an old friend, I a...
Nowhere Else To Go
I showed up at the building to collect my items and say goodbye, but a security guard met me outside the front door with...
The Offensive Jesus
Before he said a word, his tousled hair and bemused smile identified him as a skeptical Harvard student. "So, what's thi...
When the Bible Becomes a Battleground
I spent years arguing about whether God chose me or I chose God. Scholars on both sides warned me that the other positio...
The Incomprehensible Jesus
A few years ago, I was questioning again whether I still believed in God. To give God a fair chance, I decided to study...
When the Room Makes Truth Unthinkable
I was on a global Skype call with RZIM's senior leaders and Ravi Zacharias himself—the famous apologist whose ministry w...
The Question I Didn't Want To Answer
My friend looked me in the eye and asked, "So, do you think I'm going to hell?" My stomach tightened. I didn't want t...
The Expert Who Knew Nothing
I have the degrees listed on my LinkedIn profile—the M.Div., the D.Min. I've led ministries at Ivy League universities a...
When Disappointment Is Doubt
If any organization should have represented God well, it was Ravi Zacharias International Ministries. I worked there....
Talk Is Cheap
An anonymous poster to an online forum wrote, "I am a new Christian. I sin a lot. I am such a bad person. I insult other...
The Anatomy of Belief
A friend once forwarded me an email. In it, he explained how he felt about God before he met me. He wrote, "When I fi...
Three Friends At Dawn
"It's a shooting star!" "What, where?" (Obviously, they were far above our heads). I scrambled to find the tent's zipper...
Not A Bumper Sticker
I was talking with a friend who told me he keeps praying, "God, what do you want me to do with my life?" He said, "I'm s...
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