INTRODUCTION

Apologetics is a large and complex subject. There are many and various ways that these individuals and organizations have dealt with each facet. In many cases they offer their teachings online for free. In other cases they sell books, videos and other resources.

LINKS

Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry

http://www.carm.org/

Apologetics organization whose purpose is to equip Christians with good information on doctrine, various religious groups (Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc.), cults, Evolution, New Age, and related subjects.

Apologetics Index

http://www.apologeticsindex.org/

Apologetics Index (apologeticsindex.org, apologeticsindex.com, and countercult.com) provides research resources on religious cults, sects, new religious movements, alternative religions, apologetics-, anticult-, and countercult organizations, doctrines, religious practices and world views.

Apologetics Press

http://www.apologeticspress.org/

For more than twenty years Apologetics Press has published and disseminated materials for self study, group study, or evangelistic purposes. Topics range from evidences supporting the Christian Faith to highly controversial areas that challenge that Faith.

Take a look at their FREE Home Study Courses online PDF files at

http://www.apologeticspress.org/homestudycourses/

Leadership U

www.leaderu.com/menus/apologetics.html

a "one-stop shopping superstore" in the marketplace of ideas

a searchable collection of resources and interactive opportunities

a multi-disciplinary vehicle to help reach professors, students and other thinkers with the best in Christian thought on a variety of compelling issues

a growing community of apologists for the historical Christian faith who are engaging their culture on a variety of fronts

Tektonics Apologetics Ministries

www.tektonics.org/

Tekton Apologetics Ministries is committed to providing scholarly answers to serious questions which are often posed on major and minor elements of the Christian faith.

Huge site with many features like articles, book reviews, and much more.

Apologetics Dot Org

http://www.apologetics.org/

This web site is a project sponsored by Trinity College of Florida and the C. S. Lewis Society. The purpose for this web site is to present Christianity as such an understandable, defensible, and compelling world view that any honest investigator will accept its truth and purpose for his or her life.

Creation Worldview

http://www.creationworldview.org

The Academy of Christian Apologetics

http://hisdefense.org/

The Academy is a ministry to the body of Christ whose goal is to provide each and every Christian with the materials needed to learn how to articulate and defend their faith in a way that stands up to intellectual criticism.

Stand to Reason

http://www.str.org/

Stand to Reason trains Christians to think more clearly about their faith and to make an even-handed, incisive, yet gracious defense for classical Christianity and classical Christian values in the public square.

Sword and Spirit

http://www.swordandspirit.com/

Large and excellent site that does not have a mission statement in an obvious place for me to put here.

Note the free Power Point slide show downloads. Go to

http://swordandspirit.com/_STUDY/presentations.html

Ankerberg Theological Research Institute

www.ankerberg.com/

Many products and articles by John Ankerberg. Apologetics is one of many topics.

Christian Research Institute

http://www.equip.org/

The Christian Research Institute exists to provide Christians worldwide with carefully researched and well-reasoned answers that encourage them in their faith and equip them to intelligently represent it to people influenced by ideas and teachings that assault or undermine orthodox, biblical Christianity.

This is the ministry of Hank Hanegraaff. He is on the radio as the Bible Answer Man.

Ligonier Miniseries

www.ligonier.org

For 30 years, Ligonier has been producing Christian education materials designed to fill the gap between Sunday school and Seminary.

The ministry of R. C. Sproul with the radio show Renewing Your Mind

Search Ministries

http://www.searchmin.org/

Search Ministries is a national organization with branch offices around the country. It was established to help adults develop spiritually and to train them to have an impact on their spheres of influence.

Answers in Genesis

http://www.answersingenesis.org/

The mission: To bring reformation by restoring the foundations of our faith which are contained in the book of Genesis. This is the ministry of Ken Ham. There are all kinds of resources related to creationism here.

Institute for Creation Research

http://www.icr.org/

Institute for Creation Research A Christ-Focused Creation Ministry. This is a large site with lots of resources related to creationism.

Josh McDowell Ministry

http://www.josh.org/

Josh McDowell wrote the apologetic classics: Evidence that Demands a Verdict, plus More Evidence the Demands a Verdict. This site has many other books by him plus lots of resources for ministering to youth.

He has a radio show named Josh McDowell Radio

Norman Geisler

http://www.normangeisler.net/

This site gives background on Norm Geisler and his nation wide speaking schedule. Dr. Norman Geisler is author or coauthor of some fifty books and hundreds of articles. He has taught at the university and graduate level for nearly forty years and has spoken or debated in all fifty states and in twenty-five countries. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy

Impact Apologetics

http://www.impactapologetics.com/

this is a Web site that sells books and tapes by Norm Geisler and others. It is the home site for the seminars that Norm Geisler offers.

Apologetics Information Ministry

http://www.apologeticsinfo.org/

Welcome to Apologetics Information Ministry Online! AIM strives to provide solid Biblical teaching on many pertinent issues. There is a variety of information on Christian Doctrine, apologetics, cults, the occult, world religions, and non-Christian philosophies on this site.

Apologetics Resource Center

http://www.apologeticsresctr.org/

The Apologetics Resource Center is a mission whose purpose is to reach the minds and hearts of people with the message and truth claims of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Its mission is also to equip Christians with a culturally relevant apologetic, enabling them to have a deeper level of personal faith, contend for that faith, and to enter arenas of resistance and reclaim ground lost to skepticism, secularism, and other alien philosophies.

Christian Answers

http://www.christiananswers.net/

Our primary goal is to provide accurate, biblical answers on a wide variety of questions asked by Christians and non-Christians.

Intelligent Design Network

http://intelligentdesignnetwork.org/

To promote objective, evidence-based science education with regard to the origin of the universe and of life and its diversity.

To enhance public awareness of the evidence of intelligent design in the universe and living systems.

Probe Ministries

http://www.probe.org/

Probe's mission is to present the Gospel to communities, nationally and internationally, by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love God with their minds and equipping the Church to engage the culture for Christ.

This ministry features Kerby Anderson.

Meekness and Truth

http://www.meeknessandtruth.org/

Meekness and Truth Ministries is dedicated to educating Christian ministries and churches to effectively use Christian evidences in evangelism by developing practical materials that equip Christians to overcome barriers, so that they might reach others with the Gospel.

Biblical Discipleship Ministries

http://www.biblicaldiscipleship.org/

Biblical Discipleship Ministries is a teaching and discipleship ministry for the purpose of bringing the good news of Jesus Christ to the world. This is the ministry of Jobe Martin. There are various resources including excellent ones on creationism vs. evolution.

RBC Ministries

http://www.gospelcom.net/rbc/ds/topics.html

They publish Our Daily Bread, Campus Journal and many other materials. They publish dozens of booklets the size of Our Daily Bread that they send out for FREE. These deal with apologetic issues as well as many other contemporary topics. These booklets are online also with the excellent diagrams.

Coral Ridge Ministries

http://www.coralridge.org/CRMresources.asp

D James Kennedy has produced some excellent books and videos on apologetics along with many other things.

Watchman Fellowship

http://www.watchman.org/

Watchman Fellowship is an independent Christian research and apologetics ministry focusing on new religious movements, cults, the occult and the New Age. We serve the Christian and secular community as a resource for cult education, counseling, and non-coercive intervention

Ravi Zacharias Ministres

www.rzim.org

Mission is to reach and challenge those who shape the ideas of culture with the credibility of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

CENTRAL REFERENCES

When dealing with counter cult ministry and apologetics at some point you need to have some simple central references.

HOW can you discern truth from error if you do not have a reliable standard?

HOW can you raise the conversation above your opinion verses their opinion?

HOW can you deal with the argument that Christianity is just for Americans?

HOW can you deal with the fact that there are so many denominations?

that disagree so how can anyone know the truth?

WHERE can you point to that is a summary of what the Bible teaches?

WHAT are some summaries that have been used as central references

by many believers for many years?

Here are some resources for you to examine.

Full Doctrinal Statement of Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS)

http://www.dts.edu/engine.cfm?a=27&b=90&i=90

Baptist Faith and Message of the Southern Baptists (SBC)

http://www.sbc.net/bfm/bfm2000.asp#ii

IFMA Confession of Faith (this statement is accepted by many missions agencies)

http://www.ifmamissions.org/doctrin.htm

Lausanne Covenant

http://www.gospelcom.net/lcwe/statements/covenant.html

For the following resources go to the link at the end of the list.

Apostles Creed

Nicene Creed

Westminster Confession of Faith with Scripture Proofs

Westminster Larger Catechism

Heidelberg Catechism

Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy

http://www.reformed.org/documents/index.html?mainframe=index_docu.html

At that same location there are MANY more creeds, confessions, catechisms and other related resources.

This includes

Martin Luther’s 95 Theses

Jonathan Edward’s Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

http://www.reformed.org/documents/index.html?mainframe=index_docu.html

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ONE SENTENCE

There is one sentence that helps me the most. It was composed by the Reformers to clarify what they stood for in opposition to the Roman Catholic Church. There are oceans of wisdom in these words. I keep in written on a large piece of paper that is taped to the ceiling over the pillow in my bed. I look at it from my bed. I look at it from my reading chair. It is my anchor. God has used it to dispel much confusion. He has shown me how each part is critical individually, plus each two parts plus the whole taken together. It helps me to read it when written in this form.

Salvation is

by grace alone,

through faith alone,

in Christ alone,

based on Scriptures alone,

to the glory of God alone.

On a related note go to: Cambridge Declaration

http://www.solideogloria.org/beliefs/cambrdec.htm

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FUNDAMENTALS OF THE FAITH

This also brings up the question of

WHAT are the fundamentals of the faith?

Here is a compilation from several lists

Inspiration of Scripture

Virgin birth

Deity of Christ

Blood Atonement

Bodily Resurrection

Trinity

Second Coming

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