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  • The Good Book Blog

    Jesus’ God

    Weekly Q & A with Dr. William Lane Craig

    William Lane Craig — 

    ... A former Muslim (now Christian) friend once remarked to me, “Muslim evangelism is a crash course in Christian doctrine.” Your question, Abdullah, so well illustrates that remark. You have opened the door to discussion of some very profound doctrines about God and Christ. To begin with, you are quite right in inferring that if any human being regards someone as God, he must also regard that person as his Creator, since God is the Creator of all that exists apart from Himself. Since Christians regard Jesus as God, they also explicitly acknowledge him as the Creator (see Gospel of John 1.1-3; Colossians 1.15-17; Hebrews 1.1-3) ...

  • Business. Ministry. Life.

    Alumni Spotlight Colby Gilmore

    Financial Planner

    Colby Gilmore — 

    Colby Gilmore is a Financial Planner for the Private Wealth division of Ronald Blue Trust.

  • Business. Ministry. Life.

    Alumni Spotlight: Jordan (Perkins) Terranova

    Co-Founder, Illuminate International; 2017 Alumna, Crowell School of Business

    Jordan Terranova — 

    Our mission is to unite kids around the world through the power of story and education.

  • The Good Book Blog

    Post-Postmodernism: Engaging the New Spirit of the Age with Clarity, Conviction, and Compassion

    Thaddeus Williams — 

    Fifteen years ago in Paris, I had a conversation with a young existentialist who said something as unflattering as it was memorable: “Whatever the world does the church does ten years later and worse.” My new friend was talking about Christian music, describing a decade lag factor, a slowness to recognize and adapt to cultural changes that, in his estimation, rendered the church musically irrelevant ...

  • GRIT

    International Day of the Girl

    a day of celebration & awareness

    Sarah Schwartz — 

    GRIT discusses the International Day of the Girl.

  • The Good Book Blog

    What is the Most Powerful Evidence for the Christian Faith?

    Sean McDowell — 

    For the past three years I have been helping my father update his classic book Evidence that Demands a Verdict. There is no doubt that the evidence for Christianity has grown substantially since the book first released in 1972 ...

  • Student Life Blog

    A Herd of Scapegoats

    a blog response to The Biola Hour on technology

    Samantha Lyons — 

    As a way to continue the conversations in The Biola Hour, we've invited Sam Gassaway to blog her thoughts after each episode. This is a response...

  • Student Life Blog

    What is Business as Ministry?

    Christina Gramenz — 

    Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. - 1 Corinthians 15:58

  • The Good Book Blog

    Brute Facts and the Argument from Contingent Beings

    Weekly Q & A with Dr. William Lane Craig

    William Lane Craig — 

    ... Your question, Austin, is about (1), which I call “a modest version of the Principle of Sufficient Reason” which “circumvents the typical objections to strong versions of that principle.” Leibniz’s own formulation of the Principle of Sufficient Reason in his treatise The Monadology was very strong: "no fact can be real or existent, no statement true, unless there be a sufficient reason why it is so and not otherwise." Notice that for Leibniz every fact, every true statement, must have an explanation. That entails that there are no brute facts, that is, facts without explanation. By contrast, as I explain in Reasonable Faith, my more modest formulation of the Principle “merely requires any existing thing to have an explanation of its existence. This premiss is compatible with there being brute facts about the world” (p. 107). My version of the Principle denies that there are beings which exist without any explanation. That’s all I need for the argument to go through ...

  • Student Life Blog

    Six Tips to Help You Reach Your Academic Goals

    Eyvette Min — 

    It’s hard to believe that we’re already starting the sixth week of this semester! Here are a few tips to ensure that you’re staying on the path towards reaching your academic goals.

  • Biola News

    Apologetics Professor Authors New Book on Why God Allows Evil

    Clay Jones recently released the book “Why Does God Allow Evil?: Compelling Answers for Life’s Toughest Questions”

    Jenna Loumagne — 

    Amidst recent national disasters including hurricanes and earthquakes across the nation and internationally, many may be asking the question of...

  • Student Life Blog

    Three Things I learned ӣƵ Money as an Undergrad

    Shane Enete — 

    As a high schooler, I was always drawn to the idea of saving. It gripped me. I loved the idea of small deposits growing to piles of money given...

  • The Good Book Blog

    A Religion of Professors?

    Mark Saucy — 

    Imagine my double-take when I was confronted with this assessment of our comparative religions by an Orthodox believer several years ago back in Ukraine: “Mark, you Protestants follow a religion of professors, whereas we Orthodox … the religion of monks" ...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Apologetics Is Not Saying You’re Sorry

    Sean McDowell — 

    As a professor of Christian Apologetics at Biola University, I (Sean) help prepare students to answer tough questions raised against the Christian faith. One day someone from outside the Biola academic community called our university to ask why we offer classes on apologizing for the faith. She thought apologetics meant teaching students to say they were sorry for their beliefs! While her question was well intentioned, she didn’t grasp the nature of apologetics and its role in the Christian life. Christians certainly should apologize for their faith, but not in the way she had in mind ...

  • GRIT

    Filipino American History Month

    an interview with Meleca Consultado

    Sarah Schwartz — 

    RD Meleca Consultado shares with us for Filipino American History Month.

  • The Good Book Blog

    Is Biblical Teaching on Sex Hateful and Repressive?

    Sean McDowell — 

    Let’s face it; we live in a world saturated with sex. Our movies, music, novels, politics, and even advertisements are dominated by sex. Essentially, the celebrated view of sex in our culture is: if it feels good, do it. According to the ideas propagated by the late Hugh Hefner, and others in the sexual revolution, anything that prevents someone from experiencing consensual sex in whatever fashion he or she desires is viewed as harmful and repressive ...

  • The Good Book Blog

    How Can Christ’s Death Satisfy Divine Justice?

    Weekly Q & A with Dr. William Lane Craig

    William Lane Craig — 

    ... For those who don’t remember, Lance Ito was the judge in the infamous O.J. Simpson murder trial. Simpson was actually acquitted, but you’re asking why, had he been found guilty, some other person might not have borne his sentence for him, given that Christ bore our sentence of death for us. I want to be very precise about your question, Tomislav. Your question is not about the morality of penal substitution. Rather your question is about the satisfaction of justice. How can the demands of retributive justice be met by punishing a substitute in one case but not the other? ...

  • Biola News

    Crowell School of Business Launches Third Annual Startup Competition

    Lynsi Snyder-Ellingson, CEO of In-N-Out Burger, featured at kickoff event

    Alisa Ohara — 

    Biola University’s Crowell School of Business kicked off the 3rd Annual Biola Startup Competition on Monday, Sept. 25 featuring Lynsi Snyder, CEO...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Interview: Updated and Revised Evidence that Demands a Verdict

    Sean McDowell — 

    My friend Timothy Fox at Freethinking Ministries recently interviewed me regarding the updated version of Evidence That Demands A Verdict, which I had the opportunity to co-write with my father. He asked some great questions about the history of the book, its impact, and details regarding some of the updates. Enjoy! ...

  • GRIT

    Leveraging Your Advantages

    a chapel talk by Christa McKirland

    Lisa Igram — 

    Now, the Star-Belly SneetchesHad Bellies with stars.The Plain-Belly SneetchesHad none upon thars….” ~Dr. Seuss, The Sneetches and Other Stories So...

  • Student Life Blog

    Fleshy Prison or Beautiful Vessel

    a blog response to the The Biola Hour on Spirituality & Embodiment

    Samantha Lyons — 

    As a way to continue the conversations in The Biola Hour, we've invited Sam Gassaway to blog her thoughts after each episode. This is a response...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Worshiping a God Who Might Damn Your Children

    Weekly Q & A with Dr. William Lane Craig

    William Lane Craig — 

    ... There are actually two different questions here which are being run together, the first a psychological question (“How can you love and worship a God who you believe would do that to your children?”) and the second a philosophical question (“How can you think that is a fair and reasonable thing for anyone or anything to do?”). The psychological question is nothing more than an emotionally loaded red herring. It is just an inquiry about one’s personal psychological state. It is a request for an autobiographical report about one’s subjective condition. As such, its answer will be person-relative and have nothing to do with objective truth ...

  • Business. Ministry. Life.

    Alumni Spotlight: Amanda Coox

    Amanda Coox — 

    What is your current position and role at Apple? What interests you about this industry? I am a DevOps Engineer and Technical Project Manager on...

  • The Good Book Blog

    “Cut and Paste” Biblical Living

    David Talley — 

    There is no end of opportunities to be blessed with the teaching and preaching of God’s word. Great preachers can be heard on the radio. Podcasts can be automatically downloaded to our phones or iPads. The teaching of God’s word is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on cable television networks. Christian bookstores are full of books by the greatest authors of our day. Electronic books can be carried with us everywhere with ease. Churches have program after program geared toward teaching God’s word, not to mention a worship service every week, which includes a Bible-based sermon. From the cradle to the grave, opportunities abound ...

  • Student Life Blog

    Building Confidence

    Louie Chong — 

    When you can't even...