Apologetics

Apologetics

If God is real, why doesn’t He end our suffering?

Max Jeganathan is a speaker and writer at Thinking Faith. Born in Sri Lanka, Max’s family moved to Australia as refugees in the mid-1980s. He has worked as a lawyer and as a political adviser in...

Worldview

“Science cannot answer why we would be important to God,” says Philip Yancey

Wouldn’t it be great if Jesus hung around to answer our questions? What is God up to?  What is the point of this planet and where is it headed? These questions were explored during a talk by...

Discipleship

Is the Sermon on the Mount full of unreachable ideals?

Are the lessons from Jesus’ well-known Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) still applicable to us today, and if so, how can we possibly apply them? Whether we’re younger or older Christians...

Discipleship

How good a Christian are you?

What makes us good Christians? Think about it. In the eyes of our non-Christian friends, relatives and colleagues, is it our be-kind-to-all, no-swear-words conduct? Is it the Christian jargon we...

Apologetics

Passion Week: Tell me, why did Jesus have to die?

“We have a hope, a dream and a target for the kind of person we would like to be – the kind of husband, wife, mother, brother or sister that we would like to be. But we just miss the mark.”...

Apologetics

How do we know the resurrection really happened?

Jesus disciples’ claimed that he rose from the dead and appeared to them. The evidence we have for this is overwhelming. First, we’ve got Paul who claimed to be an eyewitness to the risen...

Apologetics

The false conflict between science and faith: An astrophysicist examines Genesis

Atheists and sceptics perceive Genesis as the Bible’s greatest embarrassment, the Achilles’ heel of the Christian faith. They think that science contradicts Genesis, which is the...

Discipleship

Learning about election: How can we be sure?

For the longest time, I’ve avoided thinking too hard about the inconvenient or uncomfortable aspects of the faith. With “predestination” for instance, I simply packed it up in a box...

Culture

A Christian activist’s take on thinking critically and wrestling with faith

Abortion. Intersectionality. Environmental conservation. Gender equality. These days, I don’t have to look very far for my beliefs to be thrown into crisis. Reading the news, scrolling through...