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Commending and Defending Christian Faith: An Introduction to Christian Apologetics
H. Lynn Gardner
Foreword by Gary R. Habermas
The reader is introduced to basic terms, key thinkers, and fundamental apologetic issues. The purpose is to equip readers with an understanding of the what, why, and how of apologetics preparing them for further study of reasons for faith and answers to objections.
It does not present the case for Christianity or answer attacks but rather introduces one to the study of Christian apologetics. It is a “how to think about apologetics” book.
Benefits for Readers:
- Become familiar with apologetics vocabulary, concepts, and key thinkers who attack Christian faith and apologists who defend Christian faith.
- Understand the issues, questions, and challenges facing those who defend Christian faith.
- Understand what it means to say “We have good reasons for believing Christianity is true.”
- Be able to distinguish between honest doubt and settled unbelief.
- Understand causes and consequences of unbelief.
- Learn what is involved in the defense of the faith and why we should defend the faith.
- Be instructed and inspired by seeing how the faith was stated and defended in the New Testament and in the history of the church.
- Be able to recognize and evaluate different methods or approaches to giving a defense.
- Learn practical ways for defending Christian faith.
- Be motivated to be defenders of Christian faith by learning about defending the faith from examples, practical opportunities, and guidelines.
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Where Is God When We Suffer?
What the Bible Says About Suffering
Lynn Gardner
Why does suffering exist in the world? How does suffering fit into God’s plan for human history? What are we to think when a believer’s prayers are not granted? Is it biblical for a Christian to expect to be suffering free? Does the fact of suffering and evil defeat belief in a loving, all powerful God? How can we help hurting, grieving people?
Where Is God When We Suffer? faces these and other questions. The book gives biblical teaching about suffering. It provides a resource to help the church to give biblical teaching concerning suffering so that Christians can be more adequately prepared for dealing with suffering. It also gives encouragement to help sufferers and caregivers to deal with the experience of suffering.
The book begins with a recounting the author’s family’s experience with suffering. Old and New Testament teaching on suffering is summarized. Specific expository studies provide insights for facing suffering with faith, joy, and hope. The author wrestles with the question of harmonizing a loving, all-powerful God with the reality of suffering. The book concludes by addressing grief and what helps and what doesn’t help the hurting.
As of February 2010, available in the Russian language.
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“Brother Wilson”
The Life and Work of Seth Wilson
H. Lynn Gardner
Seth Wilson, founding dean, shaped Ozark Bible College, now Ozark Christian College, more than any other person. Learn his ideas and principles on leadership and teaching.
Catch glimpses of his childhood, his conversion, and his student days, the early days of the college in Arkansas, and its move to Joplin. Observe his leadership in the college’s sixty-five year history.
See him as a teacher and learn his ideas about the mission, curriculum, faculty, and spirit of the Bible college. Read his quotable sayings and tributes from co-workers and students.
H. Lynn Gardner studied under Seth Wilson and served as academic dean of Ozark Christian College for seventeen years and taught at the college for thirty-four years. He edited a book of Wilson’s essays and another in honor of Seth Wilson, co-authored a book with him and wrote a history of Ozark Christian College.
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Choosing a Commentary:
A Review of New Testament Resources
Lynn Gardner
With all the commentaries available, where do you start? This book does not tell the reader what commentaries are best for him or her but rather tells what is available and gives brief annotations to help one narrow down the options so each person can choose the commentaries that will best fit his or her individual needs.
Commentaries are listed for each New Testament book under the headings basic, intermediate, and advanced. Brief annotations from New Testament scholars are listed.
Commentary study should never replace direct study of the text of Scripture, but they can be valuable when they help us to understand what God intended to say to us through the text. It is the desire of the author and publisher that this resource will help
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Christianity Stands True:
A Commonsense Look at the Evidence
Lynn Gardner
A skeptic taunted a Christian, “Believers are touchy and offended when asked why they believe in Christianity because the awkward truth is that they have no reason, they just feel like believing.”
But we do have good evidence for believing that Christianity is true! Faith is not ‘believing what you know isn’t so,” as a child misunderstood. Faith is trust based on sufficient evidence!
This work presents evidences which support the truth of Christianity:
- The New Testament Stands True as History
- Jesus Stands True as the Son of God
- The Bible Stands True as the Word of God
- God Stands True in the Universe
- Christianity Stands True in Life
Anyone honestly seeking the truth will learn the basis of the Christian faith. Any Christian reading this book will have his or her confidence strengthened that Christianity is true.
Christianity Stands True is in its fourth printing and has been translated into Russian, Polish, Czech, Spanish and Korean.
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A Humble Defense
Evidence for the Christian Faith
A Special Tribute Honoring Dr. Lynn Gardner
Edited by Mark Scott and Mark Moore
“As a means of honoring one of the most capable and humble defenders of the Christian faith, Dr. Lynn Gardner, this new resource that you hold in your hands constructs a firm foundation, block by block, as it examines the evidence that leads to a hope in a humble defense of the Christian faith.” From the back cover.
The chapters in this Festschrift were written by Dr. Gardner’s students, colleagues, and friends. The first section presents evidence for the existence of God, the reliability of the Bible, and the deity of Jesus. The second section deals with doubt, truth, worldviews, suffering, counterfeit religions, and evangelism.
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