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Friday, July 23, 2010

NEW DVD: The Case for a Pretribulational Rapture

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What is the Rapture? Is it Biblical? Was it a late invention by the church? Is it true that it wasn't taught until the early 1800s? W...
Monday, June 21, 2010

Archaeologists Believe They Have Found the Old Testament City of Ai

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Click here for a short preview of a coming documentary put out by the producers of The Bible vs. The Book of Mormon.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Archaeological and Extrabiblical Evidence for John the Baptist

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Archaeology and extrabiblical historical sources have time and time again verified persons, places and events mentioned in the Bible. For ex...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Who Made God? Conversation with a Skeptic

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A common question skeptics raise when I talk to them about evidence for the existence of God, has to do with the maker of God. The question ...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Enormous Shark Fossil Found in Kansas

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More evidence that the world was once under water surfaced today in the news. Fox News reports that paleontologists believe they've iden...
Sunday, January 31, 2010

Skeptic: I want the joy I see in Christians

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I talked to a skeptic today in Orange County, California. He said that he had actually been going to church recently because--although he re...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

My Top 10 Apologetics Books for Young Adults

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The father of a teenage daughter emailed me a while back. He said: "Charlie...My oldest daughter is finishing her freshman year in h...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Two Jehovah's Witnesses at My Door

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After a lengthy discussion with two Jehovah's Witnesses today, they went marching off and one said, "If you really think we're ...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Does God Hate Haiti?

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Does God hate Haitians? Was the earthquake a judgment of God against their sin? Why does God allow these kinds of tragedies? These are quest...
Monday, January 11, 2010

A Little Late Night Humor...

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I suppose you've heard the one about the atheist and the dust of the Earth. The atheist says to God, "I too can create a man."...
Saturday, January 02, 2010

New Edition of One Minute Answers to Skeptics Now Available

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I'm excited to announce that Harvest House Publishers has just released a revised, updated edition of my book, One Minute Answers to Ske...
Friday, January 01, 2010

Our Website Down for 8 Days: Result of Hackers

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UPDATE: AlwaysBeReady.com is back up on 1/9/10. Praise the Lord! --------------- Our website, AlwaysBeReady.com , was hacked today (1/1/...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

First Jesus-Era House Discovered in Nazareth

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Archaeologists said yesterday that they unearthed remains of the first dwelling in Nazareth that dates to Jesus' era, a simple structure...
Friday, November 20, 2009

Travel to Israel with Dr. Norman Geisler

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I was talking to Dr. Norman Geisler a couple of weeks ago about his upcoming tour of Israel, this March 17-26, 2010. I was surprised to find...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

Hell and Waterfalls

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A lady emailed me a while back and was offended by an article on our website wherein I mention the Bible’s teaching on Hell . She said, “I c...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

The Way: Not A Way, Some Way, My Way, Our Way

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Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me" (John 14:6). I find it interesti...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Is There a Contradiction in Jesus' Genealogical Records?

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Critics of the Bible say that the Gospels are full of contradictions. They are quite mistaken about the matter and I address that here . But...
Saturday, September 26, 2009

New DVD "Jericho Unearthed" Presents Compelling Evidence for the Historicity of the Bible

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Was Jericho a real city or just a mythological place that the authors of the Bible invented? If the ruins of Jericho do exist, is there any ...
Saturday, September 19, 2009

The Awakening 09: Enabling Believers to Share Their Faith, October 30-31

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Could you use some help in being better prepared to share the gospel with people? If so, come join: - K.P. Yohannan (Gospel for Asia) ...
Saturday, August 29, 2009

NOW OUT! The Spanish Edition of One Minute Answers to Skeptics

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We are rejoicing at God's blessing on the completion of the Spanish translation of my book, One Minute Answers to Skeptics' Top Fort...
Monday, August 24, 2009

Deliverance from Mormonism and the Cost of Discipleship

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Yesterday a young man who had been raised in the Mormon religion came up to me at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills in California. He was about 25 ...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

A One World Monetary System

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The Book of Revelation speaks of a time when there will be a one world monetary system in place (see Revelation 13:16-18). It is interesting...
Monday, June 15, 2009

Charles Darwin Believed that God Exists

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I'm doing some research on evolution for the Spanish edition of my book, One Minute Answers to Skeptics (due out later this year) and I...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

June13: "Contending for the Faith Apologetics Conference"

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Would you like to learn how to contend for the faith and answer the difficult questions that nonbelievers ask? Then join Ron Rhodes, Greg Ko...
Sunday, May 24, 2009

Rob Bell's Confused Gospel

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I've been teaching quite a bit on the Emerging Church Movement over the past two years. If you're not up to speed on this dangerous ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Hermeneutics 101: Interpret Scripture with Scripture

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A correct interpretation of the Bible will always be consistent with the rest of the Scriptures. Therefore, it is essential for us as studen...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Getting Yelled at by a Jewish Lady!

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I had a pretty crazy experience a few nights ago as I was flying home from JFK (New York City) to LAX (Los Angeles). I had just had a wonder...
Thursday, April 09, 2009

Good Friday Should Probably Be Good Thursday

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One of the questions I often receive from people when I teach on evidence for the resurrection concerns Jesus's statement regarding the ...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

NEW TIMELINE on Daniel 9: "The Backbone of Bible Prophecy"

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If you are interested in learning more about "the seventy weeks of Daniel" prophecy (often called the 'backbone' of all Bi...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

Don't Mention Jesus?

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I was invited by Campus Crusade for Christ and the college pastor at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills to give a talk tonight at Cal Poly Pomona, i...
Thursday, January 29, 2009

King Herod's Tomb Almost Certainly Found

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I wrote about this some back in May of 2007 when the dig was in its early stages, but Fox News recently did a follow up story on the discove...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

ZEITGEIST Update

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Today we totally revamped and lengthened our analysis and response to the online video Zeitgeist by addressing previously unadressed issue...
Friday, January 23, 2009

Paul's Eagerness to Share the Gospel is Inspiring!

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In Romans 1:15, Paul wrote, "So, as much as is in me, I am ready [the NASB says “eager”] to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome al...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Questions to Ask When Reading Your Bible

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I like to read the Bible to my kids at the dining room table every night after dinner. When I'm done reading I like to ask them, "W...
Monday, January 12, 2009

Norman Geisler Reviews THE SHACK

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Dr. Norman Geisler has recently put out a brief critique of the runaway best seller The Shack . As I've discovered in reading the book m...
Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Apologetics Conference in Santa Barbara, Feb. 7th

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If you live in or near Santa Barbara, California, join me at a free "Contending for the Faith" Conference on Saturday, February 7t...
Friday, January 02, 2009

Turning the Tables on Skeptics

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Has a skeptic or nonbeliever ever told you something like: ~ "Jesus never said He was God." ~ "All religions are basicall...
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Charlie Campbell
Charlie Campbell is a pastor (Calvary Chapel Association), author, and founder of the ABR Apologetics Ministry (AlwaysBeReady.com). Since founding ABR in 2005, he has spoken at hundreds of churches on a wide variety of topics related to the defense of the Christian faith. Prior to ABR, Charlie was an instructor at Calvary Chapel Bible College in Murrieta, CA, and the Director of The School of Ministry at Calvary Vista, his home church, where he taught courses on apologetics, world religions and cults, systematic theology, eschatology, church history, hermeneutics, and evangelism (1997–2005). His books and ministry have been commended by Norman Geisler, Charles Colson, Chuck Smith, Jack Hibbs, Ed Hindson, Nancy DeMoss, and others. He resides in sunny San Diego, California, with his wife Anastasia and their five kids.
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