What Is Apologetics and Why Does Every Christian Need to Learn It???

What Is Apologetics and Why Does Every Christian Need to Learn It???

Author: Mark Farnham January 14, 2019 Duration: 7:45

Many Christians think that apologetics is the domain of professors and scholars, but 1 Peter 3:15 calls every Christian to know how to give an answer when the faith is challenged.

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Ever find yourself in a conversation where you wish you had a clearer, more gracious way to share your faith? Every Believer Confident is built for those moments, turning deep theological concepts into practical tools for everyday life. Hosted by Dr. Mark Farnham, who holds a PhD from Westminster Theological Seminary, this podcast moves beyond theory to focus on how ordinary Christians can engage with friends, family, and colleagues in a genuinely relational way. Dr. Farnham brings his experience as the founder of Apologetics for the Church and as an academic director to each short-form episode, ensuring they are packed with substance yet easy to digest. You’ll hear thoughtful explorations of cultural and philosophical questions through a lens of Christian spirituality, all aimed at building the kind of quiet confidence that comes from understanding. This isn’t about memorizing scripts; it’s about developing a conversational faith that feels natural and respectful. Each episode of this podcast serves as a brief training session, equipping you to navigate doubts-both your own and those of others-with clarity and compassion. Tune in to find a resource that strengthens your own convictions while giving you the tools for meaningful, indirect evangelism rooted in genuine relationship and thoughtful dialogue.
Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 75

Every Believer Confident
Podcast Episodes
Three Powerful Effects of Asking Good Questions [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:40
Does asking strategic questions really work when engaging unbelievers in conversation about spiritual matters? Yes! In this episode we explore three powerful effects well-asked strategic questions can have in a conversat…
Asking Strategic Questions [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 7:54
What do you do if you don't know how to answer an objection to the Christian faith? Many people freeze and walk away or alternately abandon reason and claim to simply believe "by faith," by which they mean apart from rea…
Turning the Conversation Toward Spiritual Matters [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 7:33
Have you ever been talking with an unbeliever, and you find yourself trying to figure out how to steer the conversation toward spiritual matters so you can share the gospel with her? Sometimes that transition is the hard…
Reducing Fear by Asking Questions [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 7:05
Does engaging unbelievers with the gospel bring you overwhelming fear? A major cause for fear is the feeling that we don't know what to say once the conversation turns to spiritual matters. In this episode we begin to le…
How My First Apologetic Encounter Lasted Two Hours [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 7:42
Now that we have learned the basics of apologetics and have understood what is going on in the heart of unbelievers, how do we effectively engage them with the gospel? How do we practically challenge unbelief and defend…
When God Hands People Over to Their Desires [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 7:28
When unbelievers suppress the truth long enough and with great enough insistence, God hands them over to be enslaved to their desires. The freedom from God they demanded becomes slavery to sin. This episode explores how…
The Exchange of God's Natural Design for the Unnatural [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 6:01
Suppressing the truth of God causes unbelievers to exchange the glory of God for an image, the truth of God for a lie, and the natural design of the sexes for homosexuality. Paul's point in Romans 1 is that the most obvi…
Why People Believe Lies [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 6:20
If every person knows God and truth about him, as Romans 1 says, why do so many either deny the existence of God or believe things about God that are not true? The answer is found in the human ability to make a mental an…
Why We Would Rather Worship God's Creation Than God [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 7:27
When a person rejects God to worship something else, that thing will be at best a dull reflection of the full glory of God for which we were made, and at best, a twisted and distorted substitute. God wants us to worship…
Everybody Worships Something [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 7:45
The atheist writer, David Foster Wallace said, "There is no such thing as atheism because everybody worships something. You can't not worship." When a person. suppresses the truth of God, he doesn't worship nothing, he j…