TESTIMONIALS

I am a ninth-grader and have met many non-Christians. For example, I have met naturalists, relativists, and neopagans. At first, I didn't know how to give a well-reasoned response to my friends who had questions that needed answers. I tried to respond, but my answer was almost always subpar, to say the least. Worst of all, I was better at defending the faith than anybody in my grade, so I had no help.

Luckily, however, I was blessed with a church that is enthusiastic about apologetics, and the head pastor answered all of my questions every week after service. That helped me a lot, but my apologetic was exponentially increased when they introduced me to their main resource, Reasonable Faith. Unfortunately, many of my peers don't have the kind of intellectual refuge provided by my church. Most churches preach 95% emotion, 5% doctrine. This, dare I say, is the main reason why teenagers are leaving the faith. I've seen devout Christians apostatize in a snap for what they believe to be more plausible.
Reasonable Faith has, ever since I discovered it around Christmas 2013, has absolutely revolutionized my life. I now believe that I can defend what I believe and why I believe it to anybody who needs to know. My world has been opened up, stretched out, and zoomed in by philosophy. Dr. William Lane Craig is by far the best and most influential Christian apologist of the 21st century. I'm so thankful that I can access his amazing articles, podcasts, and videos online for me, other Christians, people of other worldviews, and others. I pray that this organization grows and that others my age find it at this absolutely crucial time in their lives, in our culture, and in our world. Thank you, Dr. Craig and Reasonable Faith, for all you do for us!

-Dylan

I wanted to thank you for all that you do for the Kingdom. In March of this year, I went to Haiti on a mission trip and was sharing the gospel with a class of high school students. One of them asked me how I could know that God exists. Previous to this question being asked, the class had not been paying much attention, but when it was asked everyone got really quiet!

Thankfully, I have read you book, "Reasonable Faith", and I was able to give him just one argument for God's existence--the cosmological argument.

The class then started to come alive and ask some very good questions.

I just wanted to send you this note of encouragement to let you know one of the many ways you are furthering the Kingdom.

-Jim

I was formerly agnostic, however I read one of Dr. Craig's articles entitled, 'the absurdity of life without God', this motivated me to look at theism with an open mind. When I started researching the Christian perspective with an open mind and studying the Bible, I abandoned my former position of 'not sure' in favour of Christianity. Over the Internet, I saw tonnes of people who had all these misconceptions about Christianity and had no answers available to their questions. And this is my motivation for becoming an apologist.

-j.

Hello,

I don't have a powerful, instantaneous testimony to offer here. But I am very thankful to Dr. Craig for answering my question of the Question of the Week concerning Sean Carroll's Quantum Eternity Theorem. I just wanted to say thank you to him and let him know that for those of us who aren't Reformed Epistemologist 7 days a week, I appreciate his continued work, both in the scholarly and popular arenas. It has certainly sustained me for these 7 years that I have been a Christian (it has been Dr. Craig's work on the Kalam and Case for the Resurrection that has played the biggest role in this for me). So, please let him know that there is one more person out there that is beyond grateful for what he is doing. 

Thanks,

-Kevin

I am finally writing to tell you guys how much I appreciate your ministry. While I had attended a Bible teaching church for a number of years (and still do) I ended up working with a co-worker who I was not prepared for. I am a husband and father of soon to be 5 kids and are on one income. The last number of years and the economic challenges to my industry have required a lot of my energy to keep food on the table. On the other hand the gentlemen that I spent the last 7 years working with has grown children and spends his 2 hour drive home listening to Dawkins, Ehrman, and others. Feeling comfortable at first, I quickly realized he was bringing up questions I had no answer to. Not only that but some people I thought should know the answers didn't. I hadn't cast my faith aside. I know what the Lord saved me from and know how He has worked in my life. Still I found my confidence slipping, and beginning to have more questions and more questions in my head. In fact I tried to look up a speaker whom had visited my church and had a video cassette of; only to find that the author was in prison (that wasn't helping). This spiritual stress was not helping with the financial stress I was under, competition at work, long hours taking toll on my family, and add having someone at work arrogantly ridiculing everyone who mentioned the slightest measure of faith. I would be in my office praying "Lord, you've got to shut this guy up". I didn't have a vast knowledge of resources for apologetics at this level. what I had access to was far too surfacy and the typical answers I heard and was giving had ran out.

But isn't it like our Sovereign Lord to use these things to motivate us out of our apathy, complacency and self reliance? Now back on my knees, humbled, desperate, and removed of my spiritual pride. This lead to a conversation I had with a friend that I remembered went to Talbot theological Seminary. He quickly pulled out a paper he did on the Historical Jesus and I was filled with some hope. I found some books, heard a guest speaker on a Christian radio program Greg Koukl, and then through his program found Daniel Wallace and heard about Reasonable Faith and others. Since then I have been using my drive time to go through your Defenders Podcasts though I have taken a small break here and there with some of the resources you've mentioned for looking into things further.

I cannot tell you how much it means to me that you have given a busy working family guy access to these resources. not having the money or time for finishing my bachelors or getting a graduate degree, let alone much time for reading something like the blackwells companion for Natural Theology (though it sounds really good). Being able to tap into these resources on my drive to jobsites or meetings is exactly what I needed. I have been so motivated by this that I tell everyone to download your app and dig in, sit down and think through. I have even added "big Truths for young hearts" to our family devotions. Thank you guys, I pray that the Lord continues to bless this ministry. I have yet to get some guys together to go through the defenders stuff as a group, but I want to when I get some more studying done. I know the Lord has His ways of putting His people where he needs them, and I appreciate that there are people holding the line in the academic world. I just hope more people can become aware of yours and other great resources so that they don't have to go through things the way I did.

-Joe