TESTIMONIALS

I'm writing to you to share with you what a tremendous impact your Reasonable Faith website has had on me and my whole family.

I have been listening to your Defenders-podcasts as I'm at home on maternity leave with my baby and have just finished the sections on doctrine of God and the Trinity. I'd just like to share with you one incident of my everyday life of how your teaching bears out.

Last night as I was putting my firstborn four-year-old daughter to bed, she wanted me to stay next to her because she was scared of staying in her room by herself. I told her she needn't be afraid because God is everywhere, so He's there even with her. We then sang a relevant familiar Sunday school song. I also told her that God knows everything, even her fears. She looked at me with a very serious expression, obviously in deep thought. Then it was as if a light came on her face and she exclaimed: "Mummy, now I understand how God can know everything – it's because He created everything!" This serves to show, I think, that even a young child is capable of pondering these deep issues and can have considerable insight!

-Johanna

Last night as I was putting my firstborn four-year-old daughter to bed, she wanted me to stay next to her because she was scared of staying in her room by herself. I told her she needn't be afraid because God is everywhere, so He's there even with her. We then sang a relevant familiar Sunday school song. I also told her that God knows everything, even her fears. She looked at me with a very serious expression, obviously in deep thought. Then it was as if a light came on her face and she exclaimed: "Mummy, now I understand how God can know everything – it's because He created everything!" This serves to show, I think, that even a young child is capable of pondering these deep issues and can have considerable insight!

-Johanna

i would first like to say that i absolutely love your work. two summers ago i went to Santa Cruz, CA with Campus Crusade for Christ on a summer project. on the way there I listened to a lecture series about the historical Jesus by Bart Ehrman. not the best thing to hear before a summer project! i was already at a place where i was about to walk away from my faith and this didn't help. But i decided i would give my faith a fighting chance. i spent the first month of project reading apologetics, and to my surprise i found that a lot of Ehrman's claims had solid Christian answers! Your work helped me a lot. in many ways your solid research helped saved what was left of my faith and helped me realize that I had an emotional problem with God more than a intellectual one. i'm still working through stuff, but i'm so thankful for someone who can make a stand for Christ in an intellectual way. so few dare too. sadly, a friend i went out there with was in the same boat spiritually as me, but as of now has walked away from the faith. please pray for him.

Your ministry has been the catalyst that has renewed my 'first love' and passion for my faith, apologetics, and a new zeal to get back on a path of sanctification, spiritual growth, and lay ministry.

I came to Christ at a young age (Fourth grade), become very passionate about my faith in late High School, participated in all kinds of ministry including Bible teaching, Children's church and adult Sunday School teaching/apologetics in my 20's. After a major moral failure of our pastor at that time, I myself lapsed into moral failure, divorce, and all kind of trials and tribulations for the next 3 decades. I never 'lost' my faith, but I lost the will to grow, mature, and exercise spiritual gifts in ministry.

A few years back my walk with Christ began a renewal and repentance phase. This phase brought me to a point of again seeking answers to all my questions about the nature of God, my relationship to Him, and the very difficult intellectual and philosophical issues that have been disturbing to me, and weighing on my faith for decades.

Having now encountered your ministry, read several of your books, gone through dozens of your systematic theological and philosophical expositions of various doctrines from the video and audio resources on your website, I'd like to thank you and thank God for using you, to bring my focus back to a passionate zeal to know God, know his purposes, understand his truth, and become another voice for faith in Christ, amidst a world that desperately needs genuine answers to life's most difficult questions.

I have especially appreciate the way that Dr. Craig provides logically, philosophically sound, in depth arguments and alternatives, for some of the very toughest questions that Christians and non Christians wrestle with.

The 'moral' argument for God for example, is an extremely compelling one when dealing with non believers, or believers who are struggling with their faith because they percieve that God allows too much evil, etc Just today, I came across an Atheist philospher article I am sure Dr. Craig is already aware of, which provides total confirmation of the points Dr. Craig has made in his debates, lessons, and books, about the moral argument for God.

Thank you so much for the excellent apologetics ministry, for which I know of no other such broadly scoped and deeply developed peer in Christendom. My hope and prayer is that you inspire hundreds, to thousands, to millions of believers to become a more effective witness in today's world and to renew their passion for knowing God, through Christ, in a deeper and more life changing way, as you have inspired me to do after decades of languishing.

-Mike

I would first like to say how appreciative I am of your work. I am a recently married Army officer towards the end of my third deployment currently serving in Northern Iraq. Since becoming a Christian at age 15 I've always had a heart for the lost and loved apologetic resources as this was the means to which I found faith. Out here in the desert I have read the Third Edition of Reasonable Faith as well as discovered your pod cast ( Defenders and Reasonable Faith), both have been a real blessing in my life. I listen to them over and over again, I take notes in my free time and I must admit that the once pristine copy of Reasonable Faith is highlighted and sticky noted up beyond recognition now. I say all this just to express how grateful I am. This deployment has been more taxing on me than usual and discovering these resources was definitely part of God's plan, you have shined a light in a dark place and I only hope that someday I might be able to help someone as much as you've helped me.

-N