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mid-week apologetics booster (12-25-2025)

Good morning friends,

Quote of the week:

We often fail in the church to teach people why to believe what they believe. And we often do not prepare our children to engage ideas in the culture. Scientism is at the very foundation of our secular culture, and its nature and weaknesses should be the first priority in this area of church teaching. – J.P. Moreland (from the article, 10 Things You Should Know about Scientism)

Now, here are your weekly links:

Why CHRISTMAS is celebrated December 25 – American Minute – AmericanMinute.com-William J. Federer – this is an amazing set of facts!! They determine when Zechariah would’ve been assigned to be on duty serving in the temple (based on him belonging to the priestly division of Abijah), then from that date, determine the date of when John the Baptist was 6 months old in Elizabeth’s womb, then from that derive the conception of Jesus as March 25th and nine months later is December 25th and that’s how they came up with the date for Christmas!! Along the way, he refutes the other arguments made against the dating of Jesus’s birth on December 25th. Amazing….: https://americanminute.com/blogs/todays-american-minute/christmas-date-revealed-by-levite-calendar-celebrated-through-the-ages-american-minute-with-bill-federer
Courageous Christianity – How a 19th century revival sparked the Muscular Christianity movement – AmericanMinute.com-William J. Federer – Did you know modern Olympics were inspired by the Muscular Christianity movement, as was the game of rugby? Were you aware basketball, volleyball, racquetball, softball, bodybuilding, sportsmanship, and swimming lessons, were pioneered by Y.M.C.A. trainers and used as evangelism outreach tools to bring youth to Christ around the globe? The Young Men’s Christian Association grew to be the largest youth charity in the world, with 10,000 chapters in 124 countries with 64 million members. It was founded in 1844 by George Williams in London, who was inspired by the Second Great Awakening preacher Charles Finney.: https://americanminute.com/products/courageous-christianity-how-a-19th-century-revival-sparked-the-muscular-christianity-movement-y-m-c-a-athletics-and-a-youth-led-race-to-save-the-world
The Most Complex Structure | Creation Moments – What is the most complex structure in the universe? I’ll give you a hint: it weighs only a few pounds, and you own one. The most complex structure in the universe is the human brain. It has so many interconnections within it that if it evolved, its evolution – even over billions of years – would be easy to measure. The fact that there is no hint that the brain is evolving is a good argument against evolution.: https://creationmoments.com/radio/broadcast-archive/todays-creation-moment/the-most-complex-structure/
Geological strata: they’re everywhere | Creation.com – Berthault discovered in laboratory experiments that geological sedimentary strata (layers) deposit sideways in rapid water currents. Layers covering large areas of continents are extremely difficult or impossible to explain using standard uniformitarian explanations of sediment deposition. The true mechanism of sedimentation revealed by our flume experiment refutes, inter alia, the foundations of the geological column, and therefore, challenges the geological time-scale: https://creation.com/en/articles/geological-strata
‘Black Panther’ star Letitia Wright shares powerful testimony of how she came to know Jesus. “I wasn’t always a Christian, and I went through a period in my life when acting was my God, and I really worshiped it,” said Wright during a live panel discussion hosted by Pastor Michael Todd of Transformation Church.: https://www.eewmagazineonline.com/inspiration/black-panther-star-letitia-wright-shares-powerful-testimony-of-how-she-came-to-know-jesus
Is it Stupid to Believe in Miracles? There is nothing irrational or anti-scientific about the possibility of miracles unless one can disprove the existence of anything supernatural which certainly has not been done. Contra Hume, I don’t see a non-question-begging in-principle argument against the mere possibility of miracles…: https://crossexamined.org/stupid-believe-miracles/
Sandy stripes | Creation.com – Are alternating layers of fine and coarse sand grains (laminations) in rocks evidence for deep time? Here we many forming in real time, quickly. Layers which look similar to these are often believed to be evidence for huge periods of time. For example, they may be interpreted as being the result of periodic floods depositing material. In some rocks there are pairs of dark and light layers which are regarded as the material deposited in annual floods. In such a concept, material is washed into a lake and settles slowly to the bottom, the fine material settling after the coarse, giving one pair of bands of fine and coarse material for each flood. If it happened this way, and there are thousands of laminations, this would represent thousands of years of floods. Using this sort of reasoning, such rocks can be assigned ages of many millions of years. However, many laminations have been found to form quite rapidly – within a few hours on June 12, 1980 – in mud/ash flows following the Mount St Helens eruption in Washington state in the North-west of the United States.: https://creation.com/en/articles/sandy-stripes
Josephus Knew Jesus’ Executioners!! – YouTube – Josephus is often cited as one of the strongest non-Christian sources for the historical Jesus. But is that really the case? He mentions Jesus in two controversial passages… or does he? Scholars have debated this for decades, questioning what Josephus actually wrote, what may have been added later, and what it all means for the case of Jesus outside the Bible. In this fascinating interview, Dr. Tom Schmidt helps us dive deep into the facts behind one of the most discussed ancient references to Jesus. This is just the YouTube “short”. The whole video can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShFrtcV_tm8: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sgDWP0tVjx8
Hobby Lobby gives away 500,000 copies of ‘The Case for Christmas’ (by Lee Strobel) | Business: https://www.christianpost.com/news/hobby-lobby-gives-away-500000-copies-of-the-case-for-christmas.html
Genesis Flood for Kids: Animals after the Flood | Creation.com – Discover how Noah’s Ark animals survived and spread; learn what carnivores ate, how kinds became varieties (like all cats), and how natural selection played its part.: https://creation.com/en/articles/cfk-animals-after-flood
Jesus’ Birth: How undesigned coincidences give evidence for the truth of the Gospel accounts: https://crossexamined.org/jesus-birth-undesigned-coincidences-give-evidence-truth-gospel-accounts/
Biblical Worldview Among U.S. Adults Drops 33% Since Start of COVID-19 Pandemic – Arizona Christian University: https://www.arizonachristian.edu/2023/02/28/biblical-worldview-among-u-s-adults-drops-33-since-start-of-covid-19-pandemic/
Record low number of Americans hold biblical worldview, survey says | U.S.: https://www.christianpost.com/news/record-low-number-of-americans-hold-biblical-worldview-survey-says.html
Atheists still need 2 miracles: the universe from nothing, and life from non-life – both defy everything we know Nothingness can’t produce anything by definition. | The Intelligent Design: https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1472131504063770
A Quick Bible Study Vol. 299: The Meaning of Christmas for Those Who Don’t Have Faith: https://townhall.com/columnists/myrakahnadams/2025/12/21/a-quick-bible-study-vol-299-the-meaning-of-christmas-for-those-who-dont-have-faith-n2668210
The Christmas the Founders Gave Us – There is a Christmas manufactured for display windows and marketing campaigns, bright, hurried, and quickly forgotten. There is the Christmas our Founders knew, quiet, severe, inward, and bound to something far older and more demanding than comfort. They did not inherit a nation wrapped in ribbon. They brought one into being through cold hands, empty stomachs, and resolute faith.: https://genflynn.substack.com/p/the-christmas-the-founders-gave-us
Forgotten Arguments for Christianity: Undesigned Coincidences- The argument stated | J.W. Wartick – Reconstructing Faith: https://jwwartick.com/2012/11/26/undesigned-coinc-1/
Historian Bill Federer explains what made The Hebrew Republic such a unique period in ancient history. : https://www.facebook.com/reel/1573044550371214
In this 10 minute video, Dr. William Lane Craig answers several objections that charge that God’s certain knowledge of the future (a.k.a. His omniscience) leads to “fatalism”, thus “locking in” the future so that humans are not free with their future choices.: https://www.facebook.com/reel/858754363687125
Bible Scholar EXPOSES the BIGGEST LIE in Islam (THIS IS SHOCKING!) – YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZJ4pcI5otQU?si=GXFB6TQ9TQJAv7vZ
Beavers Build More than Dams | Creation Moments – Beavers are widely known for their huge constructions. However, beavers build more than just dams. The beaver is quite an engineer. When building a dam, a beaver first rams poles into the bed of his waterway. The poles are placed on an angle to increase holding power and are then rammed into the waterway bed, thick end first. This basic skeleton is then reinforced with twigs, leaves, mud and stone. It’s not unusual for the beaver to use forked branches to further anchor his construction to trees and boulders. One beaver dam was over 1,800 feet long, 9 feet high and 18 feet wide. It was strong enough for a horse and rider to use as a natural bridge. Large trees brought down for use in construction are not dragged by the beavers to their project. Instead, beavers dig overland channels and float the trees to the main body of water where they are working. These channels can be 1,000 feet long.: https://creationmoments.com/radio/broadcast-archive/todays-creation-moment/beavers-build-more-than-dams/

To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech. Proverbs 8:13

Blessings to you all