Gregory Koukl

KÄSIKIRJA KESKUSTELUUN KRISTILLISESTÄ VAKAUMUKSESTATaktinen viisaus on perusteos kristillisestä uskosta keskusteluun. Kirja tarjoaa pelisuunnitelman kristinuskon vakuuttavan totuuden välittämiseen rohkeasti ja kohteliaasti. Taktisen viisauden (alkup. Tactics) 10-vuotisjuhlapainoksessa Gregory Koukl näyttää, kuinka keskustelutilanteet otetaan haltuun ja kuinka niitä harkitun tahdikkuuden avulla ohjataan rakentavasti eteenpäin. Opit, miten haastajien hyökkäykset pysäytetään ja miten kysymykset tai provosoivat väitteet käännetään viemään keskustelua toivottuun suuntaan. Ennen muuta opit, kuinka toiset voi saada pohtimaan Jeesusta.” Nykyään vastakkainasettelu eri mieltä olevien välillä korostuu voimakkaasti ja siksi taktiikan taju, kuunteleminen ja kuultuun reagoiminen, on keskusteluissa arvokas pääoma. Ilman sitä kristityn on helppo joko vaieta kokonaan tai näyttää jääräpäiseltä rähjääjältä, eikä meillä oikein ole varaa kumpaankaan”, kirjoittaa kirjan kääntänyt J. J. Aleksi Markkanen suomentajan esipuheessa. Kirjasta sanottua:”Olisinpa tuntenut nämä taktiikat kaksi vuosikymmentä sitten. En oikeastaan ole koskaan nähnyt tämän parempia keinoja auttaa kristittyjä olemaan vaikuttavampia Kristuksen lähettiläitä.” FRANK TUREK”Taktinen viisaus on paitsi välttämätöntä luettavaa, myös riemastuttavan viihdyttävä kirja. Eihän sitä malta laskea käsistään!” GARY R. HABERMAS”Suosittelen innolla Taktista viisautta. Se mullistaa ei-kristittyjen kanssa käydyt keskustelut.” SEAN MCDOWELLKirjoittaja Greg Koukl on sekä apologian että filosofian maisteri. Hän on puhunut yli 80 yliopistokampuksella ja isännöinyt yli 30 vuoden ajan radiossa keskusteluohjelmaansa, joka puolustaa ajattelemisen arvoista kristinuskoa. Greg on Stand to Reason -järjestön perustaja ja puheenjohtaja ja lisäksi hän toimii Biola Universityn kristillisen apologetiikan dosenttina.

Learn how to defend your faith with confidence and grace in this eight-session, video-based apologetics course. In a culture increasingly indifferent or even hostile to Christian truth, followers of Christ need to be equipped to communicate with those who do not speak their language or accept their source of authority. Based on the strategies described in the classic book of Christian apologetics, the Tactics Study Guide will take small groups deeper into how to artfully communicate the truths of Christianity and keep conversations moving forward in constructive ways. This study is highly interactive and includes extensive teachings and exercises, such as:Step-by-step tactic explanations. Real-world scenarios and challenges. One-on-one breakout sessions. Written responses and personal reflections. The tactical approaches you'll learn in this course will give you indispensable skills to help you engage others about your Christian beliefs--and it may also deepen your own faith along the way. Used along with the videos, this guide provides an easy-to-follow, well-reasoned plan for mastering the art of maneuvering in conversations about Christian spirituality and ethics. This study guide has everything you need for a full personal or group experience. The study guide itself--with thoughtful introductions, questions for personal reflection and application, and discussion questions for leading a group or teamAn individual access code to stream all video sessions online. (You don’t need to buy a DVD!)Sessions and video run times:Getting in the Driver's Seat: The Columbo Tactic (34 min)Refining Columbo (32 min)Perfecting Columbo (39 min)Suicide: Views That Self-Destruct (42 min)Taking the Roof Off (29 min)Steamroller (26 min)Inside Out (31 min)Mini-Tactics (31 min)Streaming video access code included. Access code subject to expiration after June 17, 2030. Code may be redeemed only by the recipient of this package. Code may not be transferred or sold separately from this package. Internet connection required. Void where prohibited, taxed, or restricted by law. Additional offer details inside.

Study the narrative backbone of the Christian story and how all the plotlines of that story are resolved in the end. Biblical Christianity is more than just another private religious view. It's more than just a personal relationship with God or a source of moral teaching. Christianity is a picture of reality. It explains why the world is the way it is. When the pieces of this puzzle are properly assembled, we see the big picture clearly. This six-session, video-based study guide (DVD/streaming video sold separately)—based on the theological observations of his book, The Story of Reality—Gregory Koukl guides you and your group through the narrative arc of reality. Throughout this experience, you'll learn:The vital answer to the question: What is Christianity? The five basic elements forming the plotline of the entire Christian story. How the Christian story explains why there's evil in the world. The precise reason why Jesus is the only way of salvation. Why biblical faith is not a leap of wishful thinking. Reasons why the story's record of the life and resurrection of Jesus is reliable. How the biblical view of reality is the best explanation for the way things are. This video-based study is designed to be experienced in a group setting or any small gathering and includes outlines of the video teachings, reflections, self-assessment exercises, discussion questions, and other activities to help you understand the concepts and put them into practice. Participants in this course will come away with a more grounded understanding of biblical reality and a greater appreciation for the Christian tradition. This study guide has everything you need for a full personal or group experience. The study guide itself--with thoughtful introductions, questions for personal reflection and application, and discussion questions for leading a group or team. An individual access code to stream all video sessions online. (You don’t need to buy a DVD!)Sessions and video run times:1 - Introduction: Reality (21 min)2 - Part One: God (23 min)3 - Part Two: Man (30 min)4 - Part Three: Jesus (19 min)5 - Part Four: Cross (23 min)6 - Part Five: Resurrection (20 min)Streaming video access code included. Access code subject to expiration after [insert 5 years after OSD]. Code may be redeemed only by the recipient of this package. Code may not be transferred or sold separately from this package. Internet connection required. Void where prohibited, taxed, or restricted by law. Additional offer details inside.

Building on Street Smarts, this study guide by Gregory Koukl will take you deeper, teaching you the strategies for productive conversations with those who challenge your convictions on a variety of issues. The focus is on revealing the fundamental flaws in common, current challenges to Christian beliefs and values. It then provides individual strategies to exploit those shortcomings by offering model questions and sample dialogues to help guide believers in genial, yet persuasive, conversations. This study guide has everything you need for a full personal or group experience. The study guide itself--with thoughtful introductions, questions for personal reflection and application, and discussion questions for leading a group or team. An individual access code to stream all video sessions online. (You don’t need to buy a DVD!)Sessions and video run times:1 - Getting Ready for the Street (33 min)2 - Questions Keep You Safe (34 min)3 - Intel for Navigating the Street (23 min)4 - Atheism: The Best Explanation for the Way Things Are? (37 min)5 - Evil: Atheism's Fatal Flaw (29 min)6 - Jesus the Son, Christ the Savior (32 min)7 - The Bible: Ancient Words, Ever True? (24 min)8 - God: The Science Stopper? (29 min)9 - Abortion: Only One Question (41 min)10 - Marriage, Sex, Gender, and Common Sense (41 min)Streaming video access code included. Access code subject to expiration after [insert 5 years after OSD]. Code may be redeemed only by the recipient of this package. Code may not be transferred or sold separately from this package. Internet connection required. Void where prohibited, taxed, or restricted by law. Additional offer details inside.

Building on Street Smarts, this study guide by Gregory Koukl will take you deeper, teaching you the strategies for productive conversations with those who challenge your convictions on a variety of issues. The focus is on revealing the fundamental flaws in common, current challenges to Christian beliefs and values. It then provides individual strategies to exploit those shortcomings by offering model questions and sample dialogues to help guide believers in genial, yet persuasive, conversations. Lessons are coordinated with the available Street Smarts Video Study, and both make an ideal resources for groups use.

How to engage in productive conversations with those who challenge your Christian convictions. Gregory Koukl's best-selling book of practical apologetics, Tactics, wrote the game plan for discussing your Christian convictions with skeptics. In this follow-up, Koukl—a leader of clear-thinking Christianity—reveals the fundamental flaws in common, current challenges to Christian beliefs and values and provides step-by-step strategies to question and reveal those shortcomings. Street Smarts offers model questions and sample dialogues to help guide believers in persuasive conversations about hot-button issues like:RelativismThe trustworthiness of ScriptureThe claims of the GospelAbortionMarriage, sex, and genderThis book will teach you how to tackle those discussions that believers often avoid because they feel out of their element, vulnerable, or exposed. Lucid, well-organized, and easy-to-follow, Street Smarts provides a specific set of questions—the same questions Koukl uses in his own encounters—that are embedded in sample mini-dialogues that you can use to have fruitful debates with non-believers.

Learn how to defend your faith with confidence and grace in this eight-session, video-based apologetics course. In a culture increasingly indifferent or even hostile to Christian truth, followers of Christ need to be equipped to communicate with those who do not speak their language or accept their source of authority. Based on the strategies described in the classic book of Christian apologetics, the Tactics Study Guide with DVD will take small groups deeper into how to artfully communicate the truths of Christianity and keep conversations moving forward in constructive ways. This study is highly interactive and includes extensive teachings and exercises, such as:Step-by-step tactic explanations. Real-world scenarios and challenges. One-on-one breakout sessions. Written responses and personal reflections. The tactical approaches you'll learn in this course will give you indispensable skills to help you engage others about your Christian beliefs—and it may also deepen your own faith along the way. This updated and expanded Tactics Study Guide with DVD provides an easy-to-follow, well-reasoned plan for mastering the art of maneuvering in conversations about Christian spirituality and ethics. Session Titles and Runtimes:Getting in the Driver's Seat: The Columbo Tactic (34 min)Refining Columbo (32 min)Perfecting Columbo (39 min)Suicide: Views That Self-Destruct (42 min)Taking the Roof Off (29 min)Steamroller (27 min)Inside Out (31 min)Mini-Tactics (31 min)

Study the narrative backbone of the Christian story and how all the plotlines of that story are resolved in the end. Biblical Christianity is more than just another private religious view. It's more than just a personal relationship with God or a source of moral teaching. Christianity is a picture of reality. It explains why the world is the way it is. When the pieces of this puzzle are properly assembled, we see the big picture clearly. This six-session, video-based study guide (DVD/streaming video sold separately)—based on the theological observations of his book, The Story of Reality—Gregory Koukl guides you and your group through the narrative arc of reality. Throughout this experience, you'll learn:The vital answer to the question: What is Christianity? The five basic elements forming the plotline of the entire Christian story. How the Christian story explains why there's evil in the world. The precise reason why Jesus is the only way of salvation. Why biblical faith is not a leap of wishful thinking. Reasons why the story's record of the life and resurrection of Jesus is reliable. How the biblical view of reality is the best explanation for the way things are. This video-based study is designed to be experienced in a group setting or any small gathering and includes outlines of the video teachings, reflections, self-assessment exercises, discussion questions, and other activities to help you understand the concepts and put them into practice. Participants in this course will come away with a more grounded understanding of biblical reality and a greater appreciation for the Christian tradition. The Story of Reality Video Study (9780310100751) sold separately.

I DEN HÄR BOKEN får du lära dig hur man för konstruktiva samtal med andra människor om din kristna tro. Författaren visar hur du på ett diplomatiskt sätt kan styra samtalet genom att ställa frågor och föra samtalet framåt mot det som är kärnan i kristen tro. En praktisk och användbar bok som ingjuter mod i dig som gärna vill dela din kristna tro men som kanske inte vågar eller vet hur man gör. Här får du lära dig att:inleda samtal på ett avspänt och naturligt sättförmedla sanningen på ett tydligt och övertygande sättbemöta invändningar och behålla kontrollen över samtaletvänligt men effektivt avslöja felaktigt tänkandesmidigt hantera överraskande vändningar i samtaletbehålla lugnet och säkerheten även i besvärliga situationer. GREGORY KOUKL är apologet, författare, föreläsare och grundare till organisationen Stand to Reason. Vinnande taktik: En strategi för att samtala om din kristna tro är Gregory Koukls andra bok på svenska. Tidigare har Apologia gett ut boken Historien om verkligheten: Hur världen började, hur den slutar och allt det viktiga som händer däremellan (2017).

Learn how to defend your faith with confidence and grace in this eight-session, video-based apologetics course (DVD/streaming video sold separately). In a culture increasingly indifferent or even hostile to Christian truth, followers of Christ need to be equipped to communicate with those who do not speak their language or accept their source of authority. Based on the strategies described in the classic book of Christian apologetics, the Tactics Study Guide will take small groups deeper into how to artfully communicate the truths of Christianity and keep conversations moving forward in constructive ways. This study is highly interactive and includes extensive teachings and exercises, such as:Step-by-step tactic explanations. Real-world scenarios and challenges. One-on-one breakout sessions. Written responses and personal reflections. The tactical approaches you'll learn in this course will give you indispensable skills to help you engage others about your Christian beliefs—and it may also deepen your own faith along the way. Together with the accompanying Tactics Video Study (sold separately), this guide provides an easy-to-follow, well-reasoned plan for mastering the art of maneuvering in conversations about Christian spirituality and ethics.

Tactics provides the game plan for defending your faith and artfully communicating the truths of Christianity with confidence and grace. This expanded anniversary edition of the classic book of Christian apologetics includes updates and expansions of existing tactics, as well as the addition of an all-new tactic and a chapter on Mini Tactics filled with simple maneuvers to aid in discussions. In a culture increasingly indifferent or even hostile to Christian truth, followers of Christ need to be equipped to communicate with those who do not speak their language or accept their source of authority. In Tactics, 10th Anniversary Edition, Gregory Koukl demonstrates how to artfully regain control of conversations, keeping them moving forward in constructive ways through thoughtful diplomacy. You'll learn how to:Meet challenges, questions, and provocations with poise and conviction. Effortlessly start your own evangelical conversations. Present the truth clearly, cleverly, and persuasively. Graciously and effectively expose faulty thinking and logical fallacies. Most important, you'll learn how to get people thinking seriously about Jesus. Drawing on extensive experience defending Christianity in the public square, Koukl will not only walk you through effective arguments to defend why you believe what you believe, but he'll teach you methods for engaging in meaningful dialogue and debate. Step-by-step, you'll learn the tactics of good persuasion and defense, how to identify the tactics of your opponent, and how to build your case, patiently and practically.

Buscas defender el evangelio de forma exitosa? Te sientes falto de preparaci n para mantener una conversaci n con un desconocido acerca de la biblia? T cticas: Un plan de acci n para debatir tus convicciones cristianas es perfecto para ti. Koukl busca prepararte de forma diplom tica y sencilla para que est s listo para defender la palabra de Dios cuando sea necesario. En un mundo cada vez m s indiferente a las verdades cristianas, los seguidores de Cristo necesitamos estar preparados para comunicarnos con aquellos que no hablan el lenguaje b blico o no aceptan su fuente de autoridad. Los consejos de Koukl te permitir n sentirte seguro y c modo, y te proporcionar n herramientas para que puedas utilizar esta valiosa informaci n de una manera efectiva. En este libro: Encontrar s formas de c mo comunicar la verdad acerca del cristianismo con seguridad y graciaProporcionar argumentos para defender el cristianismo ante las corrientes que est n en contraObtendr s herramientas para manejar el debate o la conversaci n de una manera pac fica y sanaTe ense a t cnicas para manejar de manera efectiva el di logoTe proporcionar herramientas para lucir seguro, pacificador y c modo en el di logoTe proporcionar consejos para salir ileso ante los detractores de la feTACTICSLooking to defend the gospel successfully? Feeling unprepared to have a conversation with a stranger about the Bible? Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions is perfect for you. Koukl seeks to prepare you diplomatically and easily so that you are ready to defend God's word when necessary. In a world increasingly indifferent to Christian truths, followers of Christ need to be prepared to communicate with those who do not speak biblical language or accept its source of authority. Koukl's advice will allow you to feel safe and comfortable and will provide you with tools so you can use this valuable information in an effective way. In this book: You will find ways to communicate the truth about Christianity with confidence and grace. Provide arguments to defend Christianity against currents that are against it. You will get tools to handle the debate or conversation in a peaceful and healthy way. Teaches you techniques to effectively handle dialogue. It will provide you with tools to look confident, peaceful, and comfortable in dialogue. Provide you with tips to come out unharmed against opponents of the faith.

Biblical Christianity is more than just another private religious view. It’s more than just a personal relationship with God or a source of moral teaching. Christianity is a picture of reality. It explains why the world is the way it is. When the pieces of this puzzle are properly assembled, we see the big picture clearly. Christianity is a true story of how the world began, why the world is the way it is, what role humans play in the drama, and how all the plotlines of the story are resolved in the end. In The Story of Reality, bestselling author and host of Stand to Reason, Gregory Koukl, explains the five words that form the narrative backbone of the Christian story. He identifies the most important things that happen in the story in the order they take place:GodManJesusCrossResurrectionIf you are already a Christian, do you know and understand the biblical story? And for those still seeking answers to the questions of life, this is an invitation to hear a story that explains the world in a way nothing else will. This story can change your life forever.

Many Christians are concerned about the tide of moral relativism that is rising steadily in our country. And rightly so: Relativism affects our education system, the legal system, and how people think about everyday issues. Yet little has been written on the topic outside academic circles. This void is filled by Frank Beckwith and Greg Koukl, who analyze relativism and present strategies to defend the belief in moral absolutes. Using a commonsense approach, Koukl defines relativism, traces its growth over the past few decades, and critiques the logical inconsistencies to which its supporters are led. He then presents a case for moral objectivism. Beckwith, building on Koukl's foundation, evaluates the influence of relativism on issues including abortion, homosexuality, political correctness, multiculturalism, and tolerance. In each of these areas, he provides compelling arguments for thinking people. Following in the tradition of C. S. Lewis and Francis Schaeffer, Relativism is an important guide for those who are concerned about intellectual issues that challenge the Christian faith.