Explore the big questions surrounding the Christian faith
Jump to topicsWe know there are lots of important questions around the Christian faith, and for those that would like to dive deeper, we’ve done our best to collate some of the most thoughtful, interesting and well-communicated content from around the internet, and share it here.
Many of the speakers we've featured have lots of other videos and resources available online. Please note: we might not share all the thoughts, beliefs and opinions expressed elsewhere (which we may not be aware of), but we love the content they have presented in these videos, and we really hope you find them helpful.
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Jesus: The Epicentre of Christianity Long-Form overviews Can you trust the Bible? How do I read the Bible? How can I know that God exists? What is God like? Pain and suffering Science and Christianity What about other religions? What happens when you die? What about hell? The Occult Sex and sexuality Do miracles still happen? Hypocrisy (and other objections) Other videos of interestBack to topics
Jesus: The Epicentre of Christianity
Who is Jesus?
Jesus is the cornerstone of the Christian faith, and this video captures the essence of all Christian belief. If we come to believe the evidence that Jesus was who he claimed to be — the Son of God — that he both died through crucifixion and rose from the dead, then everything else falls into place. There is a God who exists, who loves us, and has revealed himself to us. The evidence is extremely compelling, so why not take a look?
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Lee Strobel: The Case for Christ
If you would like to explore the evidence surrounding the death and resurrection of Jesus, this video is a fantastic presentation by Lee Strobel. Former legal editor of the Chicago Tribune, Strobel is an investigative journalist who originally sought to debunk the resurrection and prove it false. In this video, he details the length and breadth of his investigation, and how it impacted his life.
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Is Jesus God?
Why does it matter that we fully understand the deity of Jesus? Because if we don’t, we run the risk of worshiping the wrong God. Preston and Jackie Perry walk through the apologetics of this important element of the Christian faith, examining the verses people often point to when questioning if Jesus is God.
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Why did Jesus die?
Central to the Christian faith is the belief that Jesus died for our sins, which on the surface, might appear unusual or unnecessary. Here the Alpha Film Series explores why this is in fact the best news you could ever hope to receive, and all that it means for those that put their hope in him.
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Why Jesus came 2,000 years ago (not today)
J. Warner Wallace presents a fascinating argument as to why Jesus came exactly when he did, revealing God's hand in human history. Wallace is an American homicide detective, Christian apologist, and author best known for applying forensic investigative techniques to examine the evidence for the Christian faith
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Long-Form Overviews
I don't have enough faith to be an atheist
Does it take more faith to be an atheist than a Christian? Dr. Frank Turek delivers a fast-paced, logic-driven presentation based on his best-selling book, “I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist.” In this session, Dr. Turek tackles four major questions: Does truth exist? Does God exist? Are miracles possible? And is the New Testament true?. You can also find his full apologetics series on YouTube.
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The case for Jesus (historian's proof)
For those who want to dive into so many of the big questions all at once, Diary Of A CEO has produced a fantastic interview with Wes Huff (historian & theologian). Wes gives clear, concise and thoughtful responses to many honest questions we all have around faith. Chapters can be found in the description on YouTube.
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If you DON'T believe in a God you NEED to hear this!
Bible sales are soaring, and the world's leading thinkers are quietly returning to faith. Oxford mathematician and Christian apologist John Lennox explains why the race to “solve death” is 2,000 years too late, why no machine can ever replicate human consciousness, what AI reveals about God, and many other questions about faith and the existence of God.
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How can I know that God exists?
Morality proves God exists
Dr. Frank Turek (a prominent Christian apologist, author, public speaker, and radio host) outlines three arguments for the existence of God before focusing on the ‘moral argument’.
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Think about what kind of proof are you looking for
Wes Huff very helpfully explores the different ways we each look for evidence of God; and so as you consider this question, we hope you find content here on our 'explore' page which speaks into the area you're looking for.
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John Lennox: this is why I am absolutely certain about God!
John is a well known Bible teacher, author and theologian. He is the President of The Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, and is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University. Here he talks about what makes him so sure about God.
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Why you can’t 100% prove anything (it’s all an act of faith)
Was the universe created three seconds ago along with all your memories? This fun (and slightly mind-bending) video by YouTuber Vsauce explores how it is actually impossible to 100% prove that anything exists at all (including your own body); and in fact, everything we believe is ultimately an act of faith. Belief, therefore, is always based on the most convincing evidence, or the best explanation, and not really on ‘proof’.
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Can you trust the Bible?
“Can I trust the Bible?” series
Are there good reasons to take the Bible seriously? Can we even have confidence that it hasn't been altered, adapted, influenced, and edited since its last book was penned nearly two thousand years ago? What are the implications if the Bible's claims are true? Apologetics Canada and Wes Huff have produced a fantastic series of videos exploring questions about the most impactful book humanity has ever read.
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How can I be sure I got the right books in my Bible?
How do we know that the books included the Bible are the right ones? Dr. Frank Turek (a prominent Christian apologist, author, public speaker, and radio host) engages this question in a Q&A session.
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Errors in the Bible?
Dr. Frank Turek (a prominent Christian apologist, author, public speaker, and radio host) was asked, “How do we account for the errors of the scribes in the New Testament since these documents were handed down from one person to the next and what if these errors are not simple and interfere with the teachings of the Scriptures?”
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Is the Bible we have what the original authors even wrote?
The idea that the Bible we have today is a highly edited “translation of a translation of a translation” simply doesn’t hold true. Wes Huff discusses how, while moving further away in time, we are in fact getting closer and closer to knowing exactly what the original manuscripts say.
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How do I read the Bible?
Getting started with the Bible
If you want a quick-start guide on where to begin with the Bible, Martin (one of our church leaders) does just this in under two minutes.
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How and why should I read the Bible?
This episode of the Alpha Film Series explores how the Bible is the primary way God speaks to people and that, when we read it and test it for ourselves, we find it proves to be true in our own lives.
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What is God like?
What is God like?
The size, scale and fine-tuning of the Universe points to the awesomeness of God. Dr Frank Turek outlines how we can know God is the sustainer and creator of all things while still being close and near to us as the Savior of the world.
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Pain and Suffering
The nearness of Christ in 50 years of suffering, with Joni Eareckson Tada
At 17 years old, Joni Eareckson Tada dove into shallow water and broke her neck which left her paralyzed from the shoulders down. After 50 years of quadriplegia, Joni’s depth of faith and faithfulness to Jesus has inspired millions of people. She talks about how suffering with paralysis and chronic pain has brought her closer to Christ, and caused her to continually focus her heart on gratefulness throughout bouts of depression and despair.
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Walking with God through pain and suffering
The late Tim Keller (pastor, theologian, and bestselling author) delivered a fascinating talk in 2013 on how Western secular culture and beliefs tends to make us worse at handling pain and suffering compared to any other people group on the planet, or through history. He also compares how Christianity differs from every other worldview in how it handles and equips us for suffering, and how we can believe that God is still good through it.
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Pete Greig: unanswered prayers
Pete Greig shares honestly about the nature of unanswered prayers and how God often chooses to walk through the valley with us, rather than helicoptering us out. Pete Greig is a British pastor, author, and founder of the 24-7 Prayer movement, an international network encouraging continuous prayer and mission.
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Science and Christianity
Testing Genesis with Advancing Science
Dr. Hugh Ross is a Canadian astrophysicist and Christian apologist, best known for founding Reasons to Believe. In this video he discusses many common questions around the accounts of creation found in the Bible.
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The two mistakes we make when thinking about God & science
John Lennox is a well known Bible teacher, author and theologian. Here he explores why God and science don't need to be mutually exclusive. This is a clip from a longer video Has Science Buried God? which is a fantastic presentation on how faith interacts with science. John is the President of The Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, and is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University.
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Stephen Meyer on Piers Morgan Uncensored (Part 1) — Science points to intelligent design
Stephen C. Meyer is an author, philosopher of science, and now directs Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. He appeared on Piers Morgan Uncensored to discuss questions around evolution, scientific evidence for God, and the multiverse — arguing that science points to intelligent design from a creator, rather than leading to atheism. There is also a second episode on YouTube which continues the conversation.
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Why this atheist scientist became a believing Christian
Dr. Sy Garte is a retired biochemist and author of the book “The Works of His Hands". For most of his life, he was an unbelieving atheist. In this interview, he details his journey from being an atheist scientist to a believing Christian.
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John Lennox: “Seven Days That Divide the World”
This is a brilliant talk by John Lennox on how our we reconcile our modern day understanding of science with the creation account in Genesis 1, and also includes Q&A at the end with common questions. Please note: the video features a long introduction, and so we've set the video to play from 12:35.
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By Design: Behe, Lennox, and Meyer on the evidence for a Creator
Michael Behe, John Lennox, and Steven Meyer are three of the leading voices in science and academia on the case for an intelligent designer of the universe and everything in it (including us). In this wide-ranging conversation, they discuss flaws in Darwin’s theory and the increasing amount of evidence that points to an intentional design and creation of the physical world.
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Secrets of the Cell with Michael Behe
The cell is what biochemist Michael Behe has called evolution’s “black box” — its spectacularly complex, superbly designed contents unknown to Charles Darwin. Join Dr. Behe as he explores the mysteries of the cell, the limits of evolution, and how the cell points to intelligent design.
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What about other religions?
Nabeel Qureshi: how I found Jesus while seeking Allah
Nabeel Qureshi (1983–2017) was a prominent Christian apologist, author and speaker, best known for his dramatic conversion from a devout Ahmadi Muslim to Christianity — a journey detailed in his New York Times bestselling book “Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus”. (Note: the video is set to skip a long intro, with Nabeel's talk being about 50 minutes.)
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The Bible gave us four religions
Glen Scrivener from Speak Life interviews Vishal Mangalwadi about his book 'The Book That Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization', secular humanism and more.
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Other religions point to Jesus
Roughly 5.89 Billion non-Christians today (very nearly every corner of the globe) know something of Jesus, because they have in fact encountered him through the pages of their own scriptures.
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Do all religions lead to God?
There are seven billion of us on the planet, and most of believe there is some kind of higher power. This has led to over four thousand different religions. So how could Christians say that theirs just happens to be the one true religion?
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What happens when you die?
What happens after death? NT Wright on heaven, hell, and salvation
N.T. Wright is one of the world's most influential New Testament scholars, author and theologian. In this podcast episode he delves into the complexities of eternal life, justice, and how Christian hope can coexist with the tough questions about hell and salvation.
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Ian McCormack: life after death
Ian has visited King's and told his story here a number of years ago. This is a recording from another church, where he recounts his experience of being stung five times by an extremely venomous box jellyfish, his journey to hospital before ultimately dying in theatre. No attempt was made to revive him, yet he recounts his experience of what happened to him during death — that though he died, he lived (John 11:25). To the extreme shock of the hospital staff, his life later returned to him while his body lay in the hospital morgue. He relates every part of his experience to what's written in the Bible, bringing many passages to life, of which he had no knowledge of at the time.
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Randy Alcorn: what & where is heaven?
Randy Alcorn (best-selling Christian author of over 60 books) opens with the question of “what and where is heaven?” and, drawing from the Bible, he paints a picture of the New Heaven and New Earth and what resurrection life will look like. Along the way, Alcorn challenges common assumptions about heaven, raises surprising questions about continuity between this life and the next, and hints at a future that is far more physical, joyful, and culture-rich than many believers imagine. In all of this, he outlines why our greatest adventures are still ahead.
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Do we have a consciousness that can survive physical death?
Lee Strobel was a skeptic about near death experiences (NDEs), only to be surprised at how well researched this area is. He reflects on his own investigation and how he looks for cases with incredibly strong collaborative evidence. He describes a number of remarkable stories featured in his film The Case for Heaven, whilst also addressing the caution we should apply to NDEs, and what we can take away from them. (Note: we've set the video link to skip the 5 minute intro.)
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What About Hell?
What is hell ACTUALLY? Bible expert Wes Huff explains
Wes Huff is a Canadian Christian apologist, theologian, and public speaker. Here he discusses what Hell is, according to the Bible.
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God's love and the problem of hell
Is there a contradiction between the love of God and the eternal punishment in Hell? Dr. Frank Turek (a prominent Christian apologist, author, public speaker, and radio host) engages this question in a Q&A session.
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How can I enjoy heaven when my loved ones are in hell?
Can Heaven truly be a place where every tear is wiped away if we remember that our loved ones are suffering in Hell? In this clip, Dr. Frank Turek (a prominent Christian apologist, author, public speaker, and radio host) answers a listener's question about the afterlife.
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Did God create 100 billion people just to send them to hell?
This 12 minute segment is part of a longer Q&A video, addressing the question of what happened to all the people who lived before Jesus and had never heard of him. N.T. Wright (an influential New Testament scholar, author and theologian) reflects on this question.
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The Occult, New Age & New Thought
What an ex-witch wants you to know about the occult
Jac Marino Chen talks about her past in the occult. She participated in ritual magick, witchcraft, alien contact, channeling, law of attraction, psychedelics, and much more.
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Melissa Dougherty: from New Age/Thought to Jesus
Melissa Dougherty is a Christian Artist and Apologist. Here she tells her story of how she came out of her world of New Age and New Thought to believing in Jesus, and how she realises she had been decieved by the oldest trick in the book.
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Ex-witch: exposing the realities of the occult
Jessica Murray was once deeply involved in witchcraft, casting spells, communicating with spirits, and building a successful platform around the occult. But after a life-changing encounter with Jesus Christ, everything changed. In this eye-opening interview, Jessica shares her incredible testimony of leaving witchcraft behind, exposing the realities of the occult, and finding true freedom in Christ.
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Sex and Sexuality
What we wish we knew about sex
We clearly knew something about sex before getting married but sadly, most of our perspectives were toxic. Worldliness and unhealthy Christian frameworks about sexuality shaped our thinking as it probably has for many of us. So let's talk about it.
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Race, Sexuality and Gender with Rebecca McLaughlin
Glen Scrivener interviews Rebecca McLaughlin about race, sexuality and gender, and the distinctive ways that Christians are called to engage in these conversations.
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Sex, LGBTQ+, pre-marital relationships and identity...
Tom Wright, a renowned theologian and scholar, tackles the hot topics with care, noting how important it is to be able to discuss these sensitive issues while ensuring we listen to one another well. You can find all the discussion points and chapters in the YouTube description.
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Does the Bible really condemn loving same-sex relationships?
...and if it does, are those prohibitions binding on us today? Ashleigh, Andy and Andrew from livingout.org talk through some of the arguments, the things we can agree or empathise with in those arguments, and why ultimately they believe in the historic Christian sexual ethic. Note: the conversation starts around 5:30 into the video. Also, this video can only be played on YouTube.
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Living Out: Andrew's story
Andrew Bunt is a friend of ours (from Bexhill) and is an author, speaker and part of the team at livingout.org. Here he tells his story of giving his life to Jesus at a young age, but discovering he was same-sex attracted in his teens, and what that meant for his life and faith.
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Do miracles still happen?
Lee Strobel: The case for miracles
Lee Strobel, an investigative journalist by trade, shares a series of remarkable stories he uncovered while exploring the question “does God still do miracles today?”
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Hypocrisy... and other objections
Confronting Christianity: Live Q+A with Rebecca McLaughlin
Rebecca McLaughlin is the author of Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's largest religion. In this live Q&A she answers seven questions put to her by the audience watching online.
Where is God? (10:40)
How does God choose who goes through the most suffering? (16:00)
Why did God create humanity if he knew most people would go to hell? (24:22)
Do we have free will if God knows every decision we're going to make? (37:07)
Why is Evangelical Christianity so middle class? (43:04)
Why does the Bible seem offensive when it comes to sex and LGTBQ? (50:14)
Does God give up on us if we fail often as Christians? (55:59)
Can we trust the Bible, and can we know the mircales really happened? (57:26)
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Wes Huff answers eight tough questions about the Bible and theology
Historian & theologian Wes Huff gives succint answers to some of the biggest objections to the Christian faith. Here's a list of direct links to the questions in the video, which will open in YouTube when clicked:
The problem of evil (00:30)
The exclusivity of Christianity (04:35)
How can a loving God send people to hell? (06:14)
How can you take the Bible seriously in our scientific age? (08:34)
The problem of Christian hypocrisy (10:34)
The reliability of the Old Testament (12:13)
Are Christians bigots because of the Bible's sexual ethics? (15:20)
How do you know that Jesus rose from the dead? (19:13)
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Other Videos of Interest
The flood (part 1): the most reliable ancient account
J. Warner reflects on incredible scientific insights found in the ancient texts of the Bible, and shows how they point to recent, modern day discoveries that no ancient civilisation could have known. With this is mind, he creates a case for the reliability of Scripture when considering the flood account in Genesis (the first book of the Bible). Please note: this video is split into two parts. The video featured here is part one, and the next video listed below is part 2.
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The flood (part 2): the most reliable ancient account
This is the second part of J. Warner's video of the flood account found in Genesis, the first book of the Bible. (Note: this video can only be played on YouTube.)
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Does this disprove the Old Testament?
In this video, J. Warner engages a question about the extraordinary life spans detailed in the book of Genesis, asking how they can be true. Warner reflects on not only this, but the numerous inexplicable miracles we see in the Bible — including creation itself.
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