Jordan D. Tong

Category: Apologetics

  • How To Deal With Doubt

    A very hidden problem many Christians face is doubt. Doubt is the kind of problem you don’t want others to know you are having, for fear they will start treating you as an unbeliever or an apostate. “What! You are doubting God? You are doubting the inspiration of the Bible?” Well, many Christians do struggle…

  • Is Jesus God or Just a Poached Egg? (audio)

    The word “religion” carries with it many overtones – mostly negative in our culture. Religion is often considered merely a private affair with no place in the world outside the individual. The motto of the day is “If it works for you, that’s great.” But Christianity is not just some collections of teachings and saying…

  • Defending God’s Existence: Why Morality, A Finely Tuned Universe, The Soul, Beauty, and Desire Point to God (Audio)

    One of the goals of Christian apologetics is to look at all the different features of reality and show how they are best explained by the Christian worldview. If Christianity is true, we should expect it to make better sense of the world around us than any other competing view. For someone examining Christianity from…

  • Apologetics Class #4 – God is the Cause of the Universe (audio)

    During week 4 of the Apologetics class at PVCC, we discuss the Kalam Cosmological Argument. The argument basically goes like this: Everything that begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe has a cause. From here, we look at would could be the cause of all space, time, matter,…

  • Apologetic Class #3 – Worldviews and Apologetics (audio)

    This week at Pleasant Valley Community Church, we continued our discussion of apologetics. We discussed the following topics: What is a worldview? What does a worldview consist of? How do we test worldviews? What is apologetics? How is apologetics beneficial? Is apologetics Biblical?

  • Science vs. Bible – A Christian’s Guide to Genesis 1 (Audio)

    Here is the 2nd Apologetics class I taught at Pleasant Valley Community Church. During this class we covered the following topics: An overview of last week’s “Faith & Reason” discussion Science and Christian Doctrine as fields of knowledge The importance of dealing with competing truth claims How a Christian can respond to the conflicting truth…

  • Faith & Reason – Audio from PVCC Apologetics Class

    Here is the audio file to the first class in a series of 10 classes that I will be teaching at PVCC on Christian apologetics. The first class explored the following topics: An overview of my own personal struggle with belief in the Christian worldview Understanding the need for knowing why we believe The war…

  • Marriage: What is the Government’s Role?

    Governments, broadly speaking, are institutions put in place by groups of people and ordained by God (cf. Rom. 13:1) to carry out certain functions unable to be fulfilled by the individual members of that group. Example functions of good government are as follows: carrying out justice, restraining evil, protection of God-given rights, public works projects,…

  • Are Homosexuals Born That Way?

    Lady Gaga’s song, “Born This Way,” reached the top spot on the Billboard 100 charts in 2011, echoing the sentiments of America’s youth. Some of the lyrics go like this: “Rejoice and love yourself today, ’cause baby you were born this way, no matter gay, straight, or bi, lesbian, transgendered life, I’m on the right…

  • Are Christians Hateful and Intolerant Toward Homosexuals?

    Christians who disagree with homosexual behavior and same-sex marriage are often branded as intolerant and hateful. But is this a fair assessment? Well, possibly. Let’s first look at the definitions of these words and then compare them to Christian behavior. According to Dictionary.com, to tolerate is to “put up with” or “permit.” Tolerance presumes a…