RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Thank you so much for sending in your recommendations! Below is a list of what we received. Please feel free to keep sending suggestions our way.

Authors
Courson, Jon
Geisler, Norman
Grudem, Wayne
LaHaye, Tim
MacArthur, John
Pentecost, J Dwight
Ryrie, Charles
Wiersbe, Warren
Wuest, Kenneth
Zacharias, Ravi

Books / Commentaries
The Bible Knowledge Commentary edited by John F. Walvoord and Roy B. Zuck
The Book of Revelation by Clarence Larkin
Chance and the Sovereignty of God: A God-Centered Approach to Probability and Random Events by Vern S. Poythress
Dispensational Truth: God’s Plan and Purpose in the Ages by Clarence Larkin
Evidence for Christianity by Josh McDowell
Jesus Among Other Gods by Ravi Zacharias
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis
Scripture Made Easy by Polly Gwinn (one of our volunteers)
The Spirit World by Clarence Larkin
Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine by Wayne Grudem
The Treasury of David (a commentary on Psalms) by Charles Spurgeon
When God Doesn’t Make Sense by James Dobson

Software
Logos Bible Software
BibleWorks7—More information here: http://www.bibleworks.com
The Power Bible CD—More information here: http://powerbible.com/power-bible-cd/

Websites
AnswersinGenesis.org:
– “Apologetics ministry, dedicated to helping Christians defend their faith and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ effectively. We focus on providing answers to questions about the Bible—particularly the book of Genesis—regarding key issues such as creation, evolution, science, and the age of the earth.”

BibleGateway.com:
– This site has multiple versions of the Bible and access to various study resources, including Matthew Henry’s Commentary.

BibleHub.com:
– This site has multiple versions of the Bible and access to various study resources, including Strong’s Concordance and English—Greek/Hebrew interlinear Bibles.

BlueLetterBible.org:
– This site has multiple versions of the Bible and access to various study resources.
– One of our writers particularly appreciates the access BlueLetterBible.org provides to Thayer’s Lexicon and commentaries by David Guzik and Matthew Henry.

Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry: carm.org:
– “Christian ministry dedicated to the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ and the promotion and defense of the Christian Gospel, doctrine, and theology. To do this, CARM analyzes religious and non-religious movements and compares them to the Bible. We examine abortion, atheism, evolution, Islam, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonism, relativism, Roman Catholicism, Wicca, universalism, (and more), along with Christian preachers and teachers. In all our analyses we use the Bible as the final standard of truth in order to defend and promote Christianity.”

Christian Research Institute: equip.org:
– “The Christian Research Institute exists to provide Christians worldwide with carefully researched information and well-reasoned answers that encourage them in their faith and equip them to intelligently represent it to people influenced by ideas and teachings that assault or undermine orthodox, biblical Christianity.”

GotQuestions.org:
– This can be helpful to explain some of the larger theological issues that a question might touch on, to see what the ministry’s “official position” is on a certain matter, to give the questioner follow-up suggestions, or if the questioner refers to a specific article in his/her question.

SeekFind.org:
– This is a search engine maintained by Got Questions Ministries with a mission to provide God-honoring, biblically based, and theologically sound Christian search engine results in a highly accurate and well-organized format.

Videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/InspiringPhilosophy/videos
– Defenses of some ‘supposed’ contradictions as well as other Christian issues
https://www.youtube.com/user/fxswan/videos
– Dramatic reading of the Book of Revelation

Other
Some writers have prepared their own templates, created topical lists of Scripture, or refer to sermon notes and the like.
Many of the questions are nuanced enough to require specific research depending on the topic, so sources vary widely.

Other Ministries to Refer Questioners To
Global Media Outreach (globalmediaoutreach.com/):
– Several of our volunteers also serve with Global Media Outreach. It is more focused on sustained one-on-one discipleship. If you ever find a questioner you think might benefit from online discipleship, please feel free to refer them to Global Media Outreach.

Need Him Global (needhim.org):
– This may be helpful for online counseling.