Jon Topping

Ever wonder why Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey and not a horse? Or why slavery in the Bible is different than we think of it?

The Bible is an OLD book. How am I supposed to understand it? Where do I start? This week Jon begins a mini-series on Bible reading tips.

What if what the skeptics said actually confirmed what we knew about the Bible?

Details in the New Testament support that it was written by people during that time, in those places, & who actually observed those events!

Are the gospels pseudepigraphical (texts whose claimed author is not the true author)?

Are eyewitness testimonies even a good thing to have?

Use the tools uses Author Motivation, Coherency through Other Events, and Double Similarity to prove the reliability of the New Testament.

Tools to test the reliability of the New Testament: enemy attestation, Aramaic substrata, and independent sources.

Timing, coherency, and embarrassment are three historiographical methods of determining the reliability of a document’s content.

The concept of spiritual warfare is foreign to most people. We live in a culture that largely ignores the spiritual world, and yet, it's sti

It's obviously quite commonplace to have problems with the governments we live under. Should we rebel, or submit? Where does trying to bring

One of two talks addressing the issue of God's sovereignty. While quite similar, this talk was given as a sermon on a Sunday morning....

The concept of virtue is not really heard of anymore, but it's a critical aspect of what it means to be human.

Jon Topping spoke at an interfaith dialogue, representing Christianity. The other two speakers were from the atheist/agnostic/humanist...

Looking at the historical data, a good argument can be made that Jesus actually did historically rise from the dead.

Correcting the misinformation and assumptions that inform the views many people have towards the trustworthiness of the bible.

Apologist Jon Topping introduces the topic of the podcast - the believability and basics of the Christian faith. He explores how he personal

A while ago I had the privilege of being a part of an interfaith dialogue. I knew the audience would be almost entirely Muslims, so I...

One of the most common questions people ask about Christianity is why God allows so much suffering and evil in the world. In this talk I...

There’s a controversial topic within Christianity, which gets some Christians intellectually stimulated, others confused and doubtful,...