Tired of finding yourself flat-footed and intimidated in conversations? Want to increase your confidence and skill in discussions with family, friends, and coworkers? Gregory Koukl offers practical strategies to help you stay in the driver’s seat as you maneuver comfortably and graciously in any conversation about your Christian convictions.
Spring '26
Required textbook for Apologetics, Ethics, & Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Jason Gudim.
Fall '25 Recommended FLBC textbook for Public Speaking course taught by Mrs. Madison Trost.
Spring '25
Required textbook for Apologetics, Ethics, & Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Jason Gudim and Dr. Wade Mobley.
Spring '24 Required FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Spring '23 Required FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Spring '22 Required FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Fall '21 Required FLS textbook for Evangelism and Apologetics course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley and Dr. James Molstre.
Spring '21 Required FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Spring '20 Required FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Fall '19 Required FLS textbook for Evangelism/ Apologetics course, taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Spring '19 Required FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course, taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
The problem with lies is they don’t often sound like lies. They seem harmless, and even sound right. So what’s a Mama Bear to do when her kids seem to be absorbing the culture’s lies uncritically?
Mama Bear Apologetics® is the book you’ve been looking for. This mom-to-mom guide will equip you to teach your kids how to form their own biblical beliefs about what is true and what is false. Through transparent life stories and clear, practical applications—including prayer strategies—this band of Mama Bears offers you tools to train yourself, so you can turn around and train your kids.
Are you ready to answer the rallying cry, “Mess with our kids and we will demolish your arguments”? Join the Mama Bears and raise your voice to protect your kids—by teaching them how to think through and address the issues head-on, yet with gentleness and respect.
Modern culture is increasingly outspoken against a biblical understanding of what it means to be a woman. Even some Christians, swayed by the LGBTQ+ movement, have rejected God’s word on issues of sexuality and gender in favor of popular opinion. In light of these pressures, it’s more important than ever to help women see the truth about who God created them to be.
In this powerful book, Rosaria Butterfield uses Scripture to confront 5 common lies about sexuality, faith, feminism, gender roles, and modesty often promoted in our secular culture today. Written in the style of a memoir, this book explores Butterfield’s personal battle with these lies—interwoven with cultural studies, literary criticism, and theology—to help readers see the beauty in biblical womanhood, marriage, and motherhood.
Spring ’24
Optional* required FLBC textbook for Christian Identity and Relationships course, taught by Pr. Adam Osier.
* One out of a choice of four optional books will be required reading.
A movement seeks to redefine Christianity. Some think that it is a much-needed progressive reformation. Others believe that it is an attack on historic Christianity.
Alisa Childers never thought she would question her Christian faith. She was raised in a Christian home, where she had seen her mom and dad feed the hungry, clothe the homeless, and love the outcast. She had witnessed God at work and then had dedicated her own life to leading worship, as part of the popular Christian band ZOEgirl. All that was deeply challenged when she met a progressive pastor, who called himself a hopeful agnostic.
Another Gospel? describes the intellectual journey Alisa took over several years as she wrestled with a series of questions that struck at the core of the Christian faith. After everything she had ever believed about God, Jesus, and the Bible had been picked apart, she found herself at the brink of despair . . . until God rescued her, helping her to rebuild her faith, one solid brick at a time. In this book, you’ll find:
A list of resources―including apologetics books, theology books, and podcasts―for additional study
Discussion questions to help you dig deeper or spark conversations
A sound biblical worldview mixed with personal stories from Alisa Childers, popular speaker and author of The Deconstruction of Christianity and Live Your Truth and Other Lies
In a culture of endless questions, you need solid answers. If you or someone you love has encountered the ideas of progressive Christianity and aren’t sure how to respond, Alisa’s journey will show you how to determine―and rest in―what’s unmistakably true.
Spring '26
Required textbook for Apologetics, Ethics, & Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Jason Gudim.
Spring '25
Required textbook for Apologetics, Ethics, & Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Jason Gudim and Dr. Wade Mobley.
Christianity could be defined as a “cold case”: it makes a claim about an event from the distant past for which there is little forensic evidence. In Cold-Case Christianity, J. Warner Wallace uses his nationally recognized skills as a homicide detective to look at the evidence and eyewitnesses behind Christian beliefs. Including gripping stories from his career and the visual techniques he developed in the courtroom, Wallace uses illustration to examine the powerful evidence that validates the claims of Christianity.
Spring '24 Recommended FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Spring '23 Recommended FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Spring '22 Required FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Spring '21 Required FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Fall '20 Required FLS textbook for Basic Principles of Theology/Doctrine of the Word course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Spring '20 Required FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Does God belong in the public arena of politics, business, law, and education? Or is religion a private matter only-personally comforting but publicly irrelevant?
In today's cultural etiquette, it is not considered polite to mix public and private, or sacred and secular. This division is the single most potent force keeping Christianity contained in the private sphere-stripping it of its power to challenge and redeem the whole of culture.
In Total Truth, Nancy Pearcey offers a razor-sharp analysis of the public/private split, explaining how it hamstrings our efforts at both personal and cultural renewal. Ultimately it reflects a division in the concept of truth itself, which functions as a gatekeeper, ruling Christian principles out of bounds in the public arena.
How can we unify our fragmented lives and recover spiritual power? With examples from the lives of real people, past and present, Pearcey teaches readers how to liberate Christianity from its cultural captivity. She walks readers through practical, hands-on steps for crafting a full-orbed Christian worldview.
Finally, she makes a passionate case that Christianity is not just religious truth but truth about total reality. It is total truth.
Spring '24 Recommended FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Spring '23 Recommended FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Spring '22 Required FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Spring '21 Required FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Spring '20 Required FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Fall '19 Required FLS textbook for Evangelism/ Apologetics course, taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Spring '19 Required FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course, taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
In this house we believe that Black Lives Matter Love Is Love Gay Rights Are Civil Rights Womens Rights Are Human Rights Transgender Women Are Women
You may have seen signs with some of these messages in your neighborhood. They offer us an all-or-nothing package deal in short, a secular creed.
In this provocative book, Rebecca McLaughlin helps us disentangle the beliefs Christians gladly affirm from those they cannot embrace, and invites us to talk with our neighbors about the things that matter most. Far from opposing love across difference, McLaughlin argues, Christianity is the original source and firmest foundation for true diversity, equality, and life-transforming love.
Fall '21 Required FLS textbook for Evangelism and Apologetics course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley and Dr. James Molstre.
Religion’s decline in the modern world turns out to be a myth.
Christianity is the most widespread global belief system, and promises to remain so well into the future. But for many educated westerners, biblical Christianity is a dangerous idea—challenging some of their deepest beliefs.
Channeling state-of-the-art research, personal stories, and careful biblical study, Confronting Christianity explores 12 questions that keep many of us from considering faith in Christ. Look more closely, McLaughlin argues, and the reality of suffering, the complexity of sexuality, the desire for diversity, the success of science, and other seeming roadblocks to faith become signposts. Jesus becomes not a relic from the ancient world, but our modern world’s best hope.
Spring '24 Required FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley. You will need either this or Mere Christianity or Orthodoxy.
Spring '23 Required FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley. You will need either this or Mere Christianity or Orthodoxy.
Fall '19 Required FLBC textbook for Evangelism/ Apologetics course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Is secularism a positive force in the modern world? Or does it lead to fragmentation and disintegration? In Saving Leonardo, best-selling award-winning author Nancy Pearcey (Total Truth, coauthor How Now Shall We Live?) makes a compelling case that secularism is destructive and dehumanizing.
Pearcey depicts the revolutionary thinkers and artists, the ideas and events, leading step by step to the unleashing of secular worldviews that undermine human dignity and liberty. She crafts a fresh approach that exposes the real-world impact of ideas in philosophy, science, art, literature, and film--voices that surround us in the classroom, in the movie theater, and in our living rooms.
A former agnostic, Pearcey offers a persuasive case for historic Christianity as a holistic and humane alternative. She equips readers to counter the life-denying worldviews that are radically restructuring society and pervading our daily lives. Whether you are a devoted Christian, determined secularist, or don't know quite where you stand, reading Saving Leonardo will unsettle established views and topple ideological idols. Includes more than 100 art reproductions and illustrations that bring the book's themes to life.
Spring '24 Recommended FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Spring '23 Recommended FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Don’t Think, Just Believe?
That’s the mantra in many circles today—whether the church, the classroom, the campus, or the voting booth.
Time for a Reality Check
Nancy Pearcey, bestselling and critically acclaimed author, offers fresh tools to break free from presumed certainties and test them against reality. In Finding Truth, she explains five powerful principles that penetrate to the core of any worldview—secular or religious—to uncover its deepest motivations and weigh its claims. A former agnostic, Pearcey demonstrates that a robust Christian worldview matches reality—that it is not only true but attractive, granting higher dignity to the human person than any alternative. Finding Truth displays Pearcey’s well-earned reputation for clear and cogent writing. She brings themes to life with personal stories and real-world examples. And the study guide in Finding Truth was shaped by questions from readers like you, from teens to college professors, and is ideal for individual or group study.
Spring '26
Required textbook for Apologetics, Ethics, & Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Jason Gudim.
Spring '25
Required textbook for Apologetics, Ethics, & Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Jason Gudim and Dr. Wade Mobley.
Spring '24 Required FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Spring '23 Required FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
A lifelong atheist and religious skeptic explores the historical basis for his wife's new-found Christian faith. With his keen analytical mind and award-winning background in journalism, the author attempts to "determine if there’s credible evidence that Jesus of Nazareth really is the Son of God." In a riveting quest for truth, Strobel asks tough questions and challenges world-class experts, urging readers to reach a verdict of their own.
Francis Schaeffer's first book presents a wide-ranging analysis of the intellectual and cultural climate of the second half of the twentieth century, from philosophy to art to liberal theology. Arguing that Christians must constantly engage the questions being asked by their own—and the next—generation, he envisions an apologetics and spirituality both grounded in absolute truth and engaging the whole of reality.
Covering such topics as the existence of God, the reliabiilty of the New Testament, creation vs. evolution, and the resurrection of Christ, this study builds the case for Christianity lesson by lesson equipping believers to give a defense for the hope that is within them. Thorough leader's guide gives creative ways to present each lesson.
God’s Word tells us we must “always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you” (1 Peter 3:15). This updated classic from Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell will give you the tools you need to do just that.
Spring '21
Recommended FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Spring '20
Recommended FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Spring '19
Recommended FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Of the most common approaches to apologetics, which is most effective?
The goal of apologetics is to persuasively defend Christianity against charges of falsehood, inconsistency, or credulity. It's an intellectual discipline that serves to bolster the faith of Christian believers and to aid the task of evangelism, but are some methods more effective than others?
Five Views on Apologetics examines the "how-to" of apologetics, putting five prominent techniques under the microscope:
Classical – represented by William Lane Craig
Evidential – represented by Gary Habermas
Cumulative Case – represented by Paul D. Feinberg
Presuppositional – represented by John M. Frame
Reformed Epistemology – represented by Kelly James Clark
Offering a forum for presentation, critique, and defense, this book allows the contributors for the different viewpoints to respond to the others. Your own informed conclusions can then guide you as you meet the questions of a needy world with the claims of the gospel.
Spring '24 Recommended FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
Spring '23 Recommended FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
