Now you can encourage your parishioners to dive even deeper into the faith with content from one of the nation’s premier apostolates of Catholic apologetics!
Why God Still Matters
Have you noticed how some of the New Atheists don’t even bother trying to disprove God’s existence? Your arguments in favor of God don’t even deserve a reply, they say, because not only does God not exist—he doesn’t even matter. We don’t need God to explain the universe, they say. We don’t need him to be moral or happy. And we don’t need him to guide us or help figure things out—science can take care of that. Take away the need for God, they conclude, and the human urge to believe in him disappears.
In Why God Still Matters, apologist Karlo Broussard doesn’t let them off so easy. In this engaging video he takes apart the premises of those who say God’s irrelevant, showing you how you can explain to atheists:
That science can say a lot about the created world but not why it’s there in the first place
Why thinking that science has all the answers is itself a kind of unscientific blind faith
How morality and happiness are possible to some degree without God, but hopelessly limited
Many positive reasons to conclude that God not only matters, but that he is real
…and much more. Don’t let atheists shut down the argument before it begins!
The Problem of Evil
If God is all-good and all-powerful then why is there evil?
This is perhaps the most vexing challenge that non-believers pose to Christians. Our world of violence, greed, and suffering seems incompatible with the God of the gospel. How can we answer the challenge?
In his new DVD, The Problem of Evil, Jimmy Akin tackles this most difficult of apologetics questions. He builds a biblical and philosophical case for understanding how God’s perfections are not disproved by the existence of evil, but in fact allow for a world in which pain and sin may be mysteriously ordered by providence towards a greater good.
Jimmy offers valuable practical tips for discussing the question with skeptics, such as how to avoid certain well-meaning but incorrect answers Christians often give (plus the one thing you should never say). He also gives you seven useful approaches you can take when people’s faith (or your own) is shaken by suffering.
Watch The Problem of Evil and learn how God’s love does not fail in the face of evil, but shines through it and will triumph over it—in the world and in our lives.
How to Win an Argument Without Losing a Soul
Whether you’re arguing with family members or Facebook friends, skeptical co-workers in the office or pushy proselytizers at your front door, it helps to have not only the facts but the skills for presenting your points forcefully and well.
And just as important is your demeanor. For it’s all too easy to beat someone over the head with flawless logic—and turn him off to the truths you’re trying to share.
In How to Win an Argument Without Losing a Soul, Matt Fradd equips you with the powers of argumentation you need to be an effective debater and the right attitude for doing it with charity, humility, and patience.
With the light, engaging style that has made him a popular apologist and evangelist around the globe, Matt explains how to build a logical argument piece-by-piece. He gives examples of the most common fallacies and teaches you how to spot them in others’ arguments (and your own!). And he offers wise strategies to ensure that—especially when you’re arguing about the Faith—your goal is not to score debate points but to lead souls to the light.
Faith and conversion are ultimately God’s work, of course. But he commands us to cooperate with him in that work. Watch How to Win an Argument Without Losing a Soul and become a more effective instrument for communicating God’s saving truth.
The Three Secrets to Sharing Your Faith
Want to tell others about your Catholic faith, but don’t how where to start? Afraid you’re not smart enough, knowledgeable enough, outgoing enough?
Don’t worry, says Catholic Answers apologist Trent Horn. With a few simple tips and a little practice, anyone can be an effective apostle and evangelist. In The Three Secrets to Sharing the Faith, Horn draws on his long experience dialoguing about religion and life issues (with people ranging from politely curious to downright hostile) to identify for you the most important steps to initiating such discussions—and making them fruitful.
In clear language illustrated with real-life examples, Trent explains:
Why you don’t need to know all the right answers—just how to ask the right questions
How to control the direction of an argument when you get stumped
Keys to finding and building common ground with even the most argumentative opponent
How to keep discussions civil and positive—whether they’re with family at the dinner table or strangers on Facebook
…and many more insights that will take you from hesitant to confident. You don’t need to be tongue-tied anymore. Watch The Three Secrets to Sharing the Faith today and become a more fluent champion of God’s Church and his truth.
How to Talk About Marriage and Same-Sex Unions
Most people want to defend marriage, but they don’t know where to begin — Let Trent Horn show you how
Seemingly in the blink of an eye, same-sex marriage (SSM) has gone from being a radical new idea to an inevitable fact of life in the West. Yet even as its proponents increasingly pressure Christians to submit to the new definition (or else), we believe the fight isn’t over yet.
In How to Talk About Marriage and Same-Sex Unions, Trent Horn throws a rescue line to anyone who wants to make a good case for marriage but can’t seem to find the right way to do it.
You probably know the approaches that don’t work—for example, “Because the Bible says so,” or “Let’s just get the government out of marriage completely.” In this video presentation Trent shows the weaknesses of these and other arguments that rely on appeals to religion or tradition, or that fail to get to the core issue of what marriage is.
In place of these ineffective approaches, Trent offers concrete strategies for simplifying the debate over marriage, showing you how to avoid the common traps set by SSM enthusiasts and offering a powerful and intelligent case for one-man, one-woman marriage that any reasonable person, regardless of religion, must reckon with.
Along the way he gives specific tips for dealing with common objections and counter arguments.
Have you ever had someone tell you that “love is love, and that’s all that matters,” or that opposing SSM is like opposing interracial marriage? Trent shows you how to deal with these and other specious charges smartly and charitably.
Watch How to Talk About Marriage and Same-Sex Unions and never again be stuck without answers to one of the most important questions of our age!
