Apologetics Archives - Brian Harris https://brianharrisauthor.com/tag/apologetics/ Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:12:01 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/brianharrisauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cropped-brianharrisauthor-favicon-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Apologetics Archives - Brian Harris https://brianharrisauthor.com/tag/apologetics/ 32 32 93416650 If Easter hadn’t happened… https://brianharrisauthor.com/if-easter-hadnt-happened/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/if-easter-hadnt-happened/#respond Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=6338 Don’t know if you enjoy the sliding door motif in stories. You run for the bus, and catch it, and on it you meet a mysterious stranger – and oh the adventures for good and ill that flow from that. Or you miss the bus by a whisker, are furious and frustrated, but actually spared […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/if-easter-hadnt-happened/feed/ 0 6338 Refresh: When Faith is a Quest… https://brianharrisauthor.com/refresh-when-faith-is-a-quest/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/refresh-when-faith-is-a-quest/#respond Tue, 19 Aug 2025 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=5810 I’ve met several people who have said words to the effect of: “I would really like to believe, it’s just that I don’t. And even with the best will in the world, that doesn’t seem likely to change. I have so many questions that seem to annoy those who believe. I find people of faith […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/refresh-when-faith-is-a-quest/feed/ 0 5810 Refresh: Easter Cancelled. They’ve found the body… https://brianharrisauthor.com/refresh-easter-cancelled-theyve-found-the-body/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/refresh-easter-cancelled-theyve-found-the-body/#respond Tue, 22 Apr 2025 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=5534 Today’s Refresh is suited to the post Easter period. It’s wonderful to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, but how likely is it that it happened? The blog is a light taster of this important topic – if you want to read some of my more developed thoughts on this and other apologetic subjects, see my […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/refresh-easter-cancelled-theyve-found-the-body/feed/ 0 5534 Promise, Challenge and Task: Three Reminders… https://brianharrisauthor.com/promise-challenge-and-task-three-reminders/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/promise-challenge-and-task-three-reminders/#comments Sat, 29 Jun 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4923 I’m due to preach on Joshua as a one off message in a series exploring interesting Bible characters. It’s hard to condense such an important story into 25 minutes, and any lens selected will miss a lot, but I’ve opted to filter his story through three key ideas – what he was promised, what special […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/promise-challenge-and-task-three-reminders/feed/ 1 4923 Just Another Sunday? https://brianharrisauthor.com/just-another-sunday/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/just-another-sunday/#respond Sat, 30 Mar 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4738 Don’t know about you, but Easter has snuck up on me unexpected. In my head I think of it as an April thing, but of course it’s on the first Sunday after the full moon on or after the Spring equinox, and sometimes that’s in March. It’s so much easier to remember Christmas with its […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/just-another-sunday/feed/ 0 4738 Coram Deo: Living in the sight of God… https://brianharrisauthor.com/coram-deo-living-in-the-sight-of-god/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/coram-deo-living-in-the-sight-of-god/#comments Sat, 17 Jun 2023 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4342 While I am by no means a Latin expert, there is a Latin phrase I love. Given you’ve seen the title of the post, it won’t come as a surprise that it’s “coram Deo”, which essentially claims that all of life takes place in the sight of God. We live and move and have our […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/coram-deo-living-in-the-sight-of-god/feed/ 5 4342 Amor Fati: From things happen to me to things happen for me… https://brianharrisauthor.com/amor-fati-from-things-happen-to-me-to-things-happen-for-me/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/amor-fati-from-things-happen-to-me-to-things-happen-for-me/#comments Sat, 10 Jun 2023 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4336 The Stoics have a lovely expression, “Amor Fati”. In essence it means love your fate, or at the very least, embrace your fate. Probably originating with Epictetus, the slave who became one of the founders of stoicism, it was popularised through the work of Nietzsche who in Ecce Homo writes: “My formula for greatness in […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/amor-fati-from-things-happen-to-me-to-things-happen-for-me/feed/ 10 4336 Remembering and Hope… https://brianharrisauthor.com/remembering-and-hope/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/remembering-and-hope/#comments Sat, 25 Feb 2023 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4171 We live in an era of chronological snobbery, where only the most current is seen to be worthy of attention. Often we judge the past too severely, assuming every tool at our disposal was available to earlier generations and forgetting how much they did with so much less than we have. While I am convinced […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/remembering-and-hope/feed/ 2 4171 When faith is a quest https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-faith-is-a-quest/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-faith-is-a-quest/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2022 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4050 Jesus commended the faith of little children, seeing in it innocence, spontaneity and deep trust. But for many, faith doesn’t come easily or naturally. Indeed, for some, nothing comes easily or naturally. William Blake in his Auguries of Innocence writes: Every Morn and every NightSome are Born to sweet delight Some are Born to sweet delight Some […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-faith-is-a-quest/feed/ 5 4050 Our Responsibility to the Future… https://brianharrisauthor.com/our-responsibility-to-the-future/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/our-responsibility-to-the-future/#comments Sat, 15 Oct 2022 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=3981 Christianity has a 2000 year history, and it is therefore natural that we should think about our responsibility to the past, and those who have gone before us. You see this in debates about faithfulness to our heritage, or how the Bible needs to be interpreted in a way consistent with the longer term tradition […]

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