My Top 15 Christian Apologetics Resources!

There are so many great resources available today that teach Christian apologetics (how to defend our faith). Today I would like to share my top 15 favorites! Some of these are for the parents to read, learn, and share nuggets with their children and others are for parents to read with their children. These are in no particular order.

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1. "Cold-Case Christianity" by J. Warren Wallace + the kid's version - Did you know that the Jewish scribes that copied the New Testament were meticulous? How so? They used detailed statistics! They would count the number of verses in each chapter, the total number of words in each verse, and the total number of letters in each word of the Bible to guard from error in copying it. If you haven’t read this book yet, I highly recommend it! It gives an awesome defense for the authenticity of Scripture. And there’s even a kid version with activity pages you can download. You can read one chapter a day to your kiddos and have them do one activity page (double-sided) each day and finish the study in 8 days.

2. "The Lie" by Ken Ham - This is an excellent book to help Christians understand why they should NOT believe in evolution and millions of years. See also my blog post on refuting evolution and defending creation. This book helps you learn the difference between observational science and historical science - I created one of my posters in the blog post linked above to explain this concept. A very important concept to teach our children!

3. "Keeping Your Kids on God's Side" by Natasha Crain - This book includes 40 conversations to have with your kids to help them build a lasting faith. Questions like "How could a good God allow evil and suffering" and then she gives a several page explanation. This year we are doing an apologetics notebook where I give my kids a skeptic's question and 5 minutes to write an answer to it. Then we share our answers and discuss more on the topic. This would be a great resource to use for this! I think I will be using these questions next and after my children have shared their answers we will read Natasha's answer. Afterward I'll allow them time to elaborate on their answer if they learned anything new.

4. "The Creation Answers Book" by Don Batten, David Catchpoole, Jonathan Sarfati, and Carl Wieland - This is a must-have resource for your apologetics library! I learned so much from this book and how to answer the skeptics' questions. For example, those who try to claim that the "evening and morning" in Genesis 1 couldn't represent a literal 24hr day with evening and morning because God did not create the sun and moon until day 4, don't realize that all you need to have evening and morning is a directional light source which God created on Day 1 and a rotating earth.

5. "Keeping Faith in an Age of Reason" by Dr. Jason Lisle - This book examines 420 supposed Bible contradictions and shows how they are not contradictions at all. It exposes the skeptic's lack of reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. Help your children learn to defend their faith by equipping them with answers to the skeptics supposed Bible contradictions. Caution: I have found this one can be a bit confusing to younger children so I would hold off using this one until your kids are older and strong in their faith (or pick and choose which ones you think they can understand).

6. "Mama Bear Apologetics" by Hilary Morgan Ferrer (also her guide to sexuality) is a great book to help understand the cultural lies of our time and how the devil is trying to confuse us with things like linguistic theft where words are redefined to mean something completely different than their true meaning.

7. "Woke Injustice" by Bryan Osborn is another great book to help Christian parents learn how to influence the culture instead of having the culture influence us: “Dear Christian, we will never influence this culture for Christ by abandoning God’s Word or by abandoning the culture. Rather, we lovingly confront this culture for Christ with the transforming truth of the Word of the living God. Only by boldly standing on Scripture can we effectively engage this culture and be the salt and light God has called us to be.” – Bryan Osborn, Woke Injustice: A Biblical Response to Critical Race. Theory, (New Life Press, 2024), 145.

8. "Toxic Empathy" by Allie Beth Stuckey teaches how progressives exploit Christian compassion. “That’s the danger of being led by empathy rather than by truth-filled love. You latch on to what sounds good and feels good rather than what is good, often to the detriment of the very people you think you’re trying to help.” –Allie Beth Stuckey, Toxic Empathy, (Sentinel, 2024), p. xxv-xxvi

9. "Scientific Facts in the Bible" by Ray Comfort is a great little book that talks about how many scientific theories were explained in the Bible before they were even "discovered" by scientists. The water cycle, air mass, the second law of thermodynamics, and many more. This book squashes the idea that the Bible and science are at odds as many of the skeptics believe!

10. "The Way of the Master" by Ray Comfort (plus the kid's version) is one of my favorite books! This book radically changed my life back when I was in my 20s and took this evangelism class. Learn how to effectively share your faith and lead others to Christ by using the law (showing people their need for a Savior) to bring conviction before sharing the cure of the gospel. The kid's version is also great as it's basically two books in one - one for younger children and one for older children.

11. "The Fallacy Detectives" by Nathaniel Bluedorn & Hans Bluedorn helps your children learn to recognize logical fallacies in arguments such as self-refuting statements that are dead on arrival. This is an important skill for our children to learn so they will not be led astray by a bad argument and so they will learn not to use faulty arguments themselves.

12. "Climate Change for Kids" by Ken Ham and Jessica Deford teaches children about the lie of climate change (or global warming). They talk about how the earth has natural weather cycles of warming and cooling. They also describe how people use "climate change" to try to instill fear and make money. Some even go as far as promoting the worship of creation over the Creator. I love how Ken and Jessica use Scripture to counter the lies and teach the truth that we do not need to fear because, "While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease."-Genesis 8:22

13. "Training Godly Warriors" by Kelsea Studebaker (me). In this book I help parents take their children through what I like to call spiritual basic training. Here they learn discipline training, weapons training, identifying the enemy's tactics, combat skills, and more. There is also a companion resource with activity pages to take your children through a 30-day spiritual basic training unit.

14. "The Answers Kids Series" by Ken Ham is a series of small books with questions that children have asked about creation and other related topics. I like these books because you can easily do one question a day in 5 minutes to give your children more ammo to defend their faith.

15. "Creation to Babel" by Ken Ham is an excellent commentary on Genesis 1-11. We have been using this book as a devotional at night. We read through several pages each night and discuss them with our children. We are learning all kinds of ways to defend the authority of God's Word starting at its foundation in Genesis.

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16. "The Evidence Bible" by Ray Comfort is a great tool to learn how to defend your faith and learn to witness to people of different religions. This Bible uses the New King James Version.

17. "Cool Critters of the Ice Age" by Buddy Davis is a great children's book to teach about the Ice Age that occurred after the worldwide flood. This book helps explain how the conditions of the flood would have led to an ice age.

Bonus: My Favorite YouTube Channels for Teaching Apologetics

1. Expedition Bible by Joel Kramer - this is an amazing YouTube channel where archaeologist Joel Kramer travels to biblical sites and shows how archaeology (including many artifacts from secular sources) confirms the biblical accounts.

2. Wes Huff - an expert in ancient manuscripts shows how the Bible has not changed over time and explains what textual variants are an how they do not impact the reliability of Scripture.

3. Living Waters - this is my all-time favorite YouTube channel! Ray Comfort and his team teach you how to share the gospel and speak to the conscience rather than the intellect.

4. Answers in Genesis - tons of awesome videos on scientific apologetics and more!

   
   

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