Striving for Eternity Ministries

Striving for Eternity Ministries Listen to "The Most Important Message You Will Ever Hear" at http://strivingforeternity.org/ It provides resources and answers to many Biblical questions.

Striving for Eternity is a Christ-centered ministry focused on assisting Christians to have an eternal perspective on life. Striving for Eternity is dedicated to the striving in the Believer's life to live for eternity in mind and not for the temporal life.

08/28/2026

LIVE this Thursday from 8:00 to 10:00 PM ET at ApologeticsLive.com

For over a century, skeptics have pressed the same charge against Christianity: that Jesus of Nazareth promised to return within the lifetime of His own followers and never arrived. They point to His words, "this generation will not pass away until all these things take place," and they conclude that the central figure of the faith was a sincere but failed apocalyptic prophet. C. S. Lewis once called one of these sayings the most embarrassing verse in the Bible. If the objection stands, it is no small matter, for it strikes at the reliability of Jesus, the trustworthiness of Scripture, and the credibility of the Christian hope itself.

This week the question moves from monologue to a live, head-to-head debate. Crypto Shady and Twitchy Theology take opposing sides of the resolution, "Jesus was wrong about when He would return," with Andrew Rappaport serving as moderator to keep the exchange sharp, fair, and focused. Expect the hard texts to be on the table: Matthew 24:34, Matthew 16:28, and Matthew 10:23, along with the deeper questions the debate usually skips. Did Jesus predict the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, or is the Second Coming still ahead of us? What did He mean when He said not even the Son knew the day or the hour? And on what basis does anyone claim the authority to declare Jesus mistaken in the first place?

Whether you are a believer who has felt the weight of this problem, an honest skeptic who thinks it is the decisive refutation, or someone who simply wants to hear both sides argued in good faith, there is a place for you in the conversation. The live chat is open, and the moderator will bring your questions and challenges into the room. Join the debate this Thursday, August 27, 2026, from 8 to 10 PM EST at ApologeticsLive.com. Come to push back, come to weigh the arguments, or come simply to listen and learn.

08/21/2026

LIVE this Thursday from 8:00 to 10:00 PM ET at ApologeticsLive.com

We review some man-on-the-street interviews at a Christian camp on Christian theology, and it does not go so well.

08/07/2026

LIVE this Thursday from 8:00 to 10:00 PM ET at ApologeticsLive.com

A women's basketball league is, by definition, a wager that the word woman means something real and knowable. Yet in recent days, several WNBA coaches, asked plainly whether biological men belong in women's sports, have retreated to "I am not a scientist," while one head coach wore a "Trans Kids Belong" shirt and a team co-owner confronted two teenage fans for thanking a player who spoke up for girls. Fever coach Stephanie White declined to say she was educated enough to answer, and the controversy that began with a small fan sign has grown into a national argument over Caitlin Clark, Sophie Cunningham, and the future of the league. The spectacle exposes something deeper than a sports dispute: a culture that wants the category of woman without the Creator who defined it.

This episode uses the WNBA's very public unraveling as a live case study in worldview. Andrew will work through the reality and knowability of biological s*x, the meaning of male and female as the image of God, the intellectual cowardice of the "I am not a scientist" dodge, and why the movement that denies s*x still depends on the category it denies. Along the way he will engage the full landscape now swirling around the league — the landmark new labor agreement and its enormous pay increases, expansion and the rival Project B league, the celebrity economy around its biggest stars, and the collision between "inclusion" and "fairness" that neither side can ground without borrowing from the Christian worldview. The aim is not merely to win an argument about basketball, but to show that the debate itself only makes sense if God made us male and female.

Apologetics Live streams this Thursday, August 6, 2026, from 8–10 PM EST at ApologeticsLive.com. The first hour opens the topic, and then the lines open to everyone: believers sharpening their defense, skeptics with honest questions, and challengers who think the Christian position cannot stand. Bring your best objection, push back hard, or simply listen and learn — the invitation is open, and Andrew does not see the questions in advance.

07/31/2026

LIVE this Thursday from 8:00 to 10:00 PM EDT at ApologeticsLive.com

Can a doctrine be true if it undermines the very mind that believes it? Author Phil Bair thinks not, and he has written a nearly five-hundred-page case to prove it. In Calvin's Desperation, Bair argues that Calvinism rests on what he calls Exhaustive Divine Determinism — the claim that God foreordains every event, thought, and choice — and that this foundation collapses under its own weight, dragging human reason, moral responsibility, and even the goodness of God down with it. This week Andrew Rappaport, a confessional five-point Calvinist and presuppositional apologist, sits down with Bair for a direct and searching conversation about whether the Reformed doctrine of the sovereignty of God is the biblical gospel or a philosophical dead end.

The two will work through the questions that keep this debate alive: Does Calvinism truly teach that God determines all things, or is that a caricature? If every belief is decreed, can anyone claim to reason at all? Is God made the author of evil, or is there a coherent distinction between what He ordains and what He commits? What is human freedom, and does Scripture teach that fallen sinners are able or unable to turn to Christ apart from grace? Andrew and Phil will not agree, and that is the point. Listeners will hear the strongest form of the anti-Calvinist argument and the strongest Reformed answer, side by side, so they can weigh the matter for themselves.

Apologetics Live is unscripted and open to everyone. Believers wrestling with these doctrines, skeptics who suspect the whole debate exposes an incoherent God, and anyone with a hard question are all invited to join the stream and speak up. Come ready to ask, to push back, or simply to listen and learn. The conversation airs live Thursday, July 30, 2026, from 8–10 PM EST at ApologeticsLive.com. Bring your questions and your objections — no one is screened, and no challenge is off the table.

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