Videos from our Apologetics Conference in Laredo, Texas are now online here.

On Nov. 4, 2023, we commemorated Probe’s 50th Anniversary with a celebration banquet at Dallas’ Renaissance Hotel. We are so very grateful for God’s goodness and supernatural enabling to serve Him this half-century by sharing biblical worldview and apologetics worldwide!

200 friends gathered in the Malachite Showroom to help us celebrate God’s goodness over 50 years of ministry.

Probe President Kerby Anderson read an official proclamation honoring Probe from Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

We were blessed to share video and written endorsements, like this one from former Moody Bible Institute President Erwin Lutzer, who also wrote a book for us.

Dr. Ray Bohlin, a 48-year veteran of Probe and former president of the ministry, presented an overview of what we’ve been able to do in our 50 years. See a short list below.

The three children of Probe’s co-founder, Jimmy Williams—Trey, Todd and Leslie—shared powerful memories of their amazing parents and growing up along with Probe.

Dr. Jim Thames, representing Dallas Theological Seminary, surprised Kerby with a Lifetime Achievement Award from DTS as our chairman of the board, Parker Eng, documented the award.

We were especially honored to be joined by our beloved June Hunt and her friend Kathy. When June founded the Hope Center, the beautiful retreat lodge-like office building housing scores of Christian ministries, she invited Probe to be one of the first to office there.

 

Some of what Dr. Ray Bohlin shared of the past 50 years: Through our Christian Update Forums, we brought biblical worldview to college classrooms as guest lecturers on more than 50 campuses. At least through 1980, we spoke in over 1,600 classrooms, to 70,000 students, with 70% positive to only 7% negative comments. Then we got canceled by administrations who didn’t want their students exposed to truth. So we launched a radio outreach. Our weekly radio program, still airing after 40 years, has had tens of millions of listeners. They are available as 12-minute podcasts on Probe.org. We launched a second conversational podcast, Head & Heart, in 2020. Our website continues to have a literal worldwide impact, being visited by 193 (out of 195) countries in the past year. We offer over 2000 articles and answers to email. (You might say we were the original “Got Questions.org”?) Our staff has taught on every continent except Antarctica (the penguins aren’t interested). We’ve taught 180 Mind Games conferences, both weekend and week-long camps. As the world gets darker and the church becomes more like the world than the Word, the need for what Probe offers is greater than ever.

Join us for the next Probe Live event

Thursday, December 1, 2022
7:00 p.m.
The Hope Center, Plano TX

We encounter postmodern thinking when we share the gospel and then hear, “That’s your truth, but it’s not my truth.” Moral relativism surfaces when someone says, “That may be your morality, but it’s not my morality,” or “Who are you to say abortion or homosexuality is wrong?” And progressive Christians deny absolute moral truth and therefore question the fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith.

Probe Ministries President Kerby Anderson will provide an overview of these faulty ways of thinking and answer questions from the audience.

We will record this message but not live stream it. 

The problem of why God allows pain and evil has been the biggest obstacle to faith for thousands of years. Sue Bohlin, living with a lifelong disability, provides both philosophical and practical answers to this question.

PROBE FB LIVE Sue Bohlin 2022.mp4 from AGAPE MEDIA on Vimeo.

Probe Live Presents “Climate Change and the Green New Deal”

Dr. Ray Bohlin is Vice-President of Vision Outreach for Probe Ministries. A lifelong conservationist with a deep commitment to a biblical perspective on environmentalism, Dr. Bohlin has been closely following the Climate Change issue for over 20 years. In this public lecture he presented lots of charts and graphs showing there’s no reason to be worried about a climate catastrophe. PDF of Dr. Bohlin’s Slides: Climate Change – Green New Deal PDF

 

Probe Live presents “Woke Theology”

Kerby Anderson is president of Probe Ministries and host of the live nationwide Christian talk radio show “Point of View.”

He addresses important questions:

• Is the social justice movement hijacking the gospel?
• What is all the fuss over Critical Race Theory? Where did that come from?
• What about White Fragility? What is that exactly?

The free booklets Kerby mentioned are available here: probe.org/kerby-anderson-booklets/

And be sure to check out the Head & Heart Podcast about Woke Theology here: probe.org/podcasts-and-messages/head-heart-podcasts/

See previous Probe Live talks here: probe.org/probe-live-videos/

Probe Live — November 18, 2021

God’s good gift of gender—male and female—has never been more broken or confused. Sue Bohlin brings the clarity of biblical worldview thinking to this issue with grace and truth.

 

There was a problem with part of the audio recording on the video, but here is the back-up audio recording: www.ministeriosprobe.org/mp3s/GenderConfusion_11-18-21.mp3 Powerpoint Slides: PDF form: app.box.com/s/iv7z9j1ao9thnn2syfwrajh94pjrxxxm PPT form: app.box.com/s/iv7z9j1ao9thnn2syfwrajh94pjrxxxm

 

At our Probe Live Event on September 18, 2021, Probe Vice-President and Discovery Institute fellow Dr. Ray Bohlin presented fascinating evidence for Intelligent Design from Dr. Stephen Meyer’s book Return of the God Hypothesis.

 

Read Dr. Bohlin’s article providing an overview of the book: Return of the God Hypothesis for Regular People

 

We are delighted to announce the launch of a second podcast!

Head & Heart by Probe Ministries is a conversation between Probe Staff and guests related to Christian apologetics, worldview, and faith for a 21st century Christian. It provides a helpful perspective aimed at transformation of the heart.

Paul Rutherford hosts this exciting new resource aimed at connecting the head and the heart. We don’t just offer information—we want to provide the “so what” to impact your relationship with God through Jesus.

New episodes will be released periodically, at least once a month. You can subscribe on Apple, Google, and Stitcher.

Check out all the episode choices here: probe.org/podcasts-and-messages/2020-head-heart-podcasts/

Here’s the podcast address: www.ministeriosprobe.org/head-heart-podcast.xml

Probe Ministries hosted a presentation by Kerby Anderson on “Social Media, You and Your Family” on October 16, 2018 at the Hope Center in Plano, Texas. All attendees received a free copy of the new book Arts, Media, and Culture: A Biblical Point of View. (You can order it from our online store here.)

You can download a recording of Kerby’s message here.

We are all the beneficiaries of the information on the Internet. But scientists have also been able to document that our digital devices and social media are altering the way we think and altering our ability to concentrate.

As one psychologist at Tufts University explains, “We are not only what we read. We are how we read.” The style of reading on the Internet is different and profoundly changing the way we read and acquire information. Our brains are able to reprogram themselves on the fly through a process called “neuroplasticity.”

There is a crucial need for Christians to evaluate the impact of media in their lives. We need to develop discernment and pass those biblical principles to our children and grandchildren.

The new media represents an even greater threat to our discernment processes and can easily conform us to the world (Romans 12:2). Media is powerful tool to conform us to group think and thus to a secular worldview taking us captive to the false philosophies of the world (Colossians 2:8).

Let’s look at how we can harness social media to use for good while, at the same time, protecting ourselves and our children from potentially harmful effects.