Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg talks about a conversation he had with his cardiologist about intelligent design, then he answers questions about using Psalm 139 in a pro-life defense, why God sends people to Hell, whether it’s ever okay to lie, and what to say to a Catholic friend. Topics: Mentioned on the Show: Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the UniverseJustice for AllStreet Smarts: Using Questions to Answer Christianity’s Toughest ChallengesSubmit a question Related Links: The Question That Stops Christians in Their TracksAm I Going to Hell?

Greg answers questions about how to respond to someone who’s struggling with how a good God could let her husband suffer, how to know if something is objectively a sin, particularly when it comes to polygamy, and how to pray when asked at a family dinner where nobody is a believer. Topics: Mentioned on the Show: The Problem of PainStreet Smarts: Using Questions to Answer Christianity’s Toughest ChallengesConfessions of a French Atheist: How God Hijacked My Quest to Disprove the Christian Faith Related Links: What You Need to Know about Evil and SufferingIf God Is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and EvilWhat Would Polygamy Do to Society?Does God Endorse Polygamy?Polygamy in the Bible Is Not Prescriptive

Greg answers questions about whether the second law of thermodynamics is a good argument against evolution, pebbles to put in the shoe of a progressive Christian, whether he’s getting the Bible and science wrong, and how to explain the credibility of the resurrection. Topics: Mentioned on the Show: STR OutpostsAnother Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive ChristianityThe Deconstruction of Christianity: What It Is, Why It’s Destructive, and How to RespondThe Story of Reality: How the World Began, How It Ends, and Everything Important that Happens in BetweenThe Case for the Resurrection of Jesus Related Links: The Legend of the Social Justice JesusCan We Trust the Gospels?

Greg chats with J. Warner Wallace and his son Jimmy about their new graphic novel, Case Files: Murder and Meaning. Topics: Mentioned on the Show: Case Files Vol. I: Murder and MeaningCold-Case Christianity website

Greg talks about the danger of basing your identity on anything that can change, then he answers questions about speaking against a transgender bill in Colorado, the idea that we shouldn’t judge, disagreeing well with people, and having better recall in conversations. Topics: Mentioned on the Show: CrossExamined Instructor AcademyIrreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our DaughtersGreg’s Message to His School Board Regarding Proposed Sex Ed Curriculum

Greg talks to callers about the rebellion of angels in Genesis 6, how to respond to a naturalism-of-the-gaps argument, how to use Shedd’s Dogmatics, whether an abandoned spouse can remarry, and whether human beings are responsible for the salvation of others. Topics: Mentioned on the Show: Were the sons of God in Genesis 6 fallen angels? Who were the Nephilim?The Privileged Planet (20th Anniversary Edition): How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for DiscoverySTR U Online TrainingThe Design of Life DVD Collection: Volumes 1–3Dogmatic TheologyWhat the Bible Says about Divorce and Remarriage Related Links: God of the Gaps?

Greg reminds Christians to be mindful of their character when making their case, then he answers questions about Jesus’ prayer to “forgive them, for they know not what they do” and how we know the Protestant canon is the correct canon. Topics: Mentioned on the Show: Reality Student Apologetics ConferenceSTR U Online TrainingThe New Testament Canon: Which Books and Why?

Greg talks about the House of David series, then he answers questions about why someone should read the Bible rather than the Quran or the Book of Mormon, how God stirs our hearts to do things, and whether or not one category of the Old Testament Law still applies to us. Topics: Mentioned on the Show: Reality Student Apologetics ConferenceHouse of DavidThe Story of Reality: How the World Began, How It Ends, and Everything Important that Happens in BetweenDoes God Whisper? Part 1Part 2Part 3 Related Links: Where Did These Minimal Facts about the Resurrection Come From?How Does the Old Testament Law Apply to Christians Today?Why We’re Not Under the Mosaic LawShould Followers of Christ Observe the Torah?The Law Is Good

Greg talks to author Rod Dreher about the soft totalitarianism he describes in Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents, the Christians who resisted that totalitarianism, and the new documentary series based on the book. Topics: Mentioned on the Show: Live Not by LiesLive Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian DissidentsFreedom FadingBrave New WorldThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi GermanyThe Origins of TotalitarianismThe Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud Related Links: We Need Confidence to Endure

Greg talks to callers about how we know people didn’t take things out of the Bible, whether people who die young can earn eternal rewards, whether Jesus appeared to Mary after his resurrection, dealing with an abusive parent, and why more pastors don’t believe in an old earth. Topics: Mentioned on the Show: Reality Student Apologetics Conference

Greg reflects on the futility of man-based idealism, then he answers questions about why he isn’t Eastern Orthodox and how to show that philosophical materialism isn’t supported by materialism itself. Topics: Mentioned on the Show: Reality Student Apologetics ConferenceA Complete Unknown

Greg answers questions from callers about the likelihood that we’re living in a simulation, using the laws of nature to argue against evolution, and recommendations for a young man starting out in apologetics. Topics: Mentioned on the Show: Bloom Where You’re PlantedTactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions Related Links: For the Student Who Wants to Be a Christian Apologist

Greg talks about recent examples of moral insanity in California and England, then he answers questions about whether apostasy can happen unknowingly and how Greg comes up with his Street-Smarts-style questions. Topics: Mentioned on the Show: California ballot measure named after Luigi Mangione would make it illegal to ‘delay, deny’ healthcare coverage: ‘Crazy’Toddler is kicked out of nursery ‘for being transphobic’ - as families blast school’s ‘insanity’STR U Online TrainingReality Student Apologetics Conference#STRask podcastGod’s Super-Apostles: Encountering the Worldwide Prophets and Apostles MovementStreet Smarts: Using Questions to Answer Christianity’s Toughest Challenges

Greg answers questions about why there are so many different denominations, how to help someone who prayed a prayer as a child but doesn’t seem to be following Jesus, people saying, “Oh my God,” and knowledge of Jesus through existential experience. Topics: Mentioned on the Show: Upcoming eventsReality Student Apologetics ConferenceThe Magic PrayerWhy the “Sinner’s Prayer” Has Me Concerned...and a Biblical AlternativeThe Invisible Man Related Links: Three Reasons Why People Interpret the Bible Differently

Greg talks about the meaning of the “Word of God” in Acts, then he warns against holding grudges and answers questions about requiring repentance before forgiveness, whether Jesus will have the only scars in Heaven, and making sense of the origin of evil as a Calvinist. Topics: Mentioned on the Show: Dogmatic Theology Related Links: The Sin of Forgiveness?How Can We Condemn Evil if God Is Sovereign?

Greg talks to Sean McDowell about new information included in the second edition of his book, The Fate of the Apostles: Examining the Martyrdom Accounts of the Closest Followers of Jesus. Topics: Mentioned on the Show: The Fate of the Apostles: Examining the Martyrdom Accounts of the Closest Followers of Jesus (Second Edition)Sean McDowell’s website Related Links: Problems for Hallucination Theories of the Resurrection

Greg explains that the first rule of prayer is to pray and the first rule of Bible reading is to read, then he answers questions about what it means to “pray about it,” overcoming a tendency to freeze up when asked a question, mistakenly claiming a promise, and finding fellowship. Topics: Mentioned on the Show: Submit a questionStreet Smarts: Using Questions to Answer Christianity’s Toughest ChallengesReality Student Apologetics Conference Related Links: Making Sense of Unanswered Prayer

Greg answers a question about why Provisionists tend to be so venomous towards Calvinism and gives some of his thoughts on Provisionism, then he talks to a caller about reasons why he rejects evolution. Topics: Mentioned on the Show: Desert Apologetics ConferenceGrace Defined and Defended: What a 400-Year-Old Confession Teaches Us about Sin, Salvation, and the Sovereignty of GodReturn of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the UniverseTheistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique Related Links: Theistic Evolution: Drifting toward DarwinWhy Intelligent Design Is an Argument from Knowledge, Not Ignorance

Greg talks to Jonathan Morrow, creator of the Refresh Roadmap online course, about strategies to help parents navigate screen time and social media with their kids. Topics: Mentioned on the Show: Jonathan Morrow’s websiteRefresh Roadmap: A Practical Guide for Parents to Navigate Screen Time and Social Media with ConfidenceImpact 360The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Greg talks about four skills to instill in your kids to increase their maturity, then he answers questions about God being in A-theory time, identifying as sinners vs. saints, responding to someone who attributes everything to “the universe,” and disagreement in the early church. Topics: Mentioned on the Show: Reality Student Apologetics ConferenceThe Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions