#STRask
Religion & Spirituality Podcas
Stand to Reason’s Greg Koukl and Amy Hall answer questions on ethics, theology, apologetics, and culture from a Christian perspective. Submit your questions on Twitter using the hashtag #STRask.
Location:
United States
Description:
Stand to Reason’s Greg Koukl and Amy Hall answer questions on ethics, theology, apologetics, and culture from a Christian perspective. Submit your questions on Twitter using the hashtag #STRask.
Language:
English
Website:
https://str.org
Episodes
Is an Embryo a Baby?
5/2/2024
Questions about whether the fact that you can freeze an embryo but not a baby proves an embryo isn’t a baby and whether it would be wrong to use IVF with genetic testing to avoid carrying a baby with an inherited genetic disorder that always results in stillbirth.
Duration:00:26:43
How Will Jesus Sit at the Right Hand of God if He Is God?
4/29/2024
Questions about what the Bible means when it says Jesus will sit at the right hand of God if Jesus is God and why the writers of the Synoptic Gospels didn’t write about Jesus claiming to be God.
Duration:00:22:13
How Should I Respond to Someone Who Is Word-Faith and Believes in a Second Baptism of the Holy Spirit?
4/25/2024
Questions about how to respond to someone who is Word-Faith and believes in a second baptism of the Holy Spirit and what the Bible is saying about how we experience the Spirit when it says we know we’re in Christ because he has given us of his Spirit.
Duration:00:27:11
How Should a Dad Talk to His Children about Attending Their Mom’s Same-Sex Wedding?
4/22/2024
Questions about how a dad should talk to his children about attending their mom’s same-sex wedding, how a veterinarian should respond if someone who suffers from species confusion asks for medical care, and how to manage anger when arguing for the lives of the unborn.
Duration:00:21:51
What Should I Do if I Don’t Know How to Respond to Someone’s Answer to My Question?
4/18/2024
Questions about what to do when you don’t know how to respond to someone’s answer to your question and you feel unsafe in the conversation and how to go about witnessing to and discipling a transexual who is open to following Christ but has practical concerns.
Duration:00:25:32
Before You Argue for God from the Existence of Evil, You Have to Prove Evil Exists
4/15/2024
Questions about the need to prove evil exists before arguing for the existence of God from the existence of evil and what to say to an eleven-year-old boy who lost his dad and brother to a lightning strike that he survived.
Duration:00:30:09
Is It Okay to Be Part of a Music Ministry That’s Led by a Professing Mormon?
4/11/2024
Questions about whether it’s okay to be part of a music ministry that’s led by a professing Mormon, whether a woman should date a man who isn’t as spiritual mature as she is or doesn’t take his faith as seriously, and the misuse of Matthew 5:38–42 to manipulate others.
Duration:00:21:15
How Can I Stay Balanced in My Belief That God Is Always Good to His Children?
4/8/2024
Questions about believing God is always good to his children while rejecting prosperity teaching, how God can be jealous if he is love and love is not jealous, and whether God changing his mind in Exodus 32 indicates he gained knowledge and is not all-knowing.
Duration:00:22:55
Has Apologetics Had a Positive Effect on Our Culture?
4/4/2024
Questions about whether apologetics has had a positive effect on people and our culture, whether the longtime privatization of our Christian faith has led to churches becoming apathetic to the culture, and C.S. Lewis and Francis Schaeffer book recommendations.
Duration:00:26:15
How Can I Articulate the Beauty of the Christian Worldview in a Nutshell?
4/1/2024
Questions about how to articulate the beauty of the Christian worldview in a nutshell and whether “separation of church and state” requires public school teachers to not reference the Bible and government employees to remove anything Bible related from their offices.
Duration:00:25:45
How Do I Know if I’m a Gardener or a Harvester?
3/28/2024
Questions about how to know if we’re a “gardener” or a “harvester,” how to engage an apathetic person who says “I don’t know” to everything, and whether Christians are making an unfalsifiable claim and fruitlessly discussing something that can’t be proven or disproven.
Duration:00:20:32
How Can I Start Conversations with Postmodernists about the Need for Repentance?
3/25/2024
Questions about how to start conversations with postmodernists about the need for repentance and what question one can use to put a stone in the shoe of a Buddhist friend.
Duration:00:24:41
What Constitutes a Marriage?
3/21/2024
Questions about what constitutes a marriage, at what point God considers a committed relationship to be a marriage, whether the freedom to pursue marriage is a natural right (and what restrictions would be inappropriate), and how to decline an invitation to an unbiblical wedding.
Duration:00:24:35
How Can I Reconcile Romans 6:12–14 with Romans 7:21–25?
3/18/2024
Questions about how to reconcile Romans 6:12–14 (where Paul talks about victory over sins) with Romans 7:21–25 (where Paul bemoans sins he still commits) and why Paul uses the Mosaic Law as a starting point for moral instruction if believers aren’t under any part of the Law.
Duration:00:31:17
Is There Something I Can Do to Develop Love for Christ if I Am Emotionally Detached?
3/14/2024
Questions about whether there is something a person can do to develop love for Christ if they are emotionally detached and whether one should stay in a church that is slowly drifting away from historic Christianity.
Duration:00:24:11
Why Do Atheists Get Angry When I Bring up Belief in God?
3/11/2024
Questions about why atheists get angry when someone brings up belief in God, how to reconcile God’s sovereignty and Satan being the prince of the world, and why the Lord’s Prayer says, “Lead us not into temptation,” when God would never lead us into temptation.
Duration:00:20:11
Are We Only Interpreting the Bible This Way Because of Our Post-Enlightenment Way of Thinking?
3/7/2024
Questions about whether we’re only interpreting the Bible according to authorial intent because of our post-Enlightenment way of thinking and whether Zephaniah 3:17 is being taken out of context when someone takes comfort in it.
Duration:00:24:40
How Can We Defend the Claim That Marriage Was Created by God?
3/4/2024
Questions about how to defend the claim that marriage was created by God and what to say to someone who doesn’t want her daughter to grow up Christian because she thinks Christianity is harmful to women.
Duration:00:32:17
Does the Existence of Evil Point to the Existence of Multiple Gods?
2/29/2024
Questions about whether the existence of evil points to the existence of multiple gods and why God needs to slowly improve our character here on earth if he’s going to make every Christian sinless at the resurrection regardless of how long each one was a Christian.
Duration:00:20:33
How Can I Make Sure I Will Honestly Consider People’s Arguments?
2/26/2024
Questions about how to make sure we will honestly consider people’s arguments and why God doesn’t give more evidence to the “non-resistant non-believers” who are seeking truth.
Duration:00:28:21