Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Host: Greg Koukl Commentary: Simplifying Christmas (00:00) Commentary: Making a Meaningful Christmas (01:00) Commentary: Planning Christmas Intentionally (01:44) Commentary: Book Recommendations (02:00) Caller/topic: 1. Does the fossil evidence support evolution? (00:27) 2. Understanding Hebrews 9 (00:39) 3. Does Jesus still have a physical body? (00:51) 4. Can someone be saved and unrepentant over a particular sin? (01:21) 5. How do you prove the existence of immaterial objects? (02:31) 6. Is God pro-life if He takes life? (02:50)

Host: Greg Koukl Commentary: French Former Atheist Naturalist become Christian (00:00) Commentary: Can You Challenge an Atheist? (01:00) Commentary: Deciding Where to God with Ministry (02:00) Caller/topic: 1. What about Seventh Day Adventism? (01:27) 2. Does God determine the time and place of our birth? (01:40) 3. What is the timeline of the creation of man? (01:54) 4. Is planning for retirement contrary to Matthew 6:26? (01:23) 5. Do you think determinism is true? (01:32) 6. If Jesus died for everyone, is everyone going to Heaven? (01:45) 7. Did Jesus have a body before His birth? (02:20) 8. Why is homosexual desire wrong? (02:36) 9. Does infant baptism give false sense of security of salvation? (02:53)

Host: Greg Koukl Commentary: Facing Danger (00:00) Commentary: Lord, Fight for Me (01:00) Commentary: Do Kids Need Moms and Dads? (02:00) Caller/topic: 1. Did demons possess people in order to escape from Hell? (00:22) 2. Can we repent after death? Is annihilationism a biblical idea? (00:26) 3. Do you think governments should employ a non-aggression principle? (00:39) 4. Should a Christian work in a bar? (00:48) 5. Is it a good idea for a layperson to get a ministerial license in order to perform a wedding ceremony? (00:51) 6. How do you respond tactically to a bad idea that has emotional power? (01:17) 7. How is it best to help homeless people on the street? (01:41) 8. Is the old earth view nearly heretical? (02:10) 9. Will we have the ability to sin in Heaven? (02:26) 10. Did Jesus lose His divine nature on the cross? (02:37) 11. Are evolution deniers hanging their hope on bad science? (02:46)

Host: Greg Koukl Commentary: European Trip Teaching Christians (00:00:00) Commentary: Talking with Atheists on Unbelievable (01:00:10) Commentary: Why Is God Hidden? (02:00:10) Caller/topic: 1. What's the difference between believing "in" and believing "that"? (00:25:29) 2. How do you deal with a critic who likes to do a "data dump" and ask you to respond? (00:42:26) 3. How do you deal with anti-intellectualism in the church? (01:19:34) 4. How do you answer the possibility of same-sex couples reproducing? (01:46:16) 5. Is Biblical inerrancy circular reasoning? (02:11:23) 6. How do you answer atheists who quote the Bible to challenge you? (02:25:53) 7. Should we forgive someone who is unrepentant? (02:41:24) 8. How can you tell when something in the Old Testament is metaphorical? (02:51:33) 9. How do you talk with another Christian who disagrees with you? (02:54:55)

Guest Host: J. Warner Wallace Guest: James Boccado - Unsilenced: Giving Voice to the Gospel (00:00:00) Commentary: Jumping the Hurdles to Sharing the Gospel (01:00:11) Commentary: John Shelby Spong's Presuppositions (01:08:15) Commentary: Why Students Leave the Faith (02:00:11) Caller/Topic: 1. How do you reconcile perseverance of the saints and people who fall away? (01:21:43) 2. How do you answer emotional objections to the Gospel? (01:39:37) 3. How do you cultivate contentment with God's will? (01:50:32) 4. More God, less crime? (02:22:23) 5. Simonry - Using Christianity for twisted purposes (02:43:07) 6. What is the Biblical ethic of our responsibility to creation? (02:45:16)

Guest Host: J. Warner Wallace Commentary: Training the Next Generation of Christians (00:00:00) Commentary: When Evangelism Looks Like a Protest (01:00:12) Commentary: Why Something Comes from Nothing (01:19:17) Commentary: John Shelby Spong on John (01:42:30) Guest: Alex McFarland - 10 Most Common Objections to Christianity (02:00:11) Caller/Topic: 1. What about new discoveries of New Testament fragments? (00:19:52) 2. How does the witness of the Holy Spirit work? (00:24:25) 3. Why is Jesus praised in Revelation 5? (00:41:05) 4. Science may yet prove evolution. (00:50:37)

Host: Greg Koukl Guest: Stephen Meyer - Darwin's Doubt (00:00:00) Caller/topic: 1. How is the testimony of the Holy Spirit different than what Mormons believe? (01:02:01) 2. Why are 2 Kings 19 and Isaiah 37 identical? Is that an argument against the reliability of the Bible? (01:29:00) 3. Can a Christian be a Christian and pro-abortion? (01:41:00) 4. Is equal rights for same-sex couples a social good? 02:00:39) 5. How do Christians draw lines of decency for music and art? (02:09:19) 6. Does God hate anyone? (02:23:56) 7. How do you respond to the God-world argument? (02:36:38) 8. How can prayer affect free will? (02:45:34) 9. Can God work through direct as well as indirect means? (02:52:43)

Host: Greg Koukl Commentary: Bible Verses Taken Out of Context: Jeremiah 29:11 (00:00:00) Commentary: What Does "Growing Up" Mean? (01:00:12) Commentary: Is Same-sex Attraction Genetic? (02:00:12) Caller/topic: 1. What do you make of Satan in Genesis 3? (00:31:52) 2. Challenging the first premise of the Kalam Cosmological argument (00:35:59) 3. Should we picket pro-abortion churches? (00:46:51) 4. Why did God create Satan? (01:19:29) 5. What do you think of "In the Beginning We Misunderstood"? (01:35:10) 6. Can you recommend books on hermeneutics? (01:45:22) 7. God put thoughts in Nehemiah's mind. (01:54:00) 8. How do you evaluate modesty in art? (02:20:43) 9. How do you deal with people who believe in hearing God's voice? (02:32:15) 10. How can the Bible be inerrant if Lot is called a righteous man - a man who had sex with his daughters? (02:50:18)

Host: Greg Koukl Commentary: Tornadoes and the Problem of Evil (00:00:00) Commentary: Same-sex Marriage Q&A (01:00:12) Commentary: The Right to Love (02:00:11) Caller/topic: 1. How is reformed theology related to replacement and covenant theology? (00:23:20) 2. Is there proof for common descent? (00:37:07) 3. Why do Christians care about legislating on same-sex marriage and not other sins? (00:51:06) 4. What should our response be to third-party claims of miracles? (01:09:28) 5. How can we explain Old Testament slavery to critics? (01:32:39) 6. WHat are the limits of using tactics? (01:45:12) 7. Do you know of any street-preaching ministries that use tactics? (02:06:40) 8. How do you reconcile sanctification and faith alone? (02:20:46) 9. How do we distinguish interpreting and applying the Bible? (02:44:31)

Host: Greg Koukl Commentary: Boy Scouts & Discrimination (00:00:00) Commentary: Pope's Comments: Common Ground with Atheists? (01:00:11) Guest: JP Moreland (02:00:10) Caller/topic: 1. What spiritual power do Christians have? (00:22:32) 2. Are legal and religious marriage the same thing? (00:45:30) 3. How do we reconcile financial planning and worrying about the future? (01:24:28) 4. Apologetics and satire (01:29:26) 5. Christians and self-defense (01:43:29) 6. What was the outcome of your debate with John Baker? (01:51:07)

Host: Greg Koukl Commentary: Praying at a Restaurant (00:00:00) Commentary: Conservationism versus Environmentalism (01:00:12) Commentary: How Same-sex Marriage Hurts Others (02:00:10) Caller/topic: 1. What do you think of college street preachers? (00:21:19) 2. What is the milk referred to in Hebrews 5:11? (00:40:49) 3. What is death before the Fall? (00:55:43) 4. Do we need to "forgive God"? (01:12:11) 5. What is biblical faith? (01:28:09) 6. Old Testament vs. New Testament prophets (01:41:50) 7. Is clearing the mind antithetical to Christianity? (02:13:39) 8. Is Jesus 100% God in quantity or quality? (02:25:27) 9. What are your criticisms of monism? (02:40:57) 10. Did God ask David to sin? (02:51:17)

Host: Greg Koukl Commentary: Gosnell Murdered Babies, Not Fetuses (00:00:00)   Caller/topic: 1. How do Christians remain engaged in the world without becoming like the world? (00:25:33) 2. Was there animal death before the Fall? (00:46:17) 3. What do you think of the Alpha Course? (01:03:21) 4. What does Isaiah 65 mean by a new Heaven and new Earth? (01:10:50) 5. Explain the theological and biblical shift from Judaism to Christianity. (01:20:00) 6. Could the Gosnell case shift the tide for the pro-life movement? (01:41;47) 7. Is forgiveness conditional? (02:06:35) 8. What scientific conclusions can we draw from Genesis 1? (02:21:59) 9. Does Genesis 4:6-7 teach libertarian freedom to choose God? (02:27:11) 10. Do you think women pastors are biblical? (02:36:26) 11. What's the next step for training after Tactics? (02:46:25) 12. How do you answer when someone says the slipper-slope of same-sex marriage doesn't bother them? (02:54:58)

Host: Greg Koukl Caller/Topic: 1. How did you start in ministry? (00:00:00) 2. is the Old Testament law for Christians? (00:21:12) 3. Was Adam created on the sixth day? (00:39:21) 4. Is using evidence putting evidence above God? (00:44:08) 5. Can you recommend books for Old Testament and New Testament studies? (00:59:47) 6. Advice about homeschooling (01:19:04) 7. Should a Calvinist go to an Arminian church? (01:38:22) 8. What do you think of what a CEO said about same-sex marriage? (01:45:33) 9. Should Christians take government aid? (01:57:50) 10. Should we have different standards on same-sex marriage for Christians and secular people? (02:12:55) 11. What to witness to a friend whose mom committed suicide? (02:35:10) 12. What do you think of the family integrated church movement? (02:39:39)

Host: Greg Koukl Commentary: Last Day Live on KBRT (00:00:00) Commentary: Emerging Churches (00:56:08) Commentary: Seeker Churches (01:52:00) Caller/topic: 1. Where do you go right after you die? (00:25:03) 2. Is 1 John 5:7-8 in the original text? (00:35:55) 3. What do you think of the “Hebrew Rights” movement? (00:47:53) 4. A New Testament quotation of an Old Testament verse is wrong. (01:23:12) 5. Do you have to share the Gospel to persuade someone against abortion? (01:38:52) 6. What do we mean by “the Bible is inspired”? (02:13:40) 7. Textual criticism of controversial passages (02:22:07) 8. Where do people get the idea of prophetic directions for their lives? (02:32:17) 9. Should someone stay involved in the Boy Scouts if they accept homosexual leaders? (02:40:22)

Host: Greg Koukl (two hour program) Commentary: Bible Verses Out of Context: Led by the Spirit (00:00:00) Commentary: Does the Pro-life Movement Need a New Strategy? (00:56:13) Caller/Topic: 1. You don’t believe the Bible’s promises? (00:25:02) 2. How can Jesus be the Savior of all and some at the same time? (00:50:51) 3. Explain Matthew 16:19 binding and loosing (01:18:28) 4. Help responding to aberrant religious group (01:29:19) 5. Did Jesus have to be a male descendent of David’s to be heir? (01:40:07) 6. Roman Catholic view of the Bible as product of the church (01:47:13)