Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Host: Greg Koukl Guest: Alan Shlemon - Lebanese Trip (00:00) Commentary: Protecting Religious Freedom (02:00) Caller/topic: 1. How is compelling a woman to use her womb to keep another person alive different than compelling a woman to donate an organ to keep another person alive? (00:45) 2. What are defeaters for Christianity? (00:49) 3. Will keeping a Masonic sword allow bad spirits in their home? (01:01) 4. How do we apply the biblical principle of not being unequally yoked? (01:18) 5. How is the existence of the soul related to Christianity? (01:41) 6. How do you answer a friend who thinks all negative events are spiritual attacks? (02:17) 7. How to get a Tactics study group engaged in interaction? (02:42) 8. How is compelling a woman to use her womb to keep another person alive different than compelling a woman to donate an organ to keep another person alive? (02:52)

Host: Greg Koukl Commentary: What about Tattoos? (00:00) Commentary: Was Hitler a Christian? (01:00) Commentary: The Lost Cultural Understanding of Manhood (02:00) Caller/topic: 1. Is contraception immoral? (00:26) 2. What’s the biblical understanding of forgiveness? (00:48) 3. What does “trusting God” mean in practical terms? (01:21) 4. How can it be that people who commit the sins listed in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and Ephesians 5:5 can’t inherit the kingdom of God? (01:45) 5. Is there homosexuality in third world countries? (02:09) 6. What are the limitations of women teaching in the church? (02:24) 7. How can you say someone who had a tragic life and death is in Hell? (02:41)

Host: Greg Koukl Guest: Graham Veale - New Atheism: A Survival Guide (00:00) Commentary: Answering Bad Questions (01:00) Caller/topic: 1. How do you witness to a loved one who will ask what happened to their loved ones who died? (01:01) 2. Suggestion how Christian business owners can deal with same-sex marriage (01:20) 3. Apologetics doesn’t matter since it doesn’t have to do with salvation. (01:44) 4. Is culture leading the church? (02:19) 5. How do you answer questions Jehovah’s Witnesses ask? (02:42)

Host: Greg Koukl Commentary: Wear Your Faith on Your Sleeve (00:00) Commentary: Religion: Truth or Faith? (01:00) Commentary: Design’s “Tell” (02:00) Caller/topic: 1. Does God view unbelievers with grace or wrath? (00:22) 2. Can something without a beginning be defined? (00:40) 3. Should Christians participate in non-Christian weddings? (01:21) 4. What does it mean to pray without ceasing? (01:39) 5. Did Jesus experience the same temptations we do? (01:50) 6. How important is the Trinity when choosing a church? (02:15) 7. What is your opinion of popular forms of music in Christian contexts? (02:42) 8. Are Paradise and Heaven the same place? (02:50)

Host: Greg Koukl Commentary: Building Character and the Soul (00:00) Guest: JP Moreland - The Soul: How We Know It’s Real and Why It Matters (01:00) Caller/topic: 1. How can anyone be separated from God if He’s omnipresent? (00:22) 2. How can Christians engage the same-sex marriage issue? (00:31) 3. Why aren’t Christians pacifists? (00:45)

(Special 2 Hour Broadcast) Guest Host: Brett Kunkle Commentary: Helping Students Engage Their Faith and Others (00:00) Guest: Sean McDowell - Student Training (01:00) Caller/topic: 1. How should he decide about moving to the Middle East with his family? (00:23) 2. What makes gender? (00:34) 3. Does God hear the prayers of unbelievers? (00:46)

Host: Greg Koukl Commentary: Were You Ever an Unborn Child? (00:00) Commentary: Christian Is a Long Journey (01:00) Guest: Stephen Meyer - The Design Debate Update (02:00) Caller/topic: 1. How can a professional photographer address potential clients that would violate his conscience? (00:24) 2. Is the NT authentic for all times? (00:49) 3. Transgender surgery (01:10) 4. What does the Bible teach on the Lord’s Supper? (01:30) 5. What should he do with his occult literature? (01:42) 6. Does predisposition still require choice? (01:47) 7. Is it ethical to donate breast milk? (01:52)

(1 Hour Program) Host: Greg Koukl Commentary: Campus Discrimination Policy Collides with Itself (00:00) Caller/topic: 1. How should you respond to the spirit world? (00:21) 2. A judge confuses his role. (00:33) 3. Odd results of bad rhetoric. (00:40) 4. How do you discern the will of God? (00:45)

Host: Greg Koukl Commentary: Trip to Poland and European Mission Field (00:00) Commentary: Naturalism and Reality (01:00) Caller/topic: 1. Can evolution explain morality? (00:24) 2. Is it unconditional love to let your child be transgender? (00:48) 3. Thoughts on taking kids to a dangerous mission field? (01:21) 4. How do you avoid being too critical? (01:44) 5. If evolution explains ethics, is abortion a major wrong? (01:51) 6. How do you convince a Christian who gets their theology from personal revelation and visions? (02:02) 7. What can we do about immorality in society we feel helpless to change? (02:29) 8. Is there a distinction between same-sex marriage and gay marriage? (02:38) 9. What do you think of circumcision? (02:50)

(Special 2-Hour Broadcast) Guest Host: J. Warner Wallace Commentary: Jesus in the Qu’ran (00:00) Guest: Alex Chediak - Preparing Your Teen for College (01:00) Caller/topic: 1. Does someone have the right to die? (00:20) 2. How do you answer, There’s no such thing as sin? (00:45) 3. How do you know Christianity is true? (00:56)

Host: Greg Koukl Commentary: The Boundaries of Learning (00:00) Commentary: How Evolution Explains Ethics (02:00) Caller/topic: 1. How should he deal with his church accepting homosexuality? (00:19) 2. How do you suggest training college students in apologetics? (00:44) 3. Challenge the idea of sovereign election (01:03) 4. What are your suggestions for basic group apologetics training? (01:43) 5. What’s your response to fining and sensitivity training for negative comments about homosexuality? (02:20) 6. How do Old Testament promises apply to Christians? (02:29) 7. How do you respond to idea that Islam will grow out of ancient violent ways just as Christianity did. (02:43)

Guest Host: J. Warner Wallace (2 Hour Broadcast) Commentary: Don’t Defer, Don’t Deny, Don’t Delay (00:00) Commentary: Did the Gospels Borrow and Change? (00:40) Commentary: Can Evolution Produce Morality? (01:00) Guest: Doug Powell - Using the Arts for Apologetics (01:15) Caller/topic: 1. Is Jesus similar to “copycat saviors”? (01:20)

Host: Greg Koukl Commentary: Punishing Bigotry (00:00) Commentary: Wedding Reflections (01:00) Commentary: “Your Kind” Not Welcome (02:00) Caller/topic: 1. How do you avoid being taken advantage of when you “turn the other cheek”? (00:23) 2. Is professional fighting immoral? (00:40) 3. Does God or the sinner himself send the sinner to Hell? (01:18) 4. Is it wrong to use vaccines made by destroying human embryos? (01:41) 5. How do we balance freedom of thought when what is said is despicable? (01:53) 6. Should Christians have their kids in public school? (02:21) 7. Did Judas think he was a believer? (02:35) 8. Do atheists have to deny free will? (02:39) 9. What if Jesus was finite and created? (02:48)

Host: Greg Koukl Commentary: Christianity Is Rational and Defensible (00:00) Commentary: Does Evil Contradict a Good God? (01:00) Interview: Michael Krueger on Bart Ehrman’s New Book (02:00) Caller/topic: 1. Is Heaven a spacial place now? (00:17) 2. What advice can you give to someone evaluating the arguments for the age of the universe? (00:35) 3. Is God in time? (01:16) 4. Is the Holy Spirit a person? (01:41)

Host: Greg Koukl Guest: Brett Kunkle - Summit Ministries Student Conferences (00:00) Commentary: Why Was the Tomb Empty? (02:11) Caller/topic: 1. What do you think of the movie “God’s Not Dead.” (00:21) 2. How do you deal with legalistic Christians? (00:34) 3. Does sin nature require that we sin? (01:00) 4. How does virtue ethics fit with Christianity? (01:24) 5. How to start a conversation tactically in a barber shop? (01:47) 5. How does the Old Testament law apply to Christians? (02:22) 6. God desires all to be saved. (02:33) 7. Is the Trinity in contradiction to the doctrine of divine simplicity? (02:42) 8. Annihilationism is not unorthodox. (02:52)