Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Problems with Hate Crime Legislation

Greg talks about problems with hate crime legislation, then he answers questions about responding to a parent who’s letting a six-year-old daughter transition and how to defend inerrancy when we also say some rules in the Bible are cultural and we don’t follow them.

 

Topics:

1. Commentary: Problems with hate crime legislation (00:00)
2. How should I respond to an online friend who is letting his six-year-old daughter become a boy? (31:00)
3. How do we defend inerrancy when we say some things are cultural and don’t follow them? (47:00)

Mentioned on the Show: 

• Reality Student Apologetics Conference – September 24–25 in Orange County, CA; October 15–16 in Seattle, WA; November 12–13 in Minneapolis, MN; February 25–26, 2022 in Dallas, TX; March 25–26, 2022 in Philadelphia, PA
• Why Hate Shouldn’t Be a Crime by Greg Koukl
• Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier

Related Links:

• When Transgender Children Are Harmed by the People Who Intended to Help Them by Amy Hall

Our Struggle Is Not against Flesh and Blood

Greg talks about the lies we’re facing in our culture, then he answers questions about educating oneself on gay rights history and Greg’s philosophy on biblical discipleship.

 

Topics:

1. Commentary: Our struggle is not against flesh and blood. (00:00)
2. Is it my responsibility to educate myself on gay rights history as a family member has told me? (28:00)
3. What’s your philosophy on biblical discipleship? (42:00)

Mentioned on the Show: 

• The Evening News by Greg Koukl
• Subscribe to Stand to Reason’s monthly training material
• Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity by Alisa Childers

Teaching Egyptian Pastors

Greg talks to Alan about his recent experience teaching Egyptian pastors and the unique difficulties they face, then he answers a question about the difference between discernment and intuition.

 

Topics:

1. Commentary: Teaching Egyptian Christians (00:00)
2. What’s the difference between discernment and intuition? (33:00)

Mentioned on the Show: 

• Reality Student Apologetics Conference – September 24–25 in Orange County, CA; October 15–16 in Seattle, WA; November 12–13 in Minneapolis, MN; February 25–26, 2022 in Dallas, TX; March 25–26, 2022 in Philadelphia, PA; April 22–23, 2022 in Augusta, GA

Salvation through the Witness of the Holy Spirit

Greg talks about people being saved through the witness of the Holy Spirit. 

 

Topics:

1. Commentary: Salvation through the witness of the Holy Spirit (00:00)

Mentioned on the Show: 

• Be One of the 100 – Become a strategic partner

A Gay Man’s Incredible Story of Redemption

Greg talks to Becket Cook, author of A Change of Affection: A Gay Man’s Incredible Story of Redemption, they answer a question about responding to a family member who requires acceptance of their homosexual lifestyle, then Greg continues his reflections on faithfulness from last week. 

 

Topics:

1. Interview: Reality speaker Becket Cook, author of A Change of Affection: A Gay Man’s Incredible Story of Redemption (00:00)
2. How should I respond to a family member who wants me to fully accept their homosexual lifestyle in order to continue a relationship? (17:00)
3. More thoughts on faithfulness (35:00)

Mentioned on the Show: 

• Becket Cook
• A Change of Affection: A Gay Man’s Incredible Story of Redemption by Becket Cook
• Reality Student Apologetics Conference – September 24–25 in Orange County, CA; October 15–16 in Seattle, WA; November 12–13 in Minneapolis, MN; February 25–26, 2022 in Dallas, TX; March 25–26, 2022 in Philadelphia, PA; April 22–23, 2022 in Augusta, GA

Is Free Will the Reason Why God Doesn’t Stop Evil?

Greg talks to a Strategic Partner about his experience with Stand to Reason, then he talks to callers about whether free will could really be the reason why God doesn’t stop evil and whether it’s morally wrong to use cells from aborted babies for scientific research.

 

Topics:

1. Greg talks to a Strategic Partner about his experience with Stand to Reason. (00:00)
2. How can free will be the reason why God doesn’t stop evil if sometimes he does prevent free will? (28:00)
3. Is it morally wrong to use cells from aborted babies for scientific research? (45:00)

Mentioned on the Show: 

• Be One of the 100 – Become a strategic partner
• Reality Student Apologetics Conference – September 24–25 in Orange County, CA; October 15–16 in Seattle, WA; November 12–13 in Minneapolis, MN; February 25–26, 2022 in Dallas, TX; March 25–26, 2022 in Philadelphia, PA; April 22–23, 2022 in Augusta, GA

Faithfulness over Results

Greg talks about what it means to choose faithfulness over results, then he answers questions about the author of Isaiah and how to convince one’s child to go to the Reality Conference.

 

Topics:

1. Commentary: Faithfulness over results (00:00)
2. Who wrote Isaiah? (37:00)
3. If you were going to talk your sixteen-year-old into going to the Reality Conference, how would you do it? (50:00)

Mentioned on the Show: 

• #STRask Podcast
• Subscribe to Stand to Reason’s monthly training material
• Recent Solid Grounds: Iron Curtain Diary, The Primal Heresy, Freedom Fading, and Critical Race Theory: Civil Rights Upside Down by Greg Koukl
• Bari Weiss’s resignation letter
• Faithfulness Is Not Theologically Complicated by Greg Koukl
• A Reformation the Church Doesn’t Need (Answering Revisionist Pro-Gay Theology) Part 1 and Part 2 by Alan Shlemon and Greg Koukl
• Evidence that Demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell
• Reality Student Apologetics Conference – September 24–25 in Orange County, CA; October 15–16 in Seattle, WA; November 12–13 in Minneapolis, MN; February 25–26, 2022 in Dallas, TX; March 25–26, 2022 in Philadelphia, PA; April 22–23, 2022 in Augusta, GA

Conscience Protection Laws Ignored by Justice Department

Greg chats with a friend of Stand to Reason about why she became a Strategic Partner, then he discusses a recent case where a nurse was forced to participate in an abortion and the Justice Department declined to uphold federal conscience protection laws, then he talks about whether it’s wrong to say, “I could be wrong.” 

 

Topics:

1. Greg talks to a friend of Stand to Reason about why she became a Strategic Partner. (00:00)
2. Commentary: Conscience protection laws ignored by Justice Department in abortion case. (18:00)
3. Commentary: The upcoming Solid Ground is about recent news items illustrating what Greg has been talking about in the current series. (44:00)
4. Commentary: Is it wrong to say, “I could be wrong”? (49:00)

Mentioned on the Show: 

• Be One of the 100 – Become a strategic partner
• Becerra and Biden Betray Medical Professionals Being Forced to Assist in Abortions by Roger Severino
• Recent Solid Grounds: Iron Curtain Diary, The Primal Heresy, Freedom Fading, and Critical Race Theory: Civil Rights Upside Down by Greg Koukl
• Bari Weiss’s resignation letter

CRT and Justice

Greg talks with Monique Duson of the Center for Biblical Unity about CRT and justice, they answer questions about their views on CRT and what we’re responsible for in history, a caller suggests a way to respond to the charge that pro-lifers don’t care about born children, and Greg answers a question about God’s sovereignty.

 

Topics:

1. Commentary: CRT and justice (00:00)
2. What are your views on critical race theory? (24:00)
3. How far back do we go in history in order to do racial reconciliation? (33:00)
4. A comment about how to respond to people who say pro-lifers don’t care about born children. (43:00)
5. If God determines our salvation, doesn’t he also determine everything in our lives, and if so, what’s the point of our actions? (51:00)

Mentioned on the Show: 

• Monique Duson – Center for Biblical Unity
• Reality Student Apologetics Conference – September 24–25 in Orange County, CA; October 15–16 in Seattle, WA; November 12–13 in Minneapolis, MN; February 25–26, 2022 in Dallas, TX; March 25–26, 2022 in Philadelphia, PA; April 22–23, 2022 in Augusta, GA
• Critical Race Theory: Civil Rights Upside Down by Greg Koukl

What if Someone Gives Me Instructions from God?

Greg and Jon Noyes answer questions about how to respond to someone who claims to have instructions from God, how to stay motivated when things look bleak, Bible study software for blind people, and Noah’s flood.

 

Topics:

1. How should I respond to someone who claims to have instructions from God for me? (10:00)
2. How can we stay motivated as Christians when things in the culture look bleak? (27:00)
3. Do you have any recommendations for Bible study software for someone who is blind? (43:00) 
4. Do you think Noah’s flood was local or global? (48:00)