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Stand to Reason
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Stand to Reason trains Christians to think more clearly about their faith and to make an even-handed, incisive, yet gracious defense for classical Christianity and classical Christian values in the public square.
Why the Apostles EXPECTED a New Testament
Robby Lashua shares how the covenants found in the Old Testament lay the ground for a new covenant documented in the New Testament.
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How to Connect with God - A Quick Fix Will Not Work!
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Greg responds to a request for advice on how to move from a “listening for the voice of God” view to connecting with God in a way that’s biblically sound, discussing stages of Christian maturity and explaining how God matures Christians through suffering. 0:00 What advice would you give to someone who’s transitioning from a “listening for the voice of God” view to connecting with God in a way t...
Preferred Pronouns - This Is Not an Example of Loving Your Neighbor
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Greg and Amy answer the question “How should I respond to a Christian who says it’s kind to use a person’s preferred pronouns, that by not doing so I’m being a hypocrite, unkind, unloving, and judgmental, and that not all translations of the Bible say God made male and female? ” #StandtoReason #STRask #Apologetics #Christianity #ChristianLiving SUBMIT YOUR QUESTION If you'd like to submit your ...
Progressive Pastor Cites Jesus to Argue “Drag is Holy!”
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“Drag is holy.” That’s the controversial claim offered here. So, what reason does he give for this provocative conclusion? He says, “Jesus called himself a mother hen longing to gather up her chicks. And if Jesus can be a mother hen, then you can dress in drag.” This video highlights three problems with this claim. #RedPenLogic #StandtoReason #Apologetics #Christianity #BiblicalSexuality FIND M...
Compassion Does NOT Equal Affirmation - How to Respond on Topics Like Sex, Abortion, and Worldviews
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Greg answers the question “As Christians, how can we be compassionate on topics like homosexuality, abortion, and people of other religions?” #STRask #StandtoReason #Apologetics #Christianity #ChristianLiving SUBMIT YOUR QUESTION If you'd like to submit your question ahead of time for the Stand to Reason broadcast, or if you'd like to submit a question for the #STRask podcast, fill out our form...
This Is Having a MAJOR Impact on Our Mental Health!
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Jon talks about the negative effects of social media on mental health and gives tips for raising kids in this culture, then he answers questions about why God redeemed humans and whether or not we still have a responsibility to preach the gospel to all nations. 0:00 Introduction 1:28 Don’t give your kid a smartphone. 28:25 Why do you think God chose to redeem human beings when he didn’t need to...
The Gay Gene - “If Your Straight Desires Are Natural, Why Not My Homosexual Desires?”
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Greg answers the question “How can I argue that gay people aren’t born that way if I seem to have been born with the desire for premarital sex?” #StandtoReason #Apologetics #Christianity #BiblicalSexuality #HolySexuality SUBMIT YOUR QUESTION If you'd like to submit your question ahead of time for the Stand to Reason broadcast, or if you'd like to submit a question for the #STRask podcast, fill ...
Choose Me or Hell? - Is This Really a Choice?
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How can Christians say we have free will to choose God when we’re threatened with Hell if we don’t choose God? Greg and Amy answer. #STRask #StandtoReason #Apologetics #Christianity #Theology #Hell #BibleQuestions #FreeWill #Philosophy SUBMIT YOUR QUESTION If you'd like to submit your question ahead of time for the Stand to Reason broadcast, or if you'd like to submit a question for the #STRask...
Never Sacrifice Truth on the Altar of Relationship
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Jon shares how he would respond to a child who ostracizes you for not supporting his LGBT lifestyle. Watch the full To the Point video: ua-cam.com/video/q5eD2J1VfEs/v-deo.html #StandtoReason #Apologetics #Christianity #ChristianLiving #BiblicalSexuality #ChristianParenting FIND MORE FREE TRAINING Website: www.str.org/ Stand to Reason University: training.str.org/ Stand to Reason Apps: www.str.o...
Don’t Participate in Pagan Ceremonies
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Greg answers questions from callers about participating in “smudging ceremonies” at a pastor’s training session and whether an apparent contradiction could reach a level where it became evidence against that Gospel being an eyewitness account. 0:00 Introduction 2:57 Should Christians be participating in “smudging ceremonies” to release our bad energies (as we were asked to do in a pastor’s trai...
Same Approach? - Responding to a Jehovah’s Witness Child vs. a Child Who is Gay
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Greg answers a caller who asks, “Would you apply the same approach to a child who started dating a Jehovah’s Witness as you would to a family member who came out as gay?” #StandtoReason #Apologetics #Christianity #Worldviews #JehovahWitness CALL IN TO THE SHOW Have a question or comment? Call Greg Koukl, live Tuesdays 4-6pm Pacific Time, at (855) 243-9975. SUBMIT YOUR QUESTION If you'd like to ...
Transgenderism vs. Christianity - A Disagreement over Fact
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Transgenderism vs. Christianity - A Disagreement over Fact
An Ethical Atheist? - Can One Deny Objective Morality and Live an Ethical Life?
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An Ethical Atheist? - Can One Deny Objective Morality and Live an Ethical Life?
Be Consistent. Be Relational. - How to Respond to Believers When They Continue to Sin
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Be Consistent. Be Relational. - How to Respond to Believers When They Continue to Sin
This Pastor Doesn't Get How Bible Translations Work
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This Pastor Doesn't Get How Bible Translations Work
Why the Reliability of the Quran Does Not Measure Up to the Bible
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Why the Reliability of the Quran Does Not Measure Up to the Bible
Not the Same God? - Grace and Judgment in the Old vs. New Testament
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Not the Same God? - Grace and Judgment in the Old vs. New Testament
Reinterpreting the Bible - How Progressives Miss Out on the Real God
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Reinterpreting the Bible - How Progressives Miss Out on the Real God
What We Can Learn From Jesus’ Correction of the Sadducees in Matthew 22
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What We Can Learn From Jesus’ Correction of the Sadducees in Matthew 22
Without Question - The Universe Had a Beginning
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Without Question - The Universe Had a Beginning
Fine-Tuned: What a Cabin in the Woods, a Snowball, and a Warm Shower Tell Us About the Universe
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Fine-Tuned: What a Cabin in the Woods, a Snowball, and a Warm Shower Tell Us About the Universe
History and the Bible - The Records Are Accurate
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History and the Bible - The Records Are Accurate
Subverting Real Justice - What Happens When We Add Adjectives to “Justice”
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Subverting Real Justice - What Happens When We Add Adjectives to “Justice”
Four Tenets - Scripture Provides Us with a Comprehensive Guide to Justice
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Four Tenets - Scripture Provides Us with a Comprehensive Guide to Justice
Playing with Language - “Others Might Interpret the Bible Differently!”
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Why We DON’T Need the Original Copy of the Bible
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Why We DON’T Need the Original Copy of the Bible
Direct Revelation - Shouldn’t a Relationship with God Involve Communication?
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Direct Revelation - Shouldn’t a Relationship with God Involve Communication?
Toxic Theology - Untying the Knots of Spiritual Abuse
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Toxic Theology - Untying the Knots of Spiritual Abuse
This video is proof that the majority of Christians will never allow themselves to doubt their faith, even if the Bible is in clear opposition to objective reality. A Christian is supposed to be in communion with the creator of the universe. The creator of the universe, through Jesus, said that all who believe will be able to perform miracles. There is no evidence that modern Christians are performing miracles, or that they show any symptoms of having supernatural inspiration on their side. They’re not more creative or more intelligent. It’s actually the opposite that we see. Christians tend to perform worse on intelligence tests and make much less thought provoking artwork - at least in the contemporary realm
And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice (whisper). That is it !
the indwelling of the Holy Spirit helped me alot
This man not only dismantles this crazy argument, he also explain how to understand conceptually the argument and how to dismantle it. What a goat
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Dispensationalistslism is an odd way to read the Bible
The wolves are in the sheep pen masquerading as shepherds.
Amen
stfu and keep your idiotic opinions to yourself usually works for me
Ok so, I’m seeing people who are saying taht if one parent is present or something , but the thing is,, is that even tho your saying that “they can’t be a healthy child without both genders present” imagine how much LESS of a happy child they will be if they’re being passed around Foster care or an orphanage
This is dumb the obvious answer is yes
The Bible itself speaks out against injustice and oppression. Why are some Christians so afraid to condemn oppression and injustice. James, the Prophet Isaiah, Jesus himself all condemn oppression and injustice especially against the vulnerable. Conservative Christianity is just as bad as progressive Christianity. Both ignore the Bible to virtue signal to their groups.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. We have written and spoken extensively on biblical justice. Below are just a few resources to start with: www.str.org/w/-strask-what-is-the-biblical-definition-of-justice- www.str.org/w/scripture-provides-us-with-a-comprehensive-guide-to-justice www.str.org/w/is-christianity-an-oppressive-religion- www.str.org/w/if-we-lose-the-meaning-of-justice-we-lose-the-gospel www.str.org/w/a-missing-component-in-our-discussions-about-doing-justice www.str.org/w/two-misunderstandings-christians-have-about-justice www.str.org/w/why-does-justice-matter- www.str.org/w/justice-matters-to-god
@@STRvideos Thanks for your response. Please know that I like STR and the ministry has been a valuable resource to me for years. I am familiar with your content in the links you share. I also read the ones I am unfamiliar with. My issue is that you still filter the Bible through conservative ideology. If you want me to provide examples from the contents you shared, or want me to email them to you, let me know. Nonetheless, I enjoy your ministry and I pray God continues to bless you and everyone there. Thank you for all you do.
Jesus is Lord, not your sexual preferences. You cannot serve two masters.
Ezekiel 38 already fulfilled. The End of Revelation 20 is not fully fulfilled. Gog is a Global enrmy against the saints and we are living through it now. Ever heard of the Deep State?? Open borders in many nations in the Western Hemisphere specifically. Who do you think is the target? The Bible believers. Satan is definitely in a long leash with his regime or completely loosed. Research videos on Satan's Little Season. By the late 1700's, alchemists and more rose to a whole new level. More! A few Bible believing Christians do present a very good case. However, the New Agers have also jumped in on this. So, be careful who you listen to. If you look around, saints are surrounded right now in every nation. We are scattered. No one can deny this.
The initial physical realm of Revelation was fulfilled by AD70. However, it is not over!!! 70AD was the initial foundation fully fulfilled for the New Covenant and scholars ever since have really done a disservice to the Church. Revelation describes the big picture of the Church Age. Revelation 21 is the full spiritual New Covenant fully realized in the physical realm however that happens. Revelation 22 says the 7 plagues can repeat!!!**** Revelation 21 talks about the Living Water. John 6 It is possible we are close or are in Satan's Little Season right now but victory is around the corner. We have been in Tribulation off and on since AD33. Empires rise and fall. So, what is the constant factor? The New Covenant is Eternal. There is no going back to the Old Covenant. Yes, the saints win in the end. Everything is in process. Most of Revelation is in figurative language to describe reality. The final End Times is the End of all Evil, illness, sickness and death. If we would have had a bigger picture of interpretation of Revelation, the Church would be in a much better place today. We got a very big messed up Church, especially in the Western Hemisphere. Clue: Left Behind Series was created by Hollywood. You really think God is going to obey Hollywood? No!!!! Church, please return to common sense and Revelation is a big picture of how evil is destroyed. It is that simple. All spiritual principles become physical eventually. Jesus Christ is on the throne right now. He promised to put all enemies under His feet and that is what He will do. He is The Resurrection and the Life. We got Salvation to Sanctification to Glorification. Period. Simple. The Transfiguration shows the Glorification part. In your Bibles. Stop believing Hollywood or Dallas Theologians or CI Scofield or John Darby. All heresy in multiple fronts regarding Revelation interpretation. By the way, we can bind evil. The Church lost that truth too. So, evil is running rapid like crazy now because Christians do not read the Bible or learn Church History.
The worst contradiction is that according to Matthew, Jesus was born under the reign of Herod. Luke has Jesus born under the reign of Quirinius; at least 10 years later. Even Catholic scholars accept the problems with these 2 accounts. Christians need to stop practicing idolatry and worshipping the Bible.
Punished upon pure belief
Nonsense. Stuck in what situation. Can't you answer a simple question. You are all the same.
These are VERY comforting words!! Thank You, Lord!! 🙏
Greg, Amy, you two are really bad at this. Keep it up! You're driving more and more people away from your religion by this bad apologetics.
Reason? LOL! Ok, here is your chance to proof that. Please present a single rational argument why your god should be more real than all the others?
I feel so ashamed for my entire species that we live in the 21st century and we still talk about an ancient fairytale where a perfectly evil god makes his own virgin mother pregnant with himself to sacrifice himself to himself because a woman made out of ribs was told by a snake to eat a magical fruit. I mean come on, we live in a world with space stations, internet and science. We KNOW how we actually evolved. What i like to ask Christians, but neve ever got an answer to is, "was this Adam and Ev before or after species such as Homo Erectus and Homo Lepiticus"?
This is what happens when you have an IQ under room temperature ... you can't recognize a metaphor.
Why is this even a topic in church. It's makes me so f@cking angry.
We’re presented with the idea that people will die if they can’t live as a parody of the other sex, and it’s adolescent thinking that there’s a disapproving person who causes all problems
In the physical realm children are very emotional, having highs and lows, meltdowns and bursts of laughter. Parents try to teach them how to live not controlled by their emotions but by principles, etc. Children might think parents don’t have as much joy as they do because they don’t show their emotions in the same way. We all know the joy of a mature adult is way better than that of a child. One can draw parallels with the Christian realm and point out that young immature in the Lord Christians can’t understand the joy of mature Christians.
Agree! Deeper maturity doesn’t bring more emotional experiences yet my constant inner joy in the Lord amazes me.
Amen 🥰
My advice to you, if you genuinely want to share your faith with a Buddhist, is learn about theirs before sharing anything. I am a Zen Buddhist myself, and there are so many aspects of what you're saying here that are inaccurate and misrepresent the Dharma. I intend no offense here, but there is a tremendous arrogance in learning little to nothing about somebody else's worldview but still presuming to know that yours is somehow "superior".
excellent short series on the basics. Every Christian should watch this and learn.
The music is in both channels but the speech is only in the left channel.
I sure appreciate Mr. Koukl and the work of Stand To Reason staff. However, I disagree with him on this point. Are you a cessationist?
From Greg (www.str.org/w/does-god-whisper-part-1): I am not a “cessationist,” that is, I do not think the so-called “sign” gifts (tongues, prophecy, etc.) ceased in the first century. There may be bona fide prophetic words for the church in the fashion of prophets of old.10 Alleged prophets, however, should be tested (1 Thess. 5:20-21), and the test is the same now as it’s always been (Deut. 18:22). I do not deny that the Spirit comes alongside us as a helper in powerful and palpable ways to teach, convict, comfort, or empower us to deal with sin, difficulties, trials, and discouragements. Finally, I do not deny that God is capable of giving special revelation to anyone or to any church at any time. God can do whatever He likes, and I am fully convinced there are unique situations where He does this today, just as in biblical times. None of these things is in question, as far as I’m concerned. What is at issue for me is whether the Bible teaches everyone can be a prophet of sorts, whether each Christian can expect to hear from God in the ways described above with private, personalized revelations, and whether this is a standard, ordinary part of the Christian life that can be taught and developed. This I do not think is taught in the Bible
Fascinating, well thank you so much for this reply. I'm starting to teach a class at our church using your tactics video series, so in light of that, I would ask the question... "What do you mean by that" when it comes to a prophet. For me, I think I would say, I mean I can't speak for everybody but I think I have had special revelation... And I hate to call it special, but I think revelation, I have received it's specifically for me and my life... And do I believe that everybody can hear from God like that ? I think I do. I'm also not so dogmatic in my understanding. I think I go along with Walter Martins book that he wrote years ago on "Essential christianity" If that makes sense. Anyway, thank you again. I sure appreciate Christ's Ministry (STR) and how he's using it in my life.
Trust in God. His message can't be stopped. Jesus lives! ♥️ and is God 🙏🏻 Christ ✝️ and King 👑
Amen.
God extends his hand and lets you.choose to follow him or not. How is that unjust?
Because he has given me exactly zero reasons to believe that he exists. Its not a fair choice if you cannot prove the choice is real to begin with.
Excellent show indeed
Amazing perfectly said. 1 Corinthians 3:6 says I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.
The Holy spirit "whispered" to Apostles all through Acts. II Corinthians 12:8-9 NKJV [8] Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. [9] And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. We invite you to call in to our weekly broadcast any Tuesday, 4-6pm PST to discuss your comments with Greg. He'd love to hear from you! Or you can submit an #STRask or Open Mic question. Visit www.str.org/broadcast for details. Also, see the below for more on this topic: www.str.org/w/does-god-whisper-part-1 www.str.org/w/does-god-whisper-part-2
Jesus is the way the truthand the life the one and only way amen ❤😅
If you can’t read the scripture and believe the plain meaning, but have to interpret away from the plain meaning… the classic ‘what this says isn’t what it means’ method of exegesis.
Thank you
What if I'm angry because my brother uses the Bible to manipulate my mother?
Thanks for the question! We invite you to call in to our weekly broadcast to discuss your thoughts with Greg Koukl. He'd love to hear from you. Or you can submit an #STRask or Open Mic question. Visit www.str.org/broadcast for details.
The progressive revelation of God. Jesus lives! ♥️ and is God 🙏🏻 Christ ✝️ and King 👑
clear thinking from a calvinist /reformer? The self deception runs deep along with the false advertising.
How ironic it is that these people speak on spiritual matters without the Holy Spirit.
@@paulc7190 They’re closed theists, Monergists. I’m mighty grateful they’re being exposed for their vast inconsistencies.
Ss this what Sodom and Gomorrah was like? Modern day America? Is this part of the ancient reasons why God sent those those Angels to get Lot and his kin out of town before he nuked them? Is history simply repeating itself again? I think it may be worse because people nowadays are using God to justify their sins. They're looking into the Bible and they find the parts that could vaguely represent their ideologies then twist them into what they want, then claim "See everyone? God said this, so therefor what I'm doing is justified".
Imagine ignoring the direct verses and using proof-text to contradict them. 🤦♂️ Honestly, I miss the fervor of the inquisition.
Thank you so much for this. You’ve no idea how much it helped me.