Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast
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Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast
Our purpose is to help Christians think more clearly about their faith and to help them make an even-handed, incisive, yet gracious defense for classical Christianity. Released every Wednesday and Friday.
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Can Evolution Explain Our Sense of Meaning?
Greg and Tim continue evaluating clips from The Diary of a CEO, discussing the need for meaning to inform purpose, whether evolution can explain our s...
Which Worldview Best Explains Meaning and Purpose?
Greg and Tim review clips from a conversation between Greg, atheist Alex O’Connor, and Hindu Alok Kanojia, discussing why human beings flourish in a p...
Are These My Thoughts, or Is God Speaking to Me?
Greg answers questions about how to tell the difference between your own thoughts and God speaking to you, near death experiences, cremation vs. the r...
Why an Emotivist Can’t Use Suffering to Argue Against the Existence of God
Greg talks about atheist Alex O’Connor’s use of suffering as an argument against God, then he answers a caller’s question about how God could create p...
Greg’s Experience on The Diary of a CEO Podcast
Greg talks about his experience on The Diary of a CEO podcast talking about meaning and purpose with Alex O’Connor and Alok Kanojia, then he answers q...
How Would You Make a Case for the Christian God?
Greg gives advice to students starting college and responds to a question about being aware of what’s being taught that might go against Christianity,...
The Assassination of Charlie Kirk
Greg reflects on the assassination of Charlie Kirk and a question he received about why God would let something like this happen, then he talks to a c...
Interview: John Stonestreet – Truth Rising
Greg talks to John Stonestreet about the Truth Rising documentary, the civilizational moment we’re in, what we’re called to do in light of this, and s...
It’s Okay to Quote a Single Verse...If You Understand the Context
Greg answers questions about whether it’s okay to quote a single verse, why Jesus didn’t heal everyone, recommended study Bibles and commentaries, per...
Man’s Free Will Doesn’t Determine the Course of the Universe
Greg adds another thought to the objection he addressed in the last episode, then he answers questions about possible proof Proverbs 21:30 is objectiv...
Why Does God Limit Our Opportunity to Repent and Believe to This Lifetime?
Greg responds to the challenge that it’s arbitrary for God to limit our opportunity to repent and believe to this lifetime, then he talks to callers a...
Challenges to Greg’s View That God’s Voice Can’t Be Missed
Greg responds to objections to his view that God’s voice can’t be missed, then he answers questions about thanking God for his goodness when something...
We Have a Relationship with God on His Terms, Not on Ours
Greg explains that a relationship with God doesn’t look the same as one with a human being, then he talks to callers about an apologetics approach, wh...
How Can I Believe in God or Anything Supernatural?
Greg talks to callers about a challenge to what he said about the transcendental argument last week, how someone can find his way to believing in God...
Alan Shlemon on the Topics of Jesus’ Deity in the Gospels and Transgenderism
Greg chats with Alan Shlemon about transgenderism and intersex conditions, then they talk about why the popular idea that Jesus’ identity was embellis...
Thoughts on the Transcendental Argument
Greg answers questions from callers on the transcendental argument, the scapegoat theory of the atonement that’s popular in progressive circles, and a...
Objections to Greg’s View on Hearing the Voice of God
Greg responds to objections to his view on hearing the voice of God, then he talks to a caller about Columbo #3 questions he can use in conversations...
What Miracles Have You Witnessed?
Greg answers questions from callers about what makes being gay or lesbian harmful, whether apologists are unwilling to give straight answers to certai...
How AI and Social Media are Making Us Dumber
Tim Barnett joins Greg to talk about the need to learn how to be good thinkers, the danger of ending up in an echo chamber, how AI and social media ar...
Is It Normal for a Believer to Struggle with Doubt?
Greg answers questions about whether it’s normal for a believer to struggle with doubt, resolving alleged contradictions in the Gospels, why Greg thin...
Do Demons Still Have a Chance to Be Saved?
Greg answers questions about whether demons still have a chance to be saved, whether evolution can give us a belief in morality, how to define Christi...
How Can We Say God Fulfilled His Promise to Abraham?
Greg answers questions on whether God fulfilled his promise to Abraham, Jesus’ knowledge of germs, whether the story of Job debunks the “T” in “TULIP,...
God Doesn’t Try
Greg explains why we don’t need to learn to hear the voice of God, then he talks to callers about how to deal with going against the majority of scien...
Thankful for John MacArthur’s Legacy
Greg talks about being thankful for John MacArthur’s legacy, then he answers questions about the difference between covenant theology and dispensation...
Spirituality Is Measured by Spiritual Fruit, Not Spiritual Gifts
Greg explains that spirituality is measured by spiritual fruit, not spiritual gifts, then he answers questions about preterism, evidence for a beginni...
How Would You Determine Which Religion Is True?
Greg answers questions about how to determine which religion is true, why God wouldn’t just write his own book, how we know the Christian God is the r...
Dan Day: Greg Answers an Atheist
Greg answers questions from an atheist about why Jesus couldn’t write his own book, what God has been doing all of this time, why Christians don’t rea...
Is It Okay for Pastors to Ask the Holy Spirit to Come Down?
Greg answers questions about pastors asking the Holy Spirit to come down, the treatment of slaves in Israel versus in other cultures, whether there sh...
Greg Reflects on the Passage of Time on His 75th Birthday
Greg reflects on the passage of time on his 75th birthday, then he answers questions about the SRY gene making someone male, his opinion on music in t...
Jesus’ Yoke Is Easy and His Burden Is Light
Greg reflects on the destruction from the Malibu fire, then he answers questions about the sense in which Jesus’ yoke is easy and his burden light, ho...
Tripp and Megan Almon Are Joining Stand to Reason
Greg chats with Tripp and Megan Almon, who are joining the Stand to Reason team as the head of STR Outposts (Tripp) and a speaker (Megan), about their...
Gardening Someone Who Doesn’t Seem Open to the Truth
Greg answers questions about what Revelation 21:8 means when it says the cowardly will be judged, gardening someone who isn’t open to the truth, offic...
Not Every Religion Is True
Greg talks about losing his voice at a recent event, then he answers questions about how to graciously communicate the idea that not every religion is...
Clearing Up Some Confusion About Limited Atonement
Greg clears up some confusion about limited atonement then answers questions about young people getting into the fantasy genre, Jewish beliefs about S...
Our Complex Bodies Didn’t Happen by Accident
Greg talks about a conversation he had with his cardiologist about intelligent design, then he answers questions about using Psalm 139 in a pro-life d...
How Could a Good God Let My Husband Suffer?
Greg answers questions about how to respond to someone who’s struggling with how a good God could let her husband suffer, how to know if something is...
Is the Second Law of Thermodynamics a Good Argument Against Evolution?
Greg answers questions about whether the second law of thermodynamics is a good argument against evolution, pebbles to put in the shoe of a progressiv...
Interview: Jimmy and J. Warner Wallace – Case Files
Greg chats with J. Warner Wallace and his son Jimmy about their new graphic novel, Case Files: Murder and Meaning.
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The Danger of Basing Your Identity on Anything That Can Change
Greg talks about the danger of basing your identity on anything that can change, then he answers questions about speaking against a transgender bill i...
Naturalism of the Gaps
Greg talks to callers about the rebellion of angels in Genesis 6, how to respond to a naturalism-of-the-gaps argument, how to use Shedd’s Dogmatics, w...