Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg reflects on the objective nature of beauty and morality, then he answers questions about how providence and the decrees of God play out in life and how to manage a denominational split in a way that shows respect to all but still makes clear the danger of staying in the denomination.
 
Topics:

Commentary: Beauty and morality are objective. (00:00)

How does providence and the decrees of God play out in life? (20:00)

As part of a team managing a denominational split, could I have taken a better approach that showed respect to all but still made clear the danger of staying within the denomination? (50:00)

Mentioned on the Show: 

STR Outposts

A Response to the Rising Antisemitism – Previous episode

How Should Christians View and Treat the Jews? – Previous episode

Dogmatic Theology by William G.T. Shedd, edited by Alan Gomes

Related Links:

Providence by John Piper

How Can We Condemn Evil If God Is Sovereign? by Amy Hall

God Can Work Through Anyone and Everything—Even You and Your Sin by Amy Hall

“Forced Love” Is the Wrong Way to Look at It by Amy Hall

Excusing Sinners and Blaming God: A Calvinist Assessment of Determinism, Moral Responsibility, and Divine Involvement in Evil by Guillaume Bignon

God Reforms Hearts: Rethinking Free Will and the Problem of Evil by Thaddeus Williams

Greg responds to questions about how to deal with the fear that your children will reject Christ, and whether atheists who formerly identified as Christians ought to agree with us that they were never really Christians.
 
Topics:

How can I deal with my terrible fear that my children will reject Christ and it will have been better for them if they had never been born? (00:00)

Shouldn’t atheists who formerly identified as Christians agree with us that they were never really Christians? (28:00)

Mentioned on the Show: 

The Story of Reality: How the World Began, How It Ends, and Everything Important that Happens in Between by Greg Koukl

Greg talks about what happens to Demas in the New Testament and warns against following in his steps, then he talks to a caller about whether 1 John 2:19 is referring to false teachers rather than false believers.
 
Topics:

Commentary: Don’t be Demas. (00:00)

Based on 1 John 2:18, would you say verse 19 is referring to false teachers rather than false believers? (28:00)

Mentioned on the Show: 

Reality Student Apologetics Conference – November 13–14 in Minneapolis, MN; February 19–20, 2027 in Dallas, TX; March 12–13, 2027 in Philadelphia, PA; April 23–24, 2027 in Los Angeles, CA

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Losing Your Salvation in Ephesians 1:14–3 by Amy Hall

Greg answers questions from callers about whether abortion is ever necessary to save the life of the mother, how to respond to someone who thinks Genesis 6:5–7 indicates that our Creator makes mistakes, and who the “gods” are that God presides over according to Psalm 82.
 
Topics:

Is abortion ever really necessary to save the life of the mother? (07:00)

How would you respond to someone who says that Genesis 6:5–7 means that even our Creator makes mistakes? (18:00)

Who are the “gods” that God presides over according to Psalm 82? (43:00)

Mentioned on the Show: 

Reality Student Apologetics Conference – October 16–17 in Seattle, WA; November 13–14 in Minneapolis, MN; February 19–20, 2027 in Dallas, TX; March 12–13, 2027 in Philadelphia, PA; April 23–24, 2027 in Los Angeles, CA

Upcoming events with Stand to Reason speakers

STR Outposts

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#STRask: How Could God Be Perfect If He Regrets Something He Did?

Greg examines a passage that’s often used to support the idea of generational curses, then he talks to a caller about whether the Nicene Creed indicates that we’re saved by baptism and how we can have an expectancy for Christ if there’s no rapture.
 
Topics:

Commentary: Generational curses and the sins of the father (00:00)

Does the Nicene Creed indicate that we’re saved by baptism? (27:00)

How can we have an expectancy for Christ if there’s no rapture? (47:00)

Mentioned on the Show: 

The Blessed Hope: A Biblical Study of the Second Advent and the Rapture by George Eldon Ladd

The Church and the Tribulation: A Biblical Examination of Posttribulationism by Robert Gundry

The Rap on the Rapture by Greg Koukl