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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 30, 2023 10:11 PM
Questions about how grounding morality in God’s nature solves the Euthyphro dilemma and whether we only have moral values because our culture has learned over time what does and does not benefit...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 19, 2024 3:57 PM
Question about an objection to grounding objective morality in God that states that if God has a morally perfect nature, and he either engaged in or directly allowed genocide, slavery, and torture,...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 27, 2024 10:52 PM
Questions about how one can use the moral argument and also say we can’t impose a moral standard from one period of time on another and responding to someone who says she would never follow a God...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 14, 2024 9:46 PM
Questions about whether one can argue from the existence of evil straight to the Christian God or if more arguments are required to get there and whether Abraham sacrificing Isaac would be...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 14, 2024 2:26 PM
Questions about the need to prove evil exists before arguing for the existence of God from the existence of evil and what to say to an eleven-year-old boy who lost his dad and brother to a...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM
In 4 min. or less, Greg answers questions about using the Bible to witness, getting people interested in apologetics, and one of the toughest questions about God to answer.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM
Greg answers questions on reaching people who are apathetic about spiritual things, Molinism, God “regretting” making man, and witnessing in the workplace.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 30, 2019 11:20 PM
Questions about believing in a God who would send Anne Frank to Hell and Ted Bundy to Heaven and using the Ray Comfort method of street evangelism.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 4, 2019 12:05 AM
Questions about using Hell as a motivation, dinosaurs and young earth creation, a book by Norman Geisler, and presenting the gospel to an eight-year-old.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 3, 2020 9:16 PM
Questions about proving events in the Bible, explaining mercy to a child, helping someone who doesn’t know if he’s one of the elect, and whether church should only be for believers.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 30, 2020 4:54 PM
Questions about steamrollers who say there’s no proof for God, whether matter changing to energy proves it isn’t self-existent, and whether rainbows existed before Noah. (Jon fills in for Amy.)
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 8, 2020 6:29 PM
Questions about maneuvering a “gauntlet” strategy of questions in a discussion and whether Christians shouldn’t seek fear as a form of entertainment.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 22, 2020 7:23 PM
Questions about how to respond to an atheist who rejects the Bible because it contains miracles and thoughts about churches requiring liability waivers to attend worship services.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 27, 2021 10:07 PM
Question about how to transition from being an apologist to an evangelist when the person you’re talking to starts thinking about converting.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 2, 2021 9:40 PM
Questions about responding to an atheist who asks what it would take to convince you God doesn’t exist and problems with the idea that we should live however we want as long as we don’t hurt anybody.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 31, 2021 6:19 PM
Questions about how to persuade a family member who responds to the Columbo questions with anger and what Christians should expect to experience when it comes to God’s discipline.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 19, 2021 9:35 PM
Questions about how to steer the conversation in a Bible study towards discussing the text in context and whether there are things Greg and Amy wish they had known about apologetics work before...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 11, 2021 7:53 PM
Questions about whether it’s biblical to refer to God as the Divine Mother and tactical ways to respond to someone who says he’s offended by your views.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 6, 2022 3:21 AM
Questions about what to do if someone feels ashamed because he can’t answer the first Columbo question and whether there there are arguments we can use for God’s existence based on our experience...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 2, 2022 7:31 PM
Questions about what topics to cover when presenting an apologetics series in a church and how to handle addressing people’s doubts in an apologetics class when discussing them can confuse others...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 12, 2022 12:26 AM
Questions about whether it’s possible to go your whole life without sinning, why God put the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden, and how to “take the roof off” the claim that...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 22, 2022 7:01 PM
Questions about how to engage someone who calls himself an “agnostic atheist” and how to deal with a parent contradicting you with heretical theology while you’re teaching students in a...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 11, 2022 3:33 PM
Questions about what to say to someone who says he “believes in science, not God” and how to respond to the slogan “Love Is Love” without using the Bible.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 16, 2022 6:10 PM
Questions about how to get into spiritual conversations with people and what to say to someone who says Jesus, the stories in the Bible, Heaven, etc. are all just metaphorical.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 16, 2022 5:25 PM
Questions about what to read to take your apologetics knowledge up a notch, how to reconcile friends’ experiences encountering ghosts with what the Bible teaches, whether you should give charitably...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 8, 2023 1:02 AM
Questions about how to respond to someone who says she would only consider Christianity if it weren’t patriarchal and had a goddess to worship and how a husband could persuade his wife, who is...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 27, 2023 5:19 PM
Questions about why God expects us to be perfectly moral if he doesn’t expect us to be omnipresent, omniscient, or omnipotent and tips for interacting with someone who asks a lot of questions but...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 4, 2023 9:42 PM
Questions about whether spending time defending Christianity in chat rooms where atheists and Christians debate is a worthy endeavor and whether it’s better to choose a church you agree with...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 12, 2023 7:35 PM
Questions about how to reply when atheists respond to the evidence you offer by saying, “That’s not evidence,” and how Christians can say we have free will to choose God when we’re threatened with...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 20, 2023 9:14 PM
Questions about what questions to ask someone who claims to be a Christian but doesn’t seem to have true, saving faith and when to stop trying to convince someone who denies some essentials of the...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 24, 2023 8:03 PM
Questions about the best way to tactically and tactfully respond to those who claim God told them to do something and how to get one’s emotions under control when talking to a friend who joined a...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 16, 2023 12:29 AM
Questions about how to use Columbo questions with someone who is nonreligious but “spiritual,” what to say to someone who “followed Jesus out of the church” and now doesn’t believe spiritual truth...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 10, 2023 8:36 PM
Questions about what to do if someone uses the Columbo tactic against you, why some Christians say that only some doctrines matter and should be defended, and whether the extent to which one spends...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 19, 2023 4:00 PM
Greg and Amy chat about Greg’s new book, Street Smarts: Using Questions to Answer Christianity’s Toughest Challenges, discussing the goal of the book, how this new material differs from and...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 2, 2023 1:20 PM
Questions about whether most Christians are only Christians because they were indoctrinated at a young age, whether getting pregnant out of wedlock was “just God’s plan,” underlining text in books,...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 30, 2023 3:54 PM
Question about the hardest aspect of Christianity to defend.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 16, 2023 7:14 PM
Questions about what to ask a strict empiricist who claims he only believes in things he can see, the purpose behind God making people with senses that can’t find him, and thoughts on whether a...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 14, 2024 9:47 PM
Question about advice for debating an atheist.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 21, 2024 5:31 PM
Questions about how to start conversations with postmodernists about the need for repentance and what question one can use to put a stone in the shoe of a Buddhist friend.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 14, 2024 2:27 PM
Questions about what to do when you don’t know how to respond to someone’s answer to your question and you feel unsafe in the conversation and how to go about witnessing to and discipling a...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 26, 2024 7:37 PM
Questions about apologetics strategies to use with an agnostic who says it’s pointless to worry about whether there is a God because we can’t know if he exists and whether it’s a bad strategy to...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 8, 2024 2:33 PM
Questions about what to say to someone who believes the Bible and church are man-made ways to control people who don’t want to think for themselves and how to respond to the claim that Christianity...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM
Alan explains the implications of being made in the image of God and why society is shooting itself in the foot for rejecting this principle.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM
Sometimes people claim that the only reason someone is a Christian is because they were born in the United States. In this episode, Alan gives three reasons why such a claim is wrong headed.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Oct 8, 2019 9:37 PM
Alan explains how the atheist’s materialistic worldview makes several miracle claims to explain reality.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Sep 6, 2020 7:15 PM
Skeptics and atheists find the problem of evil so repugnant and our solutions so hollow because they refuse to accept a fundamental reality that every Christian believes. Alan explains what that...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 22, 2021 5:34 AM
If someone asked you how you know Christianity is true, how would you answer them? In this episode, Alan offers his response to that question by appealing to some powerful truths that people live by.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jul 20, 2021 5:47 PM
You've heard of the Big Bang, but are you aware of the other two big bangs, each of which represents the beginning of a fundamentally new thing that didn't exist before? Alan explains what they are...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Oct 9, 2021 10:35 PM
Alan takes notice of a cultural trend to reject teleological language when describing human anatomy and shows how this explains modern thinking on sex and sexuality.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
Greg talks about freedom then takes calls on biases, biblical interpretation, and lust.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM
Greg reflects on a recent talk given by Craig Hazen on the reasons why people should consider Christianity first then answers questions on Mormonism, Molinism, living with an unbelieving spouse,...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM
Greg interviews Dr. Greg Ganssle, author of Our Deepest Desires: How the Christian Story Fulfills Human Aspirations.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:52 PM
Greg recounts a conversation he had with someone who said she was “spiritual, not religious” then answers questions about creating with the appearance of age, Christ’s body, and Matthew 6:33.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM
Greg talks about a misunderstanding of Hebrews 10 then answers a question about a possible example of relativism.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM
Would you like to improve your ability to engage others in spiritual conversations? Do what Jesus did 284 times in the Gospels. Find out what that is in this episode.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM
Greg gives tools for explaining how God grounds morality and evil is evidence for His existence, then he takes calls about doing a Bible study with a skeptic, our responsibility for sin, the...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM
Greg discusses the differences between the left and the right: progressivism vs. conservatism. In addition, he answers questions about “ought” implying “can” and who created God.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM
Greg critiques Sam Harris’s explanation of objective morality then takes questions about people in other religions feeling God’s presence and feral children’s sense of morality.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:59 PM
Greg talks about caption ideas for your Christmas cards, then he takes calls on suicide, using apologetics in your limited time, the Old Testament Law, and whether we’re all in a simulation.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
Greg discusses the widespread relativistic view of religion in our culture, then he answers questions about using humor in persuasion, testing doctrine by the Old Testament, and why receiving the...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
Greg and Tim talk about Dawkins’s statement that no evidence would convince him, then they take calls on Freemasonry, speaking in tongues, and an objection to the idea that we can have a personal...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
Greg talks about the need to get the definition of “faith” right, then he takes a call from an atheist.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Alan recently returned from Australia after spending some time training local believers on how to graciously engage Muslims. In this episode, Alan discusses one key tactic he taught Australian...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Greg talks about a recent opinion piece in the New York Times, then he answers questions about why people go to Hell, a “carrots and sticks” view of Christianity, women as pastors, and Zionism.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Greg responds to the charge that divine command morality is ethical subjectivism, then he answers questions about the final judgment and how an atheist might refute the moral argument.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:03 PM
Sean McDowell talks to Scott Rae about the new edition of his book Moral Choices: An Introduction to Ethics.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:03 PM
Alan points out that Jesus didn’t always answer questions directly. Sometimes He took a different approach. Perhaps we can take a cue from Jesus since He’s the smartest person in history. Alan...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 7, 2019 10:21 PM
Jon Noyes fills in for Greg and talks about how to recognize and respond to relativism.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 16, 2019 9:34 PM
Greg talks about an interaction he had with a student about the existence of the soul, comments on materialism’s inability to address the problem of evil, and answers questions about the meaning of...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 12, 2019 8:27 PM
Greg talks about souls and gives reasons why we should think we have one.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 10, 2020 10:08 PM
The Columbo Tactic—asking question—is powerful. But what if you could amplify the impact you make with it? In this episode, Alan explains how to upgrade your approach to create even more powerful...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 29, 2020 6:54 AM
Greg talks about what we all know to be true about reality and how Christianity explains those things while atheism can’t.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 15, 2020 7:37 PM
Greg interacts with a caller who challenges his view on the social contract theory of morality.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 25, 2020 2:08 AM
Greg interviews Neil Shenvi on critical theory vs. the Christian worldview.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 1, 2020 1:56 AM
Greg talks to Corey Miller, president and CEO of Ratio Christi, about what’s happening on university campuses and his work with atheist Peter Boghossian.
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