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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM

Greg talks about the best question you can ask, biblical manuscript evidence, New Testament manuscript evidence, then takes calls on what makes us believe in Jesus, how to prove we will be raised...

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To Homeschool or Not? Principles to Train Children

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM

Greg talks about whether to home-school or not and principles to train children, utilitarianism, then takes calls on what things should lead a Christian to leave a church, if it is possible to be a...

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Is There Any Power of Positive Thinking?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:42 PM

Greg talks about raising children to be adults, if there is any power of positive thinking, then takes calls on how a person can share his concerns with his pastor about “emergent” teachings...

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#STRask: Is Christianity Really a Story of Reality?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 27, 2024 10:54 PM

Questions about whether Christianity is about following Jesus rather than a story of reality, what John the Baptist meant when he said, “He must increase, but I must decrease,” and why John the...

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When a Mentor Walks Away from Christianity

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Oct 2, 2019 6:05 PM

It’s disorienting when a mentor walks away from Christianity; the result can be grief, confusion, doubt, and even fear that it could happen to us. Here’s how we can think more clearly about this...

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

Christianity as the Best Explanation

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM

Christianity can be seen as an explanatory hypothesis to account for certain phenomena we observe in the world: the origin of the universe, the design of the universe, and the universality of...

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

When the Enterprise Got a Soul

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM

Greg challenges a misinterpretation of what it means to have a soul which occurred on an episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

Can a Soul be Cloned?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM

Would a clone be a faux human being, a physical facade with nothing inside?

Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Bioethics

Are Faith and Reason Compatible?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 20, 2020 8:05 PM

When you think about the definition of rationality and the definition of faith—where is the conflict? The answer is there is none.

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

Why We Should Trust the Gospel Witnesses

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM

The best reasoning as to why we can rely on the Scripture accounts of the life and death of Jesus.

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

Get on Board or Get Out of the Game

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:54 PM

Greg talks about our need to get serious about following Christ then takes questions about praying to Jesus, Jesus descending into Hell, and racial guilt.

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The Exponential Impact of Faithfulness

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 6, 2021 1:57 AM

Greg talks about the difference one pastor made over 50 years, then he answers a question about whether it’s possible there are levels of Heaven as the Mormons claim.

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Gary Habermas: What We Can and Cannot Learn from Near Death Experiences

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM

Greg talks about God’s fingerprints on our lives, discusses What We Can & Cannot Learn from Near Death Experiences with guest Gary Habermas, and more.

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Courage to Engage the Culture

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM

J. Warner Wallace talks about courage to engage the culture, fighting over Genesis 1, Apologetics.com Canada with Andy Steiger, Why Do You Believe That with Mary Jo Sharp, and more.

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Leaving a Legacy for the Kingdom

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:39 PM

Greg talks about leaving a legacy for the kingdom, claims of prophesy, categorizing morality, then takes calls on if Christianity is guilty of “God of the Gaps,” if the prophesies about Jesus were...

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Clay Jones: The Problem of Evil and Destruction of the Canaanites

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:39 PM

Greg talks about Bell and Bashir, if we need to be rescued from God, the problem of evil and the destruction of the Canaanites with Clay Jones, then takes calls on if Philippians 4:6-7 is a...

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In But Not Of: A Robust Christian Worldview

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:40 PM

Greg talks about Christians’ relationship to the law, in but not of: a robust Christian worldview, then takes calls on why there is one universe and not many, alternative explanations for...

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Is a Scientific Study of the Historical Jesus Possible?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM

Greg talks about if a scientific study of the historical Jesus is possible, why we should trust the gospels, then takes calls on if Jesus died a natural death and did not rise from the dead, if God...

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Before a Hostile Audience

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM

Greg talks about speaking before a hostile audience, his view on surrogacy, what Hebrews teaches about eternal security, and more.

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What Is Humility?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 24, 2024 1:59 AM

Greg talks about the nature and importance of humility, then he answers questions about whether we can determine which writings are Scripture just by looking at those writings and whether the fact...

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Answering the New Atheists—Part 2

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM

Infamous New Atheist Christopher Hitchens recently debated Privileged Planet author Jay Wesley Richards at Stanford on the existence of God. In the middle of Richards’s opening remarks, Hitchens...

Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Other Worldviews

Truth Is a Strange Sort of Fiction: The Postmodern Turn—Part 1

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM

Would you die for truth? Of course you would. Multitudes do everyday. Or more precisely, they die because they don’t have truth.

Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Philosophy

The Death of Humanness

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM

Life Unworthy of Life?

Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Bioethics

Try Before You Buy?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 29, 2022 6:53 PM

Many Christians have rejected the idea that sex is only for marriage, buying into the culture’s notion that chastity is unrealistic. Here’s why this “try before you buy” mentality reflects mistaken...

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The Deity of Christ and the Reality of the Trinity

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:57 PM

Sometimes things that confound us have a simple side to them. In a certain sense, this is true with the Trinity. The mystery may be confounding, but the biblical facts on the matter are really not...

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

Is It Appropriate to Judge Whether or Not Someone Is Saved?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 30, 2019 11:14 PM

Greg talks about whether one can or should judge if someone is really saved, then he answers questions about Christians causing LGBT suicides and advice for responding to a son who says he’s an...

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Dealing With Doubt About Christianity

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:39 PM

Greg talks about dealing with doubt about Christianity, fast food and moral views, then takes calls on if moral acts can be defined without reference to personal beliefs, if the Gospels are...

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Denis Prager: Reality vs. Religion?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:40 PM

Greg talks about Brian McLaren’s “New Kind of Christianity” with Kevin DeYoung, reality vs. religion: the modern upper story leap, reality vs. religion with Denis Prager, then takes calls on...

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Brett Kunkle: STR Student Website

Web Content Article · By tom puls On Jun 27, 2019 8:40 PM

Greg talks about his reflection on 20 years on the radio, Tony Blair lectures the pope on updating church teaching, Roman Catholic church celebrates Darwin and evolution, STR student website with...

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Bobby Maddex: Salvo Magazine

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM

Greg talks about if Jesus was a myth and responds to objections, potpourri of comments, Salvo Magazine with Bobby Maddex, then takes calls on God not being able to sin because of his omniscience,...

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April 25, 2004

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:44 PM

Greg interviews Frank Turek on his new book “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist”, recounts his last few talks at some universities, and takes some calls on inerrancy and...

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Arguments that Commit Suicide

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM

Some ideas have the tendency to self-destruct when given the opportunity. Your job is simply to point it out, and then watch the view quietly commit suicide.

Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Philosophy

Arguing Is a Virtue

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM

Imagine living in a world in which you couldn’t separate truth from error. You wouldn’t be able to tell food from poison, or friend from foe.

Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Theology

Learn to Explain and Defend Your Religious Liberty

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM

Religious people are seeking to live out their convictions, and the changing values of our society are infringing on their rights.

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How Progressive Revelation Makes a Case for an Afterlife

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 1, 2021 11:10 PM

Greg and Amy give suggestions on how to answer a non-practicing Jew who claims there is no afterlife because Heaven and Hell are not mentioned in the Torah.

Media Type: Video Topic: Theology

Was Jesus Compassionate?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 9, 2023 11:12 PM

Greg and Amy answer a question about how we can reconcile Jesus’ seemingly harsh statements telling people to leave their families with the idea that he is compassionate.

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Why God? Part 1

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM

All the big questions—issues of origin, meaning, morality, and destiny—and all the secondary concerns, too—issues of sex, gender, liberty, equality, bodily rights, etc.—eventually come down to one....

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A Tactics Story

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM

Greg tells a story of how he used tactics with a waitress over the weekend, then he answers questions about the command to kill the Amalekites and women not instructing their husbands.

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The Cost for Faithfully Following Christ Is Going Up

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 29, 2020 3:52 AM

Greg talks about the death of Mike Adams and gives advice for enduring the heat we will face as Christians, then he answers questions about making tactics memorable, speaking in tongues, and...

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Romans 1 and Culture

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM

Greg talks about Romans 1 and culture, Christian participation in civic responsibility, the answers questions on if there is corroborating evidence for the tax by Caesar that Luke reports, why...

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Evidence for New Testament Historicity

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM

Greg talks about evidence for New Testament historicity, the scourge of group emails, the difference between Old Earth and Theistic Evolution, then takes calls on the view of pre-trib rapture,...

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Theistic Evolution Gives Up Too Much

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:39 PM

Greg talks about if Christianity is a view of reality, if theistic evolution gives up too much, “Temple Grandin,” then takes calls about advice for giving pro-life presentations at church, how to...

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Is America a Christian Nation?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:39 PM

Greg talks about if Christianity and patriotic expressions are compatible, if America is a Christian nation, atheists: freedom from religion, then takes calls on what the differences is between...

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Holly Ordway: Not God’s Type: A Rational Academic Finds a Radical Faith

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:40 PM

Greg talks about don’t win an argument: put a stone in his shoe, how to learn from the Old Testament, Not God’s Type: A Rational Academic Finds a Radical Faith with Holly Ordway, then he takes...

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What Was Jesus’ View on the Definition of Marriage?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM

Greg talks about Jesus’ definition of marriage, how to answer conspiracy theorists, and how to introduce spiritual topics into conversation.

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Jesus, the Only Savior

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM

Greg explains why there is no such thing as a pluralist Christian.

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

New Testament Prayer

Web Content Article · By stand to reason On Feb 27, 2020 9:46 PM

Here’s what the New Testament has to say about prayer.