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August 9, 2017
Episode 123 - "I Can't Believe in a God Who Would..."
Have you ever heard someone say, "I can't believe in a God who is like this...,��� or "I can't believe in a God who would do that"? We're going to talk about how to respond to that type of claim today on Unapologetic.
I keep a list of topics for this podcast, and depending on how I'm feeling or what's in the news, or things like that, I pick from them each week. This topic today has been in the queue for quite a while. I say that just simply to point out, if there's a topic y...
August 2, 2017
Episode 122 - There is No Religiously Neutral Position/Person
In college, my wife stayed with another family while she was in grad school. They were very giving to her, very welcoming, very warm. On occasion, they would try to pull her into conversations and playful disagreements. She liked both of them, and she refused to take sides. She said, "I'm Switzerland. I'm neutral." Of course, Switzerland as a country has historically been neutral. They don't take sides in things.
It's often today that we view neutrality as a good thing. ���He...
July 26, 2017
Episode 121 - Does Everyone Have a Conversion Experience?
Do you have to have a conversion experience in order to be a Christian?
A couple of weeks ago I did a podcast on the fact that there's a heart behind every question, that often what seems to some, and often to me, as just an intellectual question, really has something that's deeply heartfelt behind it. The person perhaps asking about works, and salvation, or eternal security, or you fill in the blank, often isn't just trying to satisfy some intellectual curiosity. They have s...
July 19, 2017
Episode 120 - Is there a Blatant Contradiction in Proverbs?
Does Proverbs contain a blatant contradiction? It tells us to answer a fool according to his folly, and in the very next verse, not to answer a fool according to his folly. Stay tuned to find out on Unapologetic.
If you've had very many conversations about the Bible, you assuredly have heard someone say that it contains contradictions. Now, often when people say this, it's helpful to say, "Well can you show me one? Can you show me a contradiction?" Because it's really easy fo...
July 12, 2017
Episode 119 - There's Often a Heart Behind the Question
Today's episode is largely for me. Now, of course, you can listen; I hope you do. I'm speaking to myself here more than I usually do. Usually, I'm speaking from something that I'm confident in, that I've researched, that I speak on, that I write on, those types of things, but today I'm speaking from more an area of weakness and something that I need to remind myself of: remembering that there is usually a heart behind the question.
Now, of course, everyone who asks a question...
July 5, 2017
Episode 118 - There's Too Much Information for Evolution to Be True
There's too much information for evolution to be true.
Now you might be thinking, "Aren't there tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of studies that show that evolution is true?" Well that all depends on several things. The first might be what you mean by evolution.
Anytime we talk about this topic we need to define our terms here. I was just having a conversation this last Sunday after small group with a PhD student that's in my small group. We were talking about evol...
July 4, 2017
Why Should We Trust the Bible?
The was a sermon preached at City Church, Tallahassee Florida on July 2nd, 2017.
Here are my slides/notes, since many have asked.
VideoAudio TranscriptI've got a question for you this morning. Do you trust the Bible? If so, why? In a group this size, on a day like today, I'm sure we have a full spectrum of answers to that question. All the way from, "Yeah, I'm all in. No questions," and maybe on the other extreme, "I don't think that's true at all." Many of us often fall in that middle ground,...
June 28, 2017
Episode 117 - Bakers, Justices, and Religious Liberty
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TranscriptThe last week in June is typically filled with announcements of what the Supreme Court has decided in cases that it���s heard over its last term. Then the court goes on to take a summer break. You may recall that two years ago, the court came to a decision in the Obergefell case, which redefined marriage from a governments perspective. It no longer needed to be legally defined as one...
June 23, 2017
Sermon: Mark 7 - Legalism and Evil's Source
We've been going through the Gospel According to Mark here as a church for the better part of this year so far. From the very first verse in Mark, we're told that this contains the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the good news of what Jesus has come to do for sinners, people like you, people like me. We've seen Jesus preaching that the kingdom of God has come with him. He's been authenticating this message with miracles, with healings, with exorcisms. Just last week in chapter si...
June 21, 2017
Episode 116 - A PSA on the Atonement
What is penal substitutionary atonement and is it biblical?
Few things are as important to think about and understand and be prepared to defend as what Christ actually did on the cross. We can defend the truthfulness of the Christian worldview and that God exists and all of that, but if Christ didn't actually die to save sinners and accomplish that on the cross then all that other stuff really doesn't matter. What's Paul's declaration in I Corinthians 15? If Christ is not rai...
