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February 5, 2020
Episode 214 - If You Accept The First Sentence Of The Bible, All That Follows is Plausible
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Hello, and welcome to Unapologetic, a podcast about defending not apologizing for your Christian convictions. I want to go to the very first verse in the very first chapter of the Bible today. So, the book of Genesis verse one, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." And here's what I want us to think about today. If that verse is true or perhaps better said, since that verse is true,...
January 29, 2020
Sermon: Genesis 1:26-31 - The Worth and Dignity of Every Person
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Today is what's been set aside as national sanctity of human life Sunday where we reflect on the innate worth and dignity of every single person from conception to natural death and every stage in between. But on this day specifically, we want to reflect on the innate worth and dignity of all unborn persons too.
And this isn't just an arbitrary day. You might think, "Why today? What makes this Sunday...
January 8, 2020
Episode 212 - Is Our Knowledge of God like Blind Men Feeling an Elephant?
This week we're going to talk about the idea that all religions are equally valid, that all religions contain a piece of the greater truth, and hence are all equally valid ways to get to God.
This is much larger of a topic than we could possibly cover in one episode, but maybe we'll attack it from various angles over the coming months, maybe skipping a week here or there. But you've probably seen this represented by a wheel, where all the religions are spokes on the wheel and...
December 31, 2019
The Books I Read in 2019
With 2019 coming to a close, and since I have benefited from seeing what others read, Im posting the books I read completely in 2019. While a books inclusion is not indicative of agreement, I do give most of these books at least 3/5 stars. You can see individual ratings on my Good Reads page.
Title Author Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion McLaughlin, Rebecca Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family Tripp, Paul David...December 18, 2019
Episode 211 - The Four Virgin Births of Atheism
Which virgin birth do you believe in? Atheism offers at least four, and Christianity offers one.
It's that time of year again. At Christmas, we remember and celebrate the incarnation, the taking on of flesh, by Jesus Christ, the adding of human nature to his divine nature in the incarnation. The virgin birth is a very important part of that. We'll talk about that a little at the end of the episode today.
It's interesting, society thinks that Christians are the only ones who...
December 11, 2019
Episode 210 - Jesus vs. Paul: Who Wins?
Hello and welcome to Unapologetic, a podcast about defending, not apologizing for, your Christian convictions. Perhaps I should have said welcome back. It has been I think about three months since I did an episode and after doing about four years of weekly episodes and life and work getting hectic, I took a little bit of a break. So thank you to all of you who sent encouraging notes, wondering if emails just weren't going out. No. The issue was I wasn't doing podcasts to email...
September 4, 2019
Episode 209 - Does Morality Require the Existence of God?
Hello and welcome to Unapologetic, a podcast about defending, not apologizing for your Christian convictions. We're going to continue on this week looking at 10 supposedly unanswerable questions by theists, by people who believe there is one personal God, and that includes Christians. And in fact, most of these objections in this list are against Christianity and I think they're very good for us to consider.
We don't want to just sit in our little Christian bubbles and reaffi...
August 7, 2019
Episode 208 - Is Science About Facts and Religion About Values?
Hello and welcome to Unapologetic, a podcast about defending, not apologizing for your Christian convictions. This week, we're going to continue on looking at this list of supposedly 10 unanswerable questions by Christians. We've talked about where the earth came from, how does the Bible relate to that, what evidence does it give, why should we believe that, how do we think through aliens and potential life on other planets. And today's question kind of takes a little bit of a...
