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July 17, 2019
Episode 207 - What Does Christianity Say About Intelligent Life On Other Planets?
We've been going through a series for the last few weeks, and we probably will for several weeks to come, looking at what at least one non-Christian considers to be a list of 10 unanswerable questions by Christians. We've talked about why we should believe that God created everything. What's the evidence for it? We've looked at does the Bible substantiate the claim that God created everything? But we come to a different question today, and I think it's helpful for us to think...
July 10, 2019
Episode 206 - One Day, Will We Discover A Non-Supernatural Cause For The Universe?
On the last episode, we addressed one of the 10 questions that supposedly a theist can't answer. A theist is someone who believes there is one personal God, one God anywhere, but that that God is personally involved in creation, and that question, that first question, dealt with how or if the Bible actually supports the assertion that it makes in the first verse of the Bible that God created the heavens and the earth, so I'd encourage you to go back and listen to that.
Today's...
June 26, 2019
Episode 205 - What Is The Evidence That God Created Everything in Genesis 1:1?
Hello, and welcome to Unapologetic. A podcast about defending not apologizing for your Christian convictions. I received an email this week where a guy was asking about this list that's been posted on the internet of supposedly unanswerable questions by Christians. So these are questions he doesn't think Christians and Christianity can answer. And he was asking for some feedback, "How should I be prepared to address these when I'm sharing the Gospel?" I love that question. The...
Episode 205 - What Is The Evidence That God Created Everything in Genesis 1:1
Hello, and welcome to Unapologetic. A podcast about defending not apologizing for your Christian convictions. I received an email this week where a guy was asking about this list that's been posted on the internet of supposedly unanswerable questions by Christians. So these are questions he doesn't think Christians and Christianity can answer. And he was asking for some feedback, "How should I be prepared to address these when I'm sharing the Gospel?" I love that question. The...
June 12, 2019
Episode 204 - Does God Hate People?
Hello and welcome to Unapologetic, a podcast about defending, not apologizing for your Christian convictions. A question that may come up as we read the Scriptures is what is God? Who is God? What is God like? And in fact, from one perspective, the whole Bible is a revelation of who God is. God sacrifices His privacy and reveals Himself to us. It's His self-disclosure to us. Divinely inspired, revealed throughout time. And it tells us about who He is and what His saving plans...
May 29, 2019
Sermon: Psalm 3 (Trust the Lord to Deliver)
If you have your Bibles, go ahead and turn to Psalm 3. The book of Psalms, Psalm number 3. We're going to be in the Psalms this summer. We were in the Psalms last summer. There are 150 of them. We are not going to run out of options anytime soon, but as we are going to be going through the Psalms, I want to spend a little time this morning and lay some foundation that we can build on in future weeks. Because when we come to any new part of the Bible, we've got to understa...
May 22, 2019
Episode 203 - Where Does The Bible Say Jesus Is God?
Hello, and welcome to Unapologetic, a podcast about defending, not apologizing for your Christian convictions. Often, we want to make a moral point or talk about the exclusivity of salvation, and those two things often rest on us first proving that Jesus was actually God, right? If he's not God, then why does He get to tell us how to live?
And some people today, perhaps unknowingly, acknowledge this point when they will say things like, "Well, where did Jesus talk about homose...
May 15, 2019
Episode 202 - What's Worse: False Teaching or Physical Harm?
Today, I want to talk about a surprising way we often value the physical over the spiritual. How we often value, in some ways, the temporary over the eternal. And you might be thinking, "I don't do that, I'm a Christian. I don't do that, I don't think my friends do that." But I actually think there's an issue that kind of runs throughout ages and different denominations. And there's definitely an issue we have today in how we prioritize one thing inappropriately over the other...
May 1, 2019
Episode 201 - Is God Fair?
A question that comes up, I think more recently, perhaps, than at least I've heard in the past, is the question about the goodness and fairness of God. On the one hand, I think we as Christians need to focus more on the goodness and beauty of God. Our apologetics of previous years and decades have often been focused on scientific and intellectual rigor. We should certainly still contend on those fronts, I agree. We need to present a well reasoned case that shows that Christian...
April 24, 2019
Episode 200 - 5 Lessons I've Learned Over The Last 200 Episodes
This is episode number 200. And in fact, I've been doing this for 201 episodes. There actually is an episode zero, which is probably confusing to you. I work in the kind of computer software field and computers often start counting at zero, and so I did that, and yeah, I'm a nerd, but you probably realized that by now.
But anyways, 200 full episodes together. And I want to share today what I've learned and how I've changed and grown through that, and also some of the trends I...
