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Eric Smith – Summit Ministries – Equipping Students with a Christian Worldview (May 20, 2016)
Guest Host: Alan Shlemon Commentary: Answering Jonathan Merritt on the Transgender Debate (00:00) Guest: Eric Smith – Summit Ministries – Equipping Students with a Christian Worldview (00:21) Caller Topic: 1. How should a Christian public school teacher handle the transgender bathroom policy? (00:46) Download the mp3...
Preparing Your Church or Christian School for Cultural Challenges (February 10, 2016)
Host: Greg Koukl Commentary: Preparing Your Church or Christian School for Cultural Challenges (00:00) Caller Topic: 1. How do you answer Jehovah’s Witnesses’ claim that 1 Corinthians 11:3 teaches Jesus is not God? (00:19) 2. What’s the responsibility toward “weaker brothers” for a Christian who works in a place that serves alcohol? (00:38) 3. How do you pray with trust when God seems hidden? (00:48) Download the mp3...
reTHINK Student Conference Update (September 30, 2015)
Host: Greg Koukl Commentary: reTHINK Student Apologetics Update (00:00) Caller Topic: 1. Bill Nye's video on abortion and self-defeating statements (00:14) 2. What's the roadmap to be equipped to defend the faith? (00:25) 3. Is there a wrong way to pray? (00:46) Find an article, book, or guest Greg mentioned on the show...
First Day of School (September 2, 2014)
Host: Greg Koukl Commentary: First Day of School (00:00) Commentary: The Design of Decay (01:00) Commentary: Head vs. Heart (02:00) Commentary: “My Sheep Hear My Voice" (02:24)
Should Christians Try to Influence the Culture? (August 26, 2014)
Host: Greg Koukl Commentary: Should Christians Try to Influence the Culture? (00:00) Commentary: Facts about Jesus’ Death and Resurrection (01:00) Commentary: Advice to College Students (02:00)
Abortion Challenge: This Is Not a Person
An acorn is not an oak tree. A chicken egg is not a chicken. Silk is not a dress. A fertilized egg is not a person. Alan responds to this challenge offered by some abortion-choice advocates.
Is A Human Embryo Without an Active Brain Alive?
Alan responds to the challenge that a human embryo without a brain is not alive and, consequently, can be be killed. Alan answers this week's challenge.
Are Early Human Embryos Individuals?
Alan Shlemon responds to the challenge that since human embryos can twin and then even recombine to form one, individual human life can't be determined until after this period.
Challenge: Abortion Is Permissible - Nobody Has the Right to Use My Body
Does a woman's right to her own body trump the right to life of the unborn? This argument often expresses itself as the "violinist" argument. Alan responds to this week's challenge by explaining the problem with the "violinist" argument and its defense for abortion.
You Can Argue Someone Into the Kingdom (November 27, 2011)
Host: Greg Koukl Commentary: Baptism BeliefsCommentary: You Can Argue Someone into the Kingdom Caller/Topic 1. Is it biblical to use birth control?2. Hell doesn't make sense.3. Do we have to suspend rationality to believe the Trinity?4. Do the laws of logic prove God's existence?5. How do you deal with a steamroller?6. Paul Maier's novels.7. Nobody gets argued into the Kingdom.8. Does the Old Testament condone rape?9. How do you talk to someone who bases their beliefs on experience?