Monday, March 27, 2023
A Culture Filled with Plastic People
Lenny once again joins Dr. Harry Edwards and Dr. Jacob Daniel to discuss Carl Trueman's landmark book The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self. This discussion centers on how for the first time in history people define themselves primarily by their feelings instead of more objective standard and the dangers such subjective and ethereal measurements create.
Monday, March 20, 2023
Resurrection, Near Death Experiences, and the Shroud of Turin: Interview with Gary Habermas
Christians have centered their faith around the resurrection of Jesus, not simply as a tenet of belief, but as an historical fact. In this podcast, Lenny talks with Dr. Gary Habermas, one of the world's leading experts on the historical nature of the these accounts and why the evidence points to the resurrection as a real event of history. We also discuss Gary's research into the Shroud of Turin and his examination of Near Death Experience reports. Join us for this fascinating discussion.
Monday, March 13, 2023
Talking with Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses have made a name for themselves by traveling door to door and converting people. But how can we defend our beliefs against their objections? In this podcast, Lenny teaches you how to dialogue with the Jehovah's Witnesses.
Monday, March 06, 2023
Five Questions to Ask Skeptics
Usually, Christians feel that they are on the hot seat--having to defend their faith and prove that Jesus is true. But skeptics shouldn't get a free pass; they must also account for their view of the world and how it works. In this week's podcast, Lenny gives you five questions to ask non-believers that show why Christianity offers the best answers in understanding reality.
Monday, February 27, 2023
Of Locusts and Love: Why A Loving God Would Bring Calamity
The Bible is frequently caricatured as displaying contradictory concepts of God. Critics claim that while the God of the New Testament is a filled with love and forgiveness while the Old Testament God is a God of vengeful wrath. Of course, nothing is further from the truth. In this podcast, Lenny looks at the book of Joel, when God calls judgment upon wayward Israel, and shows how God's actions truly reflect his love and concern for his people. We then turn to our plight today and understand that God can only be considered a loving God if he also upholds justice.
Monday, February 20, 2023
Our culture is obviously fragmenting today. We've seen many concerns from parents and others, especially Christian parents who see the society that they grew up in slipping away. Nowhere is this more transparent than in the tensions that are showing up in households. What does it mean that the new sexual politics, these new identity concepts which are being introduced to our children and to our nation are starting to pull apart the very building block of society that is the family? How can Christian parents guard against the state's intrusion into the home? These questions and more are answered by Lenny and his special guest, Dr. Jacob Daniel.
Monday, February 13, 2023
Divine Love as the Basis for Morality - Interview with Adam Johnson
C.S. Lewis famously wrote how it was the argument from morality that set him on a path of abandoning atheism and believing in God. The fact that moral values and duties really exist is difficult to square with an atheistic understanding of the world. If there are at least some moral precepts that stand above all humanity, where do they come from and how can we explain why we are beholden to them? Here, Lenny interviews Dr. Adam Johnson on his new book Divine Love Theory which argues that the best explanation for the reality of moral obligations flows not simply from God's nature, but specifically from the love relationship that the three members of the Trinity share.
Monday, February 06, 2023
A new year has begun and everyone is busy hoping to better themselves by making various resolutions. But so many times, we begins with good intentions but abandon our goals before the snow thaws. How can we draw closer to God? In this episode, Lenny explains that instead of resolving to do (or not do) things, we can better focus our efforts on character formation, making changes that will stick.
Monday, December 19, 2022
Imagining People As Products: EctoLife and our Brave New World
The EctoLife artificial womb facility video has taken the internet by storm. The video, produced by science popularizer Hashem Al-Ghaili, shows what may be possible in our near future: baby-making factories where fetuses are grown and hatched instead of birthed from their mother's uteruses. While this is still conceptual, it says quite a bit about the existing trends in reproductive technologies and just how dangerous and inhuman we have become in thinking about reproduction.
In this podcast, Lenny is joined by Patheos author Anthony Costello to discuss how new reproductive technologies, while promising a panacea, have become more of a Pandora's box in presenting new problems and dehumanizing us in the process.
Monday, December 05, 2022
Engaging atheists on social media platforms like Twitter can be tricky. Many such enounters devolve into not much more tha trading insults. However, in this podcast, Lenny uses a reent conversation with two atheists on Twitter to show ow Christians can better defend their faith while keeping the tone respectful. In this exchange, the atheists sought to disprove the Gospel concepton narrative, but when faced with the problem of the creation of matter out of nothing, which their worldview asserts, their own objections undermined them. Here, Lenny breaks down the entire conversation.
Sunday, November 27, 2022
Throughout history, humans have seen themselves as part of a larger world, one where God or gods and the supernatural were fundamental. In western societies today, that is no longer true. Our secular culture ignores the supernatural as a way of understanding the way things are. Is it possible to re-sensitize modern society to the sacred? Listen as Lenny joins the Apologetics.com radio panel to discuss how we have become callous to the things of God.
Sunday, October 16, 2022
The Bible holds that God predestines certain people to be saved, but we're also told that we must choose to follow Jesus. Is this a contradiction? Are our choices real? In this video, Lenny explores the apparent tensions between our free will and God's foreordination and looks at possible solutions offered in theological systems like Calvinism, Arminianism and Molinism. (Part 2 of 2)
Monday, October 03, 2022
The Bible holds that God predestines certain people to be saved, but we're also told that we must choose to follow Jesus. Is this a contradiction? Are our choices real? In this video, Lenny explores the apparent tensions between our free will and God's foreordination and looks at possible solutions offered in theological systems like Calvinism, Arminianism and Molinism. (Part 1 of 2)
Sunday, September 18, 2022
What does it mean to be human? How do we order our lives in such a way that we are being the best human beings we can be? While our modern society seeks the answer by following our feelings and our appetites, it has proven highly unsatisfying. Instead, we must see ourselves as God’s image bearers and recognize that our fallen nature will deceive us.
Monday, September 12, 2022
Have you ever wondered what God has for your life? How can you know that you're in God's will? In this teaching, Lenny takes a fresh look at four famous figures from the Bible and uses their examples to show how God can use the little things placed before us right now to ultimately accomplish miraculous achievements.
Monday, August 29, 2022
In just a few years it seems our culture went from holding natural marriage in high regard to not only accepting concepts like being born in the "wrong" body, but to advocating for them. This podcast recording captures a recent Apologetics.com radio program where Lenny, Dr. Harry Edwards, and Dr. Jacob Daniel discuss the first chapter of Carl Trueman’s book “The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self.” Specifically, they cover Philip Rieff’s cultural development of society beginning with what he calls the Political Man, then on to the Religious Man, to the Economic Man, and finally onto the Psychological Man.
Sunday, August 14, 2022
Should We Allow Public Displays of Faith in Government Settings?
Recently, a US Supreme Court decision stated that a high school football coach was within his constitutional rights to pray at the 50 yard line after school football games. The ruling quickly became controversial, adding to a growing tension between expressions of faith in public, especially when government entities are involved. Crosses on hilltops, Christmas nativity scenes on city hall lawns, and even the ten commandments posted on courtroom walls have all been under fire. What is the proper way to understand faith in the public square? We examine this more closely on our latest podcast.
Monday, August 08, 2022
Jordan Peterson has offered a message to Christian Churches, instructing them to begin engaging young men in order to save the culture. Is he right? How should we understand Peterson's call or should we bother with it at all? We will examine his message a bit more closely in this week's discussion.
Examining Jordan Peterson's Message to the Christian Churches.
Sunday, July 24, 2022
The overturning of Roe vs. Wade sent shockwaves through our culture. Yet, this isn’t the end of the abortion debate. It is only the end of the first chapter. In this newly restructured podcast, Lenny is joined by Raymond Gregory and Dominique Aguiar to discuss the impact of the Dobbs decision, what it really means to be pro-life, and how Christians should approach the objections of pro-abortion activists.
Sunday, July 17, 2022
Debunking "Bible Secrets" Television Shows (Part 4)
YouTube, as well as cable channels like The History Channel or Discovery love to hype programs where they air supposed secret findings about the Bible. Even PBS produced "The Bible's Buried Secrets" – the latest in a list of documentaries that tries to undermine the Bible's credibility. How should we understand these shows and what are we to o with the charges from some very significant scholars? In this series, Lenny shows some of the tricks the producers use to make fringe possibilities seem definite and exposes how these shows truly present an emperor who has no clothes.
Part 4 of 4
Sunday, July 10, 2022
Debunking "Bible Secrets" Television Shows (Part 3)
YouTube, as well as cable channels like The History Channel or Discovery love to hype programs where they air supposed secret findings about the Bible. Even PBS produced "The Bible's Buried Secrets" – the latest in a list of documentaries that tries to undermine the Bible's credibility. How should we understand these shows and what are we to o with the charges from some very significant scholars? In this series, Lenny shows some of the tricks the producers use to make fringe possibilities seem definite and exposes how these shows truly present an emperor who has no clothes.
Part 3 of 4
Sunday, July 03, 2022
Debunking "Bible Secrets" Television Shows (Part 2)
YouTube, as well as cable channels like The History Channel or Discovery love to hype programs where they air supposed secret findings about the Bible. Even PBS produced "The Bible's Buried Secrets" – the latest in a list of documentaries that tries to undermine the Bible's credibility. How should we understand these shows and what are we to o with the charges from some very significant scholars? In this series, Lenny shows some of the tricks the producers use to make fringe possibilities seem definite and exposes how these shows truly present an emperor who has no clothes.
Part 2 of 4
Sunday, June 26, 2022
Debunking "Bible Secrets" Television Shows (Part 1)
YouTube, as well as cable channels like The History Channel or Discovery love to hype programs where they air supposed secret findings about the Bible. Even PBS produced "The Bible's Buried Secrets" – the latest in a list of documentaries that tries to undermine the Bible's credibility. How should we understand these shows and what are we to o with the charges from some very significant scholars? In this series, Lenny shows some of the tricks the producers use to make fringe possibilities seem definite and exposes how these shows truly present an emperor who has no clothes.
Part 1 of 4
Sunday, June 19, 2022
Is Christianity in the west dying? With deconversion stories and scandals making the headlines, some pundits think so. However, God’s plan was always to use imperfect people to grow his kingdom. Using Acts 13 as a backdrop, Lenny draws a distinction between the true church and the counterfeits that give Christianity a bad name. He then explores how many who claim the faith today are actually mistaking spirituality for true holiness.
Part 2 of 2
Sunday, June 12, 2022
Is Christianity in the west dying? With deconversion stories and scandals making the headlines, some pundits think so. However, God’s plan was always to use imperfect people to grow his kingdom. Using Acts 13 as a backdrop, Lenny draws a distinction between the true church and the counterfeits that give Christianity a bad name. He then explores how many who claim the faith today are actually mistaking spirituality for true holiness.
Part 1 of 2
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