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Stand to Reason’s Greg Koukl and Amy Hall answer questions on ethics, theology, apologetics, and culture from a Christian perspective. Submit your questions on Twitter using the hashtag #STRask.

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#STRask episodes:

04.22.2024
How Should a Dad Talk to His Children about Attending Their Mom’s Same-Sex Wedding?
Questions about how a dad should talk to his children about attending their mom’s same-sex wedding, how a veterinarian should respond if someone who suffers from species confusion asks for medical care, and how to manage anger when arguing for...
04.18.2024
What Should I Do if I Don’t Know How to Respond to Someone’s Answer to My Question?
Questions about what to do when you don’t know how to respond to someone’s answer to your question and you feel unsafe in the conversation and how to go about witnessing to and discipling a transexual who is open to...
04.15.2024
Before You Argue for God from the Existence of Evil, You Have to Prove Evil Exists
Questions about the need to prove evil exists before arguing for the existence of God from the existence of evil and what to say to an eleven-year-old boy who lost his dad and brother to a lightning strike that he...
04.11.2024
Is It Okay to Be Part of a Music Ministry That’s Led by a Professing Mormon?
Questions about whether it’s okay to be part of a music ministry that’s led by a professing Mormon, whether a woman should date a man who isn’t as spiritual mature as she is or doesn’t take his faith as seriously,...
04.08.2024
How Can I Stay Balanced in My Belief That God Is Always Good to His Children?
Questions about believing God is always good to his children while rejecting prosperity teaching, how God can be jealous if he is love and love is not jealous, and whether God changing his mind in Exodus 32 indicates he gained...
04.04.2024
Has Apologetics Had a Positive Effect on Our Culture?
Questions about whether apologetics has had a positive effect on people and our culture, whether the longtime privatization of our Christian faith has led to churches becoming apathetic to the culture, and C.S. Lewis and Francis Schaeffer book recommendations.
04.01.2024
How Can I Articulate the Beauty of the Christian Worldview in a Nutshell?
Questions about how to articulate the beauty of the Christian worldview in a nutshell and whether “separation of church and state” requires public school teachers to not reference the Bible and government employees to remove anything Bible related from their...
03.28.2024
How Do I Know if I’m a Gardener or a Harvester?
Questions about how to know if we’re a “gardener” or a “harvester,” how to engage an apathetic person who says “I don’t know” to everything, and whether Christians are making an unfalsifiable claim and fruitlessly discussing something that can’t be...
03.25.2024
How Can I Start Conversations with Postmodernists about the Need for Repentance?
Questions about how to start conversations with postmodernists about the need for repentance and what question one can use to put a stone in the shoe of a Buddhist friend.
03.21.2024
What Constitutes a Marriage?
Questions about what constitutes a marriage, at what point God considers a committed relationship to be a marriage, whether the freedom to pursue marriage is a natural right (and what restrictions would be inappropriate), and how to decline an invitation...
03.18.2024
How Can I Reconcile Romans 6:12–14 with Romans 7:21–25?
Questions about how to reconcile Romans 6:12–14 (where Paul talks about victory over sins) with Romans 7:21–25 (where Paul bemoans sins he still commits) and why Paul uses the Mosaic Law as a starting point for moral instruction if believers...
03.14.2024
Is There Something I Can Do to Develop Love for Christ if I Am Emotionally Detached?
Questions about whether there is something a person can do to develop love for Christ if they are emotionally detached and whether one should stay in a church that is slowly drifting away from historic Christianity.
03.11.2024
Why Do Atheists Get Angry When I Bring up Belief in God?
Questions about why atheists get angry when someone brings up belief in God, how to reconcile God’s sovereignty and Satan being the prince of the world, and why the Lord’s Prayer says, “Lead us not into temptation,” when God would...
03.07.2024
Are We Only Interpreting the Bible This Way Because of Our Post-Enlightenment Way of Thinking?
Questions about whether we’re only interpreting the Bible according to authorial intent because of our post-Enlightenment way of thinking and whether Zephaniah 3:17 is being taken out of context when someone takes comfort in it.
03.04.2024
How Can We Defend the Claim That Marriage Was Created by God?
Questions about how to defend the claim that marriage was created by God and what to say to someone who doesn’t want her daughter to grow up Christian because she thinks Christianity is harmful to women.
02.29.2024
Does the Existence of Evil Point to the Existence of Multiple Gods?
Questions about whether the existence of evil points to the existence of multiple gods and why God needs to slowly improve our character here on earth if he’s going to make every Christian sinless at the resurrection regardless of how...
02.26.2024
How Can I Make Sure I Will Honestly Consider People’s Arguments?
Questions about how to make sure we will honestly consider people’s arguments and why God doesn’t give more evidence to the “non-resistant non-believers” who are seeking truth.
02.22.2024
What Advice Would You Give for Debating an Atheist?
Question about advice for debating an atheist.
02.19.2024
Can You Argue Straight from the Existence of Evil to the Existence of the Christian God?
Questions about whether one can argue from the existence of evil straight to the Christian God or if more arguments are required to get there and whether Abraham sacrificing Isaac would be considered a good action since God commanded it.
02.15.2024
If Only Eve Had Eaten the Fruit, Would Sin Still Have Entered the World?
Questions about whether sin still would have entered the world if only Eve had eaten the fruit, the theological explanation for why Jesus did not inherit a sinful nature from Mary, and what the idea that nothing good can come...
02.12.2024
How Can I Evaluate Whether I’m Doing Enough for the Lord?
Questions about how to evaluate whether you are “doing enough for the Lord,” whether Ezekiel 3:18 indicates you will be in trouble on judgment day if you didn’t tell someone the gospel before they died, and whether it’s okay for...
02.08.2024
How Do We Discern between Our Own Inner Voice and the Holy Spirit Telling Us What We’re Supposed to Say?
Questions about how to discern between our own inner voice and the Holy Spirit telling us what we are supposed to say if, according to Matthew 10:20, “it is the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you” at the...
02.05.2024
How Can We Apply the Bible to Our Lives if We’re Not Supposed to Read Our Circumstances into It?
Questions about how to apply the Bible to our lives if we’re supposed to read it in context and not insert our circumstances into it and how to respond to someone who says the Great Commission was given to the...
02.01.2024
Is Christianity Really a Story of Reality?
Questions about whether Christianity is about following Jesus rather than a story of reality, what John the Baptist meant when he said, “He must increase, but I must decrease,” and why John the Baptist seemed confused about whether or not...
01.29.2024
If We Can’t Impose a Moral Standard from One Period of Time on Another, How Does That Affect the Moral Argument?
Questions about how one can use the moral argument and also say we can’t impose a moral standard from one period of time on another and responding to someone who says she would never follow a God who killed his...
01.25.2024
Does This Prove We Can’t Ground Objective Morality in God?
Question about an objection to grounding objective morality in God that states that if God has a morally perfect nature, and he either engaged in or directly allowed genocide, slavery, and torture, then that means genocide, slavery, and torture are...
01.22.2024
How Concerned Should I Be about My Spouse Believing in Annihilationism?
Questions about how concerned one should be and what to do about a spouse who now believes in annihilationism and how to navigate differences in doctrine with those who take strong stands on their distinctives.
01.18.2024
Do These Verses Support the Idea That Everyone Will Be Saved?
Question about whether Romans 5:18, 1 Corinthians 15:22, and 1 John 2:2 support the idea that everyone will be saved (universalism) as a New York Times opinion piece by David Bentley Hart claims.
01.15.2024
Is Consent to Sex Consent to Pregnancy?
Questions about how to respond to the claim that consent to sex is not consent to pregnancy and what to say to a Christian who argues that the law should give women a choice about abortion because God allows us...
01.11.2024
Should I Stop Telling People That Attempting to Speak to Ancestors Is Demonic?
Questions about how to respond to someone who says we should stop saying that attempting to speak to ancestors is demonic, how to answer a Sikh who doesn’t understand why a Christian wouldn’t marry a non-Christian, and a response to...
01.08.2024
Should I Provide My Preferred Pronouns When Asked by a Judge During Jury Duty?
Questions about whether we should provide our preferred pronouns during jury duty when a judge asks for them and how to respond to a Christian who says it’s kind to use a person’s preferred pronouns and that not using them...
01.04.2024
Is Romans 14 Saying That Christians Can Just Make up Their Own Rules?
Questions about whether the Christian liberty described in Romans 14 is the same thing as making up our own rules, weaker and stronger Christians in Romans 14 and 1 Corinthians 8, and the claim that once a person accepts Jesus...
01.01.2024
Was Moses Wrong for Giving a Law That Regulated Something God Hates?
Questions about whether Jesus thought Moses was wrong for giving a law to accommodate the hard hearts of the people, whether our civil laws should reflect the ideal or take into account man’s brokenness, and how to counsel someone who...
12.28.2023
Should Feelings Have Any Epistemological Weight in Our Decision Making?
Questions about whether feelings should have any epistemological weight in our decision making and how to interpret several verses in Acts in light of Greg’s views on being led by the Spirit.
12.21.2023
How Should I Respond to a Formerly Muslim Friend Who Is Unwilling to Pay the Price for Becoming a Christian?
Questions about how to respond to a formerly Muslim friend who is unwilling to pay the price for becoming a Christian and doesn’t want to respond to challenges or discuss differences and whether Acts 17:23 implies that people who never...
12.18.2023
What Questions Should I Ask Someone Who Claims He Only Believes in Things He Can See?
Questions about what to ask a strict empiricist who claims he only believes in things he can see, the purpose behind God making people with senses that can’t find him, and thoughts on whether a particular way of introducing the...
12.14.2023
Should I Call a Man’s Partner His Husband if They’re Legally Married?
Questions about whether we should call a man’s partner his husband if they’re legally married and whether it’s appropriate to remove kids from a middle school youth group where a male high schooler who has socially transitioned to female is...
12.11.2023
Why Didn’t Anyone Besides Matthew Mention the Resurrection of Multiple People after the Crucifixion?
Questions about why no one besides Matthew mentioned the resurrection of multiple people after the crucifixion, whether there were rainbows before Noah, and why Jesus told the restored demon-possessed man to tell people about his healing but commanded the formerly...
12.07.2023
What Is the Hardest Aspect of Christianity to Defend?
Question about the hardest aspect of Christianity to defend.
12.04.2023
Does Jeremiah 10:1–5 Speak against Having a Christmas Tree?
Questions about whether Jeremiah 10:1–5 speaks against having a Christmas tree, whether celebrating Christmas is extra-biblical and we should be celebrating Israelite feasts and festivals instead, and why Zechariah was was disciplined for questioning the message he received from an...
11.30.2023
How Would Persecuted Christians Have Understood Psalms Promising Protection and Rescue?
Questions about how persecuted Christians would have understood Psalms promising protection and rescue, whether it’s a contradiction for Jesus to say that some will be put to death but also that not a hair of your head will perish, and...
11.27.2023
My Teenage Daughter Walked Away from God Because He Didn’t Answer Her Prayers for Help
Question about how to respond to a teenage daughter who walked away from God because she cried out to him for years and he didn’t answer, and because she didn’t feel any different after accepting Christ as her Savior.
11.23.2023
Are Christians Who Continue to Sin Hypocrites?
Questions about sins of action vs. sinful character flaws and whether continued sin makes Christians hypocrites, whether Ananias and Sapphira were saved, and whether Christians aren’t practicing what they believe if they’re spending time and money doing anything but evangelize.
11.20.2023
Is It Possible Jesus Has Already Come?
Questions about whether it’s possible Jesus has already come in a fashion similar to Elijah coming as John the Baptist, whether Jesus was an apocalyptic prophet who was wrong about the kingdom coming in his disciples’ lifetime, and what part...
11.16.2023
Are We Limiting God by Putting Him in the “Box” of Scripture?
Questions about whether we’re limiting God by putting him in the “box” of the 66 books of Scripture and how to respond to someone who continually talks about missing verses in the Bible and the idea that the Bible is...
11.13.2023
What Is the Christian View of Surrogacy?
Question about how Christians should view surrogacy.
11.09.2023
Are We Responsible for Enjoying Prayer, Worship, and Bible Reading?
Questions about whether we’re responsible for enjoying prayer, worship, and Bible reading or it’s up to God to ignite those joys in us and whether sharing about things that cause grief, pain, or discontent is a form of complaining.
11.06.2023
How Can I Start a Conversation with the Jehovah’s Witnesses I See around Town?
Questions about how to start up a conversation with Jehovah’s Witnesses who are handing out information at temporary kiosks around town, witnessing to New Age siblings who misquote the Bible and Jesus, and non-Christians who are experiencing answered prayers or...
11.02.2023
What Is the Biblical Definition of God’s Wrath?
Questions about the biblical definition of God’s wrath and how Christians can process the heartbreaking idea of decent Jewish people going to Hell because they don’t have Christ.
10.30.2023
What if Two Men Who Are Legally Married Choose to Follow Christ?
Questions about whether two men who are legally married and have an adopted daughter should divorce and break up their family if they choose to follow Christ and how Christians can be compassionate on topics like homosexuality, abortion, and other...

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#STRask episodes:

How Should a Dad Talk to His Children about Attending Their Mom’s Same-Sex Wedding?

What Should I Do if I Don’t Know How to Respond to Someone’s Answer to My Question?

Before You Argue for God from the Existence of Evil, You Have to Prove Evil Exists

Is It Okay to Be Part of a Music Ministry That’s Led by a Professing Mormon?

How Can I Stay Balanced in My Belief That God Is Always Good to His Children?

Has Apologetics Had a Positive Effect on Our Culture?

How Can I Articulate the Beauty of the Christian Worldview in a Nutshell?

How Do I Know if I’m a Gardener or a Harvester?

How Can I Start Conversations with Postmodernists about the Need for Repentance?

What Constitutes a Marriage?

How Can I Reconcile Romans 6:12–14 with Romans 7:21–25?

Is There Something I Can Do to Develop Love for Christ if I Am Emotionally Detached?

Why Do Atheists Get Angry When I Bring up Belief in God?

Are We Only Interpreting the Bible This Way Because of Our Post-Enlightenment Way of Thinking?

How Can We Defend the Claim That Marriage Was Created by God?

Does the Existence of Evil Point to the Existence of Multiple Gods?

How Can I Make Sure I Will Honestly Consider People’s Arguments?

What Advice Would You Give for Debating an Atheist?

Can You Argue Straight from the Existence of Evil to the Existence of the Christian God?

If Only Eve Had Eaten the Fruit, Would Sin Still Have Entered the World?

How Can I Evaluate Whether I’m Doing Enough for the Lord?

How Do We Discern between Our Own Inner Voice and the Holy Spirit Telling Us What We’re Supposed to Say?

How Can We Apply the Bible to Our Lives if We’re Not Supposed to Read Our Circumstances into It?

Is Christianity Really a Story of Reality?

If We Can’t Impose a Moral Standard from One Period of Time on Another, How Does That Affect the Moral Argument?

Does This Prove We Can’t Ground Objective Morality in God?

How Concerned Should I Be about My Spouse Believing in Annihilationism?

Do These Verses Support the Idea That Everyone Will Be Saved?

Is Consent to Sex Consent to Pregnancy?

Should I Stop Telling People That Attempting to Speak to Ancestors Is Demonic?

Should I Provide My Preferred Pronouns When Asked by a Judge During Jury Duty?

Is Romans 14 Saying That Christians Can Just Make up Their Own Rules?

Was Moses Wrong for Giving a Law That Regulated Something God Hates?

Should Feelings Have Any Epistemological Weight in Our Decision Making?

How Should I Respond to a Formerly Muslim Friend Who Is Unwilling to Pay the Price for Becoming a Christian?

What Questions Should I Ask Someone Who Claims He Only Believes in Things He Can See?

Should I Call a Man’s Partner His Husband if They’re Legally Married?

Why Didn’t Anyone Besides Matthew Mention the Resurrection of Multiple People after the Crucifixion?

What Is the Hardest Aspect of Christianity to Defend?

Does Jeremiah 10:1–5 Speak against Having a Christmas Tree?

How Would Persecuted Christians Have Understood Psalms Promising Protection and Rescue?

My Teenage Daughter Walked Away from God Because He Didn’t Answer Her Prayers for Help

Are Christians Who Continue to Sin Hypocrites?

Is It Possible Jesus Has Already Come?

Are We Limiting God by Putting Him in the “Box” of Scripture?

What Is the Christian View of Surrogacy?

Are We Responsible for Enjoying Prayer, Worship, and Bible Reading?

How Can I Start a Conversation with the Jehovah’s Witnesses I See around Town?

What Is the Biblical Definition of God’s Wrath?

What if Two Men Who Are Legally Married Choose to Follow Christ?

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