Defending Christianity Podcast

With the direction that our culture is going, it’s no surprise that students raised in a Christian home for most or all of their lives are leaving the faith once they go to college. Young people in the church have been told to “just have faith” their entire lives.
But what happens when social media provides them with what seems to be good reasons to believe that God doesn’t exist? Who will they listen to after a while? After all, most high school and college students spend more time on social media a week than they do at church. What’s going to happen when they don’t have the answers they need because their church told them that they shouldn’t ask questions? The responsibility to equip our students with answers to intellectually ground their faith falls on the church and the parents.
Today, Stand to Reason’s Tim Barnett joins the show once more, and we’ll discuss engaging the minds of our students, what that looks like, and some ways to start doing it, so parents, pastors, youth pastors, Sunday school teachers, and anyone who has some influence over students in our churches listen up because this one is for you.

Timestamps:
Why is this relevant? (0:30)
The TRAIN Acronym (2:04)
Test (2:06)
Require more from our students (6:20)
Arm them with the truth, and teach them to defend it (12:22)
Involve them in the battlefield of ideas (21:31)
Nurture their wounds (24:10)
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Additional Resources Mentioned (worth checking out!)
Reasonable Faith by William Lane Craig
Tactics by Greg Koukl
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Many might be surprised to hear that there is a lot of debate surrounding the messages of Jesus and Paul. Some scholars will attest that the two messages are at odds with one another. Is this the case? What implications does that have for the Christian faith if it's true? That’s going to be our topic for today, and to discuss it I have Dr. Marvin Pate.
Specifically, in relation to the Apostle Paul, Dr. Pate has written books including The End of the Age Has Come: The Theology of Paul and Apostle of the Last Days. I will leave links in the description below for those who want to check out Dr. Pate’s books.
Check out Dr. Pate's Books below:
The End of the Age Has Come: The Theology of Paul
Apostle of the Last Days: The Life, Letters, and Theology of Paul
40 Questions on the Historical JesusCrucified in the Media: Finding the Real Jesus Amidst the Headlines
The Writings of John
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With the direction that our culture is going, it’s no surprise that students raised in a Christian home for most or all of their lives are leaving the faith once they go to college. Young people in the church have been told to “just have faith” their entire lives.
But what happens when social media provides them with what seems to be good reasons to believe that God doesn’t exist? Who will they listen to after a while? After all, most high school and college students spend more time on social media a week than they do at church. What’s going to happen when they don’t have the answers they need because their church told them that they shouldn’t ask questions? The responsibility to equip our students with answers to intellectually ground their faith falls on the church and the parents.
Today, Stand to Reason’s Tim Barnett joins the show once more, and we’ll discuss engaging the minds of our students, what that looks like, and some ways to start doing it, so parents, pastors, youth pastors, Sunday school teachers, and anyone who has some influence over students in our churches listen up because this one is for you.
In part 2, Tim will outline the TRAIN acronym that provides a system of training our students to prepare for this culture’s challenges to the faith.
Timestamps:
The problem of students leaving the faith (0:30)
We have to start early (2:54)
Top SIX reasons why students leave the faith (5:54)
How does Jesus respond when his people doubt? (10:59)
Teaching vs. Training (15:28)
How do we train instead of teach? (18:18)
Why is all of this relevant? (19:02)
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Additional Resources Mentioned (worth checking out!)
So the Next Generation Will Know by J. Warner Wallace and Sean McDowell
You Lost Me by David Kinnaman
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When you look at what skeptics are saying about the Christian faith, often you will hear the argument that Jesus never claimed to be God. In this episode, we are going to be talking about how Jesus claimed to be divine in order to show that he really did make the claim.
We have Mikel Del Rosario joining us to talk about the subject. Mikel helps Christians explain their faith with courage and compassion. He’s a doctoral student in the New Testament department at Dallas Theological Seminary, and he is the author of Accessible Apologetics. Mikel also serves as Cultural Engagement Manager at the Hendricks Center, as well as co-host of the Table Podcast for DTS.
Visit Mikel's apologetics website, ApologeticsGuy for some amazing resources!
Click here to purchase Accessible Apologetics
You can find out more about the Table Podcast here!
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Why should we even care about the culture’s ever-increasing skepticism about God, Christianity, and the Bible? If you’re a parent this should be easy to answer. You will one day, if you haven’t already, send your child out into the world where they will be exposed to this culture. Don’t you think it’s pretty important that before you send them out on their own to equip them with logical reasons for why Christianity is true and good?
Our guest today is Dr. Frank Turek, who is the President of CrossExamined.org, a non-profit ministry that conducts I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist seminar on college campuses, churches, and high schools. In this episode, Dr. Turek and I are going to be discussing how we can know Christianity is true by looking at two of the four questions which come from the book I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist
Click here to purchase I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist
Click here to purchase Stealing From God: Why Atheists Need God to make their Case
Click here to purchase Correct, Not Politically Correct
Click here to purchase Legislating Morality
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