Freud's Poison: Corrupting Civilization Through Sex It's no secret that we live in a sex-saturated culture. Everywhere you turn it seems that we are not only inundated with sexual images, but more and more people see their sexual behavior as a defining aspect of who they are. This is the complete opposite of what civilization used to mean. What happened and how did we get here? In this podcast, Lenny joins the Apologetics.com panel to discuss the outsized impact Sigmund Freud had on modern socie...
May 30, 2023
Hidden Ways the Gospels Prove Reliable Can we trust the Gospels? Why should people place their trust in documents written so long ago that don't even agree with each other? In this podcast, Lenny investigates some interesting facts which cannot be written off as coincidences and demonstrate why the Gospels are reliable history.
May 22, 2023
The One Factor of Mass Killings No One Is Talking About The tragedy of mass shootings is on the increase. Lots of theories are bantered about as to why more and more people are turning violent and what to do about it. But one important point is woefully neglected--our post-Christian culture is reaping the consequences of its purging of God from the common understanding of morality. In this episode, Lenny is joined by Raymond Gregory to talk about the uptick in homicides, shootings, and why these...
May 15, 2023
The Six Trials of Jesus Luke chapter 20 records for us a point of history upon which the entire world turns. The trial, suffering and death of Jesus is simply the most important event in all of humankind. In this first message of a semi-regular series, Lenny explores the six different trials of Jesus of Nazareth and how it is the evil in the hearts of man that allowed them to condemn the only one who walked the earth without sin....
May 08, 2023
Conscience: Our Moral Compass Right and wrong. Good and evil. Christianity teaches that these can be objectively known. In the book of Romans, the Apostle Paul tells us that even people who don't have God's revealed word can still stand guilty before Him because their consciences bear witness against them. What is the conscience and how does it help us to understand the concepts of good and evil? That's the discussion on this week's podcast....
May 01, 2023
Facing the Facts of the Resurrection Have you ever wondered how the news of the resurrection would play out if they had social media in the first century? In this engaging Easter message, Lenny walks through a Facebook exchange between the Apostle Paul, himself, and various characters you typically run across on social platforms to show why the resurrection really does stand up as historical fact and how the skeptics' own arguments point to the validity of the resurrection accounts....
Apr 24, 2023
Balancing Predestination and Free Will (Part 2) The Bible holds that God predestines all things to work towards his ultimate goal but we're also told that we control our choices and those choices are real. Is this a contradiction? In this podcast, Lenny explores the apparent tensions between our free will and God's foreordination and shows how both can not only be true, but how a proper understanding helps us see theological questions in a different light. (Part 2 of 2)...
Apr 17, 2023
Balancing PRedestination and Free Will (Part 1) The Bible holds that God predestines all things to work towards his ultimate goal but we're also told that we control our choices and those choices are real. Is this a contradiction? In this podcast, Lenny explores the apparent tensions between our free will and God's foreordination and shows how both can not only be true, but how a proper understanding helps us see theological questions in a different light. (Part 1 of 2)...
Apr 10, 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....
Mar 27, 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 e...
Mar 20, 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.
Mar 13, 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....
Mar 06, 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 ...
Feb 27, 2023
The War Against the Family 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 i...
Feb 20, 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 ...
Feb 13, 2023
Starting Your New Year Strong 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....
Feb 06, 2023
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 ...
Dec 19, 2022
Answering Atheist Arguments On Twitter: Where Does Matter Come From? 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 ...
Dec 05, 2022
Reviving the Sacred in a Secular World 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....
Nov 27, 2022
God's Sovereignty and Man's Freedom (Part 2) 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)...
Oct 17, 2022
God's Sovereignty and Man's Freedom (Part 1) 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)...
Oct 03, 2022
We're Devolving: Losing Our Humanity in a Secular Age 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....
Sep 18, 2022
How Can I Know God's Will for My Life? 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.
Sep 12, 2022
When Did Transgenderism Become Normalized? 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 devel...
Aug 29, 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...
Aug 15, 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 .
Aug 08, 2022
After Roe: How the Dobbs Decision Changed the Abortion Debate 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....
Jul 24, 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 t...
Jul 17, 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 t...
Jul 10, 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 o...
Jul 03, 2022
