For many Easter is about chocolate bunnies, Cadbury eggs, marshmallow Peeps and colored eggs. But for Christians it is more important for it is the day that we remember and celebrate Jesus' conquering death for our justification by rising from the dead in the same body in which He was crucified. Is there evidence for this great event in time/space history? Rob unpacks the evidence in this show. Commercials on the validity of the resurrection from the One Minute Apologist by Bobby Conway with spe...
Apr 21, 2019•39 min
There is a misnomer that apologetics is all about just winning arguments. But apologetics is the handmaiden for evangelism, and the goal is and always should be the gospel. So what is the gospel? Rob unpacks this question showing that apologetics and evangelism are aiming for the same target. Commercials from the One Minute Apologist, Bobby Conway with Frank Turek and J. Warner Wallace. Opening music by Kerry Livgren, from One of Several Possible Musiks, Ancient Wing. Please feel free to contact...
Apr 14, 2019•47 min
What do irreducible complexity; the existence of a moral law; the life, ministry, and resurrection of Jesus; the authenticity of the Bible; and God's intervention in the life of a sinner making them a saint all have in common? They are five strong proofs to believe that God exists. In this show Rob unpacks these five and shows how they can point one to the gospel of Jesus Christ, which he shares at the end of the show. Commercials by The One Minute Apologist with J. Warner Wallace. Front and clo...
Apr 08, 2019•50 min
What is the value of miracles and what about those who do not believe in miracles? Rob answers these questions and more in the second part of this subject. In this show he reviews the definition of a miracle, looks at the value of miracles from the Old Testament through the New Testament. From there he moves to responding to David Hume's argument against miracles and then draws in six phenomena that are often misunderstood as miracles. Buffer Music from Kerry Livgren's "One of Several Possible M...
Mar 31, 2019•46 min
If someone were to ask you the difference between miracles versus magic, would you know how to answer that question? What is the value of miracles, and what about those who claim to have miracle ministries? Rob answers these questions in the first of a two part series on Miracles v Magic. Miracles are vertically sourced reflecting the source being God and validating the messenger; while magic is horizontally based, being the manipulation of natural and supra-natural forces to do the bidding the ...
Mar 24, 2019•29 min
Skeptics say that for one to believe the BIble and the existence of God, one needs to commit 'intellectual suicide.' That does not help when the church in America demonstrates an anti-intellectualism, we can see how the church can be behind the eight ball for reaching the culture. Join Rob in this show as he unpacks why one does not need to commit intellectual suicide in being a Christian, and that apologetics has several benefits in our discipleship and cultural engagement. When it comes to apo...
Mar 17, 2019•43 min
Imagine that you are in a classroom in a humanities course, when the professor uses an illustration of different doors and walkways coming in to the building. And they say that those walkways and doors are like different religious paths to the same God. Is this true? Do all religions teach the same things? What does it mean that there are superficial similarities, but fundamental differences? How do the questions of origin, meaning, morality and destiny help us in refuting the COEXIST bumper sti...
Mar 11, 2019•38 min
If someone told you that Jesus was a created being that became a god, how would you respond to that? Are the Jehovah's Witnesses and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Christian groups with different beliefs? In this show, Rob gives you four mathematical operations every Christian can use to discern the difference between a cult and a true Christian church, and biblical teaching versus cultic teaching. Music credit: 'Ancient Wing' by Kerry Livgren Commercials from The One Minute Apologi...
Mar 04, 2019•48 min
Is science at war with faith or is it the other way around? In this show Rob shows that there is no war, and how the scientific community "atttacking faith" is couched in atheism. What does this mean? What it means is that science does not say anything, but scientists due, and there is a war of worldviews in the science academy. Rob also addresses the problem that church pastors and youth ministers are neglecting their responsibility in equipping their church in engaging this debate, and where y...
Feb 25, 2019•44 min
If someone were to say to you, "there is no such thing as truth" or "all truth is relative," how would you answer these objections? In this show Rob discusses ways you can recognize, dismantle and respond to the top ten self defeating statements that people believe and often make in a conversation with another person. Music credit: 'Ancient Wing by Kerry Livgren Commercials from The One Minute Apologist with Bobby Conway ('What is Truth' w/Dr. Norman Geisler / 'Is Truth True for You' w/Frank Tur...
Feb 18, 2019•48 min
If someone were to ask you for definition of truth, how would you define it? Truth is that which corresponds to all of reality, and has various characteristics to back that up. But if truth is absolute, is it intolerant or narrow minded to think that it is absolute? In this show Rob "puts it all on the table sharing some highlights of conversations with people who disagree with truth being absolute. He also shares how you can know and communicate why truth is what it is, and how to answer the in...
Feb 11, 2019•47 min
Imagine seeing a Youtube video where a Christian is asking someone a survey question of what the Christianity is all about. We should not be surprised hearing different answers, depending on who is asked and their religious background. In this week's show Rob unpacks the Christian worldview, including the major questions that every worldview must answer. Commercials from the One Minute Apologist Buffer music: "Real Good Thing" by The Newsboys
Feb 03, 2019•45 min
Is apologetics a needed task in the Christian church? Rob shows how Scripture commands us to give a reason for the hope we have. Reason demands that we articulate the Christian faith to ourselves and to others. Lastly the culture is crying out for truth, thinking that it can find it on its own. We need to be able to articulate our faith to those how ask and to those that God brings to us. Commercials from The One Minute Apologist with Craig Hazen and Mark Mittleberg. Offer for PDF Doc of "Why De...
Jan 28, 2019•45 min
Imagine you are in a coffee shop and reading your Bible. Someone comes up to you and asks you if you are against abortion. How do you answer that question. What do we mean when we say we are pro-life. In this show Rob sets down the scientific, biblical and moral underpinnings for human life in the womb from the time of conception. If you have any comments or questions, please forward those to realissueapologetics@yahoo.com
Jan 20, 2019•47 min
With the culture doing all it can to desacralize sex, family, gender, human life, and marriage, Christians need an intelligent understanding of what faith really means and how it plays out in our daily lives. Rob sets the table and serves up the definition showing atheist objections to faith really do not mean anything at all, and gives an illustration to describe faith using the variables of knowledge, belief and trust. You will not want to miss this explanation on the Real Issue Podcast. Comme...
Jan 13, 2019•45 min
Western society is emerging more and more into a totalitarian culture when a teacher "misgenders" a student, and he loses his job over it. This show brings out an article from The Stream speaking to this issue, and joins in to give a clarion call to the church and her pastors to equip the people of what is coming in our culture. How then shall we live? We can no longer one decision Christians but need to take the next step to be trained to engage the culture with the love of Christ with the goal...
Jan 07, 2019•33 min
How many of us have been told by a well meaning friend or family member that the Christmas holiday is nothing more than a re-creation of a pagan holiday? Is this true? Is the story of Jesus' virgin birth nothing more than a copy cat story stolen from a pagan myth? How do we answer this claim and what does the Christian conscience have to do with all of this? Rob answers these questions and addresses this matter with a biblical response. Episode Commercials from The One Minute Apologist: Segment ...
Dec 22, 2018•43 min
Liberals reject the virgin birth, but what does this mean when they do? Can Jesus be the Son of God and not be virgin born? What is the significance of the virgin birth of Jesus? Rob answers these questions and a whole lot more on this week's Real Issue podcast. Commercials from the One Minute Apologist: Bobby Conway with Mary Jo Sharp, from Confident Christianity.
Dec 16, 2018•43 min
The statement that all religions teach and say the same thing is the mantra of the culture. But is it true? Professors and teachers will share it as true, but do they really believe it? And if they do is it defensible? In this show Rob gives six reasons why religious relativism does not and cannot be work. Join us on The Real Issue Podcast to learn more. If you have any question, send it to realissueapologetics@yahoo.com Commercials from The One Minute Apologist Buffer music by Aryn Michelle, "H...
Dec 02, 2018•49 min
With all the new age terminology buzzing around, many well meaning Christians believe that karma is compatible with the biblical worldview. But is it as many claim compatible with the Bible's teaching of sowing and reaping? Or is it foreign to the biblical worldview and a term that we need to avoid? Rob gives an explanation of what karma is and what one would need to believe for it to be true, and compatible with the biblical worldview. In the second part of the show, he shows how the Bible's te...
Nov 30, 2018•48 min
Some of us may have heard that Jesus did not address the subject of same sex attraction and same sex marriage. But is this true? In this show Rob addresses a recent video promoting the idea of being presented as promoting "polyamorous relationships." In speaking to the four views of love, Rob shows the confusion of the use of the word "love" in the video by presenting four kinds of love, and then what Jesus had to say in the gospels about same sex relationships. You may be in for a surprise and ...
Nov 30, 2018•46 min
