During the recent Inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, this past week, we heard a lot of rhetoric involving words like "unity" "justice" "God" and "truth in his speech. But what do those words mean when one's platform is all about big government intervening in the lives of the nation's citizens. This form of government teeters in the balance of moving America from a Constitutional Republic to a democratic socialistic form of government. Many Christians and non Christians think that Chris...
Jan 25, 2021•31 min
Imagine you are in a conversation with a friend from work and the conversation turns to a hot button moral subject. If you were asked for your position on the abortion issue, would you know how to answer it in such a way to where you don't sound like making the issue a matter of rights? Many today see us, who are pro life as tyrannical, accusing us of taking away women's rights. But is it a matter of rights or is it a matter of life? On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States se...
Jan 18, 2021•28 min
With the having gone through some ideological shifts in the past ten years, we are getting ready to see another one with the coming of an administration change. Christians, now more than ever need to know the issues of culture and be prepared to navigate them with a goal of courageously and graciously sharing the gospel. The key ingredient in fulfilling our mission is knowing how to answer the objections we face day in and day out with the gentleness and respect that Peter tells us, in 1 Peter 3...
Jan 10, 2021•31 min
One of the outcomes of Western societies, such as in economics, gender, race, the environment etc are due to "immoral discrimination agains groups of people. According to the social justice movers and shakers, these evils have been embedded in social structures like the ones mentioned. Assumed is that the oppressed need to be liberated from their oppression. But how dyo the social justice crusaders see humanity, race, gender, et al. Do they see each individual as created in the image and likenes...
Jan 03, 2021•40 min
For many year 2020 is one that we run as far away from as possible. On the Let's Get Real Podcast with Rob Lundberg, Rob wraps up this year's podcast with some reflections on 2020 and then presents a sobering look at where he perceives America headed looking at Romans 1:18-32. Is God seconding the motion of America's rush toward immoral choices. What can the church do? Rob springboards off of his assessment with sharing a potential direction for ministry and the audio arm, The Let's Get Real Pod...
Dec 28, 2020•33 min
The Christmas holiday season is a upon us and knowing the reason for the season, this is a wonderful opportunity to share those reasons. The exciting part is that though miracles are a challenge to skeptics, we have a wonderful opportunity to share the miracle of the virgin birth. In this post, a couple of weeks before the holiday, I want to take some time to address the significance of Jesus’ virgin birth. With all the attacks on the New Testament over the last few years, I thought I would post...
Dec 21, 2020•33 min
I am sure that every one of us, somewhere along the lines, has heard from some well-meaning individuals rail out, “with all sincerity, that we have no business celebrating Christmas, since the Bible gives no date for Christ ’ s birth? But is Christmas as we know it really a pagan holiday? On The Let's Get Real Podcast with Rob Lundberg, Rob answers this question, revisiting an objection that came from back in 2007's movie blockbuster The Davinci Code. In response to the pontification of Dr. Lee ...
Dec 13, 2020•29 min
Is Jesus just a good moral teacher or another guru? Is Jesus just one of the Prophets of old and succeeded by the Islam's Muhammad? What does Islam have to say about who Jesus is? How is the life, work and ministry of Jesus far greater than the god-men of Hinduism (gurus)? What makes Jesus far superior to the Prophet Muhammad. On The Let's Get Real Podcast with Rob Lundberg, Rob addresses these questions and more in order to debunk the current perennial and pluralistic mindsets of our post truth...
Dec 06, 2020•29 min
With the push in our culture for religious relativism and an underlying perennialism, the question of who is Jesus in the light of key religious figures. On The Let's Get Real Podcast with Rob Lundberg, Rob presents a compare and contrast analysis of who Jesus versus Moses, Socrates, and Buddha. Rob shares a goal to debunk perennialism, the perspective in philosophy and spirituality that views all of the world's religious traditions as sharing a single, metaphysical truth or origin, by ,show how...
Nov 29, 2020•32 min
The internet is littered with allegations that the historical records of the life of Jesus are examples of a kind of religious plagiarism, a mere rehashing of dying and rising deities from ancient mythologies or a recycling of comment details found in many of the mystery religions in the ancient world around the time of Jesus' earthly ministry. While many people seeking to debunk Christianity, by Googling some of the names of ancient deities and see alleged similarities to the life of Jesus (His...
Nov 23, 2020•37 min
Do you know what the religion of a post Christian culture is? Do you know the undergirding philosophies driving that religion? Here are some hints: abortion rights, same sex marriage legislations, gay rights, rampant fornication and adultery. It is the "religion of sex" and the three philosophies are scientism, hedonism and materialism. With these competing to for the hearts, minds, and morality of the culture, the Christian church must hold up the biblical Christian worldview. But what is the C...
Nov 16, 2020•31 min
With all that is happening in the climate of culture, the biggest concern for the Christian church should be how far behind the Eight Ball we really are with engaging what is potentially coming. Part of the reason is that thinking has taken a back seat to feelings and experience in the setting of faith. The other part of the equation is that the discipline of the mind and the task of apologetics appears to be more and more marginalized as we move forward to a boiling point in our culture. On the...
Nov 08, 2020•34 min
Thinking about where our culture is going, one cannot help wonder about the church's effectiveness in this post truth culture in reaching those without Christ. The truth is that every believer already, whether they realize it or not, does some form of pre-evangelism (apologetics) to the ones who are hostile to the gospel message. The question now becomes, do we want to continue to do it poorly or do we want to do it well? Is there are place for apologetics with evangelism? On the Let's Get Real ...
Nov 02, 2020•29 min
There are many things to learn about the usages of apologetics. But one thing is for certain, with the rise of skepticism both inside and outside the church, apologetics should be the new discipleship. On the Let's Get Real Podcast, talks about the need for apologetics being a modern day discipleship. Part of this show, Rob addresses pastors and ministry leaders who take the "just give me Jesus and the Bible," showing them and others that the Bible is the best apologetics book in existence. Rob ...
Oct 25, 2020•30 min
Where would you put the task of apologetics on the list of all other types of ministry in the local church? Whenever apologetics is mentioned in the conversation of the local church, people show a lack of interest, give a thousand mile stare or break out in a "spiritual rash"? With the rise of secularism in the American culture, and the influence of a "cancel culture" making its way in the church, Rob re-visits the subject of the definition of apologetics along with a handful of eight biblical p...
Oct 18, 2020•37 min
If you were to ask your young person who Jesus is, what kind of answer will you get? Many youth groups today are only focusing on the relationship and issues, and not on the intellect on why Christianity is true. Hence over the last couple of decades many Christians cannot answer some of the basic questions about what Christianity is all about and why it is true. In 2005 there was a seminal work by Christian Smith and Melissa Lundquist Denton entitled Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual ...
Oct 11, 2020•31 min
Excluding the mind from the Christian life of worship is never a good thing. With a high percentage of Christians not embracing a biblical worldview, in light of the social and moral climate in America, the body of Christ is going to have a difficult time with another ideological paradigm shift looming on the horizon. Jesus tells us, in the Great Commandment to "love the Lord your God with all your heart, and all your soul and all your mind. . ." and yet only two thirds of that commandment are i...
Oct 04, 2020•37 min
Over the years Rob has had the opportunity to teach on subjects falling under the huge umbrella of Christian apologetics. Whenever those opportunities have arisen, he has been told that the church they attend has no interest in apologetics. Others have asked, why subjects like what they have learned are not taught in the churches. It is because of anti-intellectualism in the discipleship of the churches and coming from the pulpits. The fear of being too deep on the part of many pastors is sellin...
Sep 27, 2020•36 min
Christian thinker and writer, Charles Malik once said, “I must be frank with you: the greatest danger confronting American evangelical Christianity is the danger of anti-intellectualism. The mind in its greatest and deepest reaches is not cared for enough.” On The Let's Get Real Podcast with Rob Lundberg, Rob presents Five Theses on Anti-intellectualism in the church that should have all of us evaluating whether or not the mind is invited into our worship. This episode is Part One of a multiple ...
Sep 20, 2020•30 min
What do Americans think about Jesus Christ, the Bible, truth and ethics? A couple of weeks ago, Ligonier Ministries conducted their biennial survey called The State of Theology 2020. The results of this year's survey reveals the widespread confusion in the United States about the teachings found in the Bible. While the American population in general appears to be drifting away from accepting the truth of the Christian faith, the growing imminent health and social concerns in these days may be pa...
Sep 13, 2020•30 min
Everybody has a worldview. If you don't think so, do you ever wonder about the decisions you make? Our moral choices and issues that we support or reject are all reflected in our worldview. Due to the Theology Study that came out this Thursday, Rob addresses the need for Christians to really understand and have an understanding of the Christian worldview. Many professing Christians do not understand the tenets of the Christian worldview, and that is reflected in what they are supporting on the s...
Sep 07, 2020•32 min
If we were to look around, we find many groups vying for the microphone of our culture, each with their own interpretation of what is truth, what is right and wrong, and other views. When one determines their particular understanding of truth, all other views are subject to that subjective standard. That being stated, the question of the existence of truth is under assault in our culture from the college campus to the picketer and protester in the downtown streets. Does truth exist? How do peopl...
Aug 30, 2020•31 min
Behind every questioner there is the question that is stuck in the mind of the person making a decision difficult to trust Christ and become a follower of Him. One of the more challenging question is related to a loving God sending someone to hell. On The Let's Get Real Podcast, Rob answers this question from five different angles, and then moves on to answer the question about those who allegedly have never committed a sin under the Law of Moses. This issue is a multi-layered one addressing the...
Aug 23, 2020•33 min
The ideology of religious pluralism falls under the banner of cultural relativism, and states that all religions are simply different perceptions of the same ultimate reality. Many today believe that all the quantitative religious faiths are but different paths to one reality, God. There is a popular adage in the secular city which says that there are different mountain roads which all lead to the same summit. This has been the consensus of much of America over the last 30 years or so. However w...
Aug 16, 2020•32 min
It is amazing how terms from the East have penetrated the West through movies, radio and television. One term that is often used, is the word "karma." We hear it on war movies, as the Allies rain down "bad karma" on the enemy. We hear people use it in the context talking about various situations in life, whether good or bad (i.e., "my karma is with me today). Usages of this term in these contexts though, do not depict the real meaning of the word, "karma." On the Let's Get Real Podcast w/Rob Lun...
Aug 09, 2020•31 min
One of the popular questions about the Bible is "Why are there just 66 books in the Bible and no more additions with the ones that were found in the late 2nd and 3rd centuries?" In this 20 minute episode, Rob answers this question, pointing to the criteria used to determine the formation of the Old Testament and the tests used to determine the documents for the New Testament. Also in this episode, Rob lays out the criteria as to why The Apocrypha was not considered as part of the historical Chri...
Aug 02, 2020•10 min
The Bible is a collection of 66 books that were written by eyewitnesses over a span of 1500 years, in three different languages and from three different continents. In follow up and in reference to a blog post that Rob wrote on the question, Is the Bible Really from God? Rob tackles the question, "Is the Bible Reliable?" Appealing to the bibliographical, internal and external tests, Rob lays out a case for its reliability. During the show, Rob referenced a chart on the books of antiquity, the da...
Jul 26, 2020•33 min
Atheism is the belief that there is no God. At the same time, there is a haunting statistic that is decades old which shows that 75-88% of Christian young people are walking away from the faith and becoming atheists, agnostics or "Nones." This is a problem that is not going away, and Rob shares thoughts on the reasons why this phenomenon is still with us. He also points out that the culpability is not just on the church, but on the emotionally charged decision of the young person becoming a skep...
Jul 20, 2020•27 min
CNN’s Chris Cuomo ended a recent program by telling his viewers that America doesn’t need God; that what we need is within us. Closing his segment he said, “If you believe in one another and if do the right thing for yourself and your community, things will get better in this country. You don’t need help from above. It’s within us,” And he said this while pointing a finger to the sky. The question "Why Do I need God?" is a thorny one and in this show today, Rob gives an answer to this question f...
Jul 12, 2020•39 min
You hear it from the talk shows to the professorial lectern, from the coffee shop conversations to the water cooler at work. Someone is bound to be a in a conversation on politics or religion, and when the religion hot button is pressed, someone will say, "you Christians are so narrow, don't you realize that all religions say the same thing?" This view is known as religious pluralism and it follows a cultural mood of pluralization that permeates our culture, where there are a competing number of...
Jul 05, 2020•32 min
