133 - GREG KOUKL | Defending Your Faith The Tactful Way

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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In this episode, we interview Greg Koukl. Koukl is the founder of the Christian apologetics organization Stand to Reason, and the author of Tactics and The Story of Reality. In this episode, we discuss why he was drawn to apologetics, his books, how to defend your faith in a modern context, how we are not the central focus of God’s plan, how real tolerance requires disagreement, the state of manhood in the modern church, how to destroy pro-abortion arguments, and a whole lot more! Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links: https://www.undaunted.life/podcast/gregkoukl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're going to be. This is a undaunted life a man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.
0:20.0	I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.
0:22.6	Alright guys today we've got another special guest interview for you and that is with
0:25.8	Greg Kockel and I just got to tell you right from the jump.
0:28.8	When I told my Foxhole guys that Greg Kockel was coming on the podcast, They were just, I mean, giddy with anticipation and for good reason, because this guy is a heavyweight in the world of apologetics.
0:38.6	But if you're not very familiar with him, let me give you a little bit of his background.
0:41.4	This guy has his MA and philosophy of religion
0:44.0	and ethics from Talbot School of Theology and an MA and Christian apologetics from
0:48.0	Simon Greenleaf School of Law. But back in the early 90s in 1993 he founded an
0:52.4	organization called Stand to Reason.
0:54.3	So this organization is dedicated to helping Christians express their viewpoints and to defend them,
0:59.7	right?
1:00.7	And he wants them to be able to defend them using knowledge, wisdom and character.
1:03.8	And we certainly get into that in the podcast, but there are two books.
1:06.9	They're kind of seminal books to people in this area of apologetics.
1:10.6	One of them is one that he wrote recently back in 2017. The story of
1:14.0	reality, how the world began, how it ends, and everything important that happens in
1:18.4	between. This is a book that I just read recently. It's a fantastic book and
1:22.2	we certainly get into that in the podcast.
1:23.7	But the big reason why I was turned on to the work of Greg Kockel is the book
1:29.0	Tactics and that book just celebrated its 10-year anniversary. anniversary was written back in 2009.
1:34.0	It's called Tactics, A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions.
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