#153 Can we use Ironman and Star Wars to start gospel conversations? With Frank Turek
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
4.9 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Is it possible to start with Wonder Woman and end with the gospel? My guest, Frank Turek says yes— popular superhero movies point to the real superhero, Jesus. Frank and I had a fun conversation about his new book, Hollywood Heroes, and how popular movies can help start gospel conversations.
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| 0:00.0 | I think the problem is if parents get all freaked out whenever a touchy issue comes up on |
| 0:09.4 | their TV or in a movie or something and they don't want to talk about it, they clam |
| 0:13.6 | up, do you think your kid is ever going to come to you again to talk about these issues? |
| 0:17.8 | No, he or she never is, right? |
| 0:19.6 | They're going to run to their friends or the internet or TikTok or something like that. |
| 0:23.2 | So I think we need to enoculate kids rather than isolate kids. |
| 0:44.4 | Welcome to the Alisa Childers Podcast where we equip Christians to identify the core beliefs |
| 0:49.7 | of historic Christianity, discern its counterfeits and proclaim the gospel with clarity, kindness |
| 0:55.6 | and truth. |
| 0:56.6 | Please take a moment and click subscribe if you're watching on YouTube because we have |
| 1:00.0 | some great interviews and videos coming up next week. |
| 1:03.6 | We're going to be talking with Scott Klusendorf who does so much great work in the area of pro-life |
| 1:09.8 | apologetics. |
| 1:10.8 | We're going to be talking about, you know, when you go on social media and you make a claim |
| 1:15.2 | maybe something against abortion or pro-life, what is the pushback that you're going to |
| 1:19.4 | receive? |
| 1:20.4 | We're going to talk with Scott about how to engage with the objections people are going |
| 1:24.2 | to bring to your pro-life arguments. |
| 1:26.4 | So definitely subscribe, click the bell icon on YouTube so that you know when those things |
| 1:31.0 | are coming up. |
| 1:32.0 | But I'm really excited to bring you this conversation today with one of our favorites, Dr. Frank |
| 1:36.4 | Turek. |
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