#344 A Beginner’s Guide to the Christian Worldview, with Greg Koukl
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
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🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Alisa Childers Podcast, I’m joined by my friend and OG apologist, Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason, for what I hope will be the episode you send to a brand-new Christian who’s asking, “Where do I even start?”
In the wake of so many people coming to Christ, especially following Charlie Kirk’s death, Greg and I talk about how to help new believers understand the big story of the Bible: who God is, who we are, what’s gone wrong with the world, and how Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection make sense of all of it. Drawing from his book The Story of Reality, Greg walks us through the narrative arc of the Christian worldview using five simple words: God, man, Jesus, cross, resurrection.
We also talk about:
Why Christianity isn’t “your truth vs. my truth,” but a picture of reality
Why God’s justice and love are not in tension but perfectly meet at the cross
Heaven, hell, judgment, and why what you do with Jesus really does matter forever
Practical encouragement for new Christians: how to start reading your Bible, why you need a solid local church, and how to think about prayer when it feels hard
If you’re new to the faith, or you love someone who is, this episode is for you.
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| 0:00.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:01.0 | I'm not in the streets of gold and all that. |
| 0:03.0 | It doesn't do anything for me. |
| 0:04.0 | But the yearning in my heart that I have for my Father in heaven, the hunger that all of us |
| 0:10.5 | have, who is it, Augustine said, our hearts are restless until they find their rest at |
| 0:17.5 | you. |
| 0:18.5 | That's it. |
| 0:19.5 | It's one of my favorite quotes, yeah. |
| 0:20.5 | Yeah. That's the rest. And the way |
| 0:22.3 | Lewis puts it is the door that we've been knocking on all of our lives will finally open. |
| 0:56.1 | Hey, everyone, welcome to the Elisa Childers podcast. I'm Elisa Childers, and I hope you are all getting all snuggled in, ready for Thanksgiving. I can't wait. It's my favorite holiday. I'm hosting this year, so I'm going to have just a stampede of people coming over to my house, and I'm so excited. I can't wait to start prepping all the food. I just love Thanksgiving, and I'm so |
| 1:01.0 | thankful for so many things this year. I'm just tremendously thankful for what God has done in the |
| 1:07.5 | ministry and in our family. And I want to thank all of you who have |
| 1:11.7 | dedicated time to pray for me and my family and the ministry. I want to encourage you to pray |
| 1:17.3 | for other truth tellers out there. Just people off the top of my head pray for Frank Turrick, |
| 1:21.8 | Ali Bestaki, pray for Greg Kokel, who is going to be joining me on today's episode, |
| 1:29.0 | and so many others that are just out there speaking truth and really getting a lot of pushback for it. So over this season |
| 1:35.5 | of Thanksgiving and to Christmas, these beautiful holidays where we celebrate what Jesus did by |
| 1:41.1 | coming to earth, I just want to encourage you to pray for the people that you receive |
| 1:46.7 | ministry from, because we really need it. We really need your prayers. Today's episode is brought to you |
| 1:51.4 | by Brave Books. I love Brave Books. They are a Christian Children's Entertainment Company |
| 1:56.4 | that have partnered with a lot of truth tellers to bring truth to our kids through entertainment, |
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