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Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

A Christmas Poem

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Greg reads a Christmas poem, then he answers questions about being required to ask patients for their pronouns and “sex assigned at birth,” a biblical perspective on extreme sports and dealing with the pitfalls of fame in a sports career, and whether people need to hear the gospel to be saved.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're going to see. Oh, oh, oh, oh, friends, thank you for joining me today.

0:29.2

All right, friends,

0:29.9

thank you for joining me today,

0:31.3

Greg Kockel, your host on Stan Theresa.

0:34.5

I had a funny experience today setting up for next week,

0:39.8

that is the week for broadcasts between Christmas and New Year's. The office is closed. We're

0:46.4

taking that time off for our families along with everybody for the staff. But that

0:51.9

means we have to plug in a something for consistency that you guys get something

0:59.0

from us on a regular basis, even Christmas week.

1:02.3

So we do things in advance, which is somewhat what I've done in the past when I've

1:07.1

been out of the studio and on the time of the broadcast we do something in advance.

1:11.8

Sometimes we plug in a teaching and in this case. of the

1:15.0

time of the broadcast we do something in advance.

1:12.0

Sometimes we plug in a teaching and in this case the teaching is a teaching on the life of Christ.

1:18.0

A course I did before Stand to Reason started

1:22.0

when I was still working at Hope Chapel and

1:25.0

Hermosa Beach, it's over 30 years ago that I gave the talk. Well I had to

1:29.7

listen to the talk just to be able to provide an ample introduction to it that will be coming next week.

1:37.6

But it is only one segment of the larger course of 10 sessions on the life of Christ, but it was a little bit odd for me to listen to myself teaching 30 years ago, or more than 30 years ago or more than 30 years ago. It was, and I, you know, I, I, teaching is

2:00.4

okay. That's where I'm putting it on board here but I realize I I used to

2:05.0

talk a lot faster than I do now and I think my present style is better I remember

2:12.0

telling people I spoke up 180 miles an hour up to 200 with gusts up to 200

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