An April Fools’ Day Story

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Greg tells an April Fools’ Day story from his past, then he answers questions about using people’s preferred names and pronouns, what becoming saved looks like if it doesn’t involve asking Jesus into your life, and not feeling the love for God that other people seem to feel.

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0:00.0	La La La, la, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Ah, la, la, la, oh, friends. Hey, welcome to the show. And I want to encourage people in one of these nine states to consider seriously opening up an outpost. You know, outposts are,
0:41.2	they're gatherings of Christians, of kindred spirit, and like minds that want to encourage
0:50.3	each other, especially in the kinds of things that we talk about.
0:54.7	Okay?
1:01.7	There are local communities of Christians seeking answers to the hard questions of classical Christianity.
1:03.4	Maybe they know some of them.
1:07.4	They're trying to sharpen their tools, so to speak, help other Christians, or even that group B and aid to the local church where these outposts are at.
1:13.4	We have, what do we have?
1:15.9	177 outposts now.
1:18.6	They're in 12 different countries and 40 different states.
1:22.9	Let me do the math here.
1:23.9	949.
1:26.8	It must be 41, okay, because I'm looking at my lists here, and I just got
1:33.0	the list from Trip. We got nine states that don't have an outpost. That means that's
1:37.0	virgin territory. You could be the first person in Alaska or in Hawaii or Wyoming or North Dakota.
1:48.9	By the way, those are all up there in cowboy country.
1:51.4	Well, not Hawaii.
1:52.2	Well, I guess so they are cowboys there too.
1:54.1	Alaska.
1:54.7	Well, Kansas or Mississippi or Vermont or Rhode Island or Massachusetts.
2:04.6	No outposts in either of those states.
2:10.3	So I want to challenge you to think about being the first outpost in one of those states.
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