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Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Be Mindful of Your Character When Making Your Case

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Greg reminds Christians to be mindful of their character when making their case, then he answers questions about Jesus’ prayer to “forgive them, for they know not what they do” and how we know the Protestant canon is the correct canon.

Transcript

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0:00.0

La La La, la, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. La La La, friends, Greg Kokel here.

0:31.8

The show is Stand to Reason, and I'm glad you're part of it today.

0:35.7

We have a little ritual here at STR right around this time.

0:42.6

I'm trying to be careful about what I eat,

0:47.2

because I'm trying to keep my girlish figure.

0:50.3

And for almost 75 years now, I have been reasonably successful at that.

0:55.9

But Beverly, our wonderful Beverly here in the office, every Tuesday, she goes out and buys a massive Costco pepperoni pizza, to which everybody is thrilled. And, you know, I have my moments too. Actually, when the pizza

1:15.9

came in, I was talking with Amy, and Amy's eyes got as big as pizzas. I thought somebody

1:22.2

wonderful just walked in. It wasn't some one. It was some thing. And that was the pizza from

1:26.6

Costco.

1:34.7

So I have, you know, I guess I give in a little bit, but only a little bit, because here's my response to Beverly's wonderful pizza. I find the skinniest piece with the most pepperonies on it.

1:46.8

And then I scrape the pepperonies and cheese off without eating the crust,

1:51.9

except for maybe a little bitty bite.

1:54.1

And then I'm done.

1:55.8

Okay, I'm going to work.

1:58.2

I've had my little treat, and that's what I just did. Not that you care, but I just thought

2:07.4

I'd mention it. I'll tell you something I do care about, and quite seriously, I want to start

2:13.2

with this thought. Stand a reason. We have a goal to build a certain type of person. We call

2:22.0

that kind of person an ambassador for Christ. From 2 Corinthians chapter 5, we are ambassadors

2:27.7

for Christ as though God were speaking through us. By the way, now I've got to think of this.

2:33.5

I've got to remember, though, that

2:34.9

I just had a little brainstorm. It'll come back in a moment with that. As though God were

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