"How can we be in the world but not of it?" Dr. Denison speaks with Kim Weir on "Sunday Night Live"
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🗓️ 23 June 2020
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Summary
How do Christians not become argumentative or cowardly when talking about cultural issues?
How do Christians earn the right to be heard by those opposed to their beliefs?
How can Christians discern if their personal and/or political convictions are from a biblical perspective?
Dr. Jim Denison addressed these topics and more as a guest of Kim Weir on "Sunday Night Live," a radio show out of Houston, Texas, at 89.3 KSBJ.
This is a republished and edited podcast of the original show that aired on Sunday, June 21, 2020, available at https://www.ksbj.org/sunday-night-live/.
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| 0:00.0 | The following program is a live talk show and therefore the opinions expressed on this program may not necessarily reflect the views of the KSPJ Educational Foundation, its board or its staff. |
| 0:11.5 | Did you hear the one about the dad who told really corny jokes? |
| 0:15.1 | He got celebrated on Sunday Night Live. |
| 0:17.9 | Tonight we take a little time to appreciate dads, their hard work, and their |
| 0:21.5 | sacred place in our lives, including their terrible jokes. Plus, as the culture spins into chaos, |
| 0:27.6 | how do we as Christians respond rightly? It's a good night to join the conversation on Sunday Night Live. |
| 0:33.9 | Live from Houston, it's Sunday Night Live with author, speaker, and host, Kim Weir. |
| 0:39.5 | It's two hours of interactive talk where your voice drives the conversation. |
| 0:44.6 | We're taking your calls at 832-644-5725 or email your comments and questions to DJ on air at KSBJ.org. |
| 0:55.5 | Now your Sunday night live host, Kim Weir. |
| 0:59.5 | You turn on the news every single night, |
| 1:01.7 | and some of you have wisely decided not to turn on the news every single night anymore. |
| 1:06.7 | It feels as if we're in sort of a cultural collapse, at least from a Christian worldview, |
| 1:14.2 | that those things that have been the foundations of certainly American civilization, but in a lot |
| 1:22.0 | of ways human civilization are being undermined right and left. And as I have conversations in my |
| 1:30.0 | own family, as well as conversations with people in my faith community, and then I also am an |
| 1:38.2 | observer of the passions of Facebook, I've noticed a couple things that people are responding in generally one of two |
| 1:46.7 | cants. |
| 1:47.9 | There are certainly people in the middle, but this is the majority of what I find. |
| 1:51.8 | Either the passions run so high for the convictions that we have as believers in Jesus Christ, |
| 2:00.2 | and we see from a biblical worldview those things being |
| 2:03.7 | undermined that we become defensive and angry in response to a defensive and angry culture. |
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