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Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

How to Answer Challenges to Your Faith (Part 2 of 2)

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Relationships, Parenting

4.74.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Greg Koukl provides concrete ways to take a stand for our beliefs. He focuses especially on issues within the culture that cause most Christians to falter when faced with challenges from non-believers. He trains us to use questions to whittle away arguments and bring God’s truth to light.

 

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0:30.9

Our job then is to go in graciously, understanding the enemy is out there, he's the devil, the schemes.

0:39.0

We see the schemes, and then we maneuver graciously with questions. This is what I found to be the most effective, and in the

0:44.0

book I have lots of examples of specific questions for specific issues. In order to help them to

0:50.8

see, trusting that God will take the truth that we're communicating to them

0:54.2

and open their eyes.

0:57.2

That's Greg Kokel, and he joins us again today on Focus on the Family with Jim Bailey,

1:02.5

and we're so glad you're here.

1:04.5

I'm John Fuller.

1:05.5

You know, John, sometimes we could say, it's tough being a Christian.

1:09.0

I don't want to say that, because to me, it's a joy, even in confrontation and in conflict.

1:15.2

I mean, we should have that joyful attitude, I think, and that's exactly what the Lord and

1:20.0

the writers of the New Testament, I think, talked about quite often.

1:24.9

And so today, we want to spend some time with a great guest, Greg Kokel,

1:29.5

who's an apologist, which means giving an answer for why we believe in Jesus and doing that

1:35.2

with people that don't believe in Jesus. We covered some of that material yesterday, and if you

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