Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count.

With Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird, Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

Let's join this week's conversation. Well, welcome to Mortification of Spin.

My name is Todd Pruitt, and I am joined as always by Carl Truman and Amy Bird.

And today, we want to talk about a topic that I think sometimes conservative Protestants,

maybe even more so conservative reform Presbyterians might not talk about much.

And part of it is because we want to be cautious, not to go off the rails.

But it's a subject that needs to be talked about because it's there right in our Bible.

And it's an important subject because it has bearing on what we face day in and day out.

And the subject is the activity of the demonic in this life.

As a pastor, I've been asked for years.

Questions, thoughtful, good questions from laypersons about my thoughts on demon possession and should we be afraid of

demons, how active is Satan in our world? It's a subject that causes oftentimes a lot of Christians

to blush because we know that any time we bring up the subject of demons or Satan,

we're going to be kind of looked down upon or mocked by our cultured despisers, you know,

and we suddenly almost defer back to a kind of Boltmanian skepticism where, you know,

how can we expect people to believe these things in the age of the electric light bulb?

But the fact is

Christianity is a supernatural religion. We believe in a supernatural world. And we believe that

there is this being referred to as Satan. We believe that there are such beings as demons.

And so I thought we would address a couple of things related to that. Questions like, how do we respond to skeptics?

Talk about a couple specific passages in particular.

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