We Have a Relationship with God on His Terms, Not on Ours

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Greg explains that a relationship with God doesn’t look the same as one with a human being, then he talks to callers about an apologetics approach, why Jesus seems to downplay being called the Son of God, and why God doesn’t always answer prayers for someone’s salvation.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Inaz
0:01.8	La-d-da-la-la-la-ha-ha-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh All right, all right, great, coquel here.
0:32.0	Story of reality.
0:34.4	Why did I say that?
0:35.8	Welcome to Stand a Reason.
0:39.0	I'm just cababre.
0:42.2	Amy's laughing.
0:43.7	Kyle's laughing.
0:45.2	You get in senile, Coco.
0:46.7	What happened was I'm working on paperwork here getting ready, and all of a sudden I hear this noise.
0:52.1	My headset is right over here,
0:56.7	and I hear this noise coming out,
0:58.7	and I look at the clock, it's 4 o'clock.
1:02.4	The noise is my introductory music.
1:04.0	I better get going.
1:06.8	And so I'm scrambling to put my headset out.
1:08.3	I realize my hearing aids are showing,
1:10.5	and I put my headset out. My ears are blown out.
1:14.9	So I had to pull that off, and all of a sudden then I got to say something.
1:20.7	So I said, The Story of Reality, that's a book I wrote, in case you don't know.
1:31.2	But it's also the theme for this year's reality conference, the story of reality. We're looking at world views,
1:40.7	and we are in a, we're doing great in terms of our signups for Georgia, but there's more to happen.
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